Newtownbreda, County Down is the correct spelling. The town is about one mile south of Belfast, NIreland. Jim Beaty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurel Baty" <laurelbaty@comcast.net> To: <BP2000-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 8:46 PM Subject: [BP2000] James P. Beatty, PA, IRE, mother Elizabeth, Civil war > James P. Beattie, "A" 38 Pa Infantry, Mother Elizabeth (#163,627) > > In 1868 Elizabeth Beattie a resident of Newtownbreda(?) County of Down, > Ireland aged 65 applies for a Mother's pension. She is the mother of James > P. Beattie who was a 1st Lieutenant in Company "A" commanded by Captain > Smith of the 9th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Reserve Corps in the war > of 1861 and who was killed at White Oak Swamp, Virginia on or about the 28th > day of June 1862 in action. She is the widow of Robert W. Beattie, whom she > married at Drumbo Parish County Down, Ireland on June 30, 1826. Robert > Beattie died on November 14, 1859. There is an extract from the Marriage > Register parish of ???Co of Down, Ireland: > "1826, June 30 Robert Welsh Beaty & Elizabeth Patterson both of this parish, > by license" > Elizabeth states "now one daughter only lives with her, and that since her > husbands' death, and the death of her promising sons the aforesaid James P. > Beattie and her son John D. Beattie Corporal also in the Northern Army who > was killed near Spottsylvania about the 1st of June 1864 she has suffered > much, and has not that vigour of mind and body she once possessed. That she > finds great difficulty in obtaining the means to support a comfortable > subsistence since the contributions to her support from her son ceased." > > In 1870, Eliza Beattie aged 66 a resident of Westmoreland County, > Pennsylvania sates she applied for a pension "after her son's death while > she was a resident of Ireland in the Kingdom of Great Britain." James Shaw > and John Beatty are witnesses to her signature. They state "we knew John D. > Beattie another son of said Eliza Beattie, the claimant, and that he the > said John D. enlisted as a Private in Company "G" 102 Regt. Pennsylvania > Volunteers in the war of 1861 and who was also killed in action on the 10th > day of May AD 1864 at Spotsylvania Virginia." > > Laurel Baty, L252 > > > ==== BP2000 Mailing List ==== > Recommend a cousin ! Send name and email to: > Mike Allen, Executive Director <naturalsoft@ameritech.net> > Ray Beaty, founder, BP2000 <RCBDJR@AOL.COM> > >