"FRANCIS SOUTHWICK" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] >I am looking to locate my family. > > My gg grandfather was called Charles McPhillips born c 1838. I do not > know which county he was born in. His father was also called Charles. > > Also my gg grandmother Rose Ann McGowan born c 1840. Again I do not know > the county she was born in. Her father was called John. > > Charles and Rose Ann were married in Northumberland in England in 1866. > > Can anyone get me any information on these families. > > Thank you. One other thought occurred to me, the 1871 census shows that they had a lodger who shared the same profession as Charles and who was also born in Ireland. Have you followed the lodger through all the records just in case he gave a more specific birthplace other than just "Ireland". He may have shared a birthplace with your Charles or even perhaps Rose and also his name seems to be a bit more unusual - looks like Thomas McGlineby or perhaps McGliveby ?????. Or even perhaps the lodger in the 1881 census - Philip Sullivan? Or even look at the history of what they were draining - was there a particular eastate where they worked that had Anglo-Irish connections and imported a whole workforce from some particular place in Ireland??? Perhaps none of these suggestions will be useful but going sideways may help.