Looks like Joan is using an alternate email address to send this email. >Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 17:57:49 -0600 >X-From_: [email protected] Sat Jun 1 17:57:49 2002 > >From: "Joan T. Sullivan" <[email protected]> > >I sent this in response to Ann's letter to her ancestor. >To: "amccann74" <[email protected]> >From: "Joan T. Sullivan" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: PML Search Result matching "Henry McCann" >Cc: >Bcc: >X-Attachments: > >Ann - What a creative way to catch our attention! I am no longer >researching my McCanns. I got a lead from ship papers of his daughter and >husband, Margaret McCann Whitfield, who arrived in Sydney, Australia in >1844. The captain's papers said that her parents were both from Dungannon, >CO. Tyrone, NIR. So I visited there and probably was walking distance from >their home. McGlones and McCanns were listed in the Tithe Applotment >Records in 1829 in Lowertown. [Dungannon proper is, you might say, >Uppertown, as it is built on a hill. It is the main city in that part of >Tyrone. A "market town" in the old days when folk from neighboring >farmlands would bring their produce for sale.] I stayed at a B & B on >Killyman Rd.. We visited the graveyard of the Church where Margaret McCann >& Thos. Whitfield were married, St. Brigid. I now have the record of that. >Marriages most often took place in the bride's church. The one I saw is >newish - certainly 20th century, and built on the site of the ruined one. >But the graves remain, such as many of them they are. Many are of >limestone, which wears away over time. We found one with only the name >McCann visible and the date 1844! That was likely Molly's grave. I'll tell >you why later.That was good enough for me. SO mission accompli! Oh, yes, >I visited a local McCann about a mile from there in Killyman Town. He and >his daughters and 3 small grandchildren welcomed us for tea, we having >called before we came. He had not inquired about his ancestors, only that >they lived in this area for several generations. He was Kevin McCann, a >widower, a most congeneal and likeable man and loved music. >Before I left for Ireland I decided that, being Irish Catholic- all of my >ancestors on my father's side were so- I would be content to go to the >townplaces where they lived and get to know the people in that place. My >belief is that our ancestors live on in their descendants and so I sought >the dead among the living, and what satisfaction that brought! I did find >surprises in the form of living relatives. This was in Pomeroy, Tyrone and >Oughterard, Galway. > >Now to get to Henry. It is most likely that Margaret had a brother Henry. >In fact two Henry McCann's traveled together to the States later. I can't >find when on my computer. I believe it was in the 1860's or '70's and >where they went I do not know. They were obviously father and son. Many >Northern Irelanders came into New York. There was one Henry who lived in >Hudson, NY in the mid 1870's. No more info than that. >Here's the reason I did not pursue this, if, indeed, it is a lead. There >were many Henry McCanns in Turone before and after the Potato Famine: >In the 1796 Flax Seed List a Henry McCann lived in Killyman Parish which >is directly northeast of Clonfeacle Parish and the closest to Dungannon, >Drumglass Parish then. [I suspect this one was mine as Margaret was born >around 1808. ] In 1833 Tithe Bk. a Henry McCann was in Clonbeg, Clonfeacle >P. . In 1860 there was a Henry McCann in Derryoghill, Clonfeacle Parish, >as well, and back in 1833 a Henry in Mullaghmenagh, in Drumragh >Parish.Another Henry in 1827 in Cluntganny, Lissan Parish, north of all these. >Now don't get discouraged. You doubtlessly have made many McCann friends >on the web. As the saying goes, "what matters is not the journey end, but >the journey." Of course, realizing both is truly a blessing. > >I wish you success in your research, Ann. Someday, when you find out all >you can from USA sources, the above may prove helpful. I hope so. > >My best to you. Joan >-- > >-- > new email address: [email protected] old email address: [email protected]