I know this thread seems to have started rambling a bit from to search of WBF's family but things are starting to come together.
Remember that Hannah Ferguson's father supposed to be a Daniel Ferguson according to extract of her 1861 marriage.According to this post, there was a Jane Ferguson of Gortnessy married 1847 Samuel Cunningham. Her father was also a Daniel.
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=557435.9So, thinking Jane (Ferguson) Cunningham could be a sister of Hannah (Ferguson) Ferguson, I started researching Jane and her family.
Jane Ferguson (1829 Gortnessy-1893) m.(17 Feb.1847) Samuel John Cunningham
Marriage:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGX3-186 Probably quite a few children born 1847-1863 but these 3 born after civil registration-
1.
Rebecca Cunningham (1865 Primity-aft.1936) m.(1892) Hugh McMonagle (c1868-1933)
2.
Samuel Cunningham (1867)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FPY2-TY93.
Robert Cunningham (1869-1935 Canada)
Birth
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FPD2-Q2H Death
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLRB-CRC I knew the name Rebecca McGonigle had come up somewhere before. Here's the newspaper article (extract)-
Derry Journal, 12 May 1915: DERRY CHANCERY SUIT. ... and another v. Bell and others—came on for determination of questions under the will the deceased. The summons was brought by Robert John Curry and Alexander Buchanan, executors of the will of deceased, who was farmer at Gortnessy, county Derry. The defendants are next-of-kin of the deceased: Mrs. Elizabeth Bell, 19, Westland Avenue, Derry,
Mrs. Rebecca M'Monagle, 44, Great James Street, Derry, and John Ferguson Payne, of Gortnessy. The question for ...
So, Rebecca McGonigle (daughter of a Jane Ferguson), Mrs. Elizabeth Bell & John Ferguson Payne (son of Sarah Curry whose sister married John Ferguson) connected to John Ferguson (d.1905) of Gortnessy.
According to extract of marriage of John Ferguson & Martha Curry his father was a DONALD Ferguson but IF it has been misread and father was DANIEL then everything makes sense (not sure what is going on with 2nd extract- LDS error?)-Marriage-
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGNR-VXQ ? marriage
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGYQ-N9SW continued...