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Hi, I am researching my boyfriends ancestry and have been able to trace him back to James McCallister, born abt 1720 in Ireland. He married Mary McGloughlin, also born abt 1720 in Ireland, on 20 jan 1747 in Pennsylvania. They had 8 children together: john, james, thomas, richard, garrett, edward, hannah, mary. They were all born in either virginia or west virginia. (i have seen the records switch the states but keep the county name the same.) I do not know when James and Mary moved to America, where they may have lived in Ireland, or their parents names. I am more interested in tracing the McCallister line further back to get a direct ancestor line for my boyfriend. I live in America and the trail has run dry here with what information I can find. I am hoping someone may also be a descendant of the McCallister line somehow and has more information such as James' parents names and anything else that would be helpful in tracing my boyfriends direct line back further.

He has always been told that they are Scottish, so I am hoping to trace his family back to Scotland to either confirm or deny that for him.

Any information anyone may have on this line that they can provide me with would be greatly appreciated.


-Thanks, Jordan.

I wanted to thank you all for all of your help. My ex-boyfriend's mom is amazed by the fact that so many people have pitched in with help and information to help her discover her heritage in connection to her father. She wanted me to give a huge thank you to all of you. My mom and I thank you all as well. We have never worked with Irish records before so this is very new to us. It's more difficult than the other records we have worked with, so we also thank you all as well for helping us out in our search for the paper trail.

Still looking at this but there is a listing for Feenamuinga on the OSI viewer. Can't see the name on the map (yet!) but it's bringing me to a spot South west of Inagh

Compared the spot on the GV map and it's in the townland of Formoyle Eighteragh west, there are 3 Quaely listed

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0yxe/

Thank you so much for this. We had not yet found it spelt as Feenamuinga. My mom and I will look into this to see if it can lead us to any further information.

Quote from: jordaneschaefer on Friday 18 April 14 08:51 BST (UK)

Thank you for this. We found an ejectment record that said "Feighnamungy," but "Feenagh Moloney" could always be a possibility. We really don't have much information to go by so anything and everything is helpful.

Hello,
I think the Ejectement records are transcribed and maybe difficult to read- but I don't know.
It says 'Slievenamungy called Feighnamungy'
and in Tithe Applotment books as   Feanaminga.
All in Inagh parish.

With regard to the original birthdate, there is a 1916 birth record for a Patrick Quealey, Scarriff 

Heywood

Hello. Thank you for the information. I am going to tell her to check with her sister and see if she can get anymore information. As far as the 1916 record in Scarriff, could you please let me know where I could find that record at? We haven't yet found any record for a Patrick Quealy to match what we think to be his birth year, but that year does match up to what we believe the birth year to be. We are looking at every piece of information we find because everything is a possibility at this point. Thank you so much.

There is a townland called  "Feenagh (Moloney)" in Co Clare which could possibly sound like "Feighnamungy" allowing for different accents.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=684337.0   link to post on Ireland general

Thank you for this. We found an ejectment record that said "Feighnamungy," but "Feenagh Moloney" could always be a possibility. We really don't have much information to go by so anything and everything is helpful.