Post by Ptarmigan on May 11, 2008 10:04:22 GMT
I am having great difficulty tracing my ancestors on my father's side.
The only thing my father, who was born in 1920, knows about his father's origins is that he arrived in Ballymena on a motor bike and side-car!
His name was Joseph Starrs and he married Jeanetta Higgarty.
All that is known about Jeanetta Higgarty is that her mother married twice.
Her children from the first marriage were Jeanetta Higgarty (my grandmother) and Bob Higgarty.
She had at least two children from her second marriage, John Burns and Archie Burns of Moat Road, Ballymena.
John Burns was married three times, firstly to Mabel with whom he had a son, Bobby Burns.
I am unaware of his second wife's name but he was married for a third time to Annie Leekie. Archie Burns had at least four children, Elsie, Violet, Robert and Archie.
The Starrs' Story
The only thing my father, who was born in 1920, knows about his father's origins is that he arrived in Ballymena on a motor bike and side-car!
His name was Joseph Starrs and he married Jeanetta Higgarty.
All that is known about Jeanetta Higgarty is that her mother married twice.
Her children from the first marriage were Jeanetta Higgarty (my grandmother) and Bob Higgarty.
She had at least two children from her second marriage, John Burns and Archie Burns of Moat Road, Ballymena.
John Burns was married three times, firstly to Mabel with whom he had a son, Bobby Burns.
I am unaware of his second wife's name but he was married for a third time to Annie Leekie. Archie Burns had at least four children, Elsie, Violet, Robert and Archie.
The Starrs' Story