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Tyrone / Re: Hegarty, Hagerty,Higerty, McCrum Family Tyrone
« on: Wednesday 01 April 20 06:23 BST (UK) »
Elijah Haggerty is my maternal grandmother's father.
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He was the youngest of five boys born to Elizabeth Smith/Smythe and Samuel Hegarty.
Samuel and Elizabeth farmed in Mulnagare townland, west of Pomeroy, County Tyrone.
Their sons grew up in the hardest times in Ireland's hard history.
William, the eldest, had just begun school when the potato crop failed in October 1854, the year his brother Joseph was born.
It was another ten years before Alexander was born (1864), then David (1865) and finally my great grandfather Elijah, in 1868.
There is little future for five grown sons, on three acres ...
William emigrated to Canada in the late 1870s, married and raised three daughters in Springfield near Elgin, Ontario.
Joseph married Sarah McCrum in Coalisland in 1876. They moved to Scotland where Joseph worked in the steelworks and brickyards around Bellshill, south east of Glasgow,m where he died in 1921.
David and Elijah both ended up in Scotland also, working in the steelworks.
David married Martha Nicholl in Bellshill in 1891.
Elijah married Helen Kyle -- also in Bellshill -- in 1902.
Their first daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1904, followed by William James in 1906.
Ellen was born posthumously in 1908.
Her father, a steam train stoker, died as a result of drinking contaminated water and was buried in 1907 near Dungannon, County Tyrone.
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Only one of Samuel and Elizabeth's sons managed to live out his whole life in Ireland.
Alexander passed the civil service entrance exam, married Mary Jane Collins in Pomeroy and became a postman -- all in the same year (1886).
In 1926 he received the Imperial Service Medal, for forty years dedicated mail service on the Dungannon to Bantry route.
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He was the youngest of five boys born to Elizabeth Smith/Smythe and Samuel Hegarty.
Samuel and Elizabeth farmed in Mulnagare townland, west of Pomeroy, County Tyrone.
Their sons grew up in the hardest times in Ireland's hard history.
William, the eldest, had just begun school when the potato crop failed in October 1854, the year his brother Joseph was born.
It was another ten years before Alexander was born (1864), then David (1865) and finally my great grandfather Elijah, in 1868.
There is little future for five grown sons, on three acres ...
William emigrated to Canada in the late 1870s, married and raised three daughters in Springfield near Elgin, Ontario.
Joseph married Sarah McCrum in Coalisland in 1876. They moved to Scotland where Joseph worked in the steelworks and brickyards around Bellshill, south east of Glasgow,m where he died in 1921.
David and Elijah both ended up in Scotland also, working in the steelworks.
David married Martha Nicholl in Bellshill in 1891.
Elijah married Helen Kyle -- also in Bellshill -- in 1902.
Their first daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1904, followed by William James in 1906.
Ellen was born posthumously in 1908.
Her father, a steam train stoker, died as a result of drinking contaminated water and was buried in 1907 near Dungannon, County Tyrone.
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Only one of Samuel and Elizabeth's sons managed to live out his whole life in Ireland.
Alexander passed the civil service entrance exam, married Mary Jane Collins in Pomeroy and became a postman -- all in the same year (1886).
In 1926 he received the Imperial Service Medal, for forty years dedicated mail service on the Dungannon to Bantry route.