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I am researching the MCWILLIAMS surname. My great, great Grandfather Robert MCWILLIAMS married Ruth McDOWELL 2 March 1865 in Kilrought. I know Robert died after 1896 because he was the informant on Ruth's death certificate October 25, 1896. They were living in Kilmoyange. Does any one know anything about the MCWILLIAMS and MCDOWELL surnames? I would love to find out any thing about my great- great grand parents. Terri

I just wanted to say "Thanks" to everyone who replied to my query about sources for finding postal codes for Northern Ireland. Pat

I have been carrying out research on my family for a number of years and I have discovered that my ggg grandfather James HENRY was born in Ireland in the early 1800s. He married Catherine (who was born in Ireland in 1800) around about the year 1820 and they had two children. John HENRY was born in 1826 and Ellen HENRY was born in 1833. Both children were listed as born in Ireland. Later the family moved from Ireland to England and settled in the Newcastle upon Tyne area. >From other family research I suspect the family originated from the area of Derry, however I can not substantiate this. Later their son John HENRY (my gg grandfather) married Alice O`NEILL (born Derry in 1820) on 13 February 1853 in Newcastle. John and Alice had 5 children including my g grandfather John HENRY who married Margaret Ann STEEL on 25 November 1873. Margaret`s parents were John and Catherine STEEL. John STEEL and his wife Catherine were both born in Derry in 1831. Probably married in Derry before moving to Jarrow in Co Durham about 1851 Any information or assistance on how I can obtain further details would be greatly appreciated.

Greetings While viewing films from the FHL on County Down I found filmed index cards of court transcripts, some of which had listed them 'PELHAM PAPERS'--these for the time period of about 1790-1800 or so. Can anyone tell me what this refers to? Thank you Carol Ashby 5655 NW 113th St. - Grimes, Iowa 50111

The best place - because it's official and free - is the Royal Mail site: www.royalmail.co.uk The homepage will lead you through to the following page, via the business services option: www.royalmail.co.uk/paf Regards Phil Self [email protected] In response to: Subject: Northern Ireland Postal Codes Does anyone know where I might be able to find a list of the postal codes for Northern Ireland on the internet? Thanks! Pat

Looking for any info. re: James Reid and Agnes Livingston m. 24 Nov. 1853 in the Parish of Mullaghbrack. James lived in Marlacoo Beg at the time. Agnes in Drumshallan. Agnes was a widow at the time and it stated her name as Rooney on her marriage certificate. James was a farmer, age 22 and Agnes was age 25. Agnes' father is listed as Robert Livingston and James' father as William Reid. They had a son, John Morris Reid in 1965 (not sure if US born or not) who is my great-grandfather. Not sure if and when they emigrated to the Philadelphia, PA, USA area. Any information on these two families would be greatly appreciated! Been searching for a very long time! launie [email protected] OR [email protected]

Pat and fellow listers, This also might be of use: It is a directory of UK Businesses. http://194.128.138.21/0htms/ukabout.htm Hope this is of use to someone. Amy

Pat, I don't know if this will help, but give it a go. I've not had to use it yet myself. http://www.afd.co.uk/pcsearch.htm Best of luck and happy hunting! Amy

Does anyone know where I might be able to find a list of the postal codes for Northern Ireland on the internet? Thanks! Pat

Is anyone ought there looking for the above families? The information I have is as follows: Oliver and Ann McIntyre Barr of Killowen Parish, Ballycairn, Coleraine. Oliver b about 1785, Ann b about 1800. She died November 14, 1872, in Coleraine. They were the parents of known children, Samuel b Aug 20, 1819 and James b June 3, 1826. Samuel came to the U.S. about 1836, settled in Georgia where he married Marie Gillen of Coleraine. They then moved to Kentucky. Marie Gillen was born on the Rock of Gibralter, Spain, on March 14, 1820. (It is believed that her father was serving in military service there.) Her parents were Patrick Gillen and Ann McCloskey of Dunboe Parrish, Benarees, Coleraine. Patrick died in 1857 and Ann died in 1870. They were the parents of the following known children: Marie, Andrew Jackson b 1824, Patrick Henry, William, John and Sarah. It is known that several of these children came to the U.S. I would be happy to exchange information with anyone working on these surnames in the North of Ireland, Coleraine area. With warmest regards, Judy

