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Chapter 6 Dublin

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We moved to Dublin in December 1968, living for a while in a small rented flat near James Joyce's tower at Sandymount Strand. In the following spring, we made the important decision to buy a house. New homes were being built on the south side of the city and after viewing and organising a mortgage (surprisingly easily) we moved into 69 Clonkeen Estate ( later rename Meadowvale)  in the late spring of 1969. John outside 69 Clonkeen Estate (later Meadowvale) 1969 Several friends and relatives came over on the ferry that year to visit us.  We acquired a dog - a Pembrokeshire corgi called Ceri and I joined Bray Sailing Club, a few miles down the coast.  John  and crew sailing Enterprise 2556 'Ptarmigan', Bray harbour 1970 We had very little furniture or belongings, but gradually built up household necessities by purchase or in several cases making furniture from old packing cases and beach driftwood.  Our first daughter was born in 1970.  Ros had a difficult la...
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The Beginnings This is intended to be my story – John Victor Winchurch, born on 27 September 1942 up to the present day, but as an amateur family historian, I feel the need to begin with the basic details of my origins. My main vehicles for recording family history are Ancestry.co.uk where you will find my family tree under the user name John Winchurch and the tree name is John Winchurch 20170730 and also my blog sites :- On Wordpress the URL is  https://jonvic42.wordpress.com/ with various sub headings leading to different family branches. On Blogger you can find similar material on http://winchurch.blogspot.com/ . This tends to be updated more often and is now the site I use most after Ancestry. Here is a basic pedigree version of my family tree as it currently stands M y Grandparents When I was born in 1942, three of my grandparents and also, unusually, three of my great grandparents were still alive, as you can see from the family tree. Since all of my grandparents had a si...
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Ann Winchurch (née Shaw) 1793 - 1875

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 Ann was my great great grandmother, born in Dudley in 1793, died in Aston, Birmingham in 1875. Update August 2019 Since I wrote the post below, I have taken the Ancestry autosomal DNA test. This has led to some fascinating discoveries in my quest to identify my wider family. I began quite soon to notice that there was no evidence from DNA links to confirm the identity of Ann as being born Ann (or Nancy) Brooks. In fact I realised that I was getting closer matches with members of the Shaw family of Dudley than I would have expected as a result of my 4g grandmother (Thomas Winchurch's mother) being born Sarah Shaw. To cut a long story short, I now believe that Ann was born Nancy Shaw to Benjamin and Hannah (nee Johnson) Shaw in Dudley in 1793. She probably married Benjamin Shakespear in Kingswinford in 1814 - there is a corresponding marriage record. It looks as though Benjamin was in the army and was discharged in 1815. He might have been involved and possibly injured in the...
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