I really need some help with this family, as there is a big puzzle. John Johnston and Ann Greer were married Oct 17, 1856 at Woods Chapel, his father William (I believe his parents to be William Johnston and Nancy McMaster).
https://www.rootschat.com/links/01sta/John is a weaver from Drumenagh. They are on the 1901 census, in Ballyronan More, and John is age 64, a laborer who
can read and Ann is 62. They have unmarried children John, Matthew, Robert and Sarah.
https://www.rootschat.com/links/01stb/I don't find the family in 1911 but I do find a john Johnston, widower, age 73, farm laborer, living with son Matthew in Ballyronan More and Matthew is married (but I don't think so).
John can read.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01stc/Now we come to my problem. There are many online trees that say Ann died Jan 20, 1904 in Drumenagh. But this death record says her husband was a stone mason. So thinking this is not correct, although I can't find another death record for her. Furthermore the trees say that John remarried in Aug 1904 to Matilda McCready nee Nelson. John is a widower, farmer, from Tamlaghduff with father William. Feasible. Matilda has father Samuel.
However, when I find who I think is John and Matilda in 1911, in Tamlaghtduff, John is a farmer who
cannot read. Age 80. Matilda age 68.
https://www.rootschat.com/links/01ste/Then I went back to 1901, and I did find a John Johnston, widower, in Tamlaghtduff,
cannot read, living with a daughter Margaret Johnston, not married (Look closely to see the word NOT in the previous column), and a granddaughter Maggie Bradley, also not married, but born in Scotland. I think this would be the John Johnston who married Matilda Nelson in 1904, though I can't find Maggie's birth in either Ireland or Scotland. Ann Greer and John Johnston did have a daughter Margaret in 1867 and I don't know if she ever married.
https://www.rootschat.com/links/01stf/I think online trees have confused these two families. Then a John from Tamlaght, laborer, widower, died in 1918 in a workhouse in Magherafelt, age 89. Age agrees with 1911 census of Tamlaghtduff so I think this was the husband of Matilda.
I did find the death of a Matilda Johnston in 1916, age 79, in Drummuck, wife of John Johnston, laborer, daughter Bridget Magill present.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01sth/I did find Patrick McGill, wife Bridget in 1911 in Tamlaghtduff. She is age 40.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Londonderry/Bellaghy/Tamlaghtduff/607871/Then I found the marriage of Bridget and Patrick McGill in 1902. She is McCready, father John. This is all adding up that we have found the correct Matilda's death in 1916.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01stj/then I found the marriage of Matilda Nelson/Neilson to John McCready in 1865. Her father Samuel Nelson, same as when she married John Johnston.
https://www.rootschat.com/links/01stk/But the problem remains. I think these are two different John Johnstons. Can anyone help with this? Can anyone find the death of Ann Johnston nee Greer 1901-1911 and the death of her husband John probably in Ballyronan More after 1911? Maybe they emigrated. Or went to Scotland or England.
I really need help.
thank you
Peggy
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