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Wigtownshire / Re: Penninghame/Newton Stewart
« on: Wednesday 21 September 16 02:04 BST (UK)  »
Sorry, our John Fergusons don't match. I have several but not born near that time or married to that spouse.

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Wigtownshire / Re: Penninghame/Newton Stewart
« on: Tuesday 26 July 16 23:49 BST (UK)  »
Do you have any other info on John Ferguson b Wigtownshire? Parents? Maybe you can find them in the 1851 census of Wigtownshire. cm

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Sorry but we don't seem to connect. I have lots of John Fergusons from the area but none born in that year or around that year.

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Thanks. You sound like you are from that area. I was there in May 2014 and drove by the old Killyblight farm buildings and Bovevagh church/graveyards and took some pictures.

I have their names in census records, a few births, marriages, names in tithe lists, flax growers, Griffith's valuation and land owners (Joseph, James, William, Samuel) plus various pieces of the families but can't make some important connections to those persons and records I know for sure (William and Letitia Ferguson who had children right before and after 1800).

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Regarding the above
*****William Ferguson's 1842 will is listed in the LDS film of 1842 will and deed index. I ordered film #100542 but when I looked at it, I saw it was only an index which listed exactly what I had seen online. (His address was spelled "Killyblought" and parish was spelled "Bavereagh.")

Other films listed also were 100528 and 100558. If I ordered either of these would I see something different? Is there a way to actually see the will (vol 7 p 266) or some abstract of it? It was my first time to order a film so it was very disappointing. I was hoping to see some heir or wife named.


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Based on a 1879 Scottish death certificate of son John H Ferguson, his parents were William and Letitia (MS also Ferguson) of Newtown Limavady, Derry Ireland.

Another son Andrew was married to Janet Laughrey (Lochrie, McLaughry, Laurie, etc) in Bovevagh Presbyterian near Limavady, Londonderry County about 1827. Andrew and John died in Scotland but the other siblings (Samuel, Malcolm, Margaret, and maybe Joseph & Robert) supposedly stayed in Ireland.

I have found these names for several generations on a farm called Killyblight (also spelled Killyblought, Killybleught, etc.) which is about 2 miles from the existing Bovevagh Presby. church and about a mile from the ancient Bovevagh church ruins overlooking the Roe River.

Any other Killyblight Fergusons out there?

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The 1831 census only lists head of household by name (and then shows number of males & females in the household) so it's not always possible to identify the correct family in a particular townland.
I understand but I also have a family note written by John's son about 1875 stating names and area.

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I am tracing FERGUSON ancestors who were all born in the "Newton, Limavady, Derry" area. I found the names I know for sure (William, Samuel, Malcom) in the 1831 Derry Census as living in "Keenaght, Bovevagh, Killibleught" at that time with Loughrey family nearby. The Fergusons also had a daughter Margaret, sons Andrew and John.

Ferguson's younger son Andrew b. 1805 m. Janet LOUGHREY in "Derry" in 1827. Andres's first son John born 1828 listed as Bovevagh Presbyterian, Derry, Ireland. They moved to Scotland abt 1843 or so.

My ancestor John Hill Ferguson, Sr was a son of William and Letitia Ferguson (also maiden name). He was born abt 1796 in Ireland. He moved to Scotland before 1821. I know all his descendants but nothing else about his ancestors. They were Presbyterians. Family names repeated many times in later generations were Letitia, William, John, James, Joseph, Mary Ann, and George.

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Wigtownshire / Re: Penninghame/Newton Stewart
« on: Sunday 29 July 12 15:58 BST (UK)  »
I don't know. I live in Texas. Maybe someone else can tell us.

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