Hegarty, Hagerty,Higerty, McCrum Family Tyrone

[Blinkie]

Searching for any descendents of the following family.
Joseph Hegarty ( no birth info found ) married Sarah McCrum in Coalisland, Dungannon on 28th June 1876, in Newmills Church of Ireland. Joseph is listed as age 22 and was a labourer. His address is given as Ballymona, Parish of Tullaniskin. His father is listed as Samuel Hagerty, a labourer. On Joseph's death certificate in 1921, his mother is listed as Mary Ann Smith (Smyth )
Sarah McCrum ( no birth found ) on marriage certificate, father listed as William McCrum, a labourer. Address listed as same as Joseph's.
According to Sarah's death certificate, in 1927 her mother is Ann Wylie.
According to IGI there was an Alexander Heggarty, born 1864 in Clonavaddy, Tyrone. His parents were listed as Samuel Hegarty and Mary Ann Smyth. His marriage certificate on 20th August 1886, confirms parents as Samuel and Mary Ann. ( possibly found Joseph's brother ) Alexander is listed as a letter-carrier and his address is given as Dungannon Parish of Drumglass. He married a Mary Jane Collins, aged 22.
of Claggan Parish of Pomeroy.Her father was William Collins, a builder. They were married in Lisnagleer Baptist Chapel at Pomeroy.
1901 Census - Alexander Hegarty, aged 36 a postman, living at Market Square, Dungannon, Tyrone. Family consist of wife Mary Jane,age 35 , sons, William 9, Thomas 6 and Samuel James, a baby. The family were all Baptists.
1911 Census - Alexander Hegarty aged 46. postman, living at 5 Caufield Terrace, Dungannon, Tyrone. Wife Mary Jane aged 45 and sons,William aged 18 listed as solicitor's general clerk, Thomas aged 16, shop assistant (ironmonger) and James aged 10 ( possibly Samuel James), a scholar.
Discovered while searching site re Irish wills -
Robert Tracy: Probate of the Will of Robert Tracy late of Cormullagh County Tyrone Farmer whodied 4 January 1909 granted at Armagh to Alexander Heggarty Rural Postman. Date Of Grant: 09/03/1910 Effects: Effects £160
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Elijah Hegarty is listed on the 1901 Scottish census as living with his brother Joseph's family in Bellshill, Lanarkshire. He was born c1871 in Ireland and moved to Scotland, where he married an Anne Kennedy in Dunipace, Stirling in 1897. Following her death, he married, Helen Kyle in 1902 at Bellshill, Lanarkshire, where he was a fireman in the local iron works. His marriage certificate lists his parents as Samuel Hagerty and Mary Ann Smith. Cannot find death certificate for him in Scotland, believe he may have returned to Ireland.
David Heggarty ( Higerty ) born c1865, Ireland. On 1891 Scottish census, living in Lanarkshire, millman at steel works. Married at Bellshill in 1891 to Martha Nicholl, a farm servant, born in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone. According to marriage certificate, David's parents were Samuel Higerty and Mary Ann Smith.

[aghadowey]

"Joseph Hegarty ( no birth info found ) married Sarah McCrum in Coalisland, Dungannon on 28th June 1876, in Newmills Church of Ireland. Joseph is listed as age 22 and was a labourer. His address is given as Ballymona, Parish of Tullaniskin. His father is listed as Samuel Hagerty, a labourer. On Joseph's death certificate in 1921, his mother is listed as Mary Ann Smith (Smyth )"
Civil registration of births started in 1864 so there will be no birth certificate for Joseph but looks like might be siblings- www.familysearch.org:
- Alexander Hegarty born 12 Feb.1864 Clonavaddy Co.Tyrone (page 455 in civil register)- parents Samuel Hegarty & Mary Anne Smyth
- William James Henry Haggerty born c1848 died 30 July 1927 Elgin, Ontario, Canada (age 79)- parents Samuel Haggerty & Mary Ann Smith
    

[Blinkie]

Many thanks for the reply. Where on family search site did you managet to find the parents listed of William James Henry Haggerty? I have been searching that site for months. I have found his family listed in the 1901 and 1911 census in Springfield Village, Elgin Ontario. he is married to an Alice Haggerty and has 3 children, Sofine or Sophina, c1878, Ellen A. Haggerty, c1881 and Margaret Jane Haggerty, 1889. Hope you don't think I'm being a bit cheeky but before I begin to research these families, I want to make sure that Samuel was the father of William.

Thanks again

[aghadowey]

I found the details by doing a parents search- on the search page just click on 'parents' and put in Samuel Hegarty for father and Mary Smyth for mother (putting in 2 first names usually brings up too many results such as Mary Ann, Mary and Ann), then click search. Next, use the filters on left side of page to narrow down decade, etc. if needed. Let me know if you have any problems figuring it out and I'll try to explain better.

