STEWART families in Donegal

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Wm Wray^'s Will 1710

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS6V-59M2-F?i=16&cat=185720

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Wm Babbington's Will 1736

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSHS-T9VN?i=338&cat=185720

[AlexStewart]

Hello Alex,

Thank you for your reply.

My Babingtons in Donegal in 1800 would be Murray Babington, youngest son of Humphrey Babington.

regards,

Thomas,
I should have added to my last post that I believe you are now able to send
a PM having sent three posts. I look forward to hearing from you on my e-mail and we can write more extensively.
Regards Alexander


Hello, Thomas.
Thank you for that information. Yes, I know about Murray Babington who lived at Bonnyglen in Donegal. His father Humphrey had a brother Revd. William Babington 1713-1777, and he is an ancestor of mine. Therefore we are connected! I shall now write a private message to you with more detail.
Regards
Alex

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Your Rev Richard?

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSH3-99BY-G?i=505&cat=185720

[Thomas Stewart]

Hello Alex

"Is your Murray Babington the chap who married Mary Heron Gordon..."

Yes, that is the one, although I did not know the marriage actually took place in Dumfries, Scotland but that does stand to reason given that Mary Heron Gordon's father was from that part of Scotland. Interestingly, I have Mary Heron Gordon's mother as a "Margaret Stewart" but know nothing of her antecedents nor of any connection to the other Stewarts on my father's side. 

Murray and Mary had three daughters, as I understand, and I trace my descent from Patricia Babington.

[Thomas Stewart]

Thank you, Hallmark.

Thanks for the heads up about a Thomas Stewart emigrating from Ramelton to Philadelphia in 1818.  There was a lot of emigration from Ireland to the Philadelphia area, including both sides of my own family.

My mother tells a story that when my father's mother was out on her big trip to visit America, she got talking about family with my mother's brother (who had come over from Donegal and lived just outside Philadelphia), and when she mentioned that her grandmother had been a "McCoach" my uncle said there were McCoaches from Donegal just up the road--and sure enough it was a long lost cousin of granny Stewart's she hadn't seen for decades. 

[Thomas Stewart]

Hallmark, Thank you for the pointers to the wills.  According to the info I have seen, William Wray is very likely one of my ancestors so that will is very likely pertinent to me.   I will have to study them closely to sort out if they are my actual people or come from other branches.

[Thomas Stewart]

Sorry Alex, it looks like I missed your other question:

"You wrote that his father was Humphrey. Where did that information come from? I have Murray the son of The Revd. William Babington and Dorothea Campbell. Murray’s first child was named Dorothea."

I was gleaning my information on Murray Babington came from a website called "The Peerage"

http://www.thepeerage.com/p68722.htm#i687211

I honestly don't know how accurate the information on that site is or how it gets posted/reviewed so it is entirely possible that my information is in error.

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Hallmark, Thank you for the pointers to the wills.  According to the info I have seen, William Wray is very likely one of my ancestors so that will is very likely pertinent to me.   I will have to study them closely to sort out if they are my actual people or come from other branches.

Didn't study them too much!   

Hope you get some clues!