Stewart and Douglas Family History

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You’d think that as we’ve been back in the UK over a year now that we’d have really made some headway with the family history but in reality we’ve hardly done any work on it at all. What’s happened is that it’s taken us a whole lot longer than expected to get settled back into life here and that task still isn’t complete.

As luck would have it, 2009 was the very year that a cousin in America finally got back in contact with me regarding his own researches but unfortunately our own situation just didn’t allow us to get going on what would probably be a very effective collaboration. Ironically, we’d have have made loads of progress had he not been so busy in the couple of previous years. Oh well.

Well, I say that we’ve not done anything but in fact we’ve been to a couple of funerals over that time which have re-established links with some cousins both near and far who we’ve not spoken to in a number of years and did pick up some useful snippets of information along the way which should aid future researches. Perhaps the most significant is that the family definitely did come to Northern Ireland from Scotland in the late 1800s although I haven’t confirmed if that was only the Youngs or if it was the Stewarts too (the Douglas, or rather, Montgomery side came from Kings County [now County Offaly] around the same time).

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We’ve been soooo bad about doing the family history in 2008!

However, as we’re moving back to the UK this January we are hoping that we’ll be able to get going again on checking up on primary sources in a couple of months time. We’ve the list of church graveyards to go round from five years ago though we’ll be needing to see the parish registers this time to progress things as we already have the exhausted the information from the various headstones that we came across last time. Also on the cards is some more research in the Public Records Office.

And, of course, it’s time to say Happy New Year!

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At long last we seem to have the blogs operational on the new host.

In the end, it turned out to be a Wordpress issue after all and needed an htaccess file to be installed. Quite why it wasn’t installed automatically, I’ve no idea.

Oh well.

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