mc gourlick from tyrone

[runningbear]

i need some help please in my search for the mcgourlick family. the mcgourlick family first appear on the Scottish censuses in 1881, they are detailed as from being from ireland, a search of the Griffith's says William mc gourlick, drumragh, Tyrone.

i have an Owen Mc Gourlick c1834

John Mc Gourlick c1843

Anne Mc Gourlick  c1844

William Mc Gourlick c1849


if anyone can help i would be deeply appreciative

Joe

[Christopher]

Hiya Joe,

Did you notice that William McGourlick was the only person with that surname in Ireland at the time of the Valuation? I looked in Irish Ancestors Surname Search as I feel the name may well have been spelt incorrectly prior to William's time. That Search is based on the Valuation but there was no mention of the surname there. This one could prove to be like looking for the proverbial "needle in a haystack"

I'm guessing McGourlick is an Anglicised version of an Irish name or a Scots name. You may need someone with a smattering of the Gaelic to tell you what the original name may have been. I'll do my best though and go for Gourley and McGourley as I'm not one hundred percent happy about that "lick"

There was one McGourley in Donegal, again the only one in Ireland, at the time of the Valuation....
Charles McGourley, Drumnaha, Clonleigh. Donegal.

There were no McGourlicks in the street directory of 1852.

I feel I'm safe in saying that there is a fairly close connection between Charles and William.

I hope I'm not leading you in the wrong direction with this theory.

I hope Karen, the kids and yourself are keeping well.

Chris.

[runningbear]

thank you so much my friend, nice to hear from you again.

you may be right about this irish/scottish gaelic spelling of mcgourlick, wonder if any rootchatters speak gaelic? and could help to tell us what it is?

since this initial post i have founf a John Mc Gourlick as a landowner in 1796, address given was:

Ardshankill, Drumkelvin, Lurg

hope this may help

Joe

[Christopher]

Hei Joe,

Look at this Amm McGourlick Marriage 1 Patrick HOUSTON b: 1844 in Knocknahoran, Tyrone, Ireland

I wonder if that's meant to be Ann?

There's more ... Distribution of McGourlick families in England and Wales in 1891.

Chris

[runningbear]

wow christopher... who would believe it... a houston with a mcgourlick....

stuck for words....

Joe

[Christopher]

Would the Houston be related to the Houstons you are researching though

Hei, Joe, I've spotted a Margaret Anne McGourlick of Johnstone. She posted a message on celticfc.net

I don't know how how many McGourlicks you require. Should we look for as many as possible since there
were so few in Ireland? I think it might not be a bad idea .. what took them to Ireland for instance? Here's
one suggestion .. in the early 1800s Neil McCourt married Sarah McGourlick. They then reared their family somewhere in Co. Fermanagh between 1811-1827. I wonder if Sarah's relatives came to live in Ireland too. 
It's a great pity there are no passenger lists for voyages between Ireland and Britain. Have you any old tin boxes full of goodness knows what? It's amazing the things people keep.

Right, I knew there had to be variations on the name .. here they are .. McGorlick, McGourlick and McGoldrick ... that will do for starters. We may find a few more variations. If a Gaelic speaker sees these posts we may get some more. I think I received a PM some time ago from a lassie who speaks Gaelic. Certainly she spelt her name in that language although she wrote to me in English.

Ellen (of one of the spelling variations), born in Co. Fermanagh in 1923, married John Sheridan b 1816? at Pettigo on 20th July 1865. Pettigo is on the Fermanagh/Donegal border. Half in one county..half in the other.

[runningbear]

thank you so much christopher for your enthusiasm to help get to the roots of the mcgourlicks.

because there is so few mentioned, but when they are mentioned they are mentioned as mc gourlick and not anything else, tends to make me think that there was no gaelic way of spelling their name.

when i have searched through the family births, i have found that the earlies that the family i am researching came to scotland around 1876-1878. the first birth was in 1879.

so previously i have john mc gourlick born around 1843, marries mary warnock around 1866. i only know of the children he brought to scotland so there may be some left in ireland with his parents patrick mc gourlick and mary breen.

catherine mc gourlick was born around 1869
francis mc gourlick was born around 1872
ellen mc gourlick was born around 1874
mary mc gourlick was born around 1876

this is as much information i have on the mc gourlicks.

[Christopher]

Do you think you could interest Brian McGourlick of Barrhead in Family History as well as the Panto auditions in which he participates at the moment, Joe? Chelsea Cunningham might be interested too. If you can persuade them then RootsChat would have two new members.

[runningbear]

hi Christopher, further research has thrown up the gaelic name Mc Cuarlig going back to the 1700's in Scotland.

is there any Mc Cuarlig's in Ireland?