Surnames connected to others

[hallmark]

So far I have these surnames connected to my tree; Swan, Swann, Hall, Browne, Dudgeon, Birch/Burch, Pollock. Lee, McConkey, Wright, James, Black, Clarke, Nesbitt, Baird, Barnes, Graham, Adams, Bothwell, Boyd, Brady, Breadon, Breakey, Burns, Busby, Byrne, Caldwell, Campbell, Carlisle, Carr, Carroll, Carruth, Crone, Davidson, Dickson, Dougan, Dunn, Erskine, Farrell, Flack, Freeman, Fullerton, Gallagher, Gibson, Gillespie, Glover, Hackett, Hannan, Hazelton, Henderson, Holdcroft, Holder, Howe, Hunt, Hunter, Irwin, James, Johnston, Kane, Kelso, Kilpatrick, Lang, Leary, Longmoore, Love, Lovett, Lyons, Mallagh, Mannelock, Markey, Marshall, Martin, Matson, Maxwell, McBride, McCullagh, McCarthy, McCondell, McCormick, McCoy, McCrudden, McCullagh, McCusker, McKee, McKenna, McLoughlin, McMurrin, McMorran, McNiece, McQuillan, Mitchell, Mullarchey, Pollock, Reid, Reed, Robinson, Scott, Seymour, Sharp, Scott, Smith, Stewart, Symington, Thompson, Traynor, Walker, Willis, Wilson, Wood, Woods, Young. Probably there are others!


Many are peripheral to my tree but it seems so many families connect to each other somehow!


I started in Errigal Trough and after researching so many registers I have worked my way right across the county to Newbliss, Ballybay with a few escapees into Co Cavan. and also emigrants in many places.

[grendlsmother]

I have a Peter McCormick born around 1795 give or take a couple of years, in Monaghan, not sure where.   No further information on the Irish side.   Any information on McCormicks would be welcomed.

[hallmark]

I'd need more information than that...religion etc, McCormick/McCormack is quite a common name.

[grendlsmother]

All I have on him is that according to ages given on censuses, which vary, he must have been born some time between 1792 and 1795.   Peter McCormick born Monaghan, not sure whether city or county as it doesn't say.  On one census he is listed as Patrick.   Not sure exactly when he arrived in Ayrshire, but he was definitely there by 1821.   Married in Scotland 1822, wife born Ayrshire.  Peter's father possibly Peter as well or Daniel, mother possibly Mary.   Death cert. gives father as Peter, no mother, but his eldest son/daughter were Daniel and Mary.   He may also have had a brother named Daniel as a Daniel McCormick stood sponsor for baptism of the eldest child.    There was also another Peter McCormick living nearby, a few years older, who also gives birthplace as Monaghan - may have been a cousin.   The parents of this other Peter are given as Ronald McCormick and Ann McAllister.   His wife was Elizabeth (Bridget) Morrison, born Ireland, but they married in Scotland.   Both Peters' families were RC and all their children appear in the baptism records for St Margarets RC Church, Ayr. 

I have the families well documented once they are in Scotland but can find nothing in Irish records.   Any information would be most gratefully received.

[2november78]

I have a lot of Reid's in my family, from my mother's side, all coming from Scotland.
The further back i go, most of them have come over from Londonderry in Ireland. I''ve managed to go back as far as 1805 from Ireland.

[hallmark]

All I have on him is that according to ages given on censuses, which vary, he must have been born some time between 1792 and 1795.   Peter McCormick born Monaghan, not sure whether city or county as it doesn't say.  On one census he is listed as Patrick.   Not sure exactly when he arrived in Ayrshire, but he was definitely there by 1821.   Married in Scotland 1822, wife born Ayrshire.  Peter's father possibly Peter as well or Daniel, mother possibly Mary.   Death cert. gives father as Peter, no mother, but his eldest son/daughter were Daniel and Mary.   He may also have had a brother named Daniel as a Daniel McCormick stood sponsor for baptism of the eldest child.    There was also another Peter McCormick living nearby, a few years older, who also gives birthplace as Monaghan - may have been a cousin.   The parents of this other Peter are given as Ronald McCormick and Ann McAllister.   His wife was Elizabeth (Bridget) Morrison, born Ireland, but they married in Scotland.   Both Peters' families were RC and all their children appear in the baptism records for St Margarets RC Church, Ayr. 

I have the families well documented once they are in Scotland but can find nothing in Irish records.   Any information would be most gratefully received.

RC records only started in 1860's so it will be very hard to find out much more. Without definite names almost impossible. Death/burial records might get some detail but you would really need definite details as all you would get are deaths of those with the same names that may or may not be yours. If you knew where they lived you could check for deeds/leases etc.

[grendlsmother]

Ah well, back to the brick wall!   Many thanks for your input.

[hallmark]

Sorry I can't be more help!

Good hunting....

[gerardinep]

Hi Dave
I think that I might have a John Davidson from Monaghan married to a Catherine Mullarchey/ Mullarkey in my husbands family tree but not sure from where exactly in Monaghan.  Also they were RC as far as I know but not sure if they started out this religion.  One of their sons was born some time in the 1870s and the family names are Charles , William, Anna and some more that I'm not too sure about.
gerardinep