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Re: Looking for a marriage
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 23 June 24 22:19 BST (UK) »
All excellent stuff thankyou

I did find the death of Ambrose Johnston in Iowa in 1930 - the informant gives the following details about his parents -

Father - John Johnston of Ederney, Ireland
Mother - Elizabeth B Blayney born Dromore (Tyrone).

Is it possible that they resided in Ederney before moving to Carnalea in 1880?

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« Reply #10 on: Sunday 23 June 24 22:38 BST (UK) »
Have just found some baptisms that may or may not be relevant -

Lack or Cloaghty Church of Ireland
1850 Francis of John & Elizabeth Johnston of Knockroe (farmer)
1852 Ambrose of John & Eliza Johnston of Knockroe (farmer)
1854 Thomas of John & Elizabeth Johnston of Knockroe (farmer)
1857 - Eliza Jane of John & Eliza Johnston of Knockroe (farmer)

Although Knockroe is in the civil parish of Drumkeeran in Fermanagh it is not too far from Dromore in Co Tyrone.

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« Reply #11 on: Sunday 23 June 24 22:48 BST (UK) »
Ok - so PRONI will calendars reveal that John Johnston of Knockroe died 1891

Registry of Armagh
Letters of Administration of the personal estate of John Johnston late of Knockrow County Fermanagh Farmer who died 23 September 1891 at same place were granted 8 Dec 1893 at Armagh to Thomas Johnston of Knockrow Farmer the Son. Effects £150

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« Reply #12 on: Sunday 23 June 24 23:12 BST (UK) »
I would rule them out since there is no David listed amongst them.  The Anna in the 1901 census who moves to Iowa in 1909 also has a son named David.

Send me a PM and I will send you the entire newspaper article about the marriage.  The article indicate she arrived just two weeks prior to the marriage aboard the Lusitania out of Liverpool.  I found her as A. Jane Johnston, widow, aged 50, last of Omagh, Ireland; names her brother Charles Speer of Creevan, Omagh as her next of kin at home; bound for her brother-in-law, Ambrose Johnston  of Zearing, Story County, Iowa.

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« Reply #13 on: Sunday 23 June 24 23:37 BST (UK) »
Anne's maiden name is Steen.  Marriage in 1909 naming her parents as Andrew Steen and Elizabeth Mitchell.  First marriage in 1867 names her first husband as Robert Johnston, a minor, son of William (not John) so perhaps a cousin:

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1867/11496/8226694.pdf



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« Reply #14 on: Monday 24 June 24 09:17 BST (UK) »
Robert Johnston and Anna (Jane) Steen (of Edenaveagh, Drumkeeran, Fermanagh) had issue:
1870 - Andrew
1871 - Eliza Ann
1871 - Wm Robert
1875 - Charles

No sign of a David (1901 census says born Tyrone not Fermanagh) - so I am not sure Annie Johnston 1901 Carnalea is the same person who emigrated to USA to marry William JH Irvine.

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« Reply #15 on: Monday 24 June 24 10:01 BST (UK) »

Quote from: Gortinanima on Monday 24 June 24 09:17 BST (UK)
Robert Johnston and Anna (Jane) Steen (of Edenaveagh, Drumkeeran, Fermanagh) had issue:
1870 - Andrew
1871 - Eliza Ann
1871 - Wm Robert
1875 - Charles

Links to birth records-

Andrew 11.02.1870  Mother Ann Jane (Steen)
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1870/03360/2232011.pdf

Eliza Anne & William Robert (twins) 23.10.1871
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1871/03274/2199757.pdf

Charles Johnston 29.10.1873
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1873/03173/2163856.pdf


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Re: Looking for a marriage
« Reply #16 on: Monday 24 June 24 10:49 BST (UK) »

A wee bit of a breakthrough this morning - I think I have found the marriage of David Johnston who was with his mother Annie in the 1901 census in Carnalea

Married 13 Nov 1906 Magheraculmoney CI Fermanagh
David Johnston full age Bachelor, Labourer of Carnalea, Dromore son of John Johnston, labourer to Anne Jane Law full age spinster of Carne, Magheraculmoney dau of Irvine Law, farmer
Witnesses - Wm J Law & Mary Ellen Armstrong
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