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Anyone out there researching their Robinson Family tree in Northern Ireland? I'd be interested to connect with you and seeing if there are any connecting family members.
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Robinson is a very common surname - 8492 entries for that surname on the 1911 Irish census.
To help anybody determine the right family can you give some details of christian names & birthyears please
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See also details posted here-
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=627582.msg7628679#msg7628679
No need to start a new topic as you just started one a few days ago-
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=889374.msg7629496#msg7629496
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Have you heard of this account -
SILVER CREEK STORY - Rebekah Teubner
about A Community in Delaware County Iowa
PREFACE
This little book is compiled from information secured from descendants of Silver Creek pioneers, from old records, old notebooks and faded diaries, from newspaper clippings, from any source which was found to be authentic. The most valuable accounts have come from the lips of the little group of Silver Creek pioneers still living for they were children on this very ground when its history was being made. These men and women, though now advanced in years, are possessed of keen, clear minds to this day and date. We are thus indebted to Elizabeth Swindell Johnston, W. B. Robinson, Mrs. Alice Falconer Robinson, Frank Swindle, Charles Swindle, W. L. Carrothers, George W. Carrothers, and Mrs. Jemima Wilson Wood.
Turn back the pages to April, 1852. Iowa had been a state then for six years, admitted to the Union in 1846. For our story skip the pages of state history to pick up the time when three young Irishmen set forth for the West. They had landed in New York from their native Ireland some years before. In Alleghany, Pennsylvania, were an Alex Robinson and his wife who had come from Ireland in the 1840's
Old records, obituaries, and other accounts give the names of places in North Ireland from which these people came. Some familiar ones are Armagh, Monaghan, Newtown Butler, Lisnaskea, Clogher, Maguire's Bridge, Five Mile Town, Clones, Enniskillen.
Three original Silver Creek pioneers - Anthony Swindle/Swindell, James Robinson. John McKay
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Good luck on your venture.
If your line intersects the following names and places , I am up for a chat.
Anne SHANNON.bc.1822. d.17.10.1850.Balemont.Coleraine.buried OldBallywillan. m.5.6.1845.Limavady. John YOUNG.bc.1814.d.5.11.1880Bellemont.Coleraine
SamuelShannonYOUNGb10.4.1846Prtstewart.d8.8.1925Portstewart. m26.2.1874Omagh. LetitiaJaneMcFARLANEb25.1.1852Lisnascreaght.d18.12.1924Prtstewart
[Mentioned in his Uncle John Shannons 1883 will]
John Marshall YOUNG.b.23.12.1874Portstewart.d.4.1.1945BrooklynNY.m.10.1.1910.Brooklyn.Alice Margreeta YOUNG.b.7.8.1880.d.15.8.1967BrooklynNY
James McFarlane YOUNG.b.10.8.1876.Portstewart.d.29.2.1960Portrush.
Henry Smyth YOUNG.b.24.5.1878.Portstewart.d.1935USA.
Samuel Shannon YOUNG.b.9.5.1881.Portstewart.d.21.5.1882.Portstewart
Anna Ruth YOUNG.b.27.5.1885.Portstewart.d.18.9.1956.m.20.4.1910.Portstewart. John Thomas"Jack" SINTON.b.?.d.19.11.1959.
Mary Kathleen SINTON.b.21.3.1911.d.4.4.2004.m.14.2.1940.William CURRY.bc.1900.d.24.7.1968
SamuelCharlesYOUNGb.31.3.1887.Portstewart.d.14.6.1978.m.12.1.1927Portrush.Robena NEILL.b.?Violet Hill,Dervock.d.23.11.1955
Stella Agnes Letitia YOUNG.b.29.11.1928.d.5.5.2003.m1.21.8.1951Portrush.John James McGRATH.b.?.m2.John HARRISON.b.?
Samuel Marshall YOUNG.b.11.5.1930.d.25.10.1975.Portstewart. m.14.7.1955. Judy BOYD.b.22.9.1932.d.25.11.2008.Portstewart
Kathleen Jane Dunn YOUNG. b.12.2.1890.Portstewart.d.11.6.1969.Lisburn. m.11.9.1918.Portstewart.Samuel James MATHEWSON. b.10.3.1872Dunbunraver.N.Stewart.d.30.8.1927.
Jayne MATHEWSON.b.?.d.20.12.2011
AnnaLetitia"Nancy"MATHEWSON b14.7.1919StokeNewingtonLndon.d.?.
m10.1.1947Prtrush WilliamKaneROBINSON b11.10.1911Ballymena.d17.6.1963Blfast
cheers
Jack Gee
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Some familiar ones are Armagh, Monaghan, Newtown Butler, Lisnaskea, Clogher, Maguire's Bridge, Five Mile Town, Clones, Enniskillen.
Three original Silver Creek pioneers - Anthony Swindle/Swindell, James Robinson. John McKay
Newtownbutler, Maguiresbridge, Lisnaskea and Enniskillen are all in Co. Fermanagh. The surnames Carrothers & Swindle are common in that area. Indeed some of my wife’s ancestors were Swindells (spelling varies) from Lisnaskea. (The name Anthony Swindell means nothing to me though. No obvious connection).
MacLysaght’s Surnames of Ireland says Carrothers is a Scottish name found in Ulster since the 17th century. It doesn’t mention Swindle but my understanding is it originates in Lancashire. Fermanagh was heavily settled in the 1600s by English & Scots as part of the Plantation of Ulster.
If searching Irish church records for baptisms and marriages pre 1850, the families were most likely Church of Ireland (Episcopalian).
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John Marshall YOUNG.b.23.12.1874Portstewart.
Born 'North Bellemont' not Portstewart-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1875/03118/2143369.pdf
https://www.townlands.ie/londonderry/ne-liberties-of-coleraine/ballyaghran/portstewart/north-bellemont/
Henry Smyth YOUNG.b.24.5.1878.Portstewart.
Born 'Bellemont North' not Portstewart-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1878/02969/2087574.pdf
You can use the Irish Genealogy site to check the rest of the records.
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Thanks Agherdowey - up to your usual high standard. PM sent.
Jack Gee