User talk:Helen-HWMT

A Murtagh from the United States [8 August 2015]

Hello! My name is Kathrine Coady Ranere. I currently live in Massachusetts, USA. My maternal grandmother was Ellen (Helen) Murtagh Coady. She was born in Burnley in about 1888, daughter of John Murtagh and Mary Ann Shaughnessy (O'Shaughnessy). She emigrated with her parents to Fall River, Massachusetts in the 1890's. She had a brother, Francis, who died in Burnley at age 2. Subsequent to their arrival in Massachusetts, John and Mary Ann had a daughter, Agnes, a daughter Mary and a son John. Mary Ann passed away in 1915, leaving Ellen and her father to bring up Agnes, Mary and John. Ellen (my grandmother) married my grandfather, William F. Coady in 1917. They had three sons, William F. Jr. (my father), John Joseph (who passed away at age 14) and James Joseph, who was killed in action in WWII in 1945. Ellen's brother John never married, and so the Murtagh name was not carried on. Ellen's sister, my great aunt Agnes Murtagh, remained single all her life, Mary entered the convent, becoming Sister Joseph Helen. My grandmother Ellen passed away in 1975 . I wish I had been old enough, or aware enough, to learn more of the family she left behind in England! I do remember her speaking of a cousin, and/or Uncle Hugh, but only fleeting details remain in my memory. Only through Ancestry have I learned that Mullin is also a name connected to my history. In the next few weeks, I will write a much more detailed account of their life here in the United States, and upload some photos as well. I am thrilled to have finally made a connection (thanks to Ancestry and John Damian) to my Murtagh relations and do so hope that we can continue our correspondence. I, too, am eager to learn of the Murtaghs that Nana left behind. My tree on ancestry is The Coady Family tree....I believe it is public, although please let me know if you cannot access it and I will send you a link. My email is kathyranere@gmail.com. So pleased to "meet" you!

Kathy--KathrineR 16:48, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Glad you are enjoying yoursel :D [6 May 2016]

There are a few tricks using WeRelate, I do not know many but have a few useful ones, like the display of my 32 ancestors on my profile and using tables to show census transcriptions. My 5X G Grandfather is on the sites home page at the moment as featured page and I am researching about 8 lines in 6 countries at the moment, and I try to add a few sources to strangers pages every day, just to encourage people to do more themselves.

Getting certificates is a fun part, unless you ordered the wrong one! I hope it moves your research on, most of my lines are before certificates now, not that that makes life easier. If you need any help or pointers please ask, I am here most of each day doing admin tasks any helping people is always better than correcting mistakes from years ago.--Rhian 12:33, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Patrik Hagerty [5 February 2018]

Helen: If you are still receiving messages through this site, please contact me at dmhthird@gmail.com. Ancestry.com DNA evidence strongly suggests that my father-in-law, Joseph Haggerty, is a cousin of your Patrick Hagerty. Joseph's grandfather, John Hegerty (born c1840 to James Hagerty and Mary Murphy), emigrated to the US from the Delvin, Westmeath area in 1864. I suspect that this John was a brother of your Patrick's father, James Hagerty. Would you like to exchange information? Please let me know. Best regards, Dan Haggerty (yes, same last name as my father-in-law) -- but no relation to my wife!--Danhaggerty3 23:30, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Murtagh. Torkington. Thornber [20 July 2018]

Helen

I came across this site by mere chance. What made me delve was the fact that you referred to a memorial card for Samuel Torkington. He was my grandfather on my father's line. I have never seen this card before, nor had my father for that matter.

I know quite a bit about the Torkingtons Murtaghs and Thornbers. I have seen the graves in Burnley cemetery and have done some research on Torkingtons in Burnley and their journeys to arrive there. It was in fact my birthplace.

Even more surprising is that I now also live in County Durham having moved recently from Newcastle upon Tyne where my late wife was a genealogist and a Freeman of the City.

I might have information of interest to you and your research

Contact me if you have time

Michael--Mykl 14:29, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi Michael, I replied to your own talk page, but now can't see my message :-( I was very pleased to hear from you.

Anyhow, I have found the prayer thingies for Samuel and Annie - Samuel's is actually a ribbon bookmark. I have just scanned them.

Please email me at hh@yonder.myzen.co.uk and I"ll send the scan - and we can introduce ourselves to each other properly. Maybe we can meet? - I wonder how near to us you live?

Kind regards, Helen Kinch.--Helen-HWMT 09:10, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Thornber Tree [18 October 2018]

Hi Helen, My name is Sean Thornber and I have been doing lots of research online with regards the Thornber Tree and would like to help and if I can. I use the Ancestry website at the moment and have linked the details from www.thornbers.net to my family via a Caleb Thornber of Burnley. It would be good to getting touch if you have time.

Kind Regards

Sean Thornber--Sthornber 12:40, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Sean: So, are you descended from Caleb? I posted a newspaper cartoon of him on your 'Talk' page, but I was wrong about the paper. It was 'The Burnley News'. Here is the text that went with it - - and the date:

Caleb Thornber, The Burnley News 27/11/1920 Though he has retired from active participation in public life, Mr. Caleb Thornber continues to take a keen interest in current events, and may be found daily in his presidential corner at Cronkshaw's, as depicted by our artist. He takes but little part in debate, but his brief contributions are always to the point, and invariably disclose a ready wit and a caustic tongue. Mr. Thornber was Mayor of Burnley from 1896 to 1898, and is a Justice of the Peace both for the Borough and County. He is, of course, the oldest surviving member of the famous Thornber family.

You are more than welcome to fill out the Thornber pages, and tree, here! WeRelate pages don't belong to their original creators: any member can edit them, and create more pages. So, do have a go! I'd be delighted. I've been trying to delegate since I began here, and not succeeded up until now!

I have contributed little bits to Craig Thornber's thornber.net, and we have been in touch recently.

Kind regards, Helen Kinch --Helen-HWMT 13:40, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Re Aigton Bailey, etc [4 August 2020]

You are very welcome. I have just decided to do a clean-up of the work I did on Lancashire about four or five years ago when I was very new to studying English geography in depth. Over the years I have developed new ways of doing things, especially trying to keep all places smaller than parishes out of the main picture, by using "redirects". If you see the number of Unknown Places that still exist in Lancashire, you will know why. Warning: I am also "renaming" all places built with hyphens (they are hard to type and sometimes not all spaces are replaced by hyphens). The bulge of the West Riding is very evident in the map of Clitheroe Rural District. --Goldenoldie 18:12, 4 August 2020 (UTC)--Goldenoldie 18:14, 4 August 2020 (UTC)