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Re: Armstrong family Belfast
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 24 February 21 12:51 GMT (UK) »
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Re: Armstrong family Belfast
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 24 February 21 12:54 GMT (UK) »
"Trees without roots fall over!"
 
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Re: Armstrong family Belfast
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 24 February 21 12:55 GMT (UK) »
Wow these are fantastic replies. I am very grateful thankyou very much.
The death of the brother I think I had been told (although was told canada- he was a lumberjack and died in an  accident).
Margaret (my grandad)Gordon Getty's mum also left to what I was told 'canada' but may indeed be USA with her brother.

The news of William and Elizabeth is very helpfyl- thankyou. From what I know they had 8 children. Also interesting to know William was Scottish. My auntie was named Elizabeth, evidently after her grandma Armstrong.

I will now look at the burial ground.

Honestly thankyou so much! Keep the replies coming, I've been at a wall for years.

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Quote from: scotmum on Wednesday 24 February 21 12:39 GMT (UK)
Possible for 1901 http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Glenravel/Rathkenny/928524/, whch also has daughter, Maggie, albeit the William, head, although born Scotland, is noted as a farmer.


This may indeed be Maggie as on grandads birth at Malone place she is listed as a servant.

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Re: Armstrong family Belfast
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 24 February 21 13:01 GMT (UK) »
Amazing!! I think that is definitely the marriage cert as even my sister called her "nanny ward".... As we can see a maiden name.
I wonder what else can be found... Perhaps births if their other children. Is their any proof of William and Lizzie's births? You are such whizzes at finding these I have been in a flaff for years!

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Re: Armstrong family Belfast
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 24 February 21 13:03 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: scotmum on Wednesday 24 February 21 12:34 GMT (UK)
Would certainly fit with the Tom and Robbie deaths I posted earlier too, and Stone Mason could at times, I suppose, be considered a builder.

And Maggie nearby http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Broughshane/Knockboy/119456/ ?

Forgive me being slow or posting too many replies... I cannot see any mention of Tom and Robbie deaths?

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Re: Armstrong family Belfast
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 24 February 21 13:05 GMT (UK) »
As mentioned in my reply #3.....Thomas Armstrong burial at Paradise Valley?

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54852484/thomas-armstrong

and his birth, albeit a year difference (though correct year on stone):

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civil/2a541b8804382
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Re: Armstrong family Belfast
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 24 February 21 13:09 GMT (UK) »
Researching: Cuthbertson – Co. Derry, Scotland & Australia; Hunter – Co. Derry; Jackson – Co. Derry, Scotland & Canada; Scott – Co. Derry; Neilly – Co. Antrim & USA; McCurdy – Co. Antrim; Nixon – Co. Cavan, Co. Donegal, Canada & USA; Ryan & Noble – Co. Sligo

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Re: Armstrong family Belfast
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 24 February 21 13:25 GMT (UK) »
Thankyou for clearing this. It seems they went to America then not Canada.
That is indeed Thomas Armstrong my grandads uncle who must have died in a logging accident. It was mentioned Maggie returned to Ireland when she was older, I cannot see if she marrie for had any other children apart from Gordon.

Again I am so grateful for your replies, apologies for so many questions!

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Re: Armstrong family Belfast
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 24 February 21 13:40 GMT (UK) »
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Again I am so grateful for your replies, apologies for so many questions!

No need to apologise, both the site and the members, thrive on questions  ;D.
"Trees without roots fall over!"
 
""People who never look backward to their ancestors will never look forward to posterity." - Edmund Burke

Don't just wait for the storm to pass, learn to dance in the rain.

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Be curious and however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”  Stephen Hawking

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