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How do we "prove" that our McGuires are related? The first difficulty is that "my" McGuires were so much earlier and I can only prove that one of them - Ann McGuire - ever lived in Scotland.

Ann was the daughter of Luke McGuire and Katie McHurrey. She died in Linlithgow in 1861 aged 52.
Somebody did some research in Griffiths Valuation for me and there were 71 Maguire or McGuire families in Leitrim in 1856.
All the Irish seemed to live in the High Street in the 1840s, 50s and 60s.

Has anybody else traced their McGuires back to this period?

Rosemary

Thank you for those kind replies.  My Henry was born about 1761 or 1762, as he is recorded as being 79 in the 1841 census in Argyll.  I think that the former Westmoreland Troutbeck is probably more likely as a source of Tysons, since there is some connection with Joseph Tyson married to Agnes Mackereth, whose relations(Mackereth) may have run the Queen's Head Inn at the time of the 1851 census.
Joseph Tyson's daughter Catherine Tyson was born in Bonawe, Argyll in 1780 but she is only christened in Troutbeck four years later - after her father had died and her mother had presumably returned there. The records for this family are in England - presumably they were Anglican not Church of Scotland, although the "English Church" in Taynuilt, Argyll, had one thousand members at the height of its influence.  These people must have come from Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire.

Gus.

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Augustus

Dear JAP,

I have noted your many postings on this forum with awe.  Have you any advice for somebody trying to pursue family named  - variously - Docherty, Dougherty, Doherty  - but of whom there seemed to be at least six unrelated strands in the parish of Campsie in the 1880s?

Should I treat the fact that each family has differently named forebears as proof that they are in no way connected, or should I presume that they are - back in Ireland - and I have simply failed to research them thoroughly enough?

Augustus