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Pentland quest Northern Ireland/Canada

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Sandra

Sandra Report 13 Oct 2012 20:41

I am trying to locate my birthfather Kenneth (Kenny) Pentland. Here's the info I have at present -dob 1926. He was a racing cyclist, tool and die maker and musician. His mother was Isabella Magee dob 1894. They did live in Northern Ireland, I believe near Portadown, County Armagh at one point but don't know if they remained there until they emigrated or not. Isabella's mother was Letitia McCabe and father was John Magee. Isabella married a Pentland. I do not have first name of her spouse. Kenneth & Isabella emigrated to Canada around 1951-2 and settled in Toronto Ontario area. Kenneth had a spouse but I do not have that name. In 1953, info has it he had no children but I did locate a Gladys Pentland and son coming over on the Empress of Canada in 1952 at the same time as Isabella and one year after Kenneth came over. All of them docked at Montreal Canada. From there, I'm stymied. Any info at all on this lineage would be of great help. (p.s. I have a fractured relationship with technology so a message on how to get back to my thread would be very helpful Thanks, all.

patchem

patchem Report 13 Oct 2012 21:07

Alter your heading to include 'Canada' so people with more specialised knowledge will be alerted.
Have you looked to see if anyone on here has any of the family in their trees?

Sandra

Sandra Report 13 Oct 2012 21:22

Thank you very much for the tip. I've altered the heading. :) I have sent a couple of requests to view members' trees. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Maura

Maura Report 14 Oct 2012 17:24

Kenneth Pentland emigrated 23/10/ 1951
age 25
Address 99 Bridget St. Portadown
Occupation fitter

Isabella Pentland aged 58 housewife emigrated 25/9/1952
Gladys Pentland aged 26 Housewife
Daryil Pentland age 2
same address a Kenneth

Sandra

Sandra Report 14 Oct 2012 19:10

Hi Maura:

Thank you so much for all of your help. Just to clarify, when you state "same address as Kenneth" do you mean all three - Isabella, Gladys and Daryil? Thank you once again. This means so much to me.

Maura

Maura Report 14 Oct 2012 20:11

Yes they all three give the same address as Kenneth.

Sandra

Sandra Report 15 Oct 2012 17:24

Hi Maura

Excellent. I'm off and running with it. I've now tracked Kenneth to 1965 in Halton, Ontario and Gladys to 1974. I'm dead ended again but this is a huge push forward. Thanks so much!

Cheers
Sandra

jax

jax Report 15 Oct 2012 17:34

Hi Sandra

I do hope you have given an explaination as to why you wish to view these trees?

As Genes have added a new default message recently which does'nt go down very well with a lot of members

Researching:
Nothing much