Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Robert Boardman, son of Robert Boardman and Mary nee Campbell.,
Jane Polly, dau of William Polly and Mary Valentine.

Robert Boardman married Jane Polly in Glasgow, 1860.
(details above come from their marriage record)

They were living in Liverpool by 1871 and had several children.

1871 census has Robert born in County Derry
and Jane born in County Down.

Does anyone connect to these family lines?

Hi and welcome to the forum.

If you are searching for living relatives, perhaps some of these suggestions might be useful
https://www.liverpool-genealogy.org.uk/ ... =14&t=8154

But if there is a query we can help you with, please be specific in what you need and we will try to help.

'Boardman' and 'Polly' are rare names in Northern Ireland; it should be relatively easy to find the same name descendants today.

A good tool is the Irish Census:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/

Religion will narrow things down more. The nine Boardmans of County Londonderry in 1911 were all Protestant.

There were a total of 64 'Pollys' in Ireland; 45 in County Down, 19 were Roman Catholic. Nearly all the Co Down Pollys were from the Ards Peninsula; the peninsula on the south east corner of Northern Ireland that forms Strangford Lough.

An Ancestry search on Polly/Strangford throws up lots of seemingly relevant records:

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss ... allgs&gst=

Hello Luxor, my knowledge of Ireland is practically nil. Is there anything of this sort for Dublin or any other parts of Southern Ireland? What about other parts like England, Scotland and Wales? This could be very useful if they exist.

Hi Barbara,
The Irish Census search page defaults to the simple version: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/s ... archsimple which offers a basic set of fields:

This allows you to search by county; e.g. County Dublin.
Clicking 'More search options' loads http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/s ... searchmore which offers a lot of extra fields. 'Religion' is the one I find most useful. 'Occupation' should be useful, but descriptions and spellings can be inconsistent.

After you hit search, the results page will display the number of records. In theory, worst-case you might need to search each of the thirty-two counties, but usually you only want to check a couple. Searching without a county selected will give you an overall total. I don't know how you would do a similar exercise for England, but some of the experts may have a suggestion?

Thanks Luxor, that's really helpful.

Hi welcome from the wild west of Oz...just to add Robert B jr was born in Liverpool in 1866, which could help with the time frame of their move from Scotland. Peter would you like me to look in Genes ReUnited for you for any connection to the Boardmans?? They are Bordman in 1871 census.