Hi Clare I have McDermotts from Crockanboy in my tree but don't know if they are related to this particular James (who would have been born in about 1881). The family I am researching are McKeown from Cashel, the neighbouring townland. My Great aunt, Sally McKeown married James McDermott from Crockanboy. I would guess that he was born about 1880 but he never emigated. My GGF, James McKeown, married Ann McNally, also from Crockanboy. My aunt married John Bradley (born 1912), and he was from Crockanboy also. Which families are you researching? Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: <tyroneire@aol.com> To: <mawcee@mindspring.com>; <cotyroneireland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 6:44 PM Subject: [CoTyIre] Crockanboy, Bodoney Lower (Greencastle R.C.) > > Crockanboy is in the civil parish of Bodoney Lower, north of Omagh > town. The R.C. chapel is in Sheskinshule but is known as Greencastle. > > Yes, there is a meaning to the name of this townland -- Cnocán Buidhe > "yellow hillock" > > I have many family lines in this parish and have done a lot of research > there, so let me know if I may be of help. > > -Clare L. > > -----Original Message----- > Cece wrote: > > <<< > > On a search for BREEN'S from Tyrone, I ran across this obit, and > thought I would ask where Crockanboy is and is there a meaning to the > name? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Brooklyn Standard Union > 1931..DEATHS APRIL > > JAMES McDERMOTT, of 757 Manhattan Avenue, died Wednesday in Greenpoint > Hospital in his fiftieth year. He was born in > Crockanboy, County Tyrone, Ireland, and had been a resident of the > Eastern District of Brooklyn for thirty-two years. He was for many > years engaged in the coal and ice business. He is survived by his > widow, Mary; three sons, James, John and Peter; a daughter, Mary; his > mother, Sarah McDERMOTT, and four brothers and eight sisters. He was a > son of the late James McDERMOTT. The funeral will be held from the > home of his sister, Mrs. Patrick McENENY, at 757 Manhattan avenue, at > 9:30 A.M. to-morrow, with requiem mass at the Church of St. Antony. > Interment will be at Calvary Cemetery under direction > of James F. MURRAY, 605 Lorimer street. >>>> > > > ------------- > 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

Hello again, My GG Grandfather, Edward Smith of Ireland, who married Bridget BREEN of Tyrone, Dromore is my brick wall. I am coming to this list with a few questions, as you all seem so nice and informative. I have searched as many avenues as possible to find info. on him, to no avail. The one curious item I have found is an entry in the funeral book of St. John's Catholic Church in Indianapolis, Indiana which is where his two children were baptized. (1883 and 1885). Bridget's 1931 obit mentions him as her first husband, saying he died 46 years earlier. That would put the date at 1885, the same year his son was born. There is one entry, in Latin, saying an Edward Smith died on June 1, 1885. There are more words in Latin, but I cannot understand Latin. I have been in communication with the Indiana State Library. They have exhausted all their resources for birth, marriage, death, addresses, accidents. No Edward Smith. All of his children's census say their father was born in Ireland. I do not know if he and Bridget married in Tyrone, or here in the states. Her 1900 Marion county census says she came over in 1880. That would have made her age 20. Does anyone read/know Latin that I may send you the little entry the library sent me, so I can tell if there is a clue to his story? Is it a common practice to enter a parishoner in a funeral book even if the funeral itself wasn't held there? Thank You so much, Cece