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Down / Re: Conkey of Killyleagh area, Saintfields; McVeigh, Middleton, 1800s & earlier
« on: Monday 02 January 12 01:24 GMT (UK) »
McVeigh:
I do not have much.
My connection with McVeigh, (my husband's family) is through a Conkey line. My husband's line was through Alexander Conkey and Isabella McIlveen who had 7 children, the oldest son, Samuel, is our line. His sister, Martha, the youngest child, married a James McVeigh sometime after 1872 (we have a family note that Martha Conkey was present at the death of her sister, Eliza, in 1872). Other than that, I do not have any dates, but she would have been born in the 1850s likely, County Down.
Comes from my mother in law’s notes:
From my mother-in-law's notes she left, made at the time of their trip to Scotland and Ireland, Martha married James McVeigh. In the 1960s, a McVeigh still lived in the Killinchy-Killyleagh-Ballymacashen area, they corresponded, visited, and he provided some Conkey information. My parents had gone to to Alexander Conkey's house which was still standing and the family knew the McVeigh's and relationship to Alexander Conkey. She received a list of children for Martha and James McVeigh:
Isabella
James
Jane
Alex
Hugh
Samuel
Martha
Is this your family? Where did they come to in the US? Three Conkey daughters, cousins I presume, (nieces of Martha Conkey McVeigh) came to New York State near Rochester, but I think one went into Pennsylvania after marriage .
I do not have much.
My connection with McVeigh, (my husband's family) is through a Conkey line. My husband's line was through Alexander Conkey and Isabella McIlveen who had 7 children, the oldest son, Samuel, is our line. His sister, Martha, the youngest child, married a James McVeigh sometime after 1872 (we have a family note that Martha Conkey was present at the death of her sister, Eliza, in 1872). Other than that, I do not have any dates, but she would have been born in the 1850s likely, County Down.
Comes from my mother in law’s notes:
From my mother-in-law's notes she left, made at the time of their trip to Scotland and Ireland, Martha married James McVeigh. In the 1960s, a McVeigh still lived in the Killinchy-Killyleagh-Ballymacashen area, they corresponded, visited, and he provided some Conkey information. My parents had gone to to Alexander Conkey's house which was still standing and the family knew the McVeigh's and relationship to Alexander Conkey. She received a list of children for Martha and James McVeigh:
Isabella
James
Jane
Alex
Hugh
Samuel
Martha
Is this your family? Where did they come to in the US? Three Conkey daughters, cousins I presume, (nieces of Martha Conkey McVeigh) came to New York State near Rochester, but I think one went into Pennsylvania after marriage .