Hello Julie Ann, Your "Wellingstown" sound remarkably like "Waringstown" which is in County Down , Parish of Donaghcloney.On a map is just east of the town of Lurgan and Portadown. best regards Robert www.ulsterancestry.com >From: JParks1393@aol.com >To: Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [Sc-Ir] Another elusive Scots-Irish >Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:03:56 EDT > >Hello list: Feel like tackling yet another elusive Scots-Irishman? > >Edward Parks was born somewhere between 1856-1863 in "N. Ireland" according >to the 1910, 1920, 1930 US censuses, his death certificate and his marriage >license. Of course, also on those same censuses, he was 50 in 1920, 50 in >1930 >and 50 when he died in 1934. According to his naturalization papers, he was >born in 1856 ... according to his marriage license, he was born in 1863. >(Mathematically challenged, to say the least or else he tapped into Ponce >de Leon's >Fountain of Youth.) His naturalization papers state he arrived at the Port >of >New York on 15 July 1886 -- he's not on any immigration list anywhere, even >on >boats that arrived on that date. I checked the Canadian lists, thinking he >might have snuck over the border and also checked Baltimore, Gulf Coasts, >Philadelphia and San Francisco as well as checked into Australia in case he >went >their first in chains. Nada. Nowhere. Maybe he rowed across. > >To complicate matters, he stated on his marriage certificate that he was >from >"Wellingstown, N. Ireland" Turns out there isn't any such place. There >are >four different streets named "Wellington" in Belfast, there was a farm >named >"Wellington Lodge" in County Down, and there is a Wellington townland in >Co. >Tipperary which I've discarded entirely because he was always careful to >specify >"North of Ireland" as if it were an important designation to him. There is >a >"Warrington" in Northern Ireland...could that possibly sound like >"Wellingstown" to an untrained American ear if said in a broad Ulster >accent? > >I assume he was a Protestant because a) "Parks" is an English name >originally, b) all the Parks families I've found in Ireland were >Protestants and c) all >the Parks families I've found in Scotland were Protestants. But he married >an >Irish Catholic woman in a Baptist Church in New York, raised all his kids >Catholic and is now buried in a Catholic cemetery. > >His father was Samuel Parks, his mother Elizabeth McAvoy/McEvoy or >MacElvoy. > >I can't start writing away for church records when I have no idea where to >look. Any guidance/thoughts will be much appreciated. > >Julie Anne Parks > >Searching: Parks, Finley, Doherty, Donnelly, Flynn, McAvoy, Mahoney >Hettrick, Cassidy, Donahoe, Donahue, Timmons, Winrow > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger 7.5 is now out. Download it for FREE here. http://messenger.msn.co.uk