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HI Dorothy,

Thanks for your reply and also for the information you and the others have been posting here too.

This Rebecca Tipping is proving a bit of a mystery!
I have been doing a bit of investigation and she was married to James Tipping. For her to be William McAllister's aunt either she or her husband needs to be related to a McAllister or McVeigh. And thats what is proving difficult to prove.
Rebecca's parents were James watson and Agnes Bradshaw.
James's father was William Tipping, mother as yet unknown. Before his marriage to Rebecca in 1903 James Tipping was married to Elizabeth Sarah Stewart in 1893, she died 1902. He was also married before that to someone else, as yet unknown.
I have been down to the newspaper library and got the death notice for Elizabeth Sarah Tipping and its interesting to see she was living with James in Kendal Street at no. 44.
Your grandfather James McAllister was living at 34 Kendal Street when he died in 1901.
I also discovered James Tipping had a brother Samuel who died in the Belfast Asylum in 1891, at that time the Tipping family lived in Schomberg Street.
I don't know how all this connects to our McVeigh/McAllister family at all!

I will send you a private message with my email address and a couple of photos of my McVeighs.

Hi Dorothy!

Thanks so much for your fantastic response and wonderful information, its a dream come true to hear from you. It is now very late at night over here but I had to reply to your message before I go to bed.

You are my grandfather's second cousin which makes me your second cousin twice removed. Our branch of the family has remained in Belfast where I live. William John McVeigh was Agnes McAllister's elder brother and he married Margaret Black in 1875. They had 8 children, two of whom emigrated to Quebec! I wonder if they ever met up with your father there?

The names of the two who emigrated were Samuel McVeigh - he married Ethel Greer before they left Belfast. They settled in Toronto where they were living in 1921 with children Samuel, Thomas and Stanley.

Samuel's sister Edith Brown McVeigh emigrated to Quebec in 1921, I have some pictures that she sent home of her family, probably taken in the 1940s. As far as I know she settled in Toronto. Her husband was in the Canadian army and paid a visit to her relatives in Belfast during the war but none of my surviving relatives remember his surname, just that he was 'Bill'.

So you have some Canadian relatives you probably didn't know about.

That is great that you have the family bible. As well as being a family heirloom, it is fabulous that you father wrote in the dates he did. Agnes' birth year fits perfectly with the 1901 census. I checked up quickly and there does not appear to be any registration of Robert's death in official records.

I think you have to post three messages on rootschat before we are able to send each other private messages through rootschat and exchange email addresses. I have some photos to show you and it will be interesting to see if you can see any resemblance with another on your side of the family.

Thanks again for getting in touch, it means a lot to me!

Your Irish cousin Martin

No, its just a small photo that seems to have been stuck in an album once. I think it might be one of the following two men when they were young. Any opinions as to whether I'm right or not are much appreciated!

Thanks for that Mo ... if you find the surnames Gibson, Adams, Patrick or Nutt as middle name in any of William Kerr & Mary Craig's children please let me know as those names could link things together if there is a connection!

Good luck with your research.