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From: "Joan Rooney" <>
Subject: Re: [LAN] Isabella Cowell 1st Marriage - MAHON?
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:45:09 -0500
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There is an Irish name spelled MAHON or MAHAN

Joan

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From: "David Eaves" <>
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Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 15:24
Subject: Re: [LAN] Isabella Cowell 1st Marriage


> Hi Sally/Christine,
>
> Thanks for the look-ups. I don't have much more information to give
> you than what was in my first email, except Lawrence appears to have
> been born c1864 according to census. and that his surname is spelt
> Mahin on the 1881 cemsus. But as the enumerator spelt his
> stepfather's name as Robert Eves without the 'a' on the same census
> then I'm not inclined to believe Mahin to be correct. I got the
> spelling of Mayon from his mother's wedding certificate to Robert Eaves.
> On the 1891 amd 1901 census Lawrence's birthplace is recorded as
> Manchester.
> These Mayon/Mahins are a mystery to me. Does the name sound Irish or
> is that me just thinking of a connection with Mayo?
> Thanks for the work you've put in so far.
> David.
>
> On 20 Dec 2008, at 18:40, sally roberts wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello again
>>
>> I found Lawrence with the surname of Eaves in 1871, albeit the
>> census has him as Samuel J, living in Poulton Le Fylde. It confirms
>> the birth year to be about 1864 in Manchester.
>>
>> There's certainly no Mayon's on Freebmd, nor Lancs BMD that fit,
>> the closest I could get with a possible mis-spelling was Makel or
>> Bannon, but that's probably clutching at straws :o) I know that he
>> didn't get baptised in Church of the Sacred Trinity in the Parish
>> of Salford as I already checked that on the OPC page. Still going
>> through other pages that I have bookmarked, but are there any other
>> clues at all that you have?
>>
>>
>> Regards, Sally
>>
>>
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