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Is this a Protestant family? Madden in Tyrone is usually Catholic but Hall and Irwin/Irvine are mostly Protestant.
I have done some research on Protestant Madden family in south Clonfeacle near the Armagh border. Hall and Irwin aren't common in that part of Clonfeacle but are very common in neighbouring Loughgall. That Madden family as well as the nearby Hall and Irwin families have some distinctive naming patterns. If you have enough names then I might be able to tell you if it looks plausible.
If you have the family's occupations in Scotland as well as their fathers' occupations from Scottish death records then that could help with geography.
Hello - your reference to some hall families in Tyrone has given me some hope that there might be away of finding a reference to the lives, or the marriage of Alexander Hall and Susan Smythe in the early 1820s. Their daughter Sarah Hall was baptised in Donaghmore, Tyrone on 16 Feb 1824, but the family may then have moved, as I dont have baptism records of Sarah's sisters Mary and Jane. Sarah Mary and Jane all moved to Australia between 1850 and 1860. Is Donaghmore near Loughall?
Thank you, fingers crossed!
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