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Tyrone / Re: Ellen White/Ellison from Carrickmore
« on: Thursday 14 December 06 18:20 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Carol,

This is just a postscript to my last email.

I should have acknowledged that your g-grandfather was George White and therefore the family in Loughborough could not be your grandmother's.
However, you have to entertain the possibility that Emilie A. White of Athenree/Looghborough was not your grandmother's sister, although they may have been related in some other way.

Alternatively, I might well be barking up the wrong tree altogether!

Brian

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Tyrone / Re: Ellen White/Ellison from Carrickmore
« on: Wednesday 13 December 06 23:35 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Carol,

I'm pleased to hear that I've been of some small help.

The info re Emilie A. White came from the census index, but I'll be looking at the full census within the next week and I'll check to see who she was living with, if anyone.

I had some credits left over from a previous search at findmypast.com and being in a 'use them or lose them' situation I did a search for Emilie.

We know she claimed to be 38 in March 1901 so I did a search of the period 1861-1863.  There were hundreds of Emily Whites, and dozens of Emilia Whites, but there was only one Emilie Annie White and her birth was registered in the Loughborough district of Leicestershire during the April-June quarter of 1862.  Should you ever want to order her birth certificate the important ref. no. is 7a, 136.

Just on the off chance that her family had been in England for several years previous to her birth, I checked the 1861 English Census. (The search filters allow you to search for 'Whites' of Irish birth living in Leicestershire).

I eliminated those that were too old, too young or too far away from Loughborough and was left with only one family who may or may not be relevant.

They were the fairly properous family of Frank White, 35 yrs, born Leicestershire; his wife Sarah, 26 years born Ireland; Frank junior, 2 yrs, born Ireland; and baby Clara E. 1yr, born Loughborough.

Frank senior is described as a 'General House Master employing 30 hands' and could afford 4 servants, faithful old Mary Maquire 63 yrs, born Ireland, plus 3 local girls.

Unfortunately we cannot look for young Frank's birth in Ireland because the registration of births only began here in 1864.  But it might be interesting to check the marriages (registration began 1845) to see if a Francis/Frank White married in Ireland in the period 1855-58.

If you think that search is worth doing I'll have a go, but it may not be until after Christmas.

Regards

Brian

 

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Tyrone / Re: Ellen White/Ellison from Carrickmore
« on: Saturday 09 December 06 19:36 GMT (UK)  »
Hello again Carol,

You may be looking in the wrong place for 1860s Carrickmore Whites.

The 1901 Irish Census for Tyrone has been indexed on micofiche by a worthy researcher, and my quick search this morning indicates that there were only two Whites/Whytes in Termonmagurk in 1901.  One was a Sarah White, a 50 yr old widow living in Copney townland, who may or may not be one of your bunch.  However the other individual is, I'm sure, one of yours.  She was an Emilie A. White, a 38 yr old C.o.I. spinster living in Athenree townland, but the curious thing about her is that her place of birth is recorded as 'England'.

You may get a lead at 'findmypast.com', the England GRO website.

I'm not suggesting that the Whites were English, at least not 19th century English, but they may have left Ulster, spent a while in England and then returned.  However, Carrickmore may not be where they came from originally.  The 1860s Household List (Griffith's) records only one 'White' (Michael) living in Cooley, a townland some distance from Athenree/Carrickmore.

What I'm saying is - if your are looking for a George White then be prepared to cast your net a little further than just Termonmagurk.  Every Irish family had a faction who emigrated to other continents, but those that stayed weren't entirely sedentary.  In the space of 80 years my own Ellisons migrated from Sixmilecross, through Clogherny, Killeeshil and Carnteel Parishes, almost within a short walk of Co. Monaghan.


Brian

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Tyrone / Re: Ellen White/Ellison from Carrickmore
« on: Friday 08 December 06 21:31 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Carol,
I have done some amateur research into the Ellisons of Tyrone as I'm an Ellison myself.  Perhaps the following may be of some use to you?
The ones you mention are not related to me, although both branches were Anglicans (C.o.I.)  The 1901 census records Martha and her husband George Ellison as living in Athenree townland, Termonmagurk Parish, but it says that both were born in Co. Donegal. 
The 1860 Householders List (Griffiths) records only one Ellison in Termonmagurk in 1860 and that was an Andrew Ellison of Bracky.  But I can assure you that he was a Presbyterian and was related to Ellisons living in the Sixmilecross area.
However all George and Martha's children were born in Tyrone and the census lists them as John, 19yrs; Mary Jane 17yrs; Thomas 15yrs; Maggie 13yrs; and Nellie 10yrs:

Happy hunting.

Brian Ellison
 

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Tyrone / Re: did Eskra RC parish keep records? have a graveyard?
« on: Tuesday 17 October 06 20:53 BST (UK)  »
Hello Bernie,

There is indeed a graveyard at Eskra (Eskragh) RC Church, I presume it is quite old as the 'History From Headstones' project has collected data there.  It is in the townland of Lisnarable.

My own 'Guide to Church Records', published by PRONI, makes no mention of any registers for Eskra.  However, I know that the church was originally part of Clogher and suspect that most older birth/marriage records will be in the Clogher registers.

For example, in Aughnacloy the quite large 'flock' there was under the pastoral care of a Curate-in-charge.  He could baptise, marry etc. but transcribed all such events into the register of his immediate superior, the Parish Priest at Caledon.  Eskra is now a parish in its own right and probably has a parish register now, but it not be old enough to have any research value.

Clogher RC registers are held at PRONI and contain baptisms 1856-81 and marriages 1825-35 & 1840-81.

Brian

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Tyrone / Re: Help - a birth in Co Tyrone, parents Dubliners
« on: Monday 15 August 05 23:53 BST (UK)  »
Hello Marie,
Re Edmund's birth in Tyrone - is it possible that his maternal grandparents lived there?  I note from some records I've collected that a Rev. John Jephson lived in Mullabrack, Co. Armagh in the mid 1820s. You describe him as the 'Venerable' so I presume at some later stage he was promoted to Archdeacon.  As such, he may have continued to serve 'his old boss' the Archbishop of Armagