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Re: Railway Station Master: Inver
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 06 May 21 09:50 BST (UK) »
From at least 1901 until at least 1909 the stationmaster at Inver was Thomas Kirk-
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Donegal/Mountcharles/Mullinboys/1170729/
Londonderry Sentinel, 5 Jun 1909: ...Thomas Kirk, stationmaster Inver, stated there were about two feet in one case and two and a-half feet in the other...
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Donegal/Dunkineely/Keeloges/479560/

John Coulter was stationmaster at Mount Charles for 40 years according to his obituaries (births of children and other newspaper articles confirm him at Mount Charles)
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Re: Railway Station Master: Inver
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 06 May 21 10:07 BST (UK) »
John Coulter also was Stationmaster at Killygordon until he was transfered to Mountcharles. His daughter Sarah Frances was born there in October 1900.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1900/01975/1761159.pdf

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Re: Railway Station Master: Inver
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 06 May 21 10:09 BST (UK) »

John Coulter also was Stationmaster at Killygordon until he was transfered to Mountcharles. His daughter Sarah Frances was born there in October 1900.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1900/01975/1761159.pdf

Londonderry Sentinel, 6 Oct.1900: Coulter— October 2, at Killygordon, the wife of Mr. John Coulter, stationmaster, of a daughter.

First daughter came quite quickly after the marriage and was born at Fanaghans where the Coulters lived-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1898/02062/1788042.pdf (father- railway clerk Strabane)
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Re: Railway Station Master: Inver
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 06 May 21 10:11 BST (UK) »
Let’s hope this is the right one after all this effort  ;)

With skirl’s dismissal, it sounds as though more is known  :-\
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Re: Railway Station Master: Inver
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 06 May 21 10:16 BST (UK) »
Let’s hope this is the right one after all this effort  ;)

With skirl’s dismissal, it sounds as though more is known  :-\

I know lots more, too, but will not post it all (would probably take several posts) until poster replies.
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Re: Railway Station Master: Inver
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 06 May 21 10:20 BST (UK) »
That’s what I mean. Even posting the marriage, census and any births could be a waste of time if it is definitely wrong.
We’ll see.
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Re: Railway Station Master: Inver
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 06 May 21 10:54 BST (UK) »
I put the 1901 and 1911 census links in a post earlier.
I had to out to vote.
I searched Coulter and stationmaster there was only one in Ireland.
I just searched stationmasters and got 43 in Ireland.
Then Donegal and got 3.
John Coulter
Benjamin Bogle
James Maher.
Checking on Inver, nearest place to Milltown, there is a James Patton in house number 1, the railway station.
Next to a Private dwelling, 2 Mills and a shop and drapery factory.

Skirl, what name are you looking for?
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Re: Railway Station Master: Inver
« Reply #16 on: Thursday 06 May 21 13:39 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the input everyone. John Coulter, station master at Mount Charles, is a relation of mine. John Coulter's people met a Coulter in the UK in recent times who happened to be a descendant of the station master in Inver. The Hugh Coulter that Kiltaglassan found, who was a railway clerk, is a possibility.

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Re: Railway Station Master: Inver
« Reply #17 on: Thursday 06 May 21 14:17 BST (UK) »
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