Croft

[jacquisue]

i am trying to find my gg grandfather.  He was called James Croft and married a lady called Susan, unfortunately we don't  know her surname,  he had 9 children and apparently lived until he was 90, born about 1865.  He lived in either Bangor or Belfast.  Any help would be appreciated.

This is my first post so please excuse me if I have put it in the wrong area

[Billiejo]

Bangor is in Wales and Belfast is in Northern Ireland.

[jacquisue]

there is a bangor in northern ireland as well, about 15 miles from belfast

[aghadowey]

Jacquisue- welcome to Rootschat.
Think I found your family. Ulster Covenant (1912) lists available on-line (PRONI website) shows a James Croft living at 54 Haypark Ave., Belfast in 1912. Also at the same address are Susan, Jean, Thomas, Roland. Parliamentary division: Belfast: South, district: St. Anne's.
It is quite possible that the family moved out of Belfast at some point (during World War II many people moved out of Belfast) to Bangor (the one in County Down).
If you post something on the Down board you might get more information.

[jacquisue]

oh thank you, yes that is my family, it is james that i want to find out about i cant find anything any farther back.  I will post it on the antrim section as well thank you again.

jac

[aghadowey]

jac- noticed you had 'Gilmer' in your list of names. Had relatives named Gilmer in Belfast & Dunmurray (name originally Gilmore & Gilmour).

[jacquisue]

the only thing i know about the gilmers is my granny was a gilmer and she had 2 sisters, one of whom died in the spanish flu epidemic along with my g grandfather.  I think they lived in newry for a while as well. i havent got back far enough to see if there was a change of name but it is an unusual name. what were your gilmers called?

[aghadowey]

Here's what I have:
James Gilmour (c1808-1873) married (his cousin?) Catherine Gilmore (1807) & had (I think): John, Alexander, Robert, William, James.
John Gilmour (d.1885), son of James & Catherine, changed spelling to Gilmer,  married his cousin Rachel Ann Armstrong Chestnutt (1847-1915). Children: James Alexander (c1876), Robert Chestnutt (1877), Georgina Catherine (1879), Victor Walters (1881), Robert (c1882?), Margaret Mary Maud (c1884), Nanette Evelyn Wallace (c1885).

[jacquisue]

My ggrandfather was called James Gilmer, he married Mary and had 3 daughters, Evelyn, Mary Ellen and Edith.  James was born about 1850 and had a brother called Henry.  James was a painter decorator, his mother was called Ann but I do not have the name of his father.