To GenFerrett
THANK YOU.
My post is a bit old, I have not worked on this line for a while.
This surely seems to be our John Middleton whose daughter was Mary who married Samuel Conkey (Conchy). He died in 1874 at age 32 and left wife with children. Mary Middleton Conkey died 12 years later. Our ancestor, Mary Alexander Conkey then came to the US by herself, she would have been about 13 or 14, to live with her married sister Isabella (Conkey) Johns who was older and had come a few years before. That was to Albion, New York, USA. Samuel Conkey worked in a shop. In the 1960s my in-laws hired someone to look into records near there, or perhaps a distant cousin, and they found:
From a transcription mailed to John Christie in the 1960s,
“Inspected Registers of Deaths at Registrar’s Office, Downatrick, on 18th August, 1961”
Date of Death:
11th May, 1874
Samuel Conkey, male, married, age 32, Shopkeeper’s clerk
Present at death:
Mary Conkey, of Tullyveery (Shrigley)
Date of Registration:
22/5/1874
and
From a transcription mailed to my husband's grandfather in the 1960s,
“Inspected Registers of Deaths at Registrar’s Office, Downatrick, on 18th August, 1961”:
Date of Death:
4/3/1884, Killyleagh
Mary Conkey, female, widow, age 44, widow of a grocer
Present at Death:
John Middleton, father
Registration of Death:
15/5/1884
Our family notes give the family church as County Down, District Downpatrick, First Presbyterian Church, Parish of Killinchy. This is in the same area as Shrigley and Killyleagh:
Mary Middleton, of Killinchy and Killyleagh, daughter of John Middleton; married Samuel Conkey 8 Nov 1862 in Killinchy ; mother of Eliza b. 1867 (regd. Killyleagh)Samuel and Mary were married at the First Presbyterian Church in Killyleagh. It was likely Mary’s church as couples were usually married at the church of the bride.
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My research notes on Mary Middleton state:
The Ulster Historical Society has a "Mary Middleton, born in 1838 to John". It also has her listed, "Mary, daughter of John, married in 1862 in County Down". There is also a listing in 1864 as well.
Extracted from birth or christening records
IGI Batch Nos:
father Samuel Conkey
mother Mary Middleton
Eliza Conkey
b. Oct 10, 1867, Down, Ireland
C011884 gives just Eliza, and C011839 gives Eliza Jane - no source given for either, but both give Down.
Mary Alexander Conkey
b. May 8, 1870, Down, Ireland
C702514 extracted, Ireland only, and again C702514 - no source given but it gives Down.
Samuel John Conkey
Nov 19, 1872, Ireland
C701529 extracted, Ireland only, and again C701529 extracted - giving Down.
father Samuel Conchy
mother Mary Middleton
Isabella Conchy
b. Oct 12, 1865 Killyleagh, Down, Ireland
C701267 extracted from Irish Civil Records. The place listed is the county, registration district, and page number of the birth entry; it may not be the actual birthplace.
And from the pilot search FamilySearch pages:
Sara Jane M Conchy
Birth 1864 Downpatrick Registration District (Down, Ireland)
from Family Search, Pilot Project, Civil Registrations for Ireland, 1845-1958.
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1408347;p=collectionDetails- - -
John Middleton
Extracted marriage records give her name as Sarah Kelly, batch no. M700301
So not same Sara name, you had spinster? But your lead is good, I only found the one stating Kelly. Seems it would take more than one to make proof.
But I have a note that at one time he was married to Mary KELLY, so maybe the above, I made a mistake and my notes should say he was married to Sarah and Mary Kelly.
So your Sara is looking even better.
I found:
At one time he was married to Mary Kelly, but he may have been married more than once. (where is that citation?)
From a transcription mailed to my husband's grandfather in the 1960s,
“Inspected Registers of Deaths at Registrar’s Office, Downatrick [ Downpatrick? ], on 18th August, 1961”:
Date of Death:
24/9/1892, [no place given]
John Middleton, male, married, age 79, Shepperd
Present at Death:
T. J. Middleton (her mark) informant present at death at corporation
[no date given for registration of death]
The children I have for John:
Mary Middleton Conkey (ca 1838-41 - 2 Mar 1884)
Think these are children of same John, siblings of Mary above:
Margaret "Maggie"
Sarah
Thomas. Perhaps Thomas was TJ giving information at the time of his father's death.
I am sorry, I need to look deeper into this, probably gleaned from IGI records and town history and probates online. This was early in my research, and I have since gotten more organized, but there were some clear references to these three as adult children with John, and the John was the same as the father of Mary.
Not good enough I know.
