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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Derry (Londonderry) => Topic started by: kingskerswell on Tuesday 17 November 09 20:09 GMT (UK)
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Hi,
I am trying to find the parents of Joseph Stewart McFadden. In the 1911 census he is a 20 year old living with his grandfather and his grandfather's wife in Culnaman, Bovagh. The step-grandmother had been married before but not until 1871 so I am wondering if his grandfather, Isaac Stewart, had also been married before. Any insight gratefully awaited.
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Isaac Stewart married Sarah Torrens on 26 October 1882 in Moneydig Presbyterian Church, a mere stone's throw from Culnaman.
According to this site :-
http://www.torrens.org.uk/Genealogy/BannValley/church/Moneydig/Marriages/1845-1889-mrgs.html
Isaac was a bachelor, son of Josiah Stewart, so it looks like he wasn't married before (although other Rootschatters have found transcription errors on the site). Maybe Joseph was a grand-nephew or other relative too complicated to explain in the space provided.
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Akanex,
Many thanks for your interest. As I cannot find a Stewart/McFadden marriage you may be correct.
Regards
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The census lists Joseph Stewart McFadden as born Co. Antrim. Will check with someone I know (who is probably related) to see if they know who his parents were and let you know if I find out more.
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Aghadowey,
My thanks. I am still chasing this elusive Morrison/ Torrens/Stewart family with the all too familiar first names.
Regards
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Finally saw the first person I wanted to ask about Joseph Stewart McFadden this afternoon- name meant nothing but going to ask an older brother. If no clues from him know another family that might be able to sort this out.
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Aghadowey,
Many thanks, any help on this will be greatly appreciated.
Regards
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Hi, I realise this is an extension of a very old post (2009) but I have information relevant. I am descended from McFadden of North Antrim - a John McFadden who married Rose Ann Wilson in the 1850s in Loughguile Parish Church. I got a DNA match yesterday which MAY connect me to North Antrim Stewarts around Dervock/Stranocum - until yesterday a name not associated with my research, and maybe still not relevant. Searching census 1901 for James Stewart, whose daughter Anna born circa 1870 may be a joint ancestor with my match I found a bachelor James Stewart living in Stranocum village in 1901 with an assortment of hitherto unknown McFaddens, including Joseph McFadden aged 11, son of unmarried Jane, who was daughter to unmarried Mary Elizabeth - these ladies had children out of wedlock, sometimes naming the father on birth records and lived with James Stewart the oldest one's bachelor uncle. Elsewhere on a James' birth 1877 we find Mary Elizabeth to be the village shop keeper. So... by 1904 James the uncle is deceased, and by 1911 census no trace of anyone of the family save for Joseph McFadden who had Reid in his birth registration, who now is Joseph Stewart McFadden, born Co Antrim, grandson to Isaac Stewart and living at Bovagh! This may help the person who originally researched Joseph and in turn if anyone can find the link between the Stewarts and McFaddens of Stranocum I would be extremely grateful.
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... by 1911 census no trace of anyone of the family save for Joseph McFadden who had Reid in his birth registration, who now is Joseph Stewart McFadden, born Co Antrim, grandson to Isaac Stewart and living at Bovagh!
This looks like Mary Eliza McFadden & Jane McFadden in 1911- Moneydig not far away-
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Londonderry/Bovagh/Moneydig/590732/
Joseph is living with Stewarts in Culnaman in 1911 not Bovagh-
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Londonderry/Bovagh/Culnaman/590724/
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Thanks Aghadowey. So I have established that these McFadden ladies were Mary, mother to James whose father was Colvin, and her sister Jane who was Joseph's mother. Census states they were born in Co Antrim, so that matches the family in Stranocum in 1901. My ancestor was Andrew McFadden probably Andrew who died at Dervock in 1882. His son John married Rose Ann Wilson, and daughter Jane married William Mebin in the 1850s, both married Loughguile Parish. John's daughter Mary Ann was my great great grandmother and married William Alexander aka McCaldridge. Nancy Jane McFadden of Drumtullagh had a daughter Jane with William McAldridge who was aka as William Alexander named as father some years before he and Mary Ann McFadden married, in 1874, but there is some doubt if the registrar got the surname wrong and the father was William McCambridge whom she later married. We have good DNA matching with this Jane's descendants, could be just from her if she Nancy Jane and Mary Ann were cousins of a degree, or from both if my ancestor William was this Jane's father. So with so many Jane McFaddens in a small geographical area I am wondering if the McFaddens who crossed counties in the early 1900s are related to me too. Mary Ann also had a sister Eliza, but it is highly possible that not all her siblings were registered, and it is possible that John McFadden and his sister Jane Meban had siblings too who remain unknown to us.