Checked for Hamilton's in Donegal Parish and Killymard and no records of this family in either. Margaret -----Original Message----- From: donegaleire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:donegaleire-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of donegaleire-request@rootsweb.com Sent: 16 February 2011 08:01 To: donegaleire@rootsweb.com Subject: DONEGALEIRE Digest, Vol 6, Issue 31 TO VIEW PREVIOUS EMAILS BY SUBJECT, GO TO THE THREADED ARCHIVES AT http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/DONEGALEIRE/ TO VIEW PREVIOUS EMAILS BY DATES AND SUBJECT GO TO THE SEARCHABLE ARCHIVES AT http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=DONEGALEIRE SOME HELPFUL WEBSITES: Donegal Genealogy Resource (Lindel's Site) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegal/ Donegaleire Genealogy Links & Data http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegaleire/ Bob's Donegal Ireland Genealogy http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hiflyte/ Today's Topics: 1. Filling a gap (Joe H.) 2. Re: Hamilton in Donegal (hiflyte) 3. Re: Filling a gap (Jack Devitt) 4. returned mail ? Hamilton (Whitehart44@aol.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:19:57 -0800 (PST) From: "Joe H." <donwin4@yahoo.com> Subject: [DONEGALEIRE] Filling a gap To: DONEGALEIRE@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <385502.94882.qm@web30708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have traced my family (Hamilton) back to to the 1830's in Donegal, Ireland Joseph d:27 Apr 1863 his son James, b:1830, d:1903 Joseph had two brothers : David, d: 18 Jan 1865 & James, d:11 Nov 1861, also sister Catherine, d: 29 Oct 1859 I haven't been able find out much beyond that. A family member (who?) once claimed there was a connection to the James Hamilton that was part of the Ulster Plantation along with Hugh Montgomery in the early 1700's How would I go about attempting to fill that gap. Any and all help appreciated. Joseph Hamilton ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:31:14 -0700 From: hiflyte <hiflyte@telus.net> Subject: Re: [DONEGALEIRE] Hamilton in Donegal To: donegaleire@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4D5AB862.1070305@telus.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Joe, Do you know in what area of Donegal they lived, died? Do you know the maiden names of the mothers/wives from Ireland? Civil Registration started in 1864 for Ireland. Marriages for Non Catholics, meaning CofI and some others in 1845. Therefore any (if they registered them) BMD after 1864 should be in the Registers for Ireland. The surname Hamilton is very common and will present some problems without knowing the Parish. The best place to start is always in your backyard and check the BMD data of all those who immigrated. These docs may give up a place of birth (other than Donegal Ireland), the local marriage certs may give the names of the father and mother in Ireland. Familysearch website pages: (tinyURLs) Bapt, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Registration http://tinyurl.com/4f3weza Did they die in Ireland, where they married in Ireland. Did a check for the death of David since it was in 1865 but unable to come up with a hit. I would visit my local FHC and review the Index films for your people. There are many Hamiltons in Donegal during the GV recording period so we need a Parish/Townland. but only one Joesph Hamilton shows up in Donegal http://tinyurl.com/6xxk2p3 Hamilton, Joesph Donegal Drumhome Village of Laghy If you check the RootsIreland.ie Donegal site you will get hits on some names that match the dates eg. James Hamilton 1830: 10 Bapt/Birth matches but only one with father Joesph 1830 ?2 yrs. Church Baptism Hamilton James 1829 Co. Donegal http://donegal.rootsireland.ie/quis.php?page=0&prevStartQuery=0 You will have to register to use the account, Free to Search, Pay to View the actual images and it is not cheap. The search can get you in the ball park. There is another person on our list looking for Hamiltons in Donegal, download the db at the following URL http://tinyurl.com/5h3k83 Instructions are listed on the page --Red Box and instructions just below the Red Box. Lots of luck Have a great day Bob CDN ========================= On 15/02/2011 9:19 AM, Joe H. wrote: > I have traced my family (Hamilton) back to to the 1830's in Donegal, Ireland > Joseph d:27 Apr 1863 his son James, b:1830, d:1903 > Joseph had two brothers : David, d: 18 Jan 1865& James, d:11 Nov 1861, also > sister Catherine, d: 29 Oct 1859 ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:01:12 +0700 From: "Jack Devitt" <7jj9800231@tttmaxnet.com> Subject: Re: [DONEGALEIRE] Filling a gap To: "Joe H." <donwin4@yahoo.com>, <DONEGALEIRE@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <9720516E77BA4357B6D6C2D39C03664A@nzn158729372c9> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Joe, I am one of those on Bob's list also searching for Donegal Hamiltons, and agree with all his comments, and then some regarding the difficulties of sorting them out. They came to Donegal and other Ulster counties in the 1600's and seemed to have proliferated immensely. I have been searching for details on the family of my GG Grandmother Margaret (Peggy) Hamilton, married to William Devitt in Killybegs Upper parish around 1839, and died 1847 after three children, Frederick, William, and Margaret. She is buried in old St. Catherine's graveyard at Killybegs. She first married William Stephenson, a Revenue Policeman stationed in Killybegs, in 1822 and they had two children. He was killed when his horse "fell off a cliff with him on it". She is said to have been the daughter of Andrew Hamilton of Malinmore, Glencolumbkille Parish, whose family intermarried with the Greenlaws, perhaps of both Malinmore and Killybegs. Her brother is known to have been James Hamilton, captain of the brigantine "Blanch of Donegal", which is known to have made crossings to St. Johns, NB, Canada, and Quebec City. Have never been able to find particulars on James, as the name is so common. Margaret is also said to have had at least a couple of sisters, details unknown. Been searching for +30 years, and, even with the above, which I started with from family records, have not been able to connect her with any of the numerous Hamilton families in the area. As Bob said, the parish and townland is critical, as is religion. Mine were Protestants, but the Hamiltons to the north around Strabane, Tyrone and across the river into Donegal started out as Catholic, and all from Scotland. Records are sparse in the first half of the 1800's, but, if yours are connected to one of the larger and prosperous (perhaps half a dozen in Donegal) family groups, there is info available in the way of estate records and even a few published books. Good luck! Jack Devitt Thailand ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe H." <donwin4@yahoo.com> To: <DONEGALEIRE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 11:19 PM Subject: [DONEGALEIRE] Filling a gap >I have traced my family (Hamilton) back to to the 1830's in Donegal, >Ireland > Joseph d:27 Apr 1863 his son James, b:1830, d:1903 > Joseph had two brothers : David, d: 18 Jan 1865 & James, d:11 Nov 1861, > also > sister Catherine, d: 29 Oct 1859 > > I haven't been able find out much beyond that. A family member (who?) > once > claimed there was a connection to the James Hamilton that was part of the > Ulster Plantation along with Hugh Montgomery in the early 1700's How would > I go > about attempting to fill that gap. Any and all help appreciated. Joseph > Hamilton > ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:44:57 EST From: Whitehart44@aol.com Subject: [DONEGALEIRE] returned mail ? Hamilton To: donegaleire@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <a5f56.96e169.3a8c5be9@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" I am trying to connect with the subsciber who is researching Hamiltons of Killybegs Donegal but my mail is returned unknown address, can he please contact me ? i have _7ii9800231@ttmaxnet.com_ (mailto:7ii9800231@ttmaxnet.com) J McPherson ------------------------------ To contact the DONEGALEIRE list administrator, send an email to DONEGALEIRE-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the DONEGALEIRE mailing list, send an email to DONEGALEIRE@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DONEGALEIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of DONEGALEIRE Digest, Vol 6, Issue 31 ******************************************