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Re: [TSL] request
Eliz Hanebury <elizhgene@gmail.com> on 04/26/2009

It is possible these are your people, write me off list for more
(fingers crossed)
Eliz


Name: John Kane
Age: 56
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1794
Birth Place: England
Gender: Male
Home in 1850(City,County,State): Pittsburgh Ward 6, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Household Members: Name Age
Edward Kane 16
John Kane 14
John Kane 56     Carpenter   b England
Mary Kane 50                      b Pennsylvania
Mary Kane 13
Robert Kane 21

Also an 11 year old Kane and an Anne Glover 68
Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Pittsburgh Ward 6,
Allegheny, Pennsylvania; Roll: M432_746; Page: 436; Image: 354


Eve and Don have Pittsburg directories up

http://www.evendon.net/PGHLookups/PGH1852CDM.htm.

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:20 PM,  <pmorgan379@aol.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone with Ancestry.com could do a look up for me.  I am looking for a birth in Allegany County, New York or Allegany County, Pennsylvania in 1850. The birth would have been for Ellen Cecilia Kane born August 13, 1850.  Her parents were John and Mary Kane.
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>   I am trying to find out which state she was born in.
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>  Patricia
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> From: Valerie <valerie.c@pmce.co.za>
> To: theshipslist@rootsweb.com
> Sent: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 1:58 pm
> Subject: [TSL] Please any help appreciatted
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> I am looking for any info re a relative  Walter Crossley who was born in
> Pittsburgh in the States according to War Records he was born in 1891 but
> according to Census records in Belfast Northern Ireland he was born in 1893.
> He is listed in the 1911 Census of  Belfast Northern Ireland as living with
> my Great Aunt Eliza Tate(nee Crossley) and is stated as Walter Crossley aged
> 18yrs Machine Boy born USA - Relative  thus making his birth 1893
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> I did find a Walter Crossley on a ships record which stopped at Ellis Island
> and he is listed as about 1 month old and with his mother. I do not think
> this is the same Walter as the dates do not seem correct but then as I have
> been told already many dates which are given are not correct
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> the War Grave Commission  that give his birth date as 1891 .
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> He enlisted in Belfast N. Ireland around 1914/15 and joined the Royal Irish
> rifles 8th battalion 36th Ulster Division and was sent to France
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> He fought in the Battle of the Somme and sadly on the 2nd day of the main
> battle he was killed and his body never found. He is remembered at Thiepval
> Memorial in France where we are going this year to see it and the area
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> His death according to the War Graves Commission is given as the 2nd of July
> 1916 thus making him 25, so the Census of N. Ireland in 1911 and the death
> age given are in conflict .
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> This man was a relative and my sister has his War medals which were found in
> my Dads house when he died, yet no one seems to know anything more about him
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> I should love to find any record re this Walter Crossley and perhaps if he
> is recorded with any of his family on a ship from Pittsburgh to Belfast
> Northern Ireland  though which year I do not know but definitely before
> 1911. So he msut have left Pittsburgh before 1911 since he is recorded in
> Belfast in 1911  and then died in 1916
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> I do have some names of our family relatives but so far am unable to link
> them to Walter and thus still dearly want to locate the names of his parents
> and any siblings
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> I seemed to have exhausted mush of my research and also have written to
> Pittsburgh for his Birth Certificate but they cannot find it , s
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> wonder where he was born, since I also had someone search the Belfast
> records and they found nothing re his birth but surely he has to have been
> recorded somewhere or could he have been born at sea ??? I so much want to
> see whom he was in the family and why it seems so difficult to find his
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> Any help at all appreciated and if I am required to join with a fee, the
> ships list I am only to happy to do that
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> Thanking your for reading this and hoping to hear any info or advice
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> Valerie and Noel Crossley
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