Irishseeker,
Thanks for the response re Rea!
Every little bit helps given the lack of Irish records, but I doubt that there is anything useful I can offer to you.
Anyway, a total dump of info:
a. Customs & Excise records show Stewart Fulton White joining the “Mounted Guard” of the Excise Service in 1832 having come from a “dragoon regiment”. He is first posted to Canford Magna, Dorset.
b. 1841 Census shows he is married to Ann with children John, Stewart, James, Ann, and Jane. The parents are both shown as aged 35. The parents and John are listed in the transcription as being Scottish. ALL other documentation in the census records say Irish.
c. Birth Cert for Jane dated 1839 states the mother to be Ann White, formerly Ray.
d. The family and most of the children end up in Liverpool after Stewart F is pensioned out of the Excise Service.
e. The family seems to fall apart and Ann dies in about 1859/60.
f. Stewart F remarries in 1861 to an Ann Elizabeth Hill, the daughter of a RN lieutenant. The Marriage Cert states that Stewart’s father was a John White, farmer. They relocate down to Portsmouth and he dies in 1881.
g. The name “Stewart” strongly indicates a Scottish background and likely they were part of lowland Scottish settlement into Ulster. The middle name Fulton is also Scottish coming almost entirely from Wigtownshire and Ayrshire.
h. Using the 1796 Flax Growers Lists, the only location where a White, a Fulton, and a Rea live together is Newtownstewart in Co. Tyrone so I have tried to focus there with no luck.
Precious little about the Rea/Rae/Ray side.
I would dearly like to tie down the birthplace of Ann or Stewart F.
Ian
