Boggs from Londonderry

[Shylie Brown]

Thank you for your message. Do you know of any other Boggs link I could follow. I should imagine that you have had to wade through many false leads. Regards Shylie

[magster51]

Hi  I know how difficult it is to research Irish records,  as there are not that many surviving today. When I started doing the family history I had to employ a researcher at first, as there were so few records available online (there are many  more available now thankfully) I  found Ancestry pretty good don't know if your on that site.
I think it's just a case of trawling through as many genealogy sites a possible and using forums such as this sometimes you get lucky.

[Shylie Brown]

Thank you for that advice. I have been trawling through but have got nowhere, What I was hoping for was maybe to find a brother or sister of John Boggs who did not emigrate . Thanks again Shylie

[maryderry]

Two deaths for Boggs of Harvey street.

Thomas Boggs
parents
Robert & Jane Boggs
birth place
Enagh
addresss
11 Harvey Street
84 years
death
3 Mar 1881

Mary Boggs
parents
Robert & Eliza Roulston
birth place
Greencastle
address
6 Harvey Street
70 years
death
06 Feb 1889

[aghadowey]

Adding to above post (those details perhaps from Derry City Cemetery online database?)-

Samuel Boggs born 1893- 6 Harvey St.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1893/02304/1863973.pdf

Thomas Boggs died 1881
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1881/06450/4853808.pdf

Mary Boggs (spouse of Thomas), died 1889
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1889/06152/4757512.pdf

Other entries in Irish Genealogy database-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-search.jsp

See Derry City Cemetery database-
http://www.derrystrabane.com/Subsites/Museums-and-Heritage/City-Cemetery-Records-Project

[Dicli]

Thank you for that advice. I have been trawling through but have got nowhere, What I was hoping for was maybe to find a brother or sister of John Boggs who did not emigrate . Thanks again Shylie

My 3x great grandmother was Isabella Boggs, born c. 1795 and married to George McKnight in Co. Fermanagh. I have DNA matches with descendants of your John Boggs.

[jomackiwi]

I have a passing interest in the Boggs family from Londonderry from my Quaker research. I think it's called 'urban myth' but the story goes like this. A family of Livingstone's from Scotland settled on some land just Southeast of Derry City in the 1700s. There was some sort of persecution relating to their Scottish homelands and they changed their names to 'Boggs' How true this is, I don't know-but DNA carriers of the name could test it.

[Itchy1960]

Have just discovered this site after googling my dad's name Thomas Samuel boggs was hoping for more info on family members I do know he's the last of his siblings to pass he went on 30th of Jan 2021

[Jo McKee]

A website 'Bogstown.com' might help some viewers. There's a list of associated families which I found useful. The Livingstone's took the name Boggs, but it was an insiders joke because the land of Swantallow that became 'Elagh' was high ground, very fertile, highly desirable for commanding views of the countryside. Fascinating stuff with the Battle of Elagh featuring. Others may wish to comment on its veracity