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The Charles Family - In Detail

JANE (NANCY) married Frank Purdy and had 7 children: Tom, Jack, Nancy, Sadie, Ida & Francis and Charlie.
Tom: married Violet McKinney and had 2 children: (Sadie & Francis).  Francis lives in England.
Jack: married Sarah and had a son (John)
Nancy: died young
Sadie: married Bob McKinney and had a daughter (Jane)
Ida: had a son Desmond in Enniskillen, then married George Bell and had 6 children (Dennis, Anna, Doreen, Valerie, Joan and Hazel)
Francis: went to England and married - no other details (HELP!)
Charlie: married L Caskey and had a daughter (Gwen - who married J McCartney and had 3 children - Philip, another boy and a girl))

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ROBERT married Martha Allen and had 3 children: Sammy, Robert and Allen
Sammy: ?
Robert: married B Brown and had 2 sons (Robin and Alan) and an adopted daughter (Isobel)
Allen: married Mavis and had 1 son Alan Jnr. (Alan Jnr married Lily Carmichael and they had 2 daughters - Amanda and Michelle)

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Robert's second wife was Jane Mitchell and they 4 children: Andrew, Harry, William & Sarah

Andrew: married Cora Kavanagh and had 3 children (Russell & Leslie both died young and Paul now lives in London married Catherine McGinley)
Harry: married Voilet and a son (Earl married Patricia and had 2 children, Helen & David (married Claire and had child Emily)
William: married Dolly Ballantine and had 2 children (Amanda & Jeanie).  Amanda lives in Cookstown, married Gerard McGinn and has a son David.  Jeanie is married to Ronny Morton, lives in Ballymena and has a son Jonathan.
Sarah: died young

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JOHN died aged 18 years and had no wife or children.

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MARY (MINNIE) married Charlie Cowden and had 5 children: Lily, Alex, John, Sadie & William
Lily: married R Creighton and had 9 children (Robbie, Tom, Sammy, Ivor, Marion (married John Palmer) Doris, Maxi, Desmond and Valerie)
Alex: married Kathleen McSloy and had 3 children (Johnny, Alex Jr and Betty)
John: married Betty, lived in Antrim and had 1 sons (Harold)
Sadie: married William McGookin and had 5 children (Roy, ??? Leslie, Margaret and Valerie)
William: married Laura Peadon and had 5 children (Elizabeth, Eleanor, George and Hazel)

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SAM died aged 19 years and had no wife or children.

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ELIZABETH married John Moran on the 6th June 1925 and had 8 children, Samuel Peter Gray was given up for adoption, Eileen May, Joseph, Robert (Bob), John Charles, Elizabeth (Betty), Colleen Margaret, and William George (Bill)
Elizabeth and John emigrated to New Zealand before they were married.  Their family still lives there.

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ANDREW, although he died aged 73 years, never married and had no children.

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WILLIAM GEORGE (my father) married Mary Annie Colquhoun (my mother) and had 12 children.  This section of the Charles family can be viewed in the page (Charles Family after 1905)

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