Hi, I'm Jane (Allison) and I'm looking for your help!
Mt Greatx3 grand parents were a James Allison (shoemaker) and Maggie Baxter, who arrived in Rumford in Stirlingshire Scotland, for all the usual reasons, I suppose, in the early 1850;s.
I cant be more specific about the date, but I have not been able to find them on the 1851 census in Scotland, but by 1854, their two oldest children, Joseph (c1832) and Hugh (c1833) had married in Muiravonside Parish, Rumford. Still living with the parents were 5 younger children, including Bridget, the youngest, assessed to have been born in about 1850, and always (on census) indicated as having been born in Ireland. Many distant cousins of mine have been investigating the family tree, and we are all stuck at James & Maggie! Well actually, we know James parents were another Hugh Allison and Bridget Timmins or Tunny, from James' Scottish death cert, and Maggie's parents were a Joseph Baxter & Mary Kyle. again, from Maggies Scottish death certificate.
However nobody has had any real evidence for where in Ireland they came from. I have been very lucky, and found 2 pieces of evidence indicating that they certainly lived in Tyrone for quite a period.
Joseph, the eldest son, had his first child born in 1855, the first year of Scottish compulsory registration, and in only that year, they asked both parents where they were born. Joseph indicated County Tyrone!. The third son William, estimated to have been born at some time around 1840, (perhaps a little earlier I think!) on the 1871 census, living with his new wife at Livingstone, West Lothian, also indicated that he had been born in Tyrone, Ireland.
My sister & I spent 5 days in Dublin in February, searching (Catholic) church records in Tyrone, with zero success. We found nothing! So I'm wondering if anyone still living in Tyrone, might recognise the names from their family history, this might be another way to find info. on my Allison ancestors!
I have no evidence to back this up, but I feel that James and Maggie may have had one or 2 older children, who may have already been married, and therefore did not come to Scotland. James and Maggie (Baxter) may have had brothers or sisters whose descendants could still be in Tyrone.
Any help or info very gratefully received! I have previously posted some of this info, but not quite in this form, and got no 'bites'!
Anyone with any Allison info - please be in contact!
Even 3rd party info of any 'clusters' of Allisons, so I could concentrate our search on specific parishes or Townlands!
Thanks a million!
PS - the family when they came to Scotland seem to have been RC, however, I guess it's possible that one or more of the parties were not - it could be 1 reason they left Tyrone.
