PENSION PETITION DATABASE .....

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Andy
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PENSION PETITION DATABASE .....

Post by Andy » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:17 am

If your Northern Irish (including Donegal) ancestores lived to collect pensions from 1908 there is now a site to search:

http://www.pensear.org

I already had a good few of the Rathlins ones but the records are notoriously difficult to read, these nice people have transcribed over 20,000 applications and can provide a fuller extract a £1 a time and I've found a few more.
Searching for Keogh, Kelly, Fitzgerald, Riddell, Stewart, Wilson, McQuilkin, Lynch, Boyle, Cairney, Ross, King, McIlravey, McCurdy, Drennan and Woods (to name but a few).

Also looking for any information on Rathlin Island, County Antrim, Ireland.
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AnnetteR
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Post by AnnetteR » Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:18 pm

Thanks for that Andy. We need all the Irish sites we can get as I still am no further forward with my Irish rellies :( . If only I could get a place name instead of just 'Ireland' it would be extremely helpful. Will go now and check it out.

Cheers

Annette R
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Researching in Fife: Wilson, Ramsay, Cassels/Carswell, Lindsay, Millar, Bowman and many others.
In Glasgow and West of Scotland: Aitchison, Wilkinson, Keenan, Black, Kinloch and Leiper.
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wini
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Pension Petition Data Base

Post by wini » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:19 am

I am like you Annette can't get anywhere with only ever Ireland on all documents.
Samuel Reid is in every Census from 1861 Marriage & Dc but never any mention of county

wini
Munro, McPhee, Gunn, Reid, McCreadie, Jackson, Cree, McFarland,Gillies,Gebbie,McCallum,Dawson
Glasgow, Durness,Kilmuir via Uig, Logie Easter
Old Monkland
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David Douglas
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Post by David Douglas » Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:44 pm

Would someone born in Northern Ireland but living in Scotland when applying for a pension appear in this list?

I have a female ancestor, born between 1843 and 1851 (ages census and marriage records vary wildly), probably in Derry, and who came to Scotland in the early 1880s. She married for the third time in 1884, and died in 1927.
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IanS
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Post by IanS » Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:12 pm

I'm not sure David, the only couple I've found had stayed in Ireland. I can find no trace of ones that should be eligible, but permantly stayed in Scotland. Though I came across one on the web, who claimed from America. To be truthful, it's difficult on some of the entries to be 100per cent sure it is your family. Sorry I can't help with certainties.
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