Today on www.abebooks.com there are 41 copies available worldwide of Empty Cradles by Margaret Humphreys ranging in price from US$1 to US$45 plus postage and packing. I've used this site for several years without mishap. Kind regards, Gaye Cleeland. ----- Original Message ----- From: <nir-down-request@rootsweb.com> To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 8:58 AM Subject: NIR-DOWN Digest, Vol 3, Issue 41 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Children 'sent away' during WWII (Dawn Williams) > 2. Phone number in County Down (Ktsc100@aol.com) > 3. Re: Children 'sent away' during WWII (Lyn Whelan) > 4. Re: Phone number in County Down (Stan Megraw) > 5. gravestone inscriptions or death records for the Killinchy > Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or the Killinchy > Presbyterian Church (Co Down) (Pat Jones) > 6. Re: McKee family (Judith and Graeme Collins) > 7. Re: gravestone inscriptions or death records for theKillinchy > Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or theKillinchy > Presbyterian Church (Co Down) (Rachel McPhee) > 8. Re: gravestone inscriptions or death records fortheKillinchy > Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or theKillinchy > Presbyterian Church (Co Down) (Hugh Macartney) > 9. Re: Phone number in County Down (Juditoh@aol.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:30:38 -0500 > From: "Dawn Williams" <dawnewil@verizon.net> > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] Children 'sent away' during WWII > To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <5768F6A28386445A8509062A9AACD883@DewPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Thanks for the book suggestion. I'll try to get it. I have a cousin born in > England at the end of WWII who was sent to Australia along with his > brothers, as orphans. When a law change allowed him access to his records, > he found out that his parents had not died until much later when he would > have been able to meet them had he known. I guess it was his parents > economic conditions during and after the war that led to the circumstances. > Dawn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lyn Whelan" <johnwhelan@xtra.co.nz> > To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 11:49 PM > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] Children 'sent away' during WWII > > > > As a child, my former mother-in-law lived in Glasgow. She was evacuated > > to > > Blair Athol during the war. She did return to her family home afterwards. > > > > It appears this did not just happen in time of war and often the move was > > more permanent. I have a book by Margaret Humphreys (1997) called Empty > > Cradles. (Corgi Books, London). This book is about an estimated 150,00 > > children who were "deported from children's homes in Britain and shipped > > off > > to a "new life" in distant parts of the Empire" - the last as recent as > > 1967. Many children were told their parents were deceased. > > > > Margaret Humphreys was a Nottingham social worker. She investigated the > > case of a woman who claimed that at the age of 4, she had been put on a > > boat > > to Australia by the British government. > > > > This is well worth a read for those interested such a topic. Warning > > though - some of the content could be considered sensitive - it is an > > emotional account of life for these children. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:48:31 EST > From: Ktsc100@aol.com > Subject: [NIR-DOWN] Phone number in County Down > To: NIR-DOWN@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <c61.236bf27a.34c4ff8f@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Hello, > > I would like to find a phone number for a family in County Down, Northern > Ireland. I have not been able to find an on-line directory for that area. > Does anyone know how I can find one to look up the number? > > Thank you for your help. > > Ken T. > > > > **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. > http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:56:01 +1300 > From: "Lyn Whelan" <johnwhelan@xtra.co.nz> > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] Children 'sent away' during WWII > To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <002201c85b9e$7d25d190$6601a8c0@Lyn> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > I see in my posting regarding the book Empty Cradles, I missed a 0 in the > total number of children > It was 150,000 children not 15000 - quite disturbing really. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dawn Williams" <dawnewil@verizon.net> > To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 8:30 AM > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] Children 'sent away' during WWII > > > > Thanks for the book suggestion. I'll try to get it. I have a cousin born > > in > > England at the end of WWII who was sent to Australia along with his > > brothers, as orphans. When a law change allowed him access to his records, > > he found out that his parents had not died until much later when he would > > have been able to meet them had he known. I guess it was his parents > > economic conditions during and after the war that led to the > > circumstances. > > Dawn > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Lyn Whelan" <johnwhelan@xtra.co.nz> > > To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 11:49 PM > > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] Children 'sent away' during WWII > > > > > >> As a child, my former mother-in-law lived in Glasgow. She