[Blinkie]

Yes, found the entry,a million thanks again. I had hit a brick wall with this one but thanks to your help, I am on the move again. You're a star  !!!!!

[DCMay]

Searching for any descendents of the following family.
Joseph Hegarty ( no birth info found ) married Sarah McCrum in Coalisland, Dungannon on 28th June 1876, in Newmills Church of Ireland. Joseph is listed as age 22 and was a labourer. His address is given as Ballymona, Parish of Tullaniskin. His father is listed as Samuel Hagerty, a labourer. On Joseph's death certificate in 1921, his mother is listed as Mary Ann Smith (Smyth )
Sarah McCrum ( no birth found ) on marriage certificate, father listed as William McCrum, a labourer. Address listed as same as Joseph's.
According to Sarah's death certificate, in 1927 her mother is Ann Wylie.
According to IGI there was an Alexander Heggarty, born 1864 in Clonavaddy, Tyrone. His parents were listed as Samuel Hegarty and Mary Ann Smyth. His marriage certificate on 20th August 1886, confirms parents as Samuel and Mary Ann. ( possibly found Joseph's brother ) Alexander is listed as a letter-carrier and his address is given as Dungannon Parish of Drumglass. He married a Mary Jane Collins, aged 22.
of Claggan Parish of Pomeroy.Her father was William Collins, a builder. They were married in Lisnagleer Baptist Chapel at Pomeroy.
1901 Census - Alexander Hegarty, aged 36 a postman, living at Market Square, Dungannon, Tyrone. Family consist of wife Mary Jane,age 35 , sons, William 9, Thomas 6 and Samuel James, a baby. The family were all Baptists.
1911 Census - Alexander Hegarty aged 46. postman, living at 5 Caufield Terrace, Dungannon, Tyrone. Wife Mary Jane aged 45 and sons,William aged 18 listed as solicitor's general clerk, Thomas aged 16, shop assistant (ironmonger) and James aged 10 ( possibly Samuel James), a scholar.
Discovered while searching site re Irish wills -
Robert Tracy: Probate of the Will of Robert Tracy late of Cormullagh County Tyrone Farmer whodied 4 January 1909 granted at Armagh to Alexander Heggarty Rural Postman. Date Of Grant: 09/03/1910 Effects: Effects £160
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Elijah Hegarty is listed on the 1901 Scottish census as living with his brother Joseph's family in Bellshill, Lanarkshire. He was born c1871 in Ireland and moved to Scotland, where he married an Anne Kennedy in Dunipace, Stirling in 1897. Following her death, he married, Helen Kyle in 1902 at Bellshill, Lanarkshire, where he was a fireman in the local iron works. His marriage certificate lists his parents as Samuel Hagerty and Mary Ann Smith. Cannot find death certificate for him in Scotland, believe he may have returned to Ireland.
David Heggarty ( Higerty ) born c1865, Ireland. On 1891 Scottish census, living in Lanarkshire, millman at steel works. Married at Bellshill in 1891 to Martha Nicholl, a farm servant, born in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone. According to marriage certificate, David's parents were Samuel Higerty and Mary Ann Smith.

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[DCMay]

Elijah Haggerty is my maternal grandmother's father.

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He was the youngest of five boys born to Elizabeth Smith/Smythe and Samuel Hegarty.

Samuel and Elizabeth farmed in Mulnagare townland, west of Pomeroy, County Tyrone.

Their sons grew up in the hardest times in Ireland's hard history.

William, the eldest, had just begun school when the potato crop failed in October 1854, the year his brother Joseph was born.

It was another ten years before Alexander was born (1864), then David (1865) and finally my great grandfather Elijah, in 1868.

There is little future for five grown sons, on three acres ...

William emigrated to Canada in the late 1870s, married and raised three daughters in Springfield near Elgin, Ontario.

Joseph married Sarah McCrum in Coalisland in 1876. They moved to Scotland where Joseph worked in the steelworks and brickyards around Bellshill, south east of Glasgow,m where he died in 1921.

David and Elijah both ended up in Scotland also, working in the steelworks.

David married Martha Nicholl in Bellshill in 1891.

Elijah married Helen Kyle -- also in Bellshill -- in 1902.

Their first daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1904, followed by William James in 1906.

Ellen was born posthumously in 1908.

Her father, a steam train stoker, died as a result of drinking contaminated water and was buried in 1907 near Dungannon, County Tyrone.

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Only one of Samuel and Elizabeth's sons managed to live out his whole life in Ireland.

Alexander passed the civil service entrance exam,  married Mary Jane Collins in Pomeroy and became a postman -- all in the same year (1886).

In 1926 he received the Imperial Service Medal, for forty years dedicated mail service on the Dungannon to Bantry route.