Researching Frederick Conway
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The name Frederick means "Peace" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Frederick Conway on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Frederick Conway and the Conway Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Conway Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Conway family tree.
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Conway Forums
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Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on Frederick Conway. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
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Frederick William Conway
Frederick William Conway (1782–1853) was an Irish journalist, newspaper founder and editor.
Conway was probably born in Loughrea, County Galway, where his father ran a newspaper. His entire career was in journalism, becoming the editor of the Dublin Evening Post after 1800. In 1813, he founded the Dublin Political Review and in 1821, The Drama. He was also the proprietor of a newspaper called the "Farmer's Gazette" as of 1846
Although Conway was a supporter of Catholic Emancipation, being a member of the Catholic Association. he incurred the wrath of Daniel O'Connell who nicknamed him "Castle Conway" in reference to a rumoured pension he received from the British Administration in Ireland based in Dublin Castle. He served as a witness in "Indictment for a Conspiracy, in the Case of the Queen" in 1844.
He amassed a library of books, manuscripts and incunabula, the sale of which went on for twenty-five days after his death in Dublin, aged seventy-one (many of the books went to the library of Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) and other libraries in Ireland). He collected from a wide variety of topics, largely theology from the Thirteenth to Fifteenth centuries.
Source: Frederick William Conway, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Conway
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