I believe the town name came from Sir Wlm Stewart of Newtown Stewart, Galloway Scotland, after his family and birthplace. That's what's said about it in Wikipedia. There is an O'Brien of Tyrone County pedigree @ Ulster Ancestry, but it's not clear that my GGG Grandfather Patrick is a part of it. I'm still searching. Thanks for the question, Terri -----Original Message----- From: pmunro@sbcglobal.net [mailto:pmunro@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 12:20 PM To: Terri Cole; cotyroneireland@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CoTyIre] Newtownstewart, County Tyrone Any information about why there are towns named Newtownstewart, NewtownLimavady and such? When were the new towns made? are there two towns with the same basic name and one has the prefix Newtown? or is it only the one town and later did they drop the New town part? Pam Munro Connecticut US ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terri Cole" <tcole8@cox.net> To: <cotyroneireland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 1:41 PM Subject: [CoTyIre] O'Brien's of Newtownstewart, County Tyrone > Hello, > > > > I am still looking for any information on the Patrick (- 1821,) and Mary > ( - > 1817 ) O'Brien family that emigrated from Newtownstewart, County Tyrone in > 1817 aboard the steamer the Harriet out of Liverpool and landed on Prince > Edward Island via shipwreck. Original destination was Newfoundland. > > > > Per my great grandfather John O'Brien, 1849-1914, his father Michael > (1809-1907) was born in Ireland along with 7 siblings. They all left at > one > time. His mother Mary died on the trip over. His father Patrick died 4 > years > later on PEI, CA. > > > > I can't find any real O'Brien activity in Newtownstewart or Tyrone. It > doesn't appear as though O'Brien's were really significant in that part of > Ireland. > > > > It's possible that his connection in Canada was the James and Margaret > Casey > family from Newfoundland and originally from Tyrone.. But I don't know. > > > > I've learned that there are no records of Births before 1820 in the > Catholic > Churches in Tyrone . is this true? > > > > Any advice or input for where I should continue searching would be > helpful. > > > > Terri Cole > > Cave Creek, Arizona USA > > > ------------- > Our community web-site: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cotyroneireland > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COTYRONEIRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message