-- Hello, I have been unable to find the deaths of either John or Margaret Ferguson of Tullyboy, Co Cavan in the Civil Registration. However, I find a John who died 1877 at age 94 and a Margaret who died 1874 at age 100 both in in Dungannon, Co Tyronne. The civil registration on these people does not give enough information to figure out who they are. I wonder if there is an old folks home here that persons from Co Cavan might have utilized. If so, I would like to search records of said home. Does anyone have knowledge of such a place? Colin Ferguson Coarsegold, CA, USA http://www.foothillsoftware.com/genealogy.html BAKER*BREAKEY*BUCHAN*COLLIN*COX*CRISP*CULLIFORD* DeBREQUET*DRISCOLL*ELLIOTT*FERGUSON*FREDERICK* HUNT*HYSLOP*KING*LAHY*MCCLEAN*NEW*SMALL*THOMAS* VINCE*WILKIN*YOUNG

Ellen Gorman, daughter of John and Ellen (Mimnaugh) Gorman married Francis McINTYRE on 01 Jun 1885 at Inverness, Megantic county, Quebec Does any one know of this marriage? DESCENDANCY CHART of the McINTYRE line ============================================================ 1-- James MCINTYRE-673 b. Ireland sp-Jane KILPATRICK-674 b. Ireland 2-- James MCINTYRE-410 (1829-1894) b. Ireland sp-Jane CALLUM-409 (1836-1910) b. Ireland 3-- Patrick Joseph MC INTYRE-408 (1852-1937) b. Inverness,Megantic Co., Quebec 3-- Margaret MCINTYRE-654 (1854) b. Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec 3-- Mary J. MCINTYRE-655 (1855) b. Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec 3-- John Henry MCINTYRE SR.-221 (1857-1928) sp-Mary M. SULLIVAN-222 (1861-1922) 3-- James MC INTYRE-407 (1859) b. Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec sp-Jane ?-571 3-- Dennis MC INTYRE-628 (1863) b. Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec 3-- Francis MC INTYRE-629 (1865) b. Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec 3-- Peter MC INTYRE-630 (1867) b. Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec 2-- Matthew MCINTYRE-676 b. Ireland sp-Margaret CALLUM-677 sp-Sarah KEENAN-679 2-- Francis McINTYRE b. Ireland sp Bridget Campbell 3-- Partick b. 1846 in Ireland; {Came to Canada in1867 @ age20,he did NOT come with the family in 1847} 3--Mary Jane b. . Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec 3-- John b. . Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec 3-- Ann b.. Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec 3-- Elizabeth b. . Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec 3-- Francis b.. Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec, married Ellen Gorman 1885 in Inverness Quebec 3-- Bridget b.. Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec

I am looking for the McINTYRE family that settled in Inverness, PQ circa 1847. Please see chart below for the names of those that settled in Inverness. I am trying to establish where in Ireland they came from. If you don't see a connection BUT have Irish descendants that settled in Inverness,Megantic Co., Quebec, I would like to hear from you. Thanks in advance. Jon DESCENDANCY CHART ============================================================ 1-- James MCINTYRE-673 b. Ireland sp-Jane KILPATRICK-674 b. Ireland 2-- James MCINTYRE-410 (1829-1894) b. Ireland sp-Jane CALLUM-409 (1836-1910) b. Ireland 3-- Patrick Joseph MC INTYRE-408 (1852-1937) b. Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec 3-- Margaret MCINTYRE-654 (1854) b. Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec 3-- Mary J. MCINTYRE-655 (1855) b. Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec 3-- John Henry MCINTYRE SR.-221 (1857-1928) sp-Mary M. SULLIVAN-222 (1861-1922) 3-- James MC INTYRE-407 (1859) b. Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec sp-Jane ?-571 3-- Dennis MC INTYRE-628 (1863) b. Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec 3-- Francis MC INTYRE-629 (1865) b. Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec 3-- Peter MC INTYRE-630 (1867) b. Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec 2-- Matthew MCINTYRE-676 b. Ireland sp-Margaret CALLUM-677 sp-Sarah KEENAN-679 2-- Francis McINTYRE b. Ireland sp Bridget Campbell 3-- Partick b. 1846 in Ireland {Came to Canada some time between 1861 & 1871, did NOT come with the family in 1847} 3--Mary Jane b. . Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec 3-- John b. . Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec 3-- Ann b.. Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec 3-- Elizabeth b. . Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec 3-- Francis b.. Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec Bridget b.. Inverness, Megantic Co., Quebec Jon Aspinwall e-mail address: [email protected] ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* Researching: In England -- Aspinwall - Aspinall In Ireland -- Donnelly - McIntyre - Callum - McCallum - Curran - Kilpatrick -Sullivan in Co. Kerry, Parish of Prior In Scotland - Gibson In New England USA - Donnelly - Gibson In Quebec --McIntyre -- Callum -McCallum ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* ============================================================

