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From: "Diane Dougherty" <>
Subject: [DUBLIN IRELAND] William Strain's Whereabouts
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:10:15 -0500


Hello Everyone
Thank you for all of your past help in my search for GG Grandfather William Wright Strain...He still eludes me, however, so I thought that I'd send out another SOS, and hope that his whereabouts in Dublin may become clearer.
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Anthony very kindly helped find him in the 1850 Dublin Directory, at 1 Hardwicke St, earning a living as coal factor. Thanks again, Anthony, for the beautiful colour photo of his last known address.
Where he went from there continues to baffle me.
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I now know that he and his brother Joseph were born in Killyfuddy, Killeevan, near Newbliss, Co Monaghan.
William turns up in Canada about 185, when his first child was born.
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If anyone knows of his whereabouts in Ireland pre and post 1850, or can guide me to publications that might help me track him down I'd really appreciate it.
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I've ordered all of the Killeevan Church records that the LDS has available, and so far have only uncovered a James Strain in the Griffiths Valuation . This James is 72 and could very well be William and Joseph's father.
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This is so tantalizing as I feel that I'm so close to finding him, but he disappears like a wisp of smoke.
Any help would be so appreciated.
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Thanks
Dinny in Canada

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