Hello Dave and everyone. Dave, I am absolutely delighted that you have located a great find on my Urney Parish Church file of marriages, doubly so as I receive so few responses to any of my work. Witnesses are included in my marriage transcriptions as they may indicate family connections or close friendships. In the case of the 1849 marriage of David Miller and Margaret Lepper there is the added touching element of the family’s loved and much-respected Presbyterian church elder Hugh Knox invited to witness the marriage in a Church of Ireland ceremony. Great to have a signature of a forebear! Regards, Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Dave Mitchell<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, 10 June 2017 4:53 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Serendipity sounds ... all thanks to Len Swindley !! Hello everyone. Just have to share was Len has facilitated ….. Recently Len kindly posted transcriptions of marriages in the Parish of Urney onto our Co.Tyrone website. And Len had the savvy (and the kindness) to include the names of the witnesses to these marriages. So now I have from GRONI a certificate to the marriage of David Miller and Margaret Lepper in 1849 – which shows the original signature of church elder Hugh Knox who would then have been about 82 years old. An original signature of my very own 3-greats-grandfather! How so very special! Thanks, Len, you’re a star. Have a great weekend, folks. Dave Mitchell Cape Town South Africa
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