Dear DeLories, I have a Thomas Sproul born in Fermanagh. Does any of this look familiar? FULL NAME: Thomas L. SPROUL BORN: 28 Jan 1836 Drumcard, Fermanaugh, IRELAND. SPOUSES: Married Margaret J. LINDSAY 28 Jan 1856 Boston, Suffolk Co MA. Married Annie ??? before 1880 MA. LOCATION: living 1885 Boston City Directory, Suffolk Co MA. OCCUPATION: Machinist FATHER: Thomas SPROUL MOTHER: ? Rebecca/Margaret BROWN FULL SIBL'G: Alexander W. SPROUL (1837- ) Rebecca S SPROUL (1845- ) Sarah L SPROUL (1846- ) CHILDREN: Thomas J SPROUL (1856- ) Agnes Lindsay SPROUL (1858-1930) Rebecca SPROUL (1860-1866) Jessie SPROUL (~1865- ) Joseph C. SPROUL (~1867- ) -- SOURCES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Name....Agnes Lindsay Sproul Birth Certificate Birth...Naturalization 2-25 DC Cambridge MA arr 1851 NY 15yrs BPlace..second marriage US census 1880 MA v27 ed 636 sht 18 with BPlace.. wife Annie 37yrs b Ireland and step daus Mary J,9yrs & BPlace.. Honora, 7 yrs, both born NH. Surname is McCarthy BPlace..1860 US Census MA Boston Ward 11 p 120 BPlace..1870 US Census MA Boston Ward 9 p 180 Other...Marriage Certificate Other...Death cert 1895 @ 64 b NS. I don't think its right. Other... at columbia point. Elizabeth Perry, esp@world.std.com >Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 18:49:51 EDT >From: JDVon@aol.com >To: FERMANAGH-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <81a13003.3605868f@aol.com> >Subject: Hurst >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > >I would like to post the following for your review: >I am searching for more information on our line of Hurst's. The furthest I can >go back is to: John Hurst and wife Anna Sproule. Parents of Robert Hurst.(His >wife was Jane McCready.) I have no dates to births, deaths, or marriage of >John Hurst and Anna Sproule. They had a daughter names Eliza Jane Hurst(my >great grandmother) b. 12-1866 in the county of Fermanagh, District of Enderny >in the Union of Irvinestown, N.Ireland. They came to Bobcaygeon Ont., Canada. >>From there Eliza married Abraham Kennedy.( He was from CO. Caven, town of >Shercock.) >There was an Uncle and Aunt named Andrew Hurst(John's brother) who was b. >6-26-1841 in Enniskillen, Fermanagh N. Ireland. He married Elizabeth McCready( >sister to Jane McCready) in Irvinestown, Fermanagh, N. Ireland in 1871. >Elizabeth was b. 7-8-1846 in Kesh, Fermanagh, N. Ireland. Andrew and Elizabeth >had children born in Ireland: John (called Jack) b. 12-22-1872, Anna Elizabeth >b. 7-12-1875, Robert William b. 8-22-1876, Mary Jane b. 6-8-1880, Eva Marie b. >1882 and then the other children were born in Bobcaygeon Ont. Canada. So they >came to Canada between 1882 and 1883. I have more information on Eliza Jane >and Abraham Kennedy. >I do not have any information that Robert Hurst and Anna Sproule came to the >states. So I can only assume that they died in Ireland. Probably in >Enniskillen or Kesh. >I hope that this is not all confusing. Just wanted to give as much info as I >could at this time. I hope someone can make a connection with the above. >Thank you, >DeLories Vaughn, JDVon@aol.com >