Robert James Burns - Sett Maker, Stone Quarry

[EeyoreBlue]

Hi All

I wonder if anyone can help me.  I had originally posted in the common room and in Scotland to see if anyone could be of assistance, but unfortunately, got few replies.

Following on from family conversations, I am posting here as I now believe my GG Grandfather Robert James Burns may have been born in Ireland (unfortunately no ideas where).  He was born approx 1873, and his fathers name was George.  He married in 1896 in Middleton in Teesdale, County Durham, to Mary Ann Tallentire.

Robert was a sett maker in stone quarries and I wondered if anyone could provide me with information on areas of Ireland which had hard rock quarries so that I can narrow down my search.

Links to my previous posts are below:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,466588.0.html

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,469166.0.html

Many thanks for taking the time to read!

Regards

EeyoreBlue

[wibblegonk]

Here's a list of quarries in Ireland, to be honest they are all over Ireland but in the east around Dublin there is a lot of granite

http://www.localbusinesspages.ie/category.asp?category=Quarries

I'm a Burns but don't think were related.

[Elwyn Soutter]

I notice from one of the other threads that you haven’t located the births of children Hugh & Dora in Ireland. Dora Burns is not a very common surname. There are only 2 entries in the LDS site which roughly fit. One is Dora Burns b July-Sept 1909 (Vol 1 p 565) in Kilkeel, Co Down.  (There would have been stone quarrying work in the Mourne mountains). The other is Dorah Burns b Apr-Jun 1908 Milford, Donegal (Vol 2 page 223). Interestingly there is also a Hugh Burns b Milford Jan – Mar 1905 (Vol 2 p 217). If you are keen to trace their births, those might be worth looking at.