Hello everyone, I have just discovered your new posts on Rootschat!
I have been beavering away at Percival family history for about 25 years. If you go back and read my posts(why bother I'll start again) you will see that my mother was
Linnea Percival daughter born 1915 to William(born in NSW 1865)
son of Arthur born in Co Leitrim in 1828 to John Percival and Anne Rosemond
The Thomas you talk of who was the son of John P and Ann R was married to Margaret Irwin. He died in 1910. He is mentioned in the 1901 Census of Ireland. His family of 5 are the only non Catholics in the townland of Aughriman, Kiltoghert Co.Leitrim.
They had 8 children one of whom is John Shaw P (he dies in 1966). He marries Elizabeth Ann Browne and they had 4 children Kathleen ,Ivy ,John Alexander and Margaret. There are also some who die as infants.
About 14 years ago I went to visit Kathleen and Ivy. Kathleen was in her 90s and she and her sisters have now all died. I don't know about Alex who was a GP in Sligo (I think)
Thomas and Margaret also had another son William Alexander who migrated to New Zealand.He and his wife had three sons Thomas 1914,John 1921 and Campbell 1923.
They have all died but Cam did an enormous amount of Percival family history until his death this year.
I live in Melbourne,Victoria. When I was in Ireland visiting Kathleen in Mohill I drove over and had lunch with Sandy Perceval at Temple House. At that time Sandy referred to our family of Percivals as cousins but I have never been able to discover a blood connection.This is mainly due to the fact that we cannot discover where John Percival(our earliest forebear)was born in about 1795.
My family tree shows many connections with McCormacks and Jones and Irwins etc. They all seem to descend from John but where did he come from before he married Ann Rosemond?
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Patrick Perceval(note spelling) suggests we may be from the wrong side of the Perceval blanket but the only proof my be in the papers at Temple House. Rodney now looks after the house but his grand mother had a lot of papers in the past.
Here are some extra notes I have made in the past
"On the IGI I found some information that said William Perceval married Anne Rosemond (b) 1795 or 1815 Wexford Sligo.
There was a garrison in Longford at one time. Could the original Percival have been in the Army?
Viscount John Perceval was the 1st Earl of Egmont. The papers are in the National Library Ireland MIC/341
A John Percival held a lease in Newtownforbes in 1782. He was probaly at least 18 by this date which makes him born before 1764. This is possibly the father or grandfather of this John.
This John Percival does not have a son named John which was most unusual at that time. He names the earliest child we have a record of Alexander.Was this our John's father or is there an earlier son called John who dies?
There is an Alexander Percival who dies in Ennybegs,Co Longford not far from Lissargernal in 1860. He is 99 at death. Born c.1761 Could he be our John's father?
There is an Arthur who is born in c.1792 postmaster aged 28 who is the son of Alexander. Dies in Rusky. Co Longford."
Does anyone have any questions?
Suggestions?
I have a few family contacts still in Ireland if we need research
I've had my DNA done......have all of you? I did it through Ancestry.com
