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I am looking for information on the Rea/Ray family in Bailieborough.
Thank you,
Matt
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hi Matt,,,it would help if you could post more details.....do you have a timeframe,,,any names,ages,etc? ;)
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I do not have much information on my Rea/Ray family. My 4th great grandmother, Mary Rea, was born about 1788 and married a William Morgan (a private in the 14th Light Dragoons) about 1818. They later settled in Belturbet in 1826. I suspect she was originally from Bailieborough. So any information on Rea/Ray families in or around Bailieborough prior to 1820 may be helpful.
Thank you,
Matt
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Have a look at Introduction to Irish Records (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,442233.0.html) and My Ancestor came from Ireland - where do I start? (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,498742.0.html).
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In the baptismal records of Corraneary Presbyterian Church there is a Thomas Rea/Ray and Elizabeth Hall with 1st child born 1769 and 14th child born 1791.
Only the 1st, 2nd, 12th and 14th are recorded, none of which are Mary. No other Church records in the Bailieborough area go back to the 1700s. The Church is located mid way between Cootehill and Bailieborough. http://www.presbyterianireland.org/congregations/coroneary.html
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Hi Les57,
Thank you very much for the info. That is the best lead I have so far. Just wondering, where were you able to check these records? Mary Rea married a William Morgan in about 1817, supposedly in Belturbet, but checking on rootsireland.ie, I can't find a marriage record. Maybe they were married at the Corraneary church? Again, thanks a lot.
Matt
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Hi Matt, most Church records in this area commence in the 1840s - 1860s but the ones I quoted from commence with baptisms in 1764. The information I have given you already is the only reference to Rea/Ray I can find.
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Hi Les57,
Thank you very much for your time and effort. Again, that's the best lead I've had so far.
Thank you,
Matt
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I have a Grace Ray born c1820 in Ireland,married to Patrick Brannen,parents of my gggrandmother Rose Brannan.Somewhere in Ireland. But most of my lot seem to be Bailieborough so..........Who knows,
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In the “Flax Growers List of 1796”, a James Ray shows up in Bailieborough, Co Cavan.
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Matt, did you ever get any further with your Rea family?? If so I would appreciate hearing any info no matter how tenuous.
My ancestor Stewart Fulton White married? an Ann Rea. Both were born around 1805 in Ireland, and I now suspect strongly that he joined the 14th Light Dragoons and mustered out in 1832.
Coincidence maybe.
Ian
(PS a PM did not get any response).
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Hi Ian, I also have Rae/Ray/Robb ? from Ireland. My GGGrandmother was Grace Rae etc. but born c1827 and marrried to Patrick Brennan in 1854. Grace's Father was James and he was married to Margaret Hamilton. The name is changed on all documents from Rae to Ray and her Death Cert is Robb Would be interested in any connection
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Irishseeker,
Thanks for the response re Rea!
Every little bit helps given the lack of Irish records, but I doubt that there is anything useful I can offer to you.
Anyway, a total dump of info:
a. Customs & Excise records show Stewart Fulton White joining the “Mounted Guard” of the Excise Service in 1832 having come from a “dragoon regiment”. He is first posted to Canford Magna, Dorset.
b. 1841 Census shows he is married to Ann with children John, Stewart, James, Ann, and Jane. The parents are both shown as aged 35. The parents and John are listed in the transcription as being Scottish. ALL other documentation in the census records say Irish.
c. Birth Cert for Jane dated 1839 states the mother to be Ann White, formerly Ray.
d. The family and most of the children end up in Liverpool after Stewart F is pensioned out of the Excise Service.
e. The family seems to fall apart and Ann dies in about 1859/60.
f. Stewart F remarries in 1861 to an Ann Elizabeth Hill, the daughter of a RN lieutenant. The Marriage Cert states that Stewart’s father was a John White, farmer. They relocate down to Portsmouth and he dies in 1881.
g. The name “Stewart” strongly indicates a Scottish background and likely they were part of lowland Scottish settlement into Ulster. The middle name Fulton is also Scottish coming almost entirely from Wigtownshire and Ayrshire.
h. Using the 1796 Flax Growers Lists, the only location where a White, a Fulton, and a Rea live together is Newtownstewart in Co. Tyrone so I have tried to focus there with no luck.
Precious little about the Rea/Rae/Ray side.
I would dearly like to tie down the birthplace of Ann or Stewart F.
Ian