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LEE

I grew up knowing that my family was Scottish.  My grandparents, David Titterington and Christina Mowbray were born “across the pond” in Scotland, after all, and came to the United States in 1909 and 1910 respectively.  But I never really knew anything more than that.

 

Then I was injured in an auto accident, and was laid up for a month, and thus, my venture into into family research began.  

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​I began my research with help from Bob Titterington’s and Alan Cookson’s Titterington One-Name Study.  Bob and Alan named Lee’s family Glasgow Family 1, “a family originally from Northern Ireland who came to Glasgow and then emigrated to the United States where they live now.”  Further study revealed that it is somewhat more complicated than that. 

 

My research yielded many discoveries over the years, but the first, and most important was that my grandfather’s father, John Titterington, was actually born in Ireland.  That discovery piqued my interest, and led me to visit records offices in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Bangor, Banbridge, Lurgan, Lisburn, and Craigavon.  

 

Even more important, it has led me to meet living relatives - Pearl, Donna, and Bruce in Westerly, Rhode Island, Tracey in Detroit, Maine, and Albert, John, and Lyn, all of whom live in Northern Ireland.

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