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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 23:01:33 JST goatsarah

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   • Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖
   • Zoë O'Connell
   @zoe @christineburns well nobody expected the UK to be quite so bloody stupid back then to be fair.
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     Zoë O'Connell (zoe@zoeoconnell.co.uk)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 23:01:34 JST Zoë O'Connell

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     • Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

     @christineburns I thought the rule for an Irish passport was simply grandparent born on the island of Ireland? Is there another route? (Asking for my kids as I didn’t get my Irish paperwork done until after they were born, unfortunately)

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     Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 23:01:35 JST Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

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     These new details reopen the question of whether I would have enough heritage for an Irish passport. If great grandfather James had been born six years sooner in Ireland it would certainly be the case. Anyway this is the thing with family research: you never know when you'll find something new. I first started researching fifteen years ago and it's taken till now to narrow the date of James and Mary's emigration to England to just six years. Next: Can i find their date of passage?

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     Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 23:01:37 JST Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

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     ...Two years after being released, James married my g-g-grandmother Mary and then six years after that they resurface in Deptford, SE London having their first child (another James) in 1856 (my great grandfather). Interestingly, father and mother married again in 1857 in a London church. Whether they'd lost the record of their Irish marriage or it simply wasn't accepted i guess there was some need to make the marriage official for the baby's sake. They then had another five children.

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     Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 23:01:38 JST Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

     Well! After years of trying to unearth the details I've finally found the parish birth record for my paternal great great grandfather James Byrne, born 20th August 1828 in Myshall, Co. Carlow Ireland (not Wicklow as I'd previously assumed). The next shock was to find he had been sent to prison for a month in 1848 for 'Hiding in a Haycock' (the precursor to a haystack). Why that was imprisonable isn't clear but the chap sentenced before him was stealing potatoes (this being the great famine)...