Neely's in londonderry

[scotmum]

Also, his church of marriage may have been his wife's local, but equally it could have also been his - so may also be where his birth was registered. Have you tried them for records from the timescale you need?

[scotmum]

http://www.stcolumbscathedral.org/

[davieboy]

IGI lists 6 children born to Oliver Neely & Elizabeth Frazer but some of these are submitted records which need to be treated with caution.

The Oliver Neely I was asking about married Lizzie Fraser in St Columbs Londonderry in 22/10/1880.

If Oliver Neely was married in 1880 it is more than likely that he was born before 1860. Does his marriage give his age?

I sure i got his age from his death certificate and done the maths as they say, but I also have a 1891 census return from scotlands people making him 31 at the time with his wife Lizzie being 32 so I am pretty confident that he was born around 1860

[maryderry]

OLIVER NEELY MARRIED LIZZIE FRASER  22-9-1881 AT ST.COLUMBS COFI TEMPLEMORE DERRY.


                        REGARDS MARY.

[joeyscat]

Hi,

im trying to find out if John Neely & Margaret Jane Boyd had any more children that the ones that I already know about.

Do you know anything about John (1819) Neely's parents or sibling?

[davieboy]

Joe,

Unfortunately I know very little about John Neely's parents or his siblings.

[joeyscat]

I think my great great grandfather Robert was a younger brother of his. John was born in 1819 and Robert was born in 1921. Where Robert's children were christened, marriage records show there was also a William and an Alexander who were probably about the same age and a Matthew who was possibly about 10 years older, so there could have been a number of brothers not just the two we know about.
 
How much have you on John's descendents? A lot went to Scotland but some stayed in Ireland.

[davieboy]

Joeyscat

from what I can gather 3 of John's sons went to live in Glasgow & I have a lot of information regarding them.

I also have photographs of a memorial to John & his wife from a small cemetery in Londonderry just near the border with the south.

Im also pretty sure that Matthew is his son also and reckon that his son was the founder of the funeral directors called Neely from Londonderry.

As an aside, one of the sons who moved to Glasgow had a descendant, also called Matthew, who was killed in Cyprus during the conflict there in the 1950's.

[joeyscat]

Yeah he had 5 sons and two daughters from the information I have, three went to Scotland and one, Robert, definitely stayed in Derry, his family were the ones that became Neely and Adair the undertakers. The monument was put up by Mathew to his father at Killea, I don't know what happened to him apart from the fact he was alive to put the monument up and died in 1918 presumably still in Derry, he would have been the youngest. I don't know if Matthew was also in the funeral business but I can find out, I know Robert's great-grandson I'll be talking to him this week sometime, his father also ran the business until he retired.

This isn't my information, I recently came across it when trying to piece together my line, which is why I was interested in John's parents. You probably already know this stuff.