Ancestors

Written by Karl Matthias 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-11 at 17:46

Trying to read old parish records. What do you think this woman's name is? Looking for opinions

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Written by Darcy on 2025-01-11 at 19:20

@relistan Susan... Redford(e)? Susan R-something, but I'm really not at all sure.

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Descendants

Written by Karl Matthias 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-11 at 19:21

@O_DarcyW thanks! Definitely possible! Possibly scratched out and then Forde? Or even Jordan?

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Written by Karl Matthias 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-11 at 19:34

@O_DarcyW I think it might be a J there. I found this on another page, same priest writing it looks like:

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Written by Darcy on 2025-01-11 at 19:47

@relistan Oh, you're right, that's very similar. That certainly puts something like Jordan in the running. Any clue in other family names that come up frequently in the parish, other Jordans, Fordes, etc.

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Written by Karl Matthias 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-11 at 22:20

@O_DarcyW this record is from 1814. I had the same idea and a couple of hours ago I looked in Griffith’s survey and there is no Forde, but there is a Jordan in this townland in County Down in the 1840s. Guessing that’s right… but hard to know. Hoping to find some other records if I’m very lucky

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