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Tyrone / Re: Wilsons of Dyan and Kilmore, Tyrone - NZ, Birkenhead, Belfast descendants
« on: Friday 05 January 24 21:41 GMT (UK)  »
Correction to above post:
The Kilmore I connected to WILSON was the one in co Down, not co Tyrone.
Darn these repetitive placenames!

All the best,
Drew Dughi

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Tyrone / Re: Wilsons of Dyan and Kilmore, Tyrone - NZ, Birkenhead, Belfast descendants
« on: Friday 05 January 24 21:38 GMT (UK)  »
The only information I've found so far linking WILSON to Kilmore was a 1796 list of Flax Growers in county Down. Their list includes a Hugh Sr and a Hugh Jr.

-Drew Dughi, Bennington Vermont
GGGGrandson of Elinor WILSON McBRIDE (bc1800), of Ballydorn, co Down, and Omagh, co Tyrone

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Tyrone / Re: Gortmore Omagh
« on: Friday 05 January 24 19:49 GMT (UK)  »
I had a similar question about "Sedennan", another townland around Omagh.
The same language is used in reference to both places, as well as Kivlin (now Kevlin), that of "born at" or "died at".
All of these places were likely centered on a manor house originally, and included the land around them. That appears - in the case of Kivlin and Sedennan - to be confirmed by the maps accompanying Griffith's Valuation (whereas Gortmore had already been encroached upon by the growing city).
While Kevlin and Gortmore are built up now, Sedennan has retained it's rural flavor, centered around what appears to be the original manor house, built no later than the 1820s, by the Greer family.
Drew Dughi
GGGrandson of Jane Greer McBride (1840-1931)


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