was evacuated > >> to > >> Blair Athol during the war. She did return to her family home afterwards. > >> > >> It appears this did not just happen in time of war and often the move was > >> more permanent. I have a book by Margaret Humphreys (1997) called Empty > >> Cradles. (Corgi Books, London). This book is about an estimated 150,00 > >> children who were "deported from children's homes in Britain and shipped > >> off > >> to a "new life" in distant parts of the Empire" - the last as recent as > >> 1967. Many children were told their parents were deceased. > >> > >> Margaret Humphreys was a Nottingham social worker. She investigated the > >> case of a woman who claimed that at the age of 4, she had been put on a > >> boat > >> to Australia by the British government. > >> > >> This is well worth a read for those interested such a topic. Warning > >> though - some of the content could be considered sensitive - it is an > >> emotional account of life for these children. > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:58:05 -0500 > From: Stan Megraw <smegraw@videotron.ca> > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] Phone number in County Down > To: nir-down@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAgBS7AtcnR0K0MuGKy6bn+8KAAAAQ AAAAXDMGMRdjqUq4G8/E7xik/AEAAAAA@videotron.ca> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > I've had success with > http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/residential/search > .publisha > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: nir-down-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nir-down-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Ktsc100@aol.com > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 2:49 PM > To: NIR-DOWN@rootsweb.com > Subject: [NIR-DOWN] Phone number in County Down > > Hello, > > I would like to find a phone number for a family in County Down, Northern > Ireland. I have not been able to find an on-line directory for that area. > > Does anyone know how I can find one to look up the number? > > Thank you for your help. > > Ken T. > > > > **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. > http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:29:40 -0600 > From: "Pat Jones" <kin-hunter25@cox.net> > Subject: [NIR-DOWN] gravestone inscriptions or death records for the > Killinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or the Killinchy > Presbyterian Church (Co Down) > To: <NIR-DOWN@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <001d01c85ba3$2f98d080$640fa8c0@Desktop> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > If someone has access to the gravestone inscriptions or death records for the Killinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or the Killinchy Presbyterian Church, County Down, could you please do a look up for any MARSHALL and/or David GIBSON and his family. Thanks so much. > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:53:43 +1100 > From: "Judith and Graeme Collins" <gcol6113@bigpond.net.au> > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] McKee family > To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <002a01c85ba6$8b295660$71e4bc7c@XPPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Peter / Patricia > > I have a Hugh McKee Erskine in my family Tree and as he married an Agnes > Armstrong from Ballynahinch I have suspected the Erskines came from > Ballynahinch area as well as the Armstrongs. > > . Hugh emigrated to New Zealand c 1881 and Agnes at the age of 19 sailed > there to be wed possibly on her own or maybe with someone else c 1883 .They > were married at the residence of a Thomas McKee. > Now many years later c 1916 my Great Aunt was married in Belfast by a Rev > John/James McKee. > As yet I haven't unraveled the McKee Erskine connection but there must be > one. > > The Erskines apparently came across from Scotland at some time. > > If any of these names link up with your family I would be pleased to know. > > > Judith > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Peter10Appletree@aol.com> > To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 11:28 PM > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] McKee family > > > > Patricia > > > > coincidence or not > > > > My grandmother was named Elizabeth McKEE and was born 10 Dec 1864 in > > Ballynahinch. There is no Christian name on her birth certificate (as > > with the IGI) > > uncovered within my father's effects. > > Her parents were John McKEE and Catherine (EMERSON) > > > > Peter > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:57:56 -0000 > From: "Rachel McPhee" <nandr@blueyonder.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] gravestone inscriptions or death records for > theKillinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or theKillinchy > Presbyterian Church (Co Down) > To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <115F9AD9E85F4BBFB21AF1248534DF12@mcpheefamilyPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > I also have an interest in this area, I am looking for surnames HAMILTON and > ALEXANDER in Killinchy and surrounding areas from around 1800 - 1850, I know > it's a big timescale but am stuck at a great big brickwall and any > information would be a start. Many thanks in advance. > > Rachel McPhee > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pat Jones" <kin-hunter25@cox.net> > To: <NIR-DOWN@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:29 PM > Subject: [NIR-DOWN] gravestone inscriptions or death records for > theKillinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or theKillinchy > Presbyterian Church (Co Down) > > > > If someone has access to the gravestone inscriptions or death records for > > the Killinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or the Killinchy > > Presbyterian Church, County Down, could you please do a look up for any > > MARSHALL and/or David GIBSON and his family. Thanks so much. > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:50:27 -0800 > From: Hugh Macartney <hhmacartney@shaw.ca> > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] gravestone inscriptions or death records > fortheKillinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or > theKillinchy Presbyterian Church (Co Down) > To: nir-down@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <000601c85bae$780e7670$26f64518@ownercc2198af2> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; > reply-type=original > > The Killinchy Alexanders were mostly living at Carrickmannon, Raffrey and > Drumreagh and the Ros Davies web site will contain many details. I think > most were buried in the Ballygowan Presbyterian Graveyard. One family lived > in Carrickmannon House. The Killinch Presb. Graveyard has: > HAMILTON > (Railed enclosure with KIRK stone and modern Hamilton stones) > Erected by George Hamilton of Raffery who d. Feb.12 1812 aged 55. Also his > wife Margaret COUSSE alias Hamilton who d. Aug. 15 1803 aged 36. Also his > son George aged 2. Also John Hamilton who d. Jan.23 1846 aged 52. Also two > children who died young. John Stewart d. Jan 1865 aged 52. Mary Hamilton d. > May 29 1873 aged 66. > KIRK > In Hamilton enclosure 1811. Erected by John Kirk of Barnamaghery who d. May > 1 1826 aged 85. Also his wife Jane Kirk alias HAMILTON who d. Ap. 26 1826 > aged 72. > (The Kirks I believe were originally from Raffery) > No Alexanders or Hamiltons listed in Killinchy Non-Subscribing Presb. > Graveyard. > If there are any present day descendants they might be listed in the > N.ireland Directory at bt.com Killinchy likely listed under Comber or > Newtownards. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rachel McPhee" <nandr@blueyonder.co.uk> > To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 12:57 PM > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] gravestone inscriptions or death records > fortheKillinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or theKillinchy > Presbyterian Church (Co Down) > > > >I also have an interest in this area, I am looking for surnames HAMILTON > >and > > ALEXANDER in Killinchy and surrounding areas from around 1800 - 1850, I > > know > > it's a big timescale but am stuck at a great big brickwall and any > > information would be a start. Many thanks in advance. > > > > Rachel McPhee > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Pat Jones" <kin-hunter25@cox.net> > > To: <NIR-DOWN@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:29 PM > > Subject: [NIR-DOWN] gravestone inscriptions or death records for > > theKillinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or theKillinchy > > Presbyterian Church (Co Down) > > > > > >> If someone has access to the gravestone inscriptions or death records for > >> the Killinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or the Killinchy > >> Presbyterian Church, County Down, could you please do a look up for any > >> MARSHALL and/or David GIBSON and his family. Thanks so much. > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:57:07 EST > From: Juditoh@aol.com > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] Phone number in County Down > To: nir-down@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <cac.262f6abf.34c51db3@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > _http://www.192.com/_ (http://www.192.com/) May be helpful if phone > directory doesn't help. > > > In a message dated 1/20/2008 12:50:27 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, > Ktsc100@aol.com writes: > > Hello, > > I would like to find a phone number for a family in County Down, Northern > Ireland. I have not been able to find an on-line directory for that area. > Does anyone know how I can find one to look up the number? > > Thank you for your help. > > Ken T. > > > > **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. > http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > > > > **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. > http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the NIR-DOWN list administrator, send an email to > NIR-DOWN-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the NIR-DOWN mailing list, send an email to NIR-DOWN@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > 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 > email with no additional text. > > > End of NIR-DOWN Digest, Vol 3, Issue 41 > *************************************** >

