Hello Anne The moment I saw your message, only one place came immediately to mind and that was Carmin.Now with the reference to Carrickmacross and SixMileCross is looks as if we might be right. Enjoy your visit. It's a lovely part of the country. Rural Tyrone.I once worked around there for a while, way back in the 1970s. best wishes Robert www.ulsterancestry.com Hello Robert: I am absolutely sure you are correct. Another member suggested this as well, and after doing more research, I feel confident this is the area where my grandparents lived. I also learned that Carrickmore is a small village in that same area (not far from Six Mile Cross and also Pomeroy), and I now remember many years ago my great aunt mentioning that her family came from a town with "carrick" in the name. Thank you so much for your help in researching this. Without your guidance I would have never have been able to figure this out. Google searches can only go so far. It is only through connections with people who really know the area and its history that one can find the right answers. I am so grateful for your help in solving this puzzle. Best regards, Anne > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 09:25:20 +0000 > Subject: Re: [CoTyIre] Travelling to Ireland and Need Info > > I looked at this posting earlier and the first place that sprung to mind was "Carmin" in the Parish of Termonmaguirk. Nearest market town would be Sixmilecross. > Carmin or Carmeen is not really a townland in Termonmaguirk, but a "place"It would sound very much like Caurmon spoken in a Tyrone accent. > It is mentioned in W F Marshall's great poem" Living in Drumlester" {Me an me da} http://www.moneydarraghps.org/Recitations/livinindrumlister.htm > I may be wrong, but it seems to me a distinct possibility. > best wishes > Robert > www.ulsterancestry.com > > > Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 20:55:29 +1200 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [CoTyIre] Travelling to Ireland and Need Info > > > > Hi I am wondering if it was Carmean - only trouble is this may be Co Derry > > according to the Wikilist of Derry townlands - Desertlyn. Between Moneymore > > and Magherafelt. > > > > Cathy > > > > > > On 21/07/13 4:21 PM, "Anne Hetu" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I will be traveling to Ireland next year, and I would love to find the area > > > where my grandparents lived in County Tyrone. The problem is, I have not been > > > able to find a parish by the same name as is written on the family tombstones. > > > My 2nd great grandfather, Bernard (or Barnet) Mc Menamon (and his son John as > > > well) are buried in the Old Norton Cemetery in Norton, New Brunswick, Canada. > > > He was born in 1766 and emigrated to Canada around 1817. Bernard died on July > > > 28, 1853 and the inscription on his headstone reads: "Native of the parish of > > > Caurmon, County Tyrone, Ireland." The inscription on his son John's grave who > > > died in 1874 and is buried right next to him reads exactly the > > > same.....Caurmon. The stones are well-preserved and the writing is clear. I > > > have searched and searched, and cannot find any such parish as Caurmon. Does > > > anyone have any light they can shed on this mystery? > > > ------------- > > > Our community web-site: http://cotyroneireland.com/ > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------- > > Our community web-site: http://cotyroneireland.com/ > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------- > Our community web-site: http://cotyroneireland.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message