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Title: Harvey Ewing 1840
Post by: Alison182 on Tuesday 28 May 24 20:02 BST (UK)
Hi, I'm looking for any information on Harvey Ewing.
This is what I know so far -
Harvey was baptised on the 2/2/1840 church of Ireland, in the parish of Burt, co Donegal, his father was William a farmer and mother Eliza French. His address is down as Bonemain.

Harvey is my great great grandad, he married Elizabeth Rankin, they had a son Robert Alexander Ewing, he married Annie Roulston and they had my gran Mary Jane Ewing.

Mary Jane Ewing (my gran) was born in Scotland, but her dad was born in Dublin and her mum Co Donegal.

Any help would be grateful as I have never been to Ireland so don’t know much about districts etc.
Title: Re: Harvey Ewing 1840
Post by: Kiltaglassan on Tuesday 28 May 24 21:40 BST (UK)

Hi, I'm looking for any information on Harvey Ewing.
This is what I know so far -
Harvey was baptised on the 2/2/1840 church of Ireland, in the parish of Burt, co Donegal#.....

Harvey Ewing died on 11 October 1878 aged 36 yrs.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1878/020495/7191966.pdf

Harvey is my great great grandad, he married Elizabeth Rankin, they had a son Robert Alexander Ewing......

Robert Alexander Ewing born 13 April 1983, Dublin South.   MMN Rankin
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1873/03198/2172947.pdf

...they had a son Robert Alexander Ewing, he married Annie Roulston...

Robert EWING married Annie ROULSTON on 1 August 1893 - Monreagh Presbyterian Church, Taughboyne Parish.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1893/10606/5863988.pdf

Mary Jane Ewing (my gran) was born in Scotland...

From ScotlandsPeople https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

EWING
TERESA
ROULSTON
F
1896
647 / 1088
HAMILTON

EWING
HARVEY
ROULSTON
M
1896
647 / 1087
HAMILTON

EWING
MARY JANE
ROULSTON
F
1902
647 / 379
HAMILTON

EWING
ANNIE ELIZA
ROULSTON
F
1906
647 / 485
HAMILTON

EWING
MARTHA
ROULSTON
F
1905
647 / 15
HAMILTON



Title: Re: Harvey Ewing 1840
Post by: Alison182 on Tuesday 28 May 24 23:50 BST (UK)
Thank you, I found this death as well.
Harvey was baptised on 2/2/1840 & he died in 1878, he would have been 38, not 36, but I also know records were so bad back then for mistakes because of the literacy levels
Title: Re: Harvey Ewing 1840
Post by: Alison182 on Tuesday 28 May 24 23:53 BST (UK)
Everything after Harvey, my gran, grandad and great grandad I know as part of my family, it's just going backwards I'm struggling with.
Title: Re: Harvey Ewing 1840
Post by: gaffy on Wednesday 29 May 24 08:00 BST (UK)
'Bonemain' is a.k.a. Bunnamayne (I've also seen Bonemaine and Bunamayne), just NW of Derry City, but I'm struggling thus far to find anything specifically related to your William Ewing and Eliza French in the immediate area, in the likes of Tithe Applotment Books, Griffith's Valuation, and contemporary baptisms, marriages, newspapers etc.:

https://www.townlands.ie/donegal/inishowen-west/burt/burt/bunnamayne/
 
Title: Re: Harvey Ewing 1840
Post by: joemc on Friday 31 May 24 14:07 BST (UK)
Hello

Have you checked this resource from the Kirk Session book of Burt, more than 100 years previous to your time period but more interestingly it was research that was commissioned by the Ewing Family Association so I would think they have other resources and show Ewing's were prominent in Parish going back to the Plantation in the 1600's

https://www.ewingfamilyassociation.org/research/KirkSessionBook/Rekirkbook.pdf

Regards

Joe
Title: Re: Harvey Ewing 1840
Post by: Kiltaglassan on Friday 31 May 24 15:07 BST (UK)
Robert Alexander Ewing born 13 April 1983, Dublin South.   MMN Rankin
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1873/03198/2172947.pdf

Drat - a mistake!
Robert Alexander Ewing born 13 April 1873...


Title: Re: Harvey Ewing 1840
Post by: rathmore on Saturday 01 June 24 12:42 BST (UK)
donegal resources


http://www.donegalgenealogy.com
Title: Re: Harvey Ewing 1840
Post by: Kiltaglassan on Saturday 01 June 24 13:46 BST (UK)
donegal resources


http://www.donegalgenealogy.com

Can you point out where on that website, you will find Harvey Ewing?

Thanks.


Title: Re: Harvey Ewing 1840
Post by: LH on Saturday 01 June 24 18:07 BST (UK)
Hi Alison182

You write its going backwards from Harvey that you require help with.

There are multiple mentions of early Ewings in the marvellous donegalgenealogy.com website, including the name of a Researcher working on Ewing folk.

Happy searching
Title: Re: Harvey Ewing 1840
Post by: Alison182 on Sunday 02 June 24 21:42 BST (UK)
Thank you so much for the researcher details, I have sent them an email. X
Title: Re: Harvey Ewing 1840
Post by: rathmore on Thursday 06 June 24 12:12 BST (UK)
found a Baptism of Harvey Ewing on this site

http://www.cotyroneireland.com

on the Donegal resourses All Saints Parish site will not let me open Cross Roads, Presbterian Church, Parish All Saints
records
Title: Re: Harvey Ewing 1840
Post by: aghadowey on Thursday 06 June 24 12:23 BST (UK)
found a Baptism of Harvey Ewing on this site

http://www.cotyroneireland.com

on the Donegal resourses All Saints Parish site will not let me open Cross Roads, Presbterian Church, Parish All Saints
records

I am able to open the transcribed records for Cross Roads Presbyterian Church without any bother.
in 1840 there is a baptism for a James, son of Harvey Ewing & Eliza Rankin of Port Lough-
https://www.cotyroneireland.com/churchrecord/crossroads4.html
Not sure when baptism for Harvey Ewing that you found was supposed to be.