Please can anyone help me out here with the Surname Larmour. My Grandmother was Martha Larmour.Martha and her family came to Australia on the Samuel Plymsol no 6 in July in 1878. Martha Larmour was born in 1863 in either Ramelton Co Donegal or Strabane in Co Tyrone. Cannot find her in Strabane anywhere,so thought maybe in Ramelton as that was where her parents William Larmour and Elizabeth Hunter married in 1854 in the first Presbyterian Church in Ramelton,the birth place of Martha’s mother Elizabeth Hunter. Any help would be most welcome.Thank you Maureen Wolfl. Sent from Windows Mail

Hello Maureen. A few thoughts: 1. You will doubtless already have seen the free online shipping record for the LARMOURs on the NSW State Records' web-site. That gives the Native Place of everyone in that family as being in County Tyrone. No mention of Donegal at all. 2. If you use the name index at State Records' site to search for LARMOUR, you will see in the results that they provide TWO different microfilm reel numbers. a. The online results mentioned in "1" above are for Reel number 2141. b. You need to obtain the second reel off-line -- it is numbered 2489. That is in the ARK which you should be able to find easily if you are in NSW, and not without too much difficulty if in another Oz state. Possibly also obtainable on inter-library loan regardless of where you are in Oz. The other list will provide far more detailed information about each immigrant and their parents etc. c. I'd also suggest that you use the microfiche INDEXES issues by Pastkeys and held by most libraries in NSW which hold the ARK, to the Immigration Deposit Journals (those Journals can then be found in the ARK microfilm reels). These Indexes show the names of "Depositors" who deposited money to help get the Immigrants to Oz. 3. The Griffiths Valuation of Ireland at askaboutireland shows only TWO entries for LARMOUR outside of counties Antrim and Down -- and they are both in Tyrone in CAMUS parish. One of those two entries is for a William -- which I see is the name of your Martha's father; the other is a Francis. Camus is very close to Strabane. So it seems that perhaps you might concentrate your search in the Camus parish area. (n.b. The above is written based purely on the spelling of LARMOUR. Widening your searches in Ireland to include all possible alternative spellings, such as L'ARMOUR, LARMER, LARMA, etc. might discover other results for you too.) 4. If you have not yet read Boyd GRAY's free online booklet about research in Ireland, then I'd STRONGLY suggest doing so now, and then follow every one of his suggestions. Here is the URL to locate his guide: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~donegal/genbooklet.pdf Results from all of this should have you well on the way. HTH ray in oz On 23/07/2013, at 10:14 AM, Maureen Wolfl <[email protected]> wrote: Please can anyone help me out here with the Surname Larmour. My Grandmother was Martha Larmour.Martha and her family came to Australia on the Samuel Plymsol no 6 in July in 1878. Martha Larmour was born in 1863 in either Ramelton Co Donegal or Strabane in Co Tyrone. Cannot find her in Strabane anywhere,so thought maybe in Ramelton as that was where her parents William Larmour and Elizabeth Hunter married in 1854 in the first Presbyterian Church in Ramelton,the birth place of Martha’s mother Elizabeth Hunter. Any help would be most welcome.Thank you Maureen Wolfl.