Townland AKA Acres County Barony Civil Parish PLU Province Crockanboy 753 Tyrone Strabane Upper Bodoney Lower Gortin Ulster http://proni.nics.gov.uk/geogindx/tyro.htm #9 on the north end of the map, if they haven't changed the site since I last looked at it... Cliff. Johnston "May the best you've ever seen, Be the worst you'll ever see;" from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cece" <mawcee@mindspring.com> To: <cotyroneireland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 4:59 PM Subject: [CoTyIre] Where is Crockanboy? > Hello from Georgia, USA, > > I appreciate the information on Dromore. My GG Grandmother's (Bridget > BREEN, 1860, Dromore, County Tyrone) obit showed she was born there, and I > am trying to learn more about it. > > 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