My name is Alice June Wilbur Fuqua and I am searching for my great grandmother's family. All I have is her Father's name MORRIS WILSON and that her father and mother were both from Ireland. I have no idea where in Ireland but have searched for years. Morris Wilson has two daughters: Mary Elizabeth (Born in February , 1874) and Lucinda. He was married to an Alice D. Workman. Mary Elizabeth Wilson married Uriah Wilbur in 1898. This is all I have, but so much want to know more. I have always been interested in Ireland and maybe this is why.
Dear CatWhisperer, I have no real info for you but I would imagine with a surname like Wilson it would have been much more popular in Northern Ireland. Also, Irish families long ago, as you probably know already, continued with family names...first son called after paternal grandfather etc so the names continued. Lucinda would be unusual here...even years ago. I would imagine that the family could have been protestant also ...but you can never be sure. I would check out more Lucinda Wilsons. The christian name Maurice is the spelling here and Morris is a surname. I have a lad Called John R, Coyne and I found out only recently that the R. stood for Reilly (that was his mothers surname) so you could keep in mind that if his christian name was spelt Morris...it could have been his mothers surname. Just a few thoughts for you. Regards from Ireland, Fiona. P.S I love the cat....we have 8 cats but they all live outside...we do sneak one or two in sometimes but it's hard to keep them all happy!
My search for Morris Wilson did turn up a marriage on the 1900 census and it turns out that my great grandmother, Mary Elizabeth's mother ,( Bettie Dedmon), and Lucinda's mother (Alice D. Workman) were not the same person. They were half sisters from two different marriages. Bettie Dedmon is the one who is supposed to have come from Ireland. I will keep searching on the Morris Wilson stuff and had seen that Morris could be Maurice in several other places I have searched. Thank you for replying. I am delighted to have made contact with Ireland at last. I am afraid I have more cats than you. We have 13 cats, (all barn cats) who are my furry children and 4 dogs. We also smuggle the cats in from time to time. The kids gave me my screen name of CatWhisperer. They swear I can do anything with cats, even mean ones. I just love them. Alice Fuqua
Dear CatWisperer, I might have more information for you. My email is wfom@iol.ie. We had our first 'half' day of spring today but by the afternoon the wind and rain arrived and our only real fluffy cat had a bad 'hairday'. As for 13 cats!...we did have 13 but our 'man' is father and grandfather to alot of ours so we lost quite a few kittens. Two were born blind...and they were great! One just died for no reason and the other recently disappeared but we did see , dare I say it, a lovely big fox in the garden recently and I think that might have been the reason we lost the poor cat.. Hope to hear from you soon, Regards, Fiona, County Kilkenny, Ireland
could anybody help me with research on Richard Brackin.
Born about 1822, in county Fermanagh. He emigrated to Australia in about 1843 & died about 1849. He married Anne Allingham (B:18 Nov 1826, Loch Erne, County Fermanagh) on 7 Apr 1847 in Armidale, NSW, Australia.
If there are any descendants from this family, I would love to hear from you.
Looking for John Begley's family (parents and siblings) who went from Ireland (possibly Dingle) to Edinburg, Scotland during potato famine. John married Margaret (unknown) in Edinburg and they came to New York around 1880's. Their son "Frank" (possible James Francis) was my grandfather. John never got in touch with his parents again. I'm trying to find if any more of his family came to USA. Or their descendants in Ireland.
