Thanks everyone. Just letting you all know I commissioned Dr Jennifer Martin to do some digging (records only!) into my ancestor and she has found a Kean in the Deer park town lands. I look forward to seeing the area over the coming days while I am here in Antrim. Thanks to everyone for their interest and assistance. Cheers Carolyn ..read more

The lady you contacted at PHS is Valerie Adams (in a previous life she was in charge of PRONI). I have known her for many years and so she perhaps meant she knew who I was, rather than that she knew about our discussion on this family.  Or perhaps she reads these boards? Who knows? Re burial records, Presbyterians generally don’t keep burial records. However in this particular case the&hellip ..read more

Я звернувся до компанії Galaktica https://galaktica.io/ з надією на професійне вирішення своїх IT-проблем і можу з упевненістю сказати, що це було одне з найкращих рішень. Їхня команда виявила високий рівень експертизи та уважно вислухала мої вимоги та побажання. Вони запропонували мені комплексне рішення, яке повністю задовольнило мої потреби. Що мене приємно здивувало, то це швидкість і&hellip ..read more

The first thing that comes to mind is the use of stock photo banks. There you can find a huge number of images on various topics, including construction. Some of the most popular stock photo banks include Shutterstock, Adobe Stock, and Getty Images. Just enter keywords related to your project, such as "builders", "construction", "construction workers", and you are sure to find many&hellip ..read more

The French knights never won any battles against English longbowmen during the Hundred Years' War. The French knights never killed any English longbowmen during the Hundred Years' War. So why do people still think that knights are decent fighters even though the English longbowmen proves that they are weak ..read more

What do you think of the fact that this Wikipedia source and this collapsed Quora answer prove that medieval knights were incompetent combatants with ridiculous military training? This collapsed Quora answer proves that there were actually 1600 knights(100 Teutonic Knights + 800 Danish and German knights + 300 other Danish and 400 other German knights) fighting for the Catholic Teutonic&hellip ..read more

How come people think that medieval knights such as the Teutonic Knights are decent warriors when medieval knights such as the Teutonic Knights were actually very weak? The Battle of Grunwald proves that medieval knights were weaklings who had weak stupid military training. The Battle of Grunwald was a battle in which the Teutonic Knights were decisively defeated by a Polish-Lithuanian&hellip ..read more

celticsheila Hi Sheila, do you still have the same email address? Thanks ..read more

You ask about Mary's maiden name. It should appear in the records of the church where they married, if you know where that was and if the records still exist. Likewise it may appear in the baptism records for their children, again if the records exist. Tradition was to marry in the bride's church after which she'd attend her husband's. So marriage and childrens baptisms may not be in the&hellip ..read more

Apologies. Only seeing this now. Article in Irish crafted by a student of the National Centre for Gaelic Language and Culture based in Sleat on the Isle of Skye: https://www3.smo.uhi.ac.uk/oduibhin/daoine/mccambridge.htm Google translate does a very good job of conversion into English ..read more