Nelson family of Gortnamoyagh

[jeanhemm]

Hi Guys

I'm trying to find out about the Nelson family who stayed in Gortnamoyagh around the beginning of the 19th century.  The family started with David Nelson who was a farmer and as far as I know he was married and had two sons and a daughter.  Any info ?

Thanks


Jean

[Christopher]

Hello Jean,

What denomination were the Nelson family? Were they members of the Catholic faith, the Established Church (Anglicans or Church of Ireland) or possibly Presbyterians?

You'll have to rely on Church records as civil registration in Ireland was not introduced until 1864. Non Catholic marriages were registered from 1845 onwards. When registration for BDMS started in 1864 some people didn't bother with the registration for a few years after that date. Keep your fingers crossed that church records still exist.

Christopher

[aghadowey]

Jean- maybe you could post whatever names and dates you have in case someone can help.

[Christopher]

The Eighteenth Century Sources. may assist you to find your Nelson ancestors of Gortnamoyagh. Some of them are on John Hayes failteromhat.com website

Books of Survey and Distributions c. 1700
Catholic Qualification Rolls 1778 - 1793
Convert Rolls 1704-1839
Electors Rolls 1761
Estate Records and Marriage Licence Bonds
Flax Growers List 1796
Freeholders entitled to vote 1770
Grand Jurors and Books of Presentiments
Militia Lists 1761
Oath of Allegiance 1775
Poll Books 1752
Proprietors of land circa 1700 list
Protestant Householders 1740 list.
Register of Freeholders 1758
Return of Householders 1766
State prisoners 1798
Voters Lists 1727-1793

The 1796 Flax Growers List shows one Nelson in Derry ... Hugh, Ballywillin. Other Nelson families on the list were in Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Mayo, Monaghan and Tyrone.

I've created links to the following threads ...

Rootsweb "Johnston & Nelson of Gortnamoyagh" ... http://tiny.cc/9Kt3k

Jane Agnes Dobbins on Rootschat http://tiny.cc/OLbth

Neilson/Nelson & Johnston's from Garvagh-Aghadowey http://tiny.cc/uqUS0

Christopher

[jeanhemm]

Thanks - not sure where Hugh fits in though - I found the Nelsons in the First Garvagh Church Records - maybe Hugh would have been a brother to David Nelson.

[aghadowey]

Jean- the Hugh Nelson Christopher found is not in Gortnamoyagh so probably no connection to David Nelson.

[B J Peak]

Hi Jean

A David Nelson, farmer, of Gortnamoyagh had a son George who married Fanny Ann Dunlop at Moneydig Presbyterian Church on 27 Jul 1876.  They left Clyde on the "Oamaru" on 23 Sep 1876 and arrived in Otago, New Zealand on 16 Dec 1876.  If he is part of the family you are researching I would like to swap my New Zealand information for your Irish information.

B J Peak

[H Sutherland]

Hi B J Peak,
George Nelson and Fanny Ann Dunlop are my great-grandparents. I'm descended from their daughter Annie; my paternal grandmother. I was just saying to my father [their grandson] last week that we don't know much about George & Fanny Ann's descendants. We know that Margaret  was married twice & died 7/8/1939; that David died at Passchendaele on that infamous day of 12/10/17; that Fanny Ann married Archie Gilmore, who had two children who never married; that I haven't researched the families of Samuel [born 1879], George [1885], & John [1892].
Our Coleraine families are Nelson, Dunlop, Blair & Johnston.
So, who are you descned from?
Regards,
Hugh Sutherland

[scotmum]

B J Peak - jeanhemm hasn't been active on Rootschat since January 2012, albeit, provided they haven't changed email address, should receive notification that a reply has been added to this post.

H Sutherland - difficult to read the white in your post. You can modify your post in first 24hrs.

Another old thread which may be of interest to you both:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=198715.0