Note: The Rootsweb Mailing Lists will be shut down on April 6, 2023. (More info)
RootsWeb.com Mailing Lists
Total: 1/1
    1. [DONEGALEIRE] Drumhome Parish, HANNAH, DOE, RITCHIE, YEATES?
    2. Betty
    3. Hi Meg, Thank you very much for the look-up and the information. I've already printed the information out, and will study it shortly. I also looked on-line for "Drumhome" and found out it is a parish, and it is sometimes spelled Drumholm. And I found a map showing it is in the lower-right of the county. One question. Are you saying that the one set of parents were William HANNAH and Mary Ann DOE ? When I posted a year or two ago, someone suggested that the other parents might have been Andrew RITCHIE and Isabella YEATES ??. I didn't follow through with that. I also went to this site, and found that there was a William HANNA in 1857 in Drumhome Parish. (Not a RITCHIE.) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~donegal/drumhomegv.htm This page says: DRUMHOLM, DRIMHOLM, or DRUMHOME, a parish, in the barony of TYRHUGH county of DONEGAL, and province of ULSTER, 4 miles (N.) from Ballyshannon; containing 8502 inhabitants. http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/don/drumholm.htm .. So it's on the same e-mail, I'd like to mention that the record said that William HANNAH and Eliza RITCHIE were married in St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Glasgow. And, that's interesting that William was a weaver. I just rechecked the 1860 census for MA/US and William is listed as a laborer. And, that record shows that only Elizabeth had survived the trip; their older daughter probably died either during the trip or after they arrived ~1858. And, in 1860 they had a year-old son. In 1870 in a different town, William was listed as having the occupation Mechanical? Whse??, and they had 2 additional children, John and Bella. In 1880, William worked in a "chemical works" in Everett and their was an additional son, George. (I believe that Isabella died in ~1882, as I saw her name on their gravestone this week.) It was my sister's research that came up with the birth and marriage dates for William and Eliza. I don't know where she got the data, but it was probably on-line. Also, I just checked my notes; the first daughter was Mary Ann HANNAH who was 15 mos. old when they arrived in MA/US in July/Aug 1857. So, that means she was born in Mar / Apr 1856. Thank you for your time and efforts. Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) (Of the HANNAH sons in MA, William lived with his family in Harvard, MA, and George never married. I don't know what happened to John HANNAH, b1861 MA.)

    12/04/2008 01:44:45