--part1_36c25338.24acd6c2_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_36c25338.24acd6c2_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: [email protected] From: [email protected] Full-name: WARTACBLKE Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 10:32:44 EDT Subject: Gaston, Co Antrim, NI To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 13 I'm looking for information about my Gastons who were from Clogh, Co Antrim, NI. Religion was Presbyterian and they were Scot-Irish. Several things suggest the father of my James GASTON (1806-1884) was Samuel but I can't prove it. James married Betty BRUMLEY in 1836 and they had the following children: Samuel, Alexander, John, James, Mary, Lizzie, Ann, Jane, Sarah, Maggie, Bella, and William Boyd. Could anyone tell me if records exist for the old Clogh Pres. Church that is in ruins and located in the Clogh Pres. graveyard? Any information would be appreciated. Regards, Tacy Gaston Blake Surnames: GASTON, BRUMLEY, KERNOHAN, MC CAMLEY --part1_36c25338.24acd6c2_boundary--

Actually it's the old one. I didn't like my new ISP so I'm going to use this one from now on, until I find a better one. Sorry for the confusion. Don't mean to put you through the wringer. Just make sure you click on my new address so you can change it in your address book. Don't want to miss a single email! Thanks. launie :) OLD ADDRESS (No longer usable) [email protected] NEW ADDRESS (USE only this one) [email protected]

Trying to find genealogical information about the surname DEVERS or DEVER. My ancestor Edward DEVERS left Londonderry Ireland in either 1811 or 1818 on the SS Mariner for the US. Was married to Unity. Edward was born @1774. Can anyone help with County of Origin, other relatives, etc. Thank you so much, Terri ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1

Looking for information on parents or possible siblings of Alexander YOUNG, b. 26 Aug 1798 in Co. Derry or Co. Donegal, Ireland. Emigrated to USA in Aug 1821. Married Rachel DUNBAR June 1822. Married, second, Margaret TORRENS or TORRENCE June 1830 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Both wives said to have been born in Ireland, but dates and places of birth are not known. Richard YOUNG, brother of Alexander, b. about 1800. Emigrated to USA between 1839 and 1860 with wife Elizabeth and daughters Ann and Dorcas. All four members of this family reportedly were born in Co. Donegal, Ireland. Alexander and Richard may also have had a sister, Margaret YOUNG, who married William TORRENS. If these names are familiar to anyone, I would greatly appreciate a reply. David Young, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA [email protected]

Good Morning Rachael Don't feel too despondent if your ancestors are hard to find. Just keep on keeping on. I have been looking for my Irish (HOOKS) for 15 years. I will find them one day, and just hope that I will not feel too let down when the chase is over. If nothing else I have had to learn to be patient!!!!!!!!!!!!! Regards Lyn Schryver Scarborough Western Australia [email protected] wrote: > Okay now that Iknow that I am on the right track and that I am posting the > message right I will begin with some information. > > Father: Francis George Black b. 23 Feb 1928 > Grandparents: Albert Joseph Black b. 11 Jan 1893 Richmond m. Ellenor Marie > Riley ( no details for her) > Ggrandparents: Joseph Black b. 1868 Hamilton m. Margaret Marion Mastin 1891 > b. 1869 Richmond > Gggrandparents: Joseph Black b. 1843 Port Down Ireland (pretty sure this is > Portadown Armagh Co.) m. Christina Arnott 1865 b. 1845 Hamilton (can't find > any details for her) > Ggggrandparents: Robert Black & Ann Adams (don;t know anything about these > two) > > This is all the info I have ecept for children. I am not sure if Joseph > came out from Ireland with his parents or not but I'm told it is very hard > to get details from Ireland so if anyone has any info or has come across my > Black family or just some advise on how to find either Joseph, Robert or > Ann I would love to hear from them. Thanks for the replies that I got > asking for more info and am sorry that I sounded so dumb. I'm only new at > this so you'll have to bear with me while I get it right!! > > Regards Rachael

Dear Rachael, Please don't worry about getting things "right." There are so many details involved in our searches that it just takes time, and the best way to learn is to ask questions, as you did. And it's a learning experience for all of us! I have been researching my father's Swedish roots for nearly 3 years and am just now at the point where my Irish and Scottish ancestors are becoming available to me for research. And even the differences in research from one country to another seem mind-boggling at times. One little "connection" builds onto another, and eventually things may come together. Just last night I had a contact with my Grandfather Priestley's niece in DE, who has yet another piece to that particular puzzle. My great-parents were both born in County Down, according to family records, but I'm slowly finding their roots are in Scotland before Ireland. It's like going on a treasure hunt with an aura of mystery involved. So much fun!!! Good luck to you! And I'll be interested in learning the methods of Irish research along with you! Cindy in VA