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Old 18-05-19, 21:36
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Please can anyone help read this?
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive...71/edit/record

It is for John McNally, aged 44 (7th person from the top).

1851, 1861 and 1871 say Scotland.
1891 says Sunderland.

This is the 1881.

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Old 18-05-19, 21:46
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What awful writing. I can't begin to fit a place-name to it. I wonder if it ends N K (i.e. Not Known). His wife and children are all born in County Durham (inferred from place-names).
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Old 18-05-19, 21:52
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Hi UJ.

I thought maybe the bit at the end was NE (for North East?), but it could equally be NK or N/E.

It's the first word I thought might give me some clues!
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Old 18-05-19, 22:00
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Looks like "(something) North N.K."
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Old 18-05-19, 22:22
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His marriage record (transcript) says his father was Francis.

Name: John Mcnally
Gender: Male
Marital status: Single
Age: 28
Birth Date: 1830
Marriage Date: 6 Jun 1858
Marriage Place: Southwick, Southwick, Durham, England
Father: Francis Mcnally
Spouse: Isabella Nicholson

Not sure that helps! lol I note he's aged a bit. (EDIT - no he hasn't - bad maths!)
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Old 18-05-19, 23:56
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I can only get "In the North NK" but I'm not very sure about the beginning of it.
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Old 19-05-19, 00:13
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Thanks everyone.

That's him Merry - Had got to England by 1841 and both his brother, sister and mother all just say "Scotland".
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Old 19-05-19, 08:23
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Did his brother and sister marry? Did they say Francis for their father?

Which 1841 census do you think is the right one?
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A tree on ancestry says this is the 1841 census entry, with all of them (except Francis?) down as born in Scotland:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...76112102/facts
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Old 19-05-19, 11:47
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Sister, Eleanor gives him as her Father when she marries - she married James Veitch who is with them in 1841.
She also registers his death in 1847.
I have been unable to trace the brother Peter forwards (although it is only an assumption that he is his brother).
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