Hello, Long time lurker, first time poster. My gggrandmother's cemetery record shows her as born 15AUG 1828, "Ballinsloe", CountyTyrone, Ireland. Her name was Elizabeth (Eliza) Gregory. (She may have been born in 1828) She came to Galena, Illinois, USA in 1843, to join a brother and sister already here - Ellen and James. Later census records show an Ann and a Hannah Gregory in Ellen's household, but do not give a relationship. Eliza was Roman Catholic, and was most likely illiterate. The place names would probably have been supplied by her daughter(s), and would likely have been a phonetic spelling representation of what they may have heard. My first question to the List is - Is anyone aware of a place that would sound like Ballinsole but perhaps have a different spelling? Thank You for your help, Janet _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_112008

Janet, You're probably looking for a townland [small township-like area] named Ballynasollus in the far west of the civil parish [sub-county district] Derryloran, possibly overlapping into Parish Kildress to the west. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/197474 and http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/128403 . Try searching for Ballynasollus Road, Dunnamore, United Kingdom, at multimap.com [between towns Kildress and Cookstown] for location on a modern map. You can also acquire Ordinance Survey maps from the 1800s so as to figure out precisely where the townland is. David On Nov 24, 2008, at 12:35 PM, Janet Kinsella wrote: > > Hello, > Long time lurker, first time poster. My gggrandmother's cemetery > record shows her as born 15AUG 1828, "Ballinsloe", CountyTyrone, > Ireland. Her name was Elizabeth (Eliza) Gregory. (She may have been > born in 1828) She came to Galena, Illinois, USA in 1843, to join a > brother and sister already here - Ellen and James. Later census > records show an Ann and a Hannah Gregory in Ellen's household, but > do not give a relationship. > Eliza was Roman Catholic, and was most likely illiterate. The place > names would probably have been supplied by her daughter(s), and > would likely have been a phonetic spelling representation of what > they may have heard. > My first question to the List is - Is anyone aware of a place that > would sound like Ballinsole but perhaps have a different spelling? > Thank You for your help, > Janet > > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster. > http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_112008 > > ------------- > 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