My second cousin Shirlene (I think that's right - our paternal grandfathers were brothers?) has been good enough to fill in some gaps and correct some names and dates on our shared family tree. I'm always really grateful when people take time out to get in touch and help build our tree - without your …
Fantastic source of North Antrim genealogy info and all-round great guy Nevin Taggart from the North Antrim Local Interest blog contacted me in July (I know, I've got a backlog of blog posts to thrash out!) with some exciting news for this site; he had located a baptism record for my paternal great-grandfather William McDowell …
It's always hard to write these sad updates; they diminish, not add to our family story, but they are an unavoidable element of any family history. It's with great sadness that I pass on news of the loss of my Aunt Phyllis nee Jamison, earlier in the year in March, aged 83. (edit - corrected …
Continue reading Updating the Family Tree – Farewell, Aunt Phyllis
Thanks to my second cousin David (I figured out our degree of cousin-ness here on Ancestry.com's blog ) I've updated the family tree with regards to his parents' names and key dates, and I'm hoping to get some more information on the descendants of William Jamison soon. On my grandfather's side, I've updated some details …
This isn't really about the Jamison family history, but it's about a serious subject nonetheless; the relationship between NI and its chip shops. On mainland Britain, the chip shop now faces some serious competition from the plethora of Asian takeaways, kebab shops, Peri Peri joints and fried chicken shacks, but in Northern Ireland, apart from …
Continue reading For Cod, and Ulster – Northern Ireland’s Enduring Love of Chips Shops
In my last post I shared some pictures of the Jamison garage and houses at 265-269 Shore Road, Belfast, that stood until their demolition in the 1980s; on the site now stands a printing shop. The pictures were screen grabs from a video of Belfast in 1966, which Jimmy, a member of the Belfast forum, has …
I talked about the most recent picture I had of the family garage on the Shore Road, Belfast in a previous post ; the picture from the 1950's was sourced from the Belfast Forum, an invaluable source of history, pictures and local knowledge for all things Belfast; there's a particularly great (and very long!) thread about …
Continue reading Jamison Garage on Shore Road Belfast- Updated Picture(s)
When one of my Jamison cousins reconnected with me recently I was able to add to my treasure trove of pictures of my aunts and uncles when they were younger. As well as some cracking pictures of his mum, Richard sent me two pictures of my aunt Hilda as a young woman. This was great for …
My father, (Frederick) Ian Jamison, had seven full siblings and two half-sisters from his mother's first marriage, not an unusual family size for that generation of Irish families. Over the years and the distances between the surviving siblings, their children, and grandchildren, some of us have lost touch. It's always wonderful when we reconnect, and …
Continue reading Welcome to long-lost relatives; Richard, David and Aunt Phyllis
I've had news from cousin David in NI that we've lost another Jamison; Carol, who is listed in the family tree as marrying Harold (Hewer) Jamison, has sadly died aged 82. I've updated the information for her birth and death in the tree, and hope to receive some more missing names and dates from the …
