I cannot say Thank you enough to Aghadowey, Sheila8 and akanex2 for your interest, your efforts and your skills in helping me.
Based on your postings I now feel confident that my family lived in a relatively small area around Garvagh.
At present I have put together the various names and dates to try and work out possible relationships. My next aim is to work out whether there are some birth, deaths & marriages under the civil registrations which might clarify some relationships. As these are quite expensive I want to be certain, before ordering, that there will be useful information to link back to the Griffth Valuation names and Tithe Applotment Books. It is unfortunate that there are few surviving Parish records.
In the 18 months since I have been interested in Family History and going back 5 generations I find that I am 90% Irish, the last arriving in Australia in 1881. I think this means that at some point in the future I will have to visit Ireland for a trip looking at graveyards, parish records and the archives in Dublin and Belfast -already saving my pennies! At this stage the counties I have to visit are Londonderry, Down, Antrim, Monaghan, Cavan, Fermanagh, Kildare, Tipperary and Wexford - quite a journey!
Thank you again. You have helped a lot and I have great direction for the future.
Anniebelle