Elizabeth Thompson

[maryderry]

betty, found two births, now they may be nothing to do with yours, but it was the names that i noticed.

JANE HARPER THOMPSON B. 1895.

MARSHAL THOMPSON        B. 1903.


                                                REGARDS MARY.

[aghadowey]

Got a few more Thompsons in 1901 census at Ballymena Library this morning-
Isle of Man St. (all Church of Ireland, b. Co.Derry)
8. John THOMPSON 28 farm labourer, wife Lizzie Thompson 25, son William Thompson 3, dau. Harriett Thompson 1.

Protestant St. (all Methodist, b. Co.Derry)
33. John THOMPSON 70 shoe-maker wid., dau. Margaret Thompson 40 house-keeper, son Hugh Thompson, 38, shoe-maker (read only), son Robert Thompson 35 shoe-maker.

[betty53]

hello ladies - I see you are all online at the moment (Oops aghadowey - don't know if you are a female - sorry!)

Well - definite turn up for the books.  I paid £44 for the 4 marriage certificates yesterday and the Registrar took pity on me and said that if I made a list she would copy out all the entries I wanted for £2.50 each.

I agree with you mary - the names have more than a 'hint of a tint' as they say!

I still have only found one entry for Alexander Thompson (labourer) and that was in Griffiths land valuations - he apparently had some land in the townland of Drumneechy, Parish of Bovevagh, Dungiven County Derry - but I can't get a year. Now, I know where Drumneechy is and it is about a mile cross country from Ardinarff, Bovevagh (now called Burnfoot).  Any idea how we could find a date aghadowey?

[betty53]

Dear Wendy

I feel as if Phillip Marshall from Ohio might be your distant cousin not mine but from Alexander Thompson downwards via your grandfather's brother - would that seem right?  Both of them being masons and living in the same streets beside each other is just too much of a coincidence.  Tamlafinlagan is in Ballykelly 2 miles outside Limavady heading towards Derry and is the burying ground of my husband's family - the McNerlins of Myroe.

I have to go to Derry tomorrow to buy a new computer and I'll stop on the way home.

Betty

[aghadowey]

I still have only found one entry for Alexander Thompson (labourer) and that was in Griffiths land valuations - he apparently had some land in the townland of Drumneechy, Parish of Bovevagh, Dungiven County Derry - but I can't get a year. Now, I know where Drumneechy is and it is about a mile cross country from Ardinarff, Bovevagh (now called Burnfoot). Any idea how we could find a date aghadowey?

Date for what? (Griffith's Valuation is c1859 for this area.

[betty53]

Sorry aghadowey

I meant a date for when he held the land, whether rented or bought.  My aunt NINA said that our homefarm was Scriggan just around the corner from Bovevagh Presbyterian church (along the main Dungiven Road).  The home farm was sold when my grandad James Thompson's first wife died.  He had 2 children as follows: (they were brought up by a relative in Coleraine).

Martha Jane Thompson died aged 21 on 21 Mar 1944
Sarah Thompson moved to Coleraine and married Downes (now in a rest home in Coleraine).

He then married Margaret Jane Thomspon, moved to Terrydremond and died in 1952.  Granny then moved to Ballyquin.

Betty

[aghadowey]

Valuation books which continue from the printed version of Griffith's Valuation are held at PRONI. You can look up a townland in a series of notebooks until c1930 and thus follow the tenants/ownership of a property. They are very difficult to decipher as the ink has faded (each change/year is marked in a different colour ink but for example the reds, pinks, purples now look alike..). The notebooks are not microfilmed and do not photocopy (due to faded ink).
Most farmers were tenants (Griffith's will give the name of the immediate lessor) and the date the farms were actually bought by the tenants vary from landlord to landlord but in most cases the land was paid off in installments over a long number of years. For example, my husband's great-uncle bought our farm c1908 but my husband remembered it still being paid off in the early 1960s (we still have the paperwork somewhere but unfortunately the deeds only start with the time Uncle Johnny was buying the farm although it had been in the family for generations before). My family's farm was bought c1890 (different landlord) but other places in the area weren't sold until 1920s.

[betty53]

Dear aghadowey

thanks for that information - I found the following list of Thompsons where you said as follows for 1859

Thompson          Alexander         Drumneechy          Bovevagh     Derry
Thompson          Archibald         Gortnahey Moree     Bovevagh     Derry
Thompson          George            Camnish             Bovevagh     Derry
Thompson          James             Derrynaflaw         Bovevagh     Derry
Thompson          John              Derryard            Bovevagh     Derry
Thompson          John              Killibleught        Bovevagh     Derry
Thompson          John              Straw               Bovevagh     Derry
Thompson          Maryanne          Camnish             Bovevagh     Derry
Thompson          Robin             Ardinarive          Bovevagh     Derry

I have 2 x Archibald Thomspons buried in Bovevagh, looks like father & son

one died in1882 aged 79
another died in 1897 aged 38

and the James is too early for my granda.

Betty

[aghadowey]

Daughter's friend is Thompson of Dernaflaw.