Dear Patty: So good to hear from you! I very much appreciate the info! I can't wait to pass it along to another Crawford family researcher, living in LaSalle County, Illinois. I hope that your research is going well. I have not done much with mine recently as I have been much involved in other pursuits. It only takes a spark of something, like your email, to excite me about getting deep into it again, though. Take care of yourself and have a lovely holiday season. Best, Jackie -----Original Message----- From: P. McVetty [mailto:pmcvetty@iaw.on.ca] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 3:00 PM To: Jackie Crawford Subject: Re: [DONEGALEIRE] Parishes of Donegal (Book) Hello Jackie, how are you? It has been ages since we spoke regarding our ancestors. In regards to your query....here is the exact extract taken right from the church register in St. Annes, Ballyshannon. Marriages: John Crawford of Carricknahorna, Kilbarron to Jane McVitie (yes that's the spelling they had in the register) of Ballyshannon....In this church by licence with consent of parents and friends. Sixth day of February One Thousand eight hundred and forty five. Witnesses: William McVity Andrew Patterson That along with the newspaper article gives a fair bit of info. Kindest regards, Patti > Dear Janice and All: > > I think the message below may have cleared up a bit of confusion for me but > I am wondering what others think regarding the name of one of the villages > listed below. > > In explanation, about two years ago a blessed soul copied to this listserve > some marriages originally printed in the Feb. 7, 1845 Ballyshannon Herald. > Included in this list was the marriage of my ancestor, John Crawford, to > Jane McVitty by Reverend George Tredernick. The village listed was spelled > as Carricknaliorar in Ballyshannon, County Donegal. > > My question: could this really be Carricknahorna, as Janice writes was the > name of one of the villages in Ballyshannon? I am desperate for any > information to expand upon this dead-end in my family research. > > Jackie > > > -----Original Message----- > From: JANICEFRIEL@aol.com [mailto:JANICEFRIEL@aol.com] > Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 6:14 AM > To: DONEGALEIRE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [DONEGALEIRE] Parishes of Donegal (Book) > > > In a message dated 12/13/2003 5:17:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, > joannecalhoun@webtv.net writes: > Joanne > > Ballyshannon is listed under Parish of Kilbarron; Revd Robert Ball, > incumbent. > Rents: some town fields near Ballyshannon let for 5 to 6 guineas per annum. > > Employment is abundant in spring and harvest, but not at all so in the other > seasons of the year. Encouragement to the fisheries and the openng of a > canal > from Ballyshannon to Belleek. Wages were for a servant man from 5pounds to 6 > pounds yearly, labourers 1s to 1s 3d a day. > > The number of poor was considerable. The were labourers and mechanics in and > near the town of Ballyshannon. The people in the country parts raised > potatoes > and a little flax. > > They were in fairly good health and the most commondisease was rheumatism. > > Ballyshannon villages were Mobuy, Kildoney, the hamlets of Carricknahorna, > Behy, Tullyhork, Knather, Cortia and Lisahully. > > Janice > > > ==== DONEGALEIRE Mailing List ==== > Visit my Donegal Homepage at: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegaleire/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > ==== DONEGALEIRE Mailing List ==== > Try searching the Obituaries at Rootsweb: Interactive search > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/obituary/obituary.pl > To browse through the archives of the list go to > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Visit my homepage at http://freepages.genealogy.com/~donegaleire > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >