Covenant against home rule

[audrey]

any one know when the Covenant against home rule was signed in Belfast and was it just head of household who signed  and did you have to be a certain age to sign
I am hoping this new info will pin point my McKnight  I have 6 David McKnight's and 9 William

David McKnight  Stonyford Lisburn South Antrim
David McKnight  Maze Hillsboro
David McKnight  187 Tennant st crumlin Road
David McKnight  22 Matlock Street
David McKnight  39 Passnet Street Belfast
David McKnight   17 Hano Street


William McKnight South Antrim
William 45 Cambria Street
William 26 Dundella ave East Belfast
William 4 Grumount street
William 121 Sugville Street
William 30 Merviel Street
William 155 Agnes Street
William Ballymc ward Stonyford

any help on any of the above doc. undated
thanks
audrey

[Darcy]

Hi Audrey,

the Ulster Covenant was signed on September 28th 1912. Men signed the Covenant and women siged a Declaration. Every adult was eligible to sign.

You can search by name and address or whatever combination you feel best.  Just like the census there can be spelling mistakes  - so be creative.

I have found all eligible members of my family on it - some were easier to find than others.

I picked one of your names at random and see that David McKnight of 45 Cambrai St did sign the Covenant. ( I used to visit friends in Cambrai St  )

http://www.proni.gov.uk/ulstercovenant/index.html

Regards
Darcy

[audrey]

Darcy
many thanks  I think theyare too lait for me as David was dead by 1868. I will crack this Mcknight lot .I think I now know more about Ireland than I do England I think I am clutching at straws now .How can I know so much about one family and yet I cant find a single thing  that  will confirm his parents outher than he was born in Belfast and his father was David

audrey

[saz1401]

What names and dates do you have Audrey so we can all think about it for you?

saz

[audrey]

saz1401
I have tried every thing with this believe me  I think everyone on this site must know about as much as I do but I will go through it again
1861 census in Disington Cumberland
William Mcknight is living as a lodger age 20
15 May 1869 marries Ann Kneen  at Cockermouth reg office age 25 father David Mcknight [deceaced]
although his age changes over the years of the census which I have them all place of birth remains consistant Belfast
William died in Cumberland 1916 age 73 years

audrey

[Christopher]

Directory of Belfast and Province of Ulster 1852

Holywood, Co. Down
(7.9 miles from Belfast city centre)
Margaret McKnight, green grocer

[audrey]

Christopher
thanks for that been going through the 1851 census noting every McKnight I can find and checking them one by one but not many of them are on BVRI or IGI I think this is a lost course but you never know would you know what happend to the people who died during the famine  and any idea how they were buried was there too many deaths at the time to record Questions again sorry
audrey

[Christopher]

Hello Audrey,

I have been having a look to see what happened to famine victims when they died. Whilst I was searching I came across a site referring to 1400 Irish immigrants at Kingston, Ontario who caught the fever and were buried in a mass grave. http://www.weareirish.ca/pages.php?id=386 Here is another site which gives details of conditions in Ireland. In cases, when the graveyards were too far away to travel to bury the dead, members of their family tied the bodies to a plank and buried them in the nearest bog. www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/pdf/irish.pdf

All the Best,

Christopher

[audrey]

Christopher
thanks for throwing some light on my question certainly gives food for thought about missing family during 1850s how very sad makes you wonder how anyone survived .I can understand why so many of my ancestors came over to England .When I started this I thought I only had 1 Irish ancestor but as I go further back I find that most of them are of Irish Ancestry in fact there is  very little of me English

audrey