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Title: Looking for the Parents of Rev Thomas Frederick Miller Willson
Post by: Joan Willson on Monday 15 February 16 12:13 GMT (UK)
Am looking for the parents of Rev Thomas Fredrick Miller Willson (my great x 2 grand father) who was vicar of Rathcline, in CO Longford from 1839 to 1868.

Thomas Fredrick Miller Willson was born on December 23, 1799 in Ireland. He married Rose Galbraith on November 12, 1838, in Roscommon, Ireland.

He died on March 10, 1868, in Longford, Ireland, at the age of 68.

We think his father was a James Willson (possibly a Reverend as well). Thomas we think had 7 siblings:
Henrietta Catherine Willson 1797 to 1880
Richard Willson 1792 to 1876
Ledger Willson 1808 to 1870
Emma Dorothea Willson - 1811 to 1889
Julia Matilda Willson -1815 to 1881
James Willson - Dates unknown
Caroline Willson - Dates unknown

We know he Married Rose Galbraith on 12 November 1838, at Kilkeevan Church in Roscommon. We know he had 4 children:
James Willson
William Galbraith Willson
Frederick Richard Thomas Willson
Susanna Dorothea Willson

But we don't know who his parents were. Their marriage record says the father was Reverend Willson. I did find a listing for Thomas Wilson at Trinity College which would match his birth date, but shows his father as James who was already dead in 1830 when he joined Trinity.

Any assistance would be most appreciated!
Title: Re: Looking for the Parents of Rev Thomas Frederick Miller Willson
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 27 November 16 16:17 GMT (UK)
A Bibliography of County Longford based on the collection of books and journals in the Local Studies Department of Longford County Library

The Wilson family 1650-1930: Eileen Reilly (B.A. thesis, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, 1990).

http://www.longfordlibrary.ie/lib_inside.aspx?id=21580

might be your Wilsons??
Title: Re: Looking for the Parents of Rev Thomas Frederick Miller Willson
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 27 November 16 16:27 GMT (UK)

Cork Examiner Cork, Republic of Ireland
21 Oct 1850

MARRIAGES. On the 16th inst., in St. Audoen*s church, Dublin, by the Rev. Thomas F. M. Willson, Vicar of Rathcline, Ledger Willson, Esq., Dublin, to Sarah Palmer, only surviving daughter of George Eickin,
Title: Re: Looking for the Parents of Rev Thomas Frederick Miller Willson
Post by: dathai on Sunday 27 November 16 18:10 GMT (UK)
https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-116-3-1-024

possible first marriage
https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/b479b10564209
Title: Re: Looking for the Parents of Rev Thomas Frederick Miller Willson
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 27 November 16 19:00 GMT (UK)
NEWPORT CHURCH OF IRELAND    County Mayo
 
Memorial In memory of Rose Willson widow of the Revd F.M. Willson Vicar of Rathcline Co. Longford who departed this life at the Rectory Newport   30th June 1878 aged 70 years
Title: Re: Looking for the Parents of Rev Thomas Frederick Miller Willson
Post by: hanes teulu on Sunday 27 November 16 19:22 GMT (UK)
Ledger Wilson's 1838 marriage notice in the Dublin Weekly Herald has him as the youngest son of "the late James Wilson, of Belbrook".
Title: Re: Looking for the Parents of Rev Thomas Frederick Miller Willson
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 27 November 16 19:38 GMT (UK)
Quote from: hanes teulu on Sunday 27 November 16 19:22 GMT (UK)
Ledger Wilson's 1838 marriage notice in the Dublin Weekly Herald has him as the youngest son of "the late James Wilson, of Belbrook".

Married twice?  Oct 1850 and 1838 
Title: Re: Looking for the Parents of Rev Thomas Frederick Miller Willson
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 27 November 16 19:49 GMT (UK)

Saunders's News-Letter Dublin, Republic of Ireland 10 Mar 1869

 9th March, at Usher’s-lsland, Sarah, the affeetionate wife of Ledger Willson, Esq. The funeral will leave for James’s Church on Friday morning, ten o clock.
Title: Re: Looking for the Parents of Rev Thomas Frederick Miller Willson
Post by: dathai on Sunday 27 November 16 19:55 GMT (UK)
1862
7 Ushers Island and 50 Bridgefoot St , Merchant
http://www.libraryireland.com/Dublin-Street-Directory-1862/1381.php
Title: Re: Looking for the Parents of Rev Thomas Frederick Miller Willson
Post by: hallmark on Sunday 27 November 16 19:58 GMT (UK)
Willson, Roebuck....