SMYTH near Garvagh

[killabrew]

Looking for any information on a William Smyth (br 1860?) and his son Walter Arthur that lived near Garvagh or Gortnamora.

[Christopher]

Hiya killabrew,

A belated welcome to Rootschat.

There are Smyths mentioned on the 1796 Garvagh Church Visitation List on the Bann Valley Genealogy website.

Best Wishes, Chris

[aghadowey]

Have family tree for Smyths who came to Gortnamoyagh and am in contact with family here in Garvagh area and also in U.S. Please get in touch if you want to exchange details.

[Wendl]

Have family tree for Smyths who came to Gortnamoyagh and am in contact with family here in Garvagh area and also in U.S. Please get in touch if you want to exchange details.

Hello Again Aghadowey,

Once again, thank you for your help with my Paternal Thompson's...

I have a birthday day book that was kept by my maternal grt grt aunt, Maggie Hedley Close Moffatt, from 1891 when she received it up till 1941 when she died....there is some type of connection between the Smyth's and the Hedley or the Close family that I hav'nt quite figured out yet, anyways the following  Smyth names and dates are listed ... if they are of any interest to you.  My Close's and Hedley's are from Belfast, but seem to have some connection to the Londonderry and Armagh area's.

Susan Smyth    02 Mar ?
Ethel Florence Smyth  15 Mar 1897
Samuel Herbert Smyth  11 Apr ?    d. 20 Jun 1915
Lizzie Smyth  30 May ?
Frances Moore Smyth 21 Jun ?
Gertrude Smyth  22 Aug 1895
Jack Smyth  26 Sep ?


All the Best
Wendy

[Brains]

Hi
  I see your Smyth is from Garvagh I dont know where abouts that area is  I am sorry,,

dont know if this is any help to you, but I have my husbands Gt Grandfather who was a James Mcvey born coTyrone about 1835 may have married a Mary Ann Smyth in Arboe in 1855, not really sure if she is his wife (his first wife, other wife he married in Sydney as he was a widow from his first and came to sydney on the ship the Telegraph in 1860. James father was also a James born 1816 just know its Ireland.  I was sent this information as a message from rootschat about Mary Ann Smyth being a wife to a James Mcvey

Appreciate any help,
Regards
Barbara Mcvey

[aghadowey]

Garvagh is in Co. Derry between Coleraine and Swatragh. Gortnamoyagh is a townland outside Garvagh. I have a Smyth, Gortnamoyagh family tree but never heard from Killabrew who posted the original message.
It looks as though your Smyths might have been from Co. Tyrone.

[Brains]

Hi its me again
AS you will see, someone had  a message about the surname smyth, did not know where the area was then though, so thought I would give it a bash. so I decided to send a message back saying I may have a  Mary ann Smyth connected in marriage to my James McVey in 1855 at Arboe. to see if they knew of her at all. Of course it may not be the correct first wife of James Mcvey.

Barbara.

[Blackjack21]

aghadowey,

I'd be interested if the family tree you speak of contains the name John Perrie Smyth who was baptized 9 Oct 1831, First Garvagh Presbyterian, Co. Derry to George Smyth and Elizabeth McElroy.

[aghadowey]

No connection to Gortnamoyagh family as far as I can see. This George Smyth lived at Inchaleen and likely a son of Thomas & Frances who were there in 1825 with George and Archibald-
http://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/GarvaghP1/Visits/1825.html