Ulster Ancestry wrote: > 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 yes i was thinking that myself waringstown but isn`t it County Armagh? > > >> 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 > >