Barnes & Noble website also has the book in stock. Dawn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaye Cleeland" <gcl50440@bigpond.net.au> To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 6:13 PM Subject: [NIR-DOWN] Empty Cradles by Margaret Humphreys > Today on www.abebooks.com there are 41 copies available worldwide of Empty > Cradles by Margaret Humphreys ranging in price from US$1 to US$45 plus > postage and packing. > > I've used this site for several years without mishap. > > Kind regards, > > Gaye Cleeland. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <nir-down-request@rootsweb.com> > To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 8:58 AM > Subject: NIR-DOWN Digest, Vol 3, Issue 41 > > >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Re: Children 'sent away' during WWII (Dawn Williams) >> 2. Phone number in County Down (Ktsc100@aol.com) >> 3. Re: Children 'sent away' during WWII (Lyn Whelan) >> 4. Re: Phone number in County Down (Stan Megraw) >> 5. gravestone inscriptions or death records for the Killinchy >> Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or the Killinchy >> Presbyterian Church (Co Down) (Pat Jones) >> 6. Re: McKee family (Judith and Graeme Collins) >> 7. Re: gravestone inscriptions or death records for theKillinchy >> Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or theKillinchy >> Presbyterian Church (Co Down) (Rachel McPhee) >> 8. Re: gravestone inscriptions or death records fortheKillinchy >> Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or theKillinchy >> Presbyterian Church (Co Down) (Hugh Macartney) >> 9. Re: Phone number in County Down (Juditoh@aol.com) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:30:38 -0500 >> From: "Dawn Williams" <dawnewil@verizon.net> >> Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] Children 'sent away' during WWII >> To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> >> Message-ID: <5768F6A28386445A8509062A9AACD883@DewPC> >> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; >> reply-type=original >> >> Thanks for the book suggestion. I'll try to get it. I have a cousin born > in >> England at the end of WWII who was sent to Australia along with his >> brothers, as orphans. When a law change allowed him access to his >> records, > >> he found out that his parents had not died until much later when he would >> have been able to meet them had he known. I guess it was his parents >> economic conditions during and after the war that led to the > circumstances. >> Dawn >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Lyn Whelan" <johnwhelan@xtra.co.nz> >> To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 11:49 PM >> Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] Children 'sent away' during WWII >> >> >> > As a child, my former mother-in-law lived in Glasgow. She was >> > evacuated >> > to >> > Blair Athol during the war. She did return to her family home > afterwards. >> > >> > It appears this did not just happen in time of war and often the move > was >> > more permanent. I have a book by Margaret Humphreys (1997) called >> > Empty >> > Cradles. (Corgi Books, London). This book is about an estimated >> > 150,00 >> > children who were "deported from children's homes in Britain and >> > shipped >> > off >> > to a "new life" in distant parts of the Empire" - the last as recent as >> > 1967. Many children were told their parents were deceased. >> > >> > Margaret Humphreys was a Nottingham social worker. She investigated >> > the >> > case of a woman who claimed that at the age of 4, she had been put on a >> > boat >> > to Australia by the British government. >> > >> > This is well worth a read for those interested such a topic. Warning >> > though - some of the content could be considered sensitive - it is an >> > emotional account of life for these children. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:48:31 EST >> From: Ktsc100@aol.com >> Subject: [NIR-DOWN] Phone number in County Down >> To: NIR-DOWN@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: <c61.236bf27a.34c4ff8f@aol.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >> >> Hello, >> >> I would like to find a phone number for a family in County Down, Northern >> Ireland. I have not been able to find an on-line directory for that > area. >> Does anyone know how I can find one to look up the number? >> >> Thank you for your help. >> >> Ken T. >> >> >> >> **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. >> http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 3 >> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:56:01 +1300 >> From: "Lyn Whelan" <johnwhelan@xtra.co.nz> >> Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] Children 'sent away' during WWII >> To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> >> Message-ID: <002201c85b9e$7d25d190$6601a8c0@Lyn> >> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; >> reply-type=original >> >> I see in my posting regarding the book Empty Cradles, I missed a 0 in the >> total number of children >> It was 150,000 children not 15000 - quite disturbing really. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dawn Williams" <dawnewil@verizon.net> >> To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 8:30 AM >> Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] Children 'sent away' during WWII >> >> >> > Thanks for the book suggestion. I'll try to get it. I have a cousin >> > born >> > in >> > England at the end of WWII who was sent to Australia along with his >> > brothers, as orphans. When a law change allowed him access to his > records, >> > he found out that his parents had not died until much later when he > would >> > have been able to meet them had he known. I guess it was his parents >> > economic conditions during and after the war that led to the >> > circumstances. >> > Dawn >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Lyn Whelan" <johnwhelan@xtra.co.nz> >> > To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> >> > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 11:49 PM >> > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] Children 'sent away' during WWII >> > >> > >> >> As a child, my former mother-in-law lived in Glasgow. She