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Antrim / McElhone / McIlhone name issue
« on: Monday 16 April 18 08:10 BST (UK) »
Hello all,
I have a very confusing Northern Irish line concerning my father's McElhone relations. We have Non-Catholic/Catholic marriage issues and name spelling changes. I suppose we could even be McIlwaines, McIlhons, and any other variation! Anyway, here is a timeline:
John and Jane had seven children, four lived. Their son Samuel Rea McIlhone became just Samuel Rea, and it seemed that for awhile all the family dropped McIlhone. Samuel's daughter Eliza married a Catholic chap and her family finished with her. Samuel Rea (McIlhone) had five sons all called Rea, but who were really McIlhones (John/George/Samuel/James/David).
I'm totally stuck. We don't know where in Tyrone John McIlhone originally came from, his father was John, his mother is unknown to us.
My grandmother Ellen (daughter of (Wm) James) had two sisters (Jane, Mary), and then five brothers; John, James, Alexander, Samuel, Thomas. We know Samuel died in Algeria, but have no info on the other four McElhone men.
Does anyone have any Catholic McElhone/McIlhone branches which have gaps which may be my family? We have been looking from Australia for 15 years, and even after my father (Ellen McElhone's son) had an Ancestry DNA test, we have no new leads.
I hope someone can help!
Thank you,
Laura.
Looking for Young, McElhone/McIlhone, Wallace, Wilson, Cowan, and Rea in County Antrim.
Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com.au/family-tree/pt/pedigree.aspx?tid=26926659
WikiTree: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mcelhone-2
I have a very confusing Northern Irish line concerning my father's McElhone relations. We have Non-Catholic/Catholic marriage issues and name spelling changes. I suppose we could even be McIlwaines, McIlhons, and any other variation! Anyway, here is a timeline:
- Abt 1842 (Tyrone) - My gt gt grandfather John McIlhone was born.
- Abt 1844 (Down) - My gt gt grandmother Jane Rea was born.
- 1865 (Down) John McIlhone (Catholic) married a Jane Rea (Presbyterian). He was then estranged from his Tyrone people, and I can't find out who he was. His father was also a John.
- 1901 (Belfast) Now spelling it McElhone, John (engine driver) and Jane are on the Shore Road.
- 1901 (Belfast) Their son (Wm) James McElhone (marine engineer) married Margaret Wallace from Ballymena, and now his family are at Marvue Street. My grandmother Ellen is born to them in 1900.
- 1911 (Down) John and Jane are retired and live in Church Street, Down.
- 1911 (Belfast) (Wm) James is at Orchard Street, Belfast.
- 1911 (Down) John and Jane are retired and live in Church Street, Down.
- They are now the ONLY Non-Catholic McElhone/McIlhone family in the entire 1911 Census. (I find this bizarre!)
John and Jane had seven children, four lived. Their son Samuel Rea McIlhone became just Samuel Rea, and it seemed that for awhile all the family dropped McIlhone. Samuel's daughter Eliza married a Catholic chap and her family finished with her. Samuel Rea (McIlhone) had five sons all called Rea, but who were really McIlhones (John/George/Samuel/James/David).
I'm totally stuck. We don't know where in Tyrone John McIlhone originally came from, his father was John, his mother is unknown to us.
My grandmother Ellen (daughter of (Wm) James) had two sisters (Jane, Mary), and then five brothers; John, James, Alexander, Samuel, Thomas. We know Samuel died in Algeria, but have no info on the other four McElhone men.
Does anyone have any Catholic McElhone/McIlhone branches which have gaps which may be my family? We have been looking from Australia for 15 years, and even after my father (Ellen McElhone's son) had an Ancestry DNA test, we have no new leads.
I hope someone can help!
Thank you,
Laura.
Looking for Young, McElhone/McIlhone, Wallace, Wilson, Cowan, and Rea in County Antrim.
Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com.au/family-tree/pt/pedigree.aspx?tid=26926659
WikiTree: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mcelhone-2