Struggling to find my ancestors

Hi Tricia, for anyone to help you, can you please give us their names & the places they lived in the 1901 Census, also if you look at your fathers marraige cert this MAY give you a clue as to where he was living at that time & that may be where his parents were also.  Would they have died? if so search for their deaths on familysearch.org.  also get the parents marraige cert, they may have moved back to where the bride came from for various reasons..

Hopefully you will be able to get answers.  Regards Carmel O'Callaghan

Hi Carmel. Thanks for your help.  My father's name was Frederick Moore and his parents were Peter Moore and Elizabeth Jane Moore (maiden name McKinley).  I have the 1901 census record showing my father, his brother Richard (then aged <1 and 2 respectively) and their parents on that record, all living at 73 Main Street, Dunfanaghy, Donegal.  I know there were older brothers but they do not appear on that record.  I have advice that perhaps as small boys they were let out to places to work.  My grandmother Elizabeth died in childbirth in 1906 so she will not reappear on the 1911 census and my grandfather remarried.  They were Church of Ireland and his new wife was RC so it split the family.  I think his new wife may have been an Anne Eliza Stewart, marrying her in 1907.

I think there were links with Londonderry but still cannot find them with that search in the census of 1911.  My father himself may have moved to Scotland by then as I believe it came over to Scotland when he was very young.  He joined the Irish Guards I think in his 20s but then served in WWII in the RASC. 

My mother and father were married here in Scotland.

Thank you very much again for your help

Regards Patricia Moore

Patricia,

Will you resend your query with family name Moores & Dunfanaghy as the townland,  Donegal is the county

Scotlandpeoples ( subscription site)is an excellent site to follow the Scotish link & there should be lots of info on soldiers serving in WWII, Ancestry.com(subscription site) would have lists.

Best of luck Carmel