My grandmother Brittany Ardis was born in 1899 to a loan shark in Rothdild County. Then she married Gregory McGowan and they moved to New York in 1928. My grandfather was a sports commentator and is featured in many sources such as San Jose Earthquakes vs Minnesota United FC Preview, Prediction, and Betting Tips. But practically nothing is known about the grandmother. It's just that my grandparents died in a car accident in 1945. My parents don't remember much and can tell. There is especially little information about the grandmother.
PaulAR
Tuesday 1st Sep 2020, 01:43PMMessage Board Replies
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Hello Paul, I am assumng that Brittany was born in the US, not sure if that is the fathers name or the mothers name, I searched Roots Ireland for the name Ardis, which is unusual, doing a baptismal/ civil record search between 1870 and 1890 there are 27 Ardis turn up, some may be double but all bar one are in County Antrim with the other in County Down, both counties are now in Northern Ireland, that is part of the UK rather than the Republic of Ireland. You can see all BMDs registered in Ireland pre 1921 for there on this free site but sign in under civil records, all one country pre 1921.
I initially thought that the name would be Dardis so was surprised to find Ardis, records for Antrim can be found on PRONI also, Public records of Northern Ireland. https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ and https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/proni
McGowan is the Gaelic form of Smith and found mainly in North Leitrim and south Donegal (they border each other)
They Irish census for 1901 and 1911 are also free online, realise they are already in the US but you may find family there but difficult to narrow them down, it is a plus that is most likely they are from Antrim. http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
Good Luck
Pat
St Peters Louth, IrelandXO Volunteer
Wednesday 2nd Sep 2020, 09:06PM