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Antrim / Mary Nolan/Jack Nolan/Jane Jewell
« on: Wednesday 09 February 11 05:14 GMT (UK)  »
Looking for information on my great great grandmother Mary Kathleen Nolan.  She was born August 14 either 1875 or 1877 in Belfast.  Her parents were Jack Nolan and Jane Jewell.  She was eleven when she sailed to Canada on an unknown ship with an uncle, leaving behind her parents and six siblings (unknown names).  She was a member of the Church of England (at least that's what her obituary said- she would listen to radio broadcasts of the Church of England).

 I've done all the searching I can do and I've never been able to find this family.  I do know there were three Mary Catherines born around this time, but they were in County Carlow.  What I can see of these documents doesn't list the parents so I am unable to rule them in or out, and it's pretty expensive to order documents if I'm unsure they are the correct ones. 

I was beginning to wonder if she was born in another county, but every document I have lists Belfast as her birth place.  It is on her marriage and death certificates.  On two separate census records she lists "Northern Ireland" as her place of birth. 

I have been told before that I am out of luck with the limited information I have but I am having a hard time just giving up. 


Thanks.

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Leitrim / Armstrong/Booth
« on: Wednesday 09 February 11 04:52 GMT (UK)  »
I'm looking for any information on Robert Armstrong, possibly born July or August 1777.  He married Ann Booth(e) (born around 1786) around 1800 or so.   They had ten children before leaving Ireland, Edward (1804), James (1806), Eliza (1808), Sarah/Sally (1810), Margaret (1812), Alexander (1814), Robert (1816), Jane (1818), John (1819) and my ancestor George L (1823). 

Sometime between 1825 and 1835 they left Ireland and settled in Berkshire, VT and just north of Berkshire in Canada.  They had four more children, William, Samuel, Mary Ann and Sarah in Vermont. 

According to Robert Sr.'s naturalization card he departed "Latham County" Ireland in 1835.  I am assuming that should be Leitrim and that the information would have come directly from him when he took his oath.

There also is a document that has circulated the Armstrong family stating the family sailed from Sligo on April 17th 1823 and that they came from the county of "Lathram" and town of "Drumsharribo".  I have no idea how accurate this document is or who even wrote it.  And I've been unable to locate the family in any ships register.

Any information would be helpful, as I feel I've exhausted all of my resources on this side of the pond.

Thanks so much.

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