After researching for years and having yet to link my Hazelton line with the likely Killyman Hazeltons, I am retracing my research. According to the book "A GENEALOGY OF Hazelton and Stygles Families", Gateway Press,Inc. Baltimore,MD,USA by George F. Hazelton, he refers to my Great-Grandfather's birth as follows: " ...discovery in the archives of the town of Newtownstewart, County Tyrone of the record of the 1841 birth of William, son of James and Elizabeth." He later gives his birth as 22 July 1841. While the family may have been transient on their way to Londonderry for eventual emigration to Nova Scotia (mid 1840's), he claims their daughter Margaret was also born there in 1844. My questions are: 1. Why would a birth be recorded in a town archive in the 1840's? 2. Was this common? 3. Did/Does a Newtownstewart town archive exist? 4. If so, where might it be? 5 How would I access it? Thanks for any suggestions or comments. Bill Hazelton Memphis

Hello Bill, Newtownstewart is a "town" of about 4 streets. It may have a small local library but it does not have an archive . George Hazelton has to be refering to a Church register of baptism. That would have been the most likely {and possibly only} source of his record of "birth" best regards and good hunting. Robert www.ulsterancestry.com > > > After researching for years and having yet to link my Hazelton line with the > likely Killyman Hazeltons, I am retracing my research. > > According to the book "A GENEALOGY OF Hazelton and Stygles Families", > Gateway Press,Inc. Baltimore,MD,USA by George F. Hazelton, he refers to my > Great-Grandfather's birth as follows: > > " ...discovery in the archives of the town of Newtownstewart, County Tyrone > of the record of the 1841 birth of William, son of James and Elizabeth." > > He later gives his birth as 22 July 1841. > > While the family may have been transient on their way to Londonderry for > eventual emigration to Nova Scotia (mid 1840's), he claims their daughter > Margaret was also born there in 1844. > > My questions are: > > 1. Why would a birth be recorded in a town archive in the 1840's? > 2. Was this common? > 3. Did/Does a Newtownstewart town archive exist? > 4. If so, where might it be? > 5 How would I access it? > > Thanks for any suggestions or comments. > > Bill Hazelton > Memphis > > _________________________________________________________________ Access your other email accounts and manage all your email from one place. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/

WOW!!! Robbie: thank you for this observation. For some reason, whenever I have encountered the name, I have imagined a large town, if not a small city. Gee: only 4 streets! phew. This is why we need your local 'on-the-ground' knowledge. Regards: Ray in oz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ulster Ancestry" <ulsterancestry@hotmail.com> > Newtownstewart is a "town" of about 4 streets. It may have a small local > library but it does not have an archive . > George Hazelton has to be refering to a Church register of baptism. That would have been the most likely {and possibly only} source of his record of "birth" ... Robert ... www.ulsterancestry.com

Hello Bill. Sadly, I do not have any knowledge to be able to answer any of your questions. Instead, I offer these few thoughts. 1. I googled for Newtownstewart archives 2. Lots of hits. 3. One of them led me to this URL: http://www.welbni.org/ 4. On the bottom left-hand corner is an e-mail address. 5. Try writing to ask them. Now for explanation. It seems that this web-page is for both school education and ALSO LIBRARY purposes, but I may have misunderstood them. e-mail and ask them anyway. Next thought: On the Fermanagh lists we used to have a most wonderful local council employee from the Town Hall at Enniskillen, named Frank(ie) ROOFE. He had a LOT of local Fermanagh records there at the Town Hall. I don't know how far back they went though. So my thought is that Perhaps in Newtownstewart itself, or perhaps in Omagh, or maybe in Strabane -- sorry to not know such things -- there might be one or more of the following which might be able to help you: a: a Town Hall with similar archives. b: a town/city Library with a knowledgeable and interested Local Studies Librarian. c: Local Archives held maybe in a local library, etc. Perhaps you might try googling for any of the above? Sorry to be so vague, but hope that you might be able to derive something helpful from it. Kind regards: Ray in oz. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Hazelton" <bhazelto@comcast.net> > According to the book "A GENEALOGY OF Hazelton and Stygles Families", > Gateway Press,Inc. Baltimore,MD,USA by George F. Hazelton, he refers to my > Great-Grandfather's birth as follows: > > " ...discovery in the archives of the town of Newtownstewart, County > Tyrone > of the record of the 1841 birth of William, son of James and Elizabeth." > > He later gives his birth as 22 July 1841. > > While the family may have been transient on their way to Londonderry for > eventual emigration to Nova Scotia (mid 1840's), he claims their daughter > Margaret was also born there in 1844. > > My questions are: > > 1. Why would a birth be recorded in a town archive in the 1840's? > 2. Was this common? > 3. Did/Does a Newtownstewart town archive exist? > 4. If so, where might it be? > 5 How would I access it? > > Thanks for any suggestions or comments. > > Bill Hazelton > Memphis