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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Donegal => Topic started by: BRUCE123 on Wednesday 22 September 10 18:49 BST (UK)
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Hi :)
I have a list of birth/baptism from the church of crossroads Co Don. Ireland.
http://mcn.ie/crossroads/index.htm
It lists the Morrison’s:-
Elizabeth 02/04/1824. Father John. Mother n/g address n/g.
Jane 09/03/1817. Father John. Mother n/g address meeting house.
Jane 03/04/1834. Father John. Mother n/g address n/g.
John 08/10/1820. Father John. Mother n/g address meeting house.
Joseph 05/07/1828. Father John. Mother n/g address n/g.
Margaret. 24/05/1830. Father John. Mother n/g address n/g.
Morris. 25/05/1822. Father John. Mother n/g address n/g.
William. 01/06/1826. Father John. Mother n/g address n/g.
Can any one tell me if John is father to all, or are there one, two or more Johns ? ???
Margaret 30/10/1814. Father n/g Mother n/g address meeting house.
Also I have a John. Marred to Margaret Morrison both fathers John Morrison. In 15/01/1863 the husband to be, being a “Churchminster” this looks to me as two fathers. (witness Joseph Morrison from meeting house.)
Any help would be much appreciated. Regards Bruce. ::)
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Gosh you’ve waited a long time for a reply, but these are my people too. One John Morrison is John Morrison m Priscilla Braden or Bredin, the other John Morrison I don’t know as yet. Both Johns had a child who married each other.
I’m descended from John & Priscilla, who moved to Churchminister aka Kilmonaster where they had more children. My gt gt grandfather is Robert, born c 1847…. Priscilla is in the 1901 census in Kilmonaster aged 100. I’ve tracked about 5 or 6 of their children, some went to the West of Scotland, at least one to US ( I suspect other descendants may also have headed to the US). I have been looking for Crossroads Presbyterian records online but they seem to have vanished…. I’ve got DNA matches on ancestry who descend from this couple, albeit rather distant. If you’d like any more info, please let me know, will share what I have. regs Joan
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Priscilla is in the 1901 census in Kilmonaster aged 100.
1901 census as Prescilla Morrison
House 6 in Kilmonaster Middle (Clonleigh South, Donegal).
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Donegal/Clonleigh_South/Kilmonaster_Middle/1195899/
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000688176/
Priscilla Morrison died July 1901 at Kilmonaster aged 75 yrs ??? The informant was her daughter-in-law Mary Anne Morrison.
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1901/05719/4613727.pdf
Kilmonaster Middle townland between Raphoe and Castlefinn.
https://www.townlands.ie/donegal/raphoe-north/clonleigh/clonleigh-south/kilmonaster-middle/
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5610637#map=12/54.8351/-7.5637
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Thanks for posting! That’s our Priscilla in the census in 1901. Yes daughter in law Mary Ann Wauchope registered her death, yes she says age 75. If Priscilla were actually that age in 1901, she’d potentially have been giving birth before she was born herself. Now that’s quite the miracle 😂.
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Yes daughter in law Mary Ann Wauchope registered her death, yes she says age 75.
So Mary Ann Wauchope married David Morrison in February 1876 at Urney Presbyterian Church. Is James Wauchope a witness her brother?
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1876/11157/8087255.pdf
Mary Ann living in Castlefinn in Donaghmore civil parish, her father Andrew a farmer.
https://www.townlands.ie/donegal/raphoe-south/donaghmore/castlefinn/castlefinn/
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Wow thanks again! I haven’t researched Mary Ann Wauchope’s family yet, so thanks that’s a great start!
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Do you have this death?
Mary Anne (Wauchope) Morrison died 21 July 1925 at Churchminster (Kilmonaster) aged 86 yrs. Her grand-daughter K E Taylor was the informant.
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1925/05010/4368206.pdf
Catherine E Taylor and her three younger brothers in 1911 census at Kilmonaster Middle.
The 1911 census with Mary Anne Morrison as a widow.
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Donegal/Clonleigh_South/Kilmonaster_Middle/505715/
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai002124860/
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The four Taylor children with their grandmother in 1911 census at Kilmonaster Middle (reply #6).
Taylor, Catherine E (age 9)
Catherine Elizabeth Taylor birth -Toronto, Ontario, Canada
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FM62-ZM9?lang=en
Parent's marriage -John Taylor & Martha Morrison -Toronto, Canada
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZBH-XDG?lang=en
No 1379
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-Y399-MSGW?view=index&personArk=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AKZBH-XDG&action=view&cc=1784216&lang=en&groupId=M9S4-ZT6
Andrew S M Taylor (age 4)
Born 14 April 1907 - Andrew Wauchope Morrison Taylor
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1907/01687/1670364.pdf
John Wilson Taylor (age 3)
Born 8 April 1908 at Kilmonaster. MMN Morrison
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1908/01655/1660366.pdf
Solomon Wilson Taylor (age 1)
Born 6 March 1910.
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1910/01571/1633533.pdf
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Thanks so much, I already have these records but really appreciate a keen second eye! I originally had found earlier generations online at a website run by Crossroads Presbyterian Church, but that site appears to have vanished. I don’t suppose you know if these records are online somewhere else now? Any help in tracking down Crossroads PC records would be fantastic, I’ve drawn a blank. PRONI apparently have them too but I can’t seem to access them remotely ( I’m in Scotland)….
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PRONI's copy of the records is not on-line. A personal visit is required to access them.
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Thanks - that’s what I thought. A hunt online has proved fruitless - I just hoped the transcript was still online somewhere. Pity the old church website is no longer there, I pulled some great info from it maybe 10 years ago. I can feel a flight to Belfast coming on. Thanks again.
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I also accessed the Crossroads Presbyterian church records many years ago when they were listed under Co Donegal but did find this site below last year. My gt grandparetns are buried there and many of my mothers aunts and uncles were baptised there. My gt grandparents headstone and many others were vandalised and were missing some years before my parents visited in 1982 (a cousin visited in the 70s and they were still there then).
cotyroneireland.com/churchrecord/crossroads6.html
You will find more links e.g. to baptisms at the bottom of the page.
Cheers
Linda
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That’s fantastic thanks - the cotyrone website, forgot about it and forgot how good it is! Brilliant!