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« on: Sunday 31 January 10 11:16 GMT (UK) »
Hi Pam
I'll ask Dad about this but I don't think he has any knowledge of the Australian 'dimension'.
However his mother Margaret (or Nan as she was known) was one of the younger siblings and contact between those who emigrated and those who stayed in the Killinchy area, was I expect hard to sustain in those days.
Mum stayed with us last week and brought some information -
From the baptisms recorded at Killinchy Presbyterian Church the following children of James and Margaret are identified;
Elizabeth (Lil) 9th April 1880; William James 18th Jan 1882; Sarah Coulter Fitzroy (Sis) 28th Jan 1885;
James 14th Feb 1888. THese I think are baptism dates rather than birth dates- but not sure.
THe older and the younger siblings are not recorded at Killinchy but Nan was married from James's home in Belfast so we think the the Fitzroys moved there at some point around turn of the century.
James' father George was listed as a coachman when James and Margaret were married at 2nd Comber Presbyterian Church on 8th June 1876. (Margaret's father John was a draper from Killinchy).
I wonder if that church would have baptism records of the older children of James and Margaret?
I noted on another family history site that a Laura Fitzroy Perry was looking for information on a Joseph Fitzroy born in Belfast around 1849 later moving to Wexford and then emigrating to Ontario. Now , Joseph's father George was from Belfast. Can't help wondering if this could be another link.
All for just now
Judith
I'll ask Dad about this but I don't think he has any knowledge of the Australian 'dimension'.
However his mother Margaret (or Nan as she was known) was one of the younger siblings and contact between those who emigrated and those who stayed in the Killinchy area, was I expect hard to sustain in those days.
Mum stayed with us last week and brought some information -
From the baptisms recorded at Killinchy Presbyterian Church the following children of James and Margaret are identified;
Elizabeth (Lil) 9th April 1880; William James 18th Jan 1882; Sarah Coulter Fitzroy (Sis) 28th Jan 1885;
James 14th Feb 1888. THese I think are baptism dates rather than birth dates- but not sure.
THe older and the younger siblings are not recorded at Killinchy but Nan was married from James's home in Belfast so we think the the Fitzroys moved there at some point around turn of the century.
James' father George was listed as a coachman when James and Margaret were married at 2nd Comber Presbyterian Church on 8th June 1876. (Margaret's father John was a draper from Killinchy).
I wonder if that church would have baptism records of the older children of James and Margaret?
I noted on another family history site that a Laura Fitzroy Perry was looking for information on a Joseph Fitzroy born in Belfast around 1849 later moving to Wexford and then emigrating to Ontario. Now , Joseph's father George was from Belfast. Can't help wondering if this could be another link.
All for just now
Judith