Help Please

Hello Rob,

There are many margaret walshs born in Tipperary in 1829 so you will need a bit more informtion about her to refine your search.   www.rootsireland.ie is a good site with the church records.

What was her married name? Did she marry before she emigrated? If you could find her marriage record you would probably find the parents names on this document, you could then narrow down your search.

Have you looked at the records in the port of arrival?  Most countries kept a record of incoming people.

That's all the suggestions that I have at the moment.  If you manage to find out her parents names the search will be much easier.

regrds,

Anne

Hi Anne

Thanks for the info. The problem I have is I do not know whether she married in Ireland, England or South Africa. She married George Christopher KIMBLE, don't know when.

S. Africa's shipping records are at best, useless.  Only the 1820 settlers seemed to have been documented, and not completely. I have not found any mention of a Walsh in the 1820 settlers. Margaret Walsh may have gone to England first, then S.A.

To make research even more difficult I don't know here parents names. A common reoccurring boys name is the family is Joseph, George, Percival. They had a daughter named Honora Ester KImble, but I know she was born in South Africa.

I noticed from family records that a Catholic priest with the surname Walsh baptised my granfather in 1884, and another family member worked for A P Walsh and yet another relative (my gr-grandfather gave his address after the Anglo-Boer War) as c/o J P Walsh.  Is it only coincidence there are so many Walshs' intertwined with the Kimble family?

Regards

Rob

Thanks

As Joseph is a reoccurring name in the family, I may try that record and see where it leads.

Many thanks

Rob