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Sligo / Re: Patrick Cunningham
« on: Monday 04 May 20 13:47 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for this, Marc.
Perhaps Thomas was Patrick's older brother, and he named his son for him.  Or maybe their father was also Patrick.  So many possibilities!  The family info saying he came from Sligo could mean he lived there, or he sailed from there, too...

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Down / Re: James Bailie, Kircubbin
« on: Tuesday 21 April 20 21:17 BST (UK)  »
No, none that I have come across.

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Sligo / Patrick Cunningham
« on: Tuesday 21 April 20 20:51 BST (UK)  »
Looking for birth family information on Patrick Cunningham, born 28 Feb 1818.
Family history passed down:
Patrick came to the USA from Sligo in 1833, when he was 15.  (He may have been a stowaway, as we've not found him listed on any passenger list) He came to Topsham, Vermont, to the home of a man he had known in Ireland, McAlvie. ( 1940 census, the only spelling that comes close is Daniel McCalloway. On his gravestone it is McCalvey.)
Patrick married Jerusha Avery in 1841. They had 7 children.  He died in a logging accident Jan 1853.

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Down / Re: James Bailie, Kircubbin
« on: Tuesday 21 April 20 19:00 BST (UK)  »
By sheer coincidence.
We had handwritten family notes that gave the town they'd lived in. I searched www.interment.net for their gravestones in the cemeteries there.  Then we took a couple days and drove to see them for ourselves. While walking in to the small cemetery, two people were coming out. They greeted us and asked what family name we had come to find.
We are distant cousins!  They introduced us to another cousin who had large copies of the apportionments in that town!  We were able to see the abutting lots' family names--all names we'd seen intermarried, so more relations.  I asked how could a large family of little means, from Ireland acquire that much land.  She  knew the answer:  Britain was giving those sections to their citizens if they would occupy and improve them.  In order to put a stop to Increased French population in Quebec!
She also took us to the homestead, having lived there for a little while with her grandparents, and now has a good relationship with the current owners.  It was so much more than we had hoped for from our expedition.

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Down / Re: James Bailie, Kircubbin
« on: Tuesday 21 April 20 17:38 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much. I'll take a look.

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Down / James Bailie, Kircubbin
« on: Tuesday 21 April 20 16:36 BST (UK)  »
Looking for info on James Bailie b about 1760, his wife, parents, siblings.
I believe there were 15 children:  John, Ann, Elizabeth, Esther, Hugh,  James McCullock, Jane, Jane, Jane, Margaret, Mary, Mary, Robert, William, and James.

John was born about 22 Mar 1791 in Kircubbin, and married Mary Anne McMaster in 1819. They had 7 children all born in the 1820s and 1830s, County Down.  Mary was born  14 Jul 1795, perhaps Ballycranmore.  They emigrated to Leeds, Quebec, Canada where they were given one square mile tract on which to live and improve by opening and farming.

Looking for info on the family in Ireland.

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Derry (Londonderry) / William Carter
« on: Tuesday 21 April 20 14:53 BST (UK)  »
Looking for family information on William Carter, born abt 1812.  Emigrated to Quebec, Canada.  He is on the April 26, 1833 passenger list for the Royal William, Londonderry to New York, New York, USA.

This is all we have on his Ireland origins.
His marriage and death certificates just say Ireland' as place of birth.

Would love to know siblings, parents, or to be in touch with living relations.

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Aberdeenshire / Re: FOWLIE FAMILY
« on: Tuesday 31 March 20 20:26 BST (UK)  »
That would be good, thanks.

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Aberdeenshire / Re: FOWLIE FAMILY
« on: Tuesday 31 March 20 18:18 BST (UK)  »
Elizabeth, Yes, that's correct.
My Great Grandfather was William Barclay Scott, Eleanor's brother.  So we are 'cousins'.
The only bits I have about Eleanor: she was born 17 Apr 1872, Pitsligo, and married a man whose last name was Foreman.
I'd appreciate any information you'd be willing to share!
I am in touch with two other cousins there in Scotland. Descendant of two other siblings, Charles and Alexander.
I have a wonderful photo album the family put together before my G-grandfather came across.  There is a photo of Charles and Mary sitting in front of the home at Burnthill, and a formal photo of all the siblings.
-Wendy

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