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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Donegal => Topic started by: BRUCE123 on Tuesday 07 November 17 15:38 GMT (UK)
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Hi I am trying to link the family of James Morrison 1816-1898 wife Anne Devany 1819-1883 Culdaff. and Robert Morrison 1833-1904 Gulladuff. can anyone help. Any help would be appreciated.
All the best Bruce
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have a look at Donegal resources
http://www.donegalgenealogy.com
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James Morrison date 1827 at Golladuff on the titheapplotment books
http://www.titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie
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Hi rathmore. Thank you. I should have said I had been through all these site. sorry thank you all the same. all the best bruce.
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their was a James Morrison who lived with his brother in Greencastle near Moville in 1978 he was local bog agent
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Hi Sean
Thank you, I add him to my list of Moville Morrisons, do you have any details? all the best Bruce.
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Not sure if the Morrisons of Greencastle are connected to yours in Moville but there were quite a few Morrisons in Greencastle:
James and Marianne Morrison, who had two sons William Hugh (died 1875) and James (died 1876) both in infancy and a daughter Charlotte Ellen who died in 1884. Also Marianne Morrison died 1903 and James Morrison died 1951.
William and Sarah Morrison (died 1897 and 1921 respectively). William’s brother Robert died in 1923.
There was a James and Margaret Morrison (died 1965 and 1966 respectively), who lived in Greencastle and their sons were:
James Morrison died 27th February 1983 Greencastle
William Morrison died 18th May 1991
Robert Morrison died 20th July 1993
Their daughters were Margaret Ada died 1946 and Marion died 1976
Also John and Elizabeth Jane Morrison of Carrichue have a memorial in Greencastle.
In Moville there is a John (Jack) Morrison buried, who died in 2004.
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Hi Liam :) Thank you! that will give me some work, I have a link with John and Eliz Jane Smith of Greencastle. I also think I have a link with James & Marianne, I have it as (Mari Anne) the others I'll have to work on. Do you know if Gulladoo and Gulladuff are the same town land? Thank you again for the info. All the best Bruce
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You're welcome!
I think Gulladoo and Gulladuff are the same place not far from Moville centre; Google maps has it marked as Gulladuff and seemingly the same place on the Ordinance Survey map is marked as Gulladoo.
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I think Gulladuff may be a particular area of Gulladoo.
Under Townlands on the OSI mapviewer Gulladoo is listed, but not Gulladuff, however under Locality Gulladuff is listed and brings you to a spot in Gulladoo Lower, although Gulladuff isn't written on the map. Google maps has Gulladuff marked in approx the same place
http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,660361,939491,10,7
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Hi Sinann and Liam59 thank you both. I have come to the same conclusion. Thanks. All the best Bruce
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Hi
My ×3 grandmother was a Sarah (sally) Morrison from Greencastle born approx. 1815. I dont have information on her parents. Just thought you might want to add her to your database of Morrisons in the area . She married a James Baird in 1835
Regards
Joe
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Hi joemc :) Thank you. I have a possible mother for John -Ellen- family search. I am thinking that the Morrison around 1800 came over to Moville area from Scotland Greenock, Inverkip and Glasgow area. they seemed to return to these area in Scotland and Canada. How to prove it?
Thank you for the info and I wish you and yours a Happy Christmas. all the best Bruce.
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Hi Bruce,
I would be cautious about assuming that your Morrisons came to the Moville area around 1800 from Scotland, the lack of Eighteenth century records makes proving if they where living in the Moville area in that time period hard to prove. I know that through the Nineteenth century there were many from the Moville area that settled in Glasgow and surrounding districts, there seems to have been a steady stream both ways going back to the early decades of 1800's and possibly earlier.
In a 'The History of the little Town of Moville', by Bishop Montgomery, written, I think in the early 1900's he speaks of his Great Grandfathers Samuel Montgomery's estate at Moville that he came into in 1768, among the nine tenant families he names Morrison, so there were Morrisons in the area in the 1760's, there are also Morrisons recorded in nearby Culdaff in the 1740, Protestant census.
Regards
Joe
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Hi Joe Hope you had a hearty Christmas :) Frustrated yes I am. clutching at straws guilty!!!! My Gt- grandfather Robert Morrison 1848/9 from Moville had 13 children my mother, married in Scotland one off the 13, James T.A.Morrison. now I have a paper trail for all but one of the 13 children, up to 2000. I also a unknown gt grand child or grandchild of Robert due to DNA and the war!
I have read The History of Moville and noted the families referred to also the letter to the UK government asking for troops.
I feel this brick wall is one where the destruction of documents in Ireland will not brake down. Protestant census? I don't remember seeing this, any details please.
Thank you for your help and may I wish you and yours a happy 2018. all the best Bruce.
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Yeah I understand the frustration, sometimes you can get lucky and something turns up, I managed to get back into the 1700's on my McCorkell line by finding information in the Moville Upper Vestry minute book, available at PRONI, it dates back to 1773. I have a copy of an unpublished Cess list from Upper Moville from 1792 that I will check for the name Morrison. (I don't have access to the list at this time, but will check later)
The 1740 census is available at PRONI online
https://apps.proni.gov.uk/ProniNames_IE/SearchPage.aspx
Joe
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Thank you Joe, talk later. Bruce
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Hi Bruce,
Checked the Tithe record from 1792, there was a John Morrison living in the townland of Carrickmcquigley Upper Moville, farming 9.5 acres
Joe
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hi Joe. Thank you. I think you may have come across The Ulster Covenant, also known as Ulster's Solemn League and Covenant, was signed by just under half a million men and women from Ulster, on and before 28 September 1912, in protest against the Third Home Rule Bill, introduced by the British Government in that same year.
lived at 1870 154 Moville. these are Morrison's no details.
The Ulster Covenant
Daniel.............Moville.
Isaac...............Greencastle.
James..............Greencastle.
James..............Greencastle.
John.................Greencastle.
Joseph..............Greencastle.
Margaret............Greencastle.
Robert...............Greencastle.
Robert...............Greencastle.
I have come across "Baird and Clark" married to Morrison, not Sarah abt1815
all the best Bruce.