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Donegal / The Morrow family of Muineagh
« on: Friday 05 May 23 17:01 BST (UK)  »
I wonder if anyone is connected to the Morrow family of Muineagh in the Fanad area of NE Donegal in the parish of Clondevaddock.
I wonder if anyone has discovered where they were before coming to Donegal. My grandmother was born in Muineagh; her great grandfather Matthew Morrow was born in 1775. He emigrated to Pennsylvania where he is found on the 1850 US census. Alexander Morrow died in Muineagh in 1799 and may have been Matthew’s father born c.1750.  Matthew married Mary Wilson from Magherabeg in 1799. She died in 1846 which may well have influenced Matthew to join his son Gideon and daughter Letitia in the US.
Any information on this Morrow family would be deeply appreciated.
Alexander

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Donegal / James MORROW of Raphoe
« on: Sunday 21 July 19 17:39 BST (UK)  »
As the name Morrow is in my ancestry I have been asked by Shirley in the USA about a James Morrow born in Raphoe in 1833 and emigrated to Philadelphia in 1853. I am sure he is not one of my Morrows, although three did emigrate to Pennsylvania earlier than 1850.
I see there is a James Morrow who sailed on the Jane Andson on 6th July 1853 for Philadelphia, but I cannot find a James Morrow born in Raphoe in 1833. He may have come from a nearby place. He married Eleanor Wilson also of Raphoe.
Does anyone know of this James Morrow?
Alexander



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Staffordshire / Randles and Brough families of Newcastle-under-Lyme
« on: Monday 05 March 18 20:47 GMT (UK)  »
Has anyone knowledge of Thomas Randles of Newcastle-under-Lyme
who was born into a poor family c. 1840 and became Mayor of the town. He married Sarah Brough the daughter of a prosperous Brick manufacturer from Trentham. Doubtless that helped him considerably to rise in status. I have been asked if Randles took on a coat of arms with a boar on a plate. Is there any evidence of that?
Is anyone aware of a connection between the Brough family of Staffordshire and the de Burgh ancient family?
Alex

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Staffordshire / Brough and de Burgh
« on: Sunday 25 February 18 20:35 GMT (UK)  »
Does anyone have knowledge or evidence of a connection between the Brough name and the ancient de Burgh family, particularly in Staffordshire?
AS

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Northamptonshire / Clerk family of Cransley
« on: Monday 08 January 18 10:32 GMT (UK)  »
I am enquiring about a Hannah Clerk who married Thomas Wright in Cransley on 17 Dec 1792.
Their first child Elizabeth was baptised in Cransley on 1 Sep 1793. They moved away to Kingsthorpe, Northampton and their subsequent children were born or baptised there: Mary in 1795, John in 1798, Frances in 1801, Hannah in 1805 and Samuel in 1808. I am interested in Samuel as I am helping a present member of the Wright family who descends from him. I have information about him and his family. There is no connection with mine.
However, Hannah his mother seems to come from the Cransley family, with Leonard. and Elizabeth as her parents, but I cannot trace her birth or baptism. Does anyone know this Clerk family of Cransley?
Alex

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Donegal / Patton family of Croaghan House, Tamney
« on: Friday 27 May 16 09:45 BST (UK)  »
I have been reading, or trying hard to read, the will of John Patton who died in 1834. He was the brother of William Patton, landowner, who lived at Croaghan House, Tamney. He refers to his son Robert, his brother Wiilliam(who died later in 1837) and his three nieces who were the daughters of William. They were Mary Anne, Dorothea and Rebecca. Although Rebecca married William Moore of Umrycam in 1817, John refers to her as Rebecca Patton. Rebecca died as Rebecca Moore in 1883 aged 87. I notice John refers to Mary Anne Keys or Keyes; the name after Dorothea I cannot read clearly. Why would he refer to Rebecca by her maiden or family name? William lived on through this period and well beyond until he was 80. They had several children. If anyone can throw any light on this I shall be most appreciative.

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Derry (Londonderry) / William Hamilton Cunningham
« on: Wednesday 06 April 16 20:55 BST (UK)  »
I am seeking the birth or baptism of William Hamilton Cunningham who died in Londonderry on 17 June, 1919 aged 71, which puts his birth around 1848. I know he married Margaret Anne Young of Tyboe, Tyrone on 13 Nov 1883 in Glendermott Presbyterian church in Derry.
There is reason to believe he may have been connected with the Faughanvale Presbyterian church in County Londonderry not far from Eglinton.  He may have been baptized at Faughanvale. It may be he went to work in Tyrone where he met Margaret.
I understand the Faughanvale Presybterian records are in the library at Coleraine. Would anyone have access to them? I may be wrong about Faughanvale, but it is certain that William lived and died in County Londonderry and belonged to a Presbyterian family. His parents may have been John and Frances, but I have no certain evidence of that.
Thank you for any light someone can shine on William Hamilton Cunningham whose birth and parents have proved elusive!



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Huntingdonshire Lookup Requests / STAPLETON of Old Weston
« on: Wednesday 29 April 15 22:44 BST (UK)  »
I have been asked to look into the history of the Stapleton family who used to live many years ago at Old Weston. I am intrigued by Owen Stapleton who was born in Keysoe in Bedfordshire in 1816,
married Elizabeth Gale from Great Stukely in 1841, and by 1861 became established as a farmer
with 193 acres at Mill Hill, Old Weston, after being a farmer in Woolley with 165 acres in 1851.
Remarkably by 1871 he has left his farming in Huntingdonshire altogether and has moved as a widower to Tonbridge or Tunbridge Wells in Kent, probably the latter as it was Albert Street, and lived as a lodger in a household of a carpenter and became a fish hawker. By 1881 he was
a fish dealer or merchant. His son William went to Kent with him and became an apprentice. His father died in Kent in 1889 and William moved back to his father's original village of Keysoe in
Bedfordshire and lived there with his wife, from Bolnhurst, as an agricultural labourer.
Can anyone shed any light on this unusual development, and/or comment on what happened
to the farm at Mill Hill, Old Weston?
Alex


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Devon / PUDDINGTON family of Tiverton area
« on: Sunday 08 February 15 12:44 GMT (UK)  »
I read that the name Puddington, a village near Tiverton, may come from Putta's estate and
refer to the first Bishop of Hereford. I am trying to help others to discover more about the Puddington family who lived near Tiverton in the 1500s and 1600s. Two brothers George and Robert went to America in 1634.  It has also been suggested to me by an American descendant that there may be a connection with the area of Puddington near Chester which is connected with the Norman name Poitone and Hermon Massey who gained lands there in the time of William Rufus.  Does anyone know of the Puddington family of Tiverton? Is there any evidence for a connection with Puddington near Chester?

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