BillyH Posted 13 December , 2019 Share Posted 13 December , 2019 Can anyone please interpret the Parish in the snippet below? The writing is very splodgy but my best guess would be Douth, Co. Meath. Expert help would be much appreciated. BillyH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonbem Posted 13 December , 2019 Share Posted 13 December , 2019 Try some of these https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/County_Meath_Civil_Parishes regards Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyH Posted 13 December , 2019 Author Share Posted 13 December , 2019 Thanks Jon, but I had already explored those avenues without any luck. The lettering is so splodgy I am not even 100% sure that it is Co. Meath, it could be Louth or . . . . . ? BillyH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonbem Posted 13 December , 2019 Share Posted 13 December , 2019 Is there an actual street address that could aid a search? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
museumtom Posted 13 December , 2019 Share Posted 13 December , 2019 Dundalk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EDWARD1 Posted 13 December , 2019 Share Posted 13 December , 2019 Dowth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
depaor01 Posted 13 December , 2019 Share Posted 13 December , 2019 I'd go for Dowth too. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyH Posted 13 December , 2019 Author Share Posted 13 December , 2019 3 hours ago, jonbem said: Is there an actual street address that could aid a search? No street address Thanks to you all for the interest on a very wet Friday afternoon! I like the look of tom's Dundalk, but that is in Co. Louth? Dowth is in Co. Meath (just!) I am a bit torn between the two, but I am edging towards Dowth in Co. Meath. BillyH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonbem Posted 13 December , 2019 Share Posted 13 December , 2019 With a mans name we could do some more sleuthing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
museumtom Posted 13 December , 2019 Share Posted 13 December , 2019 Dundalk is in Louth. Dowth is in Meath,. and means the place of darkness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie2 Posted 13 December , 2019 Share Posted 13 December , 2019 Just my opinion, I‘m not happy with Douth, Dowth or Meath, I think there are at least 6 letters in each word. Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clk Posted 13 December , 2019 Share Posted 13 December , 2019 Hi BillyH, 56 minutes ago, jonbem said: With a mans name we could do some more sleuthing A service number would be good too. FMP often have better quality scans than Ancestry. Regards Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jervis Posted 13 December , 2019 Share Posted 13 December , 2019 4 hours ago, charlie2 said: Just my opinion, I‘m not happy with Douth, Dowth or Meath, I think there are at least 6 letters in each word. Charlie I agree Charlie, there appears to be an extra character in both place names. But there are only 32 possibilities for an Irish county - the only one even close to resembling this handwriting is “Meath”. If it is not Meath - what other possibilities could it be? (except the hand writer had very weak geography!) If you accept it is Meath, you then accept the hand-writer has a strange way of writing “th” which could also explain the extra character in Dowth. My twopence anyway. Jervis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
museumtom Posted 14 December , 2019 Share Posted 14 December , 2019 It just occurred to me that if your image is from Ancestry it may be clearer in FMP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonMc Posted 14 December , 2019 Share Posted 14 December , 2019 My guess incorrect spellings - and that's not unlikely. I see the extra letter as an incorrect 'd' in each Dowdth and Meadth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KGB Posted 19 December , 2019 Share Posted 19 December , 2019 Dowth, Meath, the clerks were barely literate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyH Posted 20 December , 2019 Author Share Posted 20 December , 2019 Thanks for all the replies, eight heads are better than one! I am going for Dowth, in Co. Meath. BillyH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 20 December , 2019 Share Posted 20 December , 2019 Does it give an address for the recruiting office, or the next of kin? They might be the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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