Hi Kathryn and Patricia, Many thanks for your e-mails. I probably haven't explained things very well, the details Kathryn sent are from my father death registration, I registered his death. I have my parents wedding cert and Dad's Irish School Records. I've managed to trace the descendants from his Irish birth family, unfortunately they knew nothing of my father, he was a well kept family secret. At the time of my fathers birth, his very young unmarried mother should have been in boarding school (Catholic Convent) in England (Berwick on Tweed) but she obviously wasn't, the school didn't have but a mother and baby unit attached to it. As far as I can make out her parents must have been supportive to her.The parents were Irish travelling variety artist based in Ireland. I have not been able to track down where his mother gave birth to him. There is a possibility that it could have been America. She did make several trips to America before finally settling there in 1929. My father appears to have been left in Ireland with his grandfather and very soon afterwards left with the McElhinney family. The family left Ireland in 1938/9, my father would have be 13 or 14 yrs old at the time. Going by this I should imagine he was 'called up' to join the Army at the age 18 or 19 yrs (approx 1943/4) it's where he was living at that time that I'm trying to find out so that I can get his Army records which might give me more clues.. Once again, many thanks. Jackie in very wet, flooded in parts Somerset. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Courtney, Kathryn" <KCOURTNE@housing.uiuc.edu> To: <eng-manchester@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-MAN] Fw: Brennan/McElhinney family history > Hello Jackie, > My first thought that city directories might be useful. Do you have his > death certificate? > > Is this your father? > > Name: Alan Francis Brennan > Birth Date: 13 Jan 1925 > Death Registration Month/Year: Jan 1987 > Age at death (estimated): 62 > Registration district: Manchester > Inferred County: Lancashire > Volume: 38 > Page: 1465 > > Kathryn > > > -----Original Message----- > From: eng-manchester-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:eng-manchester-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jackie > Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 5:12 AM > To: eng-manchester@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ENG-MAN] Fw: Brennan/McElhinney family history > > > > > > > Good morning on this awful wet, cold and dismal day. > > Apologizes if this message shows twice, the first I sent with > active scrip and I'm noot sure if it will arrive. > > I'm researching my late fathers (Alan Brennan born 1925) family > history. > My father arrived in Manchester sometime after 1938 after leaving > Raphoe Ireland with the McElhinney family. > > I have the McElhinney family and my father living at 15 > Shakespeare St (Chorlton on Medlock/Chorlton Cum Hardy) 1946 but as > there were not any elections during the War I cannot find the date that > they first started living in Shakespeare St. > Does anyone have any idea where I could look to find the dates the > family moved into Shakespeare St? > > I've never been able to obtain a birth cert for my father (I > have no idea where or the country he was born) > If I could find the dates it might help me get the information to > gather his War records. > Does anyone have any idea which barracks my father would have been > stationed in if the family lived in Shakespeare St at the start of the > War? > > I have attempted to get Dad's War records but as I no idea where > he was born the Army Records Office say that I at least need his address > at the time he joined up. > > The McElhinney family do have a researcher but he has no mention > of my father in his research, even though my father grew up with the > family in Ireland. > > Research is made very difficult because my parents seperated for a > couple of years in 1960, my father stayed in Shakespeare St and we moved > to another part of Manchester. In 1961 my father moved out of the house > taking with him only one small suitcase, everything else he left in the > house including all documents. Shortly afterwards that area of > Manchester was flatten to make way for the new estate. > > Many thanks for any help/direction. > Regards Jackie > > > > > > > > > > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ > > Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. > Other people can learn from them! > > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ > > Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. > Other people can learn from them! > > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.4.7/1542 - Release Date: 7/9/2008 > 6:50 AM > > >