Help to decipher 2 Ireland place names

Yozz76 · 30 Oct 2012 at 15:48

I'm currently researching my family tree and I've found a great great great great grandfather and grandmother, both born in Ireland in about 1831. The following is a capture from an 1861 census but I can't figure out what their places of birth read as. Can anyone read it better than I can?

Bennie-Mac · 30 Oct 2012 at 15:52

Looks like Griggens (or Griggons) Bay(?) and Mount Heamy

Google brings up nothing for either though...

Edit -There is a Mount Heaton in Ireland which is the closest sounding place. - https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=e...34&biw=1920&bih=965&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

Kosmiche · 30 Oct 2012 at 16:01

griggons pub :confused:

Yozz76 · 30 Oct 2012 at 16:03

Thanks, the only place in Ireland that I've found on google maps that could be close is Griggins in Galway. I guess it is likely that place names and their spellings have changed over the years.

Cosimo · 30 Oct 2012 at 16:06

Eames said:
griggons pub

Doesn’t look like pub to me.

Tiny Clanger · 30 Oct 2012 at 16:12

Top line looks like Griggens Ref to me.

Kosmiche · 30 Oct 2012 at 16:18

If its pub can I please receive a prize

StriderX · 30 Oct 2012 at 16:24

Where were the descendants born?

That may help.

Yozz76 · 30 Oct 2012 at 16:35

StriderX said:
Where were the descendants born?

That may help.

This capture is from a census in Newcastle Upon Tyne and so they left Ireland. Their son (my great great great grandfather) was born in Newcastle and was killed in WW1, his son moved to Liverpool were my grandfather was born.

I'm loving researching all this, it is fascinating. I've also discovered that I have a great great great grandmother who born at sea to Dutch and French parents but she was baptised in Santa Rosa, Peru.

My mind boggles with it all.

Ma'am · 30 Oct 2012 at 16:38

Tiny Clanger said:
Top line looks like Griggens Ref to me.

I think the last word is Rep - short for Republic?

A.N.Other · 30 Oct 2012 at 16:53

It would help us to decipher the letters if you could post up a larger sample of the person's writing. Have you cropped that down or is that all you've got?

Looks to me like ...

Griggons ???
Mount Larny / Lamy

... though google doesn't throw anything up.

Antar Bolaeisk · 30 Oct 2012 at 18:36

A.N.Other said:
Looks to me like ...

Griggons ???
Mount Larny / Lamy

I don't think that's an 'L', I think it's a cross wrote atop the word like over on the left.

Mutt · 30 Oct 2012 at 18:47

Is there any chance they could be surnames? Google has thrown up family names of Griggen and Mountenay in Ireland. I don't think there's a capital letter underneath the X on the right unless it's a tall narrow capital.

or... "Griggens Bef (Before, similar to nee) Mount_____"?