Thanks everyone for all the good tips on printing off census returns fron ancestry.com MICHAEL BURNS <aardvarkgs@btinternet.com> wrote: Hi Does anyone know how to print ancestry.com's copies of English census returns, enlarging the text (most importantly) loosing the thick [ink-wasting border]? Michael Burns researching Boden/Bodan/Bowden /etc and Tear/Teer from Loughinisland and Ardglass Elaine J wrote: Jane I just found out the same thing about a gggg grandfather. I went googling to get more information. Your question about a picture, thought this might help. http://www.grandorangelodge.co.uk/parades/orangeman_on_parade.html E l a i n e J. T h e O t h e r E l a i n e S u m n e r, W as h i n g t o n U S A Jane Remly wrote: > Dear Wendy; > I too, have a relative , a ggf, who was a "staunch Orangeman in Ireland. > I am interested in the answer as well. > I am also wondering if someone online could send in a picture of the sash of the Orangeman, so I could see what they looked like? > Please place online any information about the records availability as well. > Thanks, Jane > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robt & Wendy Stevenson > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:31 PM > To: nir-down@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] NIR-DOWN Digest, Vol 3, Issue 58 > > I am also interested in the answer to this question, Lin, as I too have an > old Orange Order Sash, the owner was also high up in the Masonic Lodge. And > I also wonder where there may be information... > Wendy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "linda chapman" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:13 PM > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] NIR-DOWN Digest, Vol 3, Issue 58 > > >> Hi >> >> I am not even sure if this is a sensible question but I had this thought >> so will ask. >> >> I >> know my 3x gr grandfather James Rooney (or Roney) was buried in >> Egremont in 1880 when his age was given as 45. He is on the 61 and 71 >> census in Egremont, Cumberland when his birth place was given as Ireland, >> as were >> the births of his wife Elizabeth nee Taylor and his daughters Leticia >> and Rosannah in 1848 and 1850, his younger children being born in >> Egremont. There is a marriage for him and >> Elizabeth on the IGI for 1853 in Egremont and we have a solicitors >> letter dated 1953 that his daughters births were legitimised in January >> 1927 with the introduction of the Illegitimacy Act. >> >> I do know >> that within my Rooney family that I have just got in contact with, there >> is also his Orange Order sash that is now so faded that even if there >> had been any writing on it, it is now ileligable. As I am struggling >> to find his place of birth I am clutching at straws when I ask if there >> is any possibility of his Orange Lodge being in Cumberland? >> >> To >> compound my research he was obviously a Protestant, one of his >> daughters a devout Catholic and one of his sons was a Methodist. >> >> I am hoping sks can point me in the right direction as another question I >> have is, are the members lists for Orange Lodges of that period open to >> the public or are they still confidential? >> >> I have also put this on the google message board for Cumberland, although >> I do realize that I am clutching at straws. >> >> Thank you for your time. >> >> Regards >> >> Lin >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NIR-DOWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NIR-DOWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NIR-DOWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NIR-DOWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NIR-DOWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message