was > evacuated >> >> to >> >> Blair Athol during the war. She did return to her family home > afterwards. >> >> >> >> It appears this did not just happen in time of war and often the move > was >> >> more permanent. I have a book by Margaret Humphreys (1997) called > Empty >> >> Cradles. (Corgi Books, London). This book is about an estimated > 150,00 >> >> children who were "deported from children's homes in Britain and > shipped >> >> off >> >> to a "new life" in distant parts of the Empire" - the last as recent >> >> as >> >> 1967. Many children were told their parents were deceased. >> >> >> >> Margaret Humphreys was a Nottingham social worker. She investigated > the >> >> case of a woman who claimed that at the age of 4, she had been put on >> >> a >> >> boat >> >> to Australia by the British government. >> >> >> >> This is well worth a read for those interested such a topic. Warning >> >> though - some of the content could be considered sensitive - it is an >> >> emotional account of life for these children. >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > 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 >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 4 >> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:58:05 -0500 >> From: Stan Megraw <smegraw@videotron.ca> >> Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] Phone number in County Down >> To: nir-down@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: >> > <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAgBS7AtcnR0K0MuGKy6bn+8KAAAAQ > AAAAXDMGMRdjqUq4G8/E7xik/AEAAAAA@videotron.ca> >> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> >> I've had success with >> > http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/residential/search >> .publisha >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: nir-down-bounces@rootsweb.com >> [mailto:nir-down-bounces@rootsweb.com] >> On Behalf Of Ktsc100@aol.com >> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 2:49 PM >> To: NIR-DOWN@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [NIR-DOWN] Phone number in County Down >> >> Hello, >> >> I would like to find a phone number for a family in County Down, Northern >> Ireland. I have not been able to find an on-line directory for that > area. >> >> Does anyone know how I can find one to look up the number? >> >> Thank you for your help. >> >> Ken T. >> >> >> >> **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. >> http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 5 >> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:29:40 -0600 >> From: "Pat Jones" <kin-hunter25@cox.net> >> Subject: [NIR-DOWN] gravestone inscriptions or death records for the >> Killinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or the Killinchy >> Presbyterian Church (Co Down) >> To: <NIR-DOWN@rootsweb.com> >> Message-ID: <001d01c85ba3$2f98d080$640fa8c0@Desktop> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> If someone has access to the gravestone inscriptions or death records for > the Killinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or the Killinchy > Presbyterian Church, County Down, could you please do a look up for any > MARSHALL and/or David GIBSON and his family. Thanks so much. >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 6 >> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:53:43 +1100 >> From: "Judith and Graeme Collins" <gcol6113@bigpond.net.au> >> Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] McKee family >> To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> >> Message-ID: <002a01c85ba6$8b295660$71e4bc7c@XPPC> >> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; >> reply-type=original >> >> Peter / Patricia >> >> I have a Hugh McKee Erskine in my family Tree and as he married an Agnes >> Armstrong from Ballynahinch I have suspected the Erskines came from >> Ballynahinch area as well as the Armstrongs. >> >> . Hugh emigrated to New Zealand c 1881 and Agnes at the age of 19 sailed >> there to be wed possibly on her own or maybe with someone else c 1883 > .They >> were married at the residence of a Thomas McKee. >> Now many years later c 1916 my Great Aunt was married in Belfast by a Rev >> John/James McKee. >> As yet I haven't unraveled the McKee Erskine connection but there must be >> one. >> >> The Erskines apparently came across from Scotland at some time. >> >> If any of these names link up with your family I would be pleased to >> know. >> >> >> Judith >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <Peter10Appletree@aol.com> >> To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 11:28 PM >> Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] McKee family >> >> >> > Patricia >> > >> > coincidence or not >> > >> > My grandmother was named Elizabeth McKEE and was born 10 Dec 1864 in >> > Ballynahinch. There is no Christian name on her birth certificate (as >> > with the IGI) >> > uncovered within my father's effects. >> > Her parents were John McKEE and Catherine (EMERSON) >> > >> > Peter >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > 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 >> > >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 7 >> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:57:56 -0000 >> From: "Rachel McPhee" <nandr@blueyonder.co.uk> >> Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] gravestone inscriptions or death records for >> theKillinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or theKillinchy >> Presbyterian Church (Co Down) >> To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> >> Message-ID: <115F9AD9E85F4BBFB21AF1248534DF12@mcpheefamilyPC> >> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; >> reply-type=original >> >> I also have an interest in this area, I am looking for surnames HAMILTON > and >> ALEXANDER in Killinchy and surrounding areas from around 1800 - 1850, I > know >> it's a big timescale but am stuck at a great big brickwall and any >> information would be a start. Many thanks in advance. >> >> Rachel McPhee >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Pat Jones" <kin-hunter25@cox.net> >> To: <NIR-DOWN@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:29 PM >> Subject: [NIR-DOWN] gravestone inscriptions or death records for >> theKillinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or theKillinchy >> Presbyterian Church (Co Down) >> >> >> > If someone has access to the gravestone inscriptions or death records > for >> > the Killinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or the Killinchy >> > Presbyterian Church, County Down, could you please do a look up for any >> > MARSHALL and/or David GIBSON and his family. Thanks so much. >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > 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 >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 8 >> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:50:27 -0800 >> From: Hugh Macartney <hhmacartney@shaw.ca> >> Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] gravestone inscriptions or death records >> fortheKillinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or >> theKillinchy Presbyterian Church (Co Down) >> To: nir-down@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: <000601c85bae$780e7670$26f64518@ownercc2198af2> >> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; >> reply-type=original >> >> The Killinchy Alexanders were mostly living at Carrickmannon, Raffrey and >> Drumreagh and the Ros Davies web site will contain many details. I think >> most were buried in the Ballygowan Presbyterian Graveyard. One family > lived >> in Carrickmannon House. The Killinch Presb. Graveyard has: >> HAMILTON >> (Railed enclosure with KIRK stone and modern Hamilton stones) >> Erected by George Hamilton of Raffery who d. Feb.12 1812 aged 55. Also >> his >> wife Margaret COUSSE alias Hamilton who d. Aug. 15 1803 aged 36. Also his >> son George aged 2. Also John Hamilton who d. Jan.23 1846 aged 52. Also >> two >> children who died young. John Stewart d. Jan 1865 aged 52. Mary Hamilton > d. >> May 29 1873 aged 66. >> KIRK >> In Hamilton enclosure 1811. Erected by John Kirk of Barnamaghery who d. > May >> 1 1826 aged 85. Also his wife Jane Kirk alias HAMILTON who d. Ap. 26 1826 >> aged 72. >> (The Kirks I believe were originally from Raffery) >> No Alexanders or Hamiltons listed in Killinchy Non-Subscribing Presb. >> Graveyard. >> If there are any present day descendants they might be listed in the >> N.ireland Directory at bt.com Killinchy likely listed under Comber or >> Newtownards. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Rachel McPhee" <nandr@blueyonder.co.uk> >> To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 12:57 PM >> Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] gravestone inscriptions or death records >> fortheKillinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or theKillinchy >> Presbyterian Church (Co Down) >> >> >> >I also have an interest in this area, I am looking for surnames HAMILTON >> >and >> > ALEXANDER in Killinchy and surrounding areas from around 1800 - 1850, I >> > know >> > it's a big timescale but am stuck at a great big brickwall and any >> > information would be a start. Many thanks in advance. >> > >> > Rachel McPhee >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Pat Jones" <kin-hunter25@cox.net> >> > To: <NIR-DOWN@rootsweb.com> >> > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:29 PM >> > Subject: [NIR-DOWN] gravestone inscriptions or death records for >> > theKillinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or theKillinchy >> > Presbyterian Church (Co Down) >> > >> > >> >> If someone has access to the gravestone inscriptions or death records > for >> >> the Killinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and/or the Killinchy >> >> Presbyterian Church, County Down, could you please do a look up for >> >> any >> >> MARSHALL and/or David GIBSON and his family. Thanks so much. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 9 >> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:57:07 EST >> From: Juditoh@aol.com >> Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] Phone number in County Down >> To: nir-down@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: <cac.262f6abf.34c51db3@aol.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >> >> _http://www.192.com/_ (http://www.192.com/) May be helpful if phone >> directory doesn't help. >> >> >> In a message dated 1/20/2008 12:50:27 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, >> Ktsc100@aol.com writes: >> >> Hello, >> >> I would like to find a phone number for a family in County Down, >> Northern >> Ireland. I have not been able to find an on-line directory for that > area. >> Does anyone know how I can find one to look up the number? >> >> Thank you for your help. >> >> Ken T. >> >> >> >> **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. >> http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> **************Start the year off right. 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