Dogherty, Sarah Jane

[Sailortown Man]

Looking for any info on my great-grandmother Sarah Jane Dogherty (note unusual spelling).  She was probably born circa 1855-1860.  Although this variant of the name was prevalent in Cos Donegal and Derry, my father believes she came from around the Antrim Town area and there is some legend of her family being mentioned in "My Lady of The Chimney Corner".  She married an engine driver Cornelius (aka Constantine) McAllister and had 6 children.  I know they lived in Magherafelt in 1890 (according to my grandmother's birth cert) but may have moved around due to the nature of his job.  She died in the mid 1920's in Belfast.

[Christopher]

Hiya Sailortown Man,

There are thirty McAllisters listed in the Belfast section  of the 1920 Directory of Belfast and Ulster.
Would your grandmother have been living with one of her children at the time of her death?

Christopher

[aghadowey]

Looking for any info on my great-grandmother Sarah Jane Dogherty (note unusual spelling).  She was probably born circa 1855-1860.  Although this variant of the name was prevalent in Cos Donegal and Derry, my father believes she came from around the Antrim Town area and there is some legend of her family being mentioned in "My Lady of The Chimney Corner".  She married an engine driver Cornelius (aka Constantine) McAllister and had 6 children.  I know they lived in Magherafelt in 1890 (according to my grandmother's birth cert) but may have moved around due to the nature of his job.  She died in the mid 1920's in Belfast.

First of all Dogherty is not an unusual spelling in Ireland but you need to keep an eye out for other variations as it just depends who was writing down the name at the time.
"My Lady of the Chimney Corner" has a connection to Ballymena in Co. Antrim.
http://ni_towns.tripod.com/antrim/author_alexander_irvine.html
www.ulsterhistory.co.uk/alexanderirvine.htm
www.rascal.ac.uk/collection/?ff=no&CollectionID=581&ff=no

I think we have a copy of the book somewhere about but it still seems available on places like Amazon.

[Sailortown Man]

Thanks guys...since the original post I've found out that Sarah Jane died c.1934/35 (she was in her early 80's) and she in fact lived with my grandmother in Sailortown in the last couple of years of her life.  The whole family except one sibling ended up in Belfast in the early 1900's.  Still know precious little about her early life.  Her family may have lived in Milliken's Entry in Antrim Town.  Her father was called Daniel Dogherty and her mother Agnes Boyd.  She had two brothers I know of, Robert (Bob) and Daniel (Dinny), other siblings may have ended up in Canada.

[pippintogg]

There is a possible link to my family any chance of sharing your tree?

[kingskerswell]

Pippintogg,
                 Sailortown Man has not been on line for some time. However welcome to Rootschat. I do not know if you are aare but the family seem to be on the 1901 census where the engine driver husband is called Constantine and his wife is Martha. They lived at Benvarden Av. Waterside, Londonderry.
see www.census.nationalarchives.ie

Regards