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Antrim / Re: Leech/Leitch/McIvor/McVeigh
« on: Saturday 28 July 18 11:46 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Ray and BallyaltikilliganG for all of your time and effort in trying to build my Leech/Leach/Leitch family tree.  I am sorry I have not replied before now as I have been very busy at work.

I appreciate your list of potential Leech relatives and when I have the opportunity, I will check their names against my records.  While the Christian names would seem to strongly indicate they are likely to be relatives, I am still unable to make any definite connections.

Since my original post, I have traced Mary Ann McIvor's family to Drumsurn, Drumgavenny, although I am still searching for any evidence of her baptism.  Likewise, I have no marriage record for Mary Ann and William Leech.

As for William and Mary Ann Leech's children, I managed to contact a descendant of their daughter Catherine McVeigh, but he was unable to provide any information about the Leech family in Ireland that I did not already know.

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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: McGinnis/ McGuinness
« on: Saturday 26 May 18 13:00 BST (UK)  »
Thanks again Raymond.  I appreciate your efforts to try to trace Leech ancestors and descendants for me.  I agree that the name Abraham Leech sounds like an ancestor of my great grandfather, so the challenge for me now is to make the elusive connection.  If your family history research ever turns up any other Leech connection, I would be pleased to hear about it.

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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: McGinnis/ McGuinness
« on: Saturday 19 May 18 06:41 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Raymond for replying so quickly to my post.  Your information has helped to confirm the link between the Leech and McGuinness families in my tree.  Since you have lived in Ballykelly and are very familiar with the families from that area, do you know anything more about the ancestry of Susan Leech?  I have isolated facts about Leachs but am unable to confirm connections between them.

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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: McGinnis/ McGuinness
« on: Sunday 13 May 18 00:28 BST (UK)  »
I am searching for information about the Leach/Leech/Leitch family of Glack, Ballykelly.  My great-grandfather, Abraham Leech, was born in Glack in 1861 to William Leech and his wife Mary Ann (nee McIvor).  Beyond this, my research has turned up only a few possible Leech connections which I have found difficult to confirm.

I think William died in 1878 at the residence of his sister, Susan McGuinnies, in Sistrakeel.  There is a headstone in St. Finlough’s graveyard for Alexander McGinnis (died 16 November 1909, aged 95 years), his wife Susan (died 28 March 1902, aged 75 years), his daughter Catherine (died 17 February 1904, aged 38 years) and son William (died 29 January 1926, aged 70 years).

Does anyone know if and how these people connect to the Alexander and Susan in previous posts?

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Armagh / Isaac Ross
« on: Saturday 25 February 17 10:34 GMT (UK)  »
I am looking for information about Isaac Ross who married Elizabeth McCully at Moira on 10 February 1832.  I think that I have identified the same couple living in Clare and having children baptised in Tullylish, County Armagh.  He also may be the Isaac Ross working for John Barros in Toberhewny in the late 1800s.  I am searching for evidence which verifies that these records refer to the same man, and in particular, I am hoping to find evidence of him being the father of Eliza Ann and George born around the late 1830s or early 1840s.

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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: Leech/Leitch, McIvor - Glack, Ballykelly
« on: Wednesday 04 July 12 07:00 BST (UK)  »
Hello again Kingskerswell.  Thank you for your reply.  I have a copy of Gelvin: The Home Place, and it does contain some information about the people in whom I am interested.  I was fortunate to be able to meet a couple of the people associated with the book prior to its publication, and thanks to them, my research has gone a little beyond the scope of the book.  While progress on the McIvors has been surprising, the Leechs/Leitchs and the McVeighs continue to elude me.

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Antrim / Re: Belfast Cemetery Records..Milltown
« on: Wednesday 04 July 12 06:44 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Kingskerswell.  At this stage, I do not know of any connection to these McVeighs, but I will record the information for future reference.

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Derry (Londonderry) / Leech/Leitch, McIvor - Glack, Ballykelly
« on: Saturday 30 June 12 10:41 BST (UK)  »
I am seeking information about my gggrandparents, William Leech and Mary Ann McIvor.  They had at least three children while they were living in Glack, Bridget Jane (b. 1859), my ggrandfather, Abraham (b. 1861) and Catherine (b. 1863), all baptised at St Finlough's, Ballykelly.  Mary Ann was born in Drumgavenny.

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Antrim / Re: Belfast Cemetery Records..Milltown
« on: Saturday 30 June 12 08:59 BST (UK)  »

Hello Kingskerswell.  If you have not tired of searching Milltown Cemetery records, would you kindly check for McVeighs, McIvors and Leitchs, in particular, Peter McVeigh who died in about 1941, Catherine Mcveigh who died in 1942, Bridget Jane McIvor who died in 1908, and Bridget Jane Leitch (after 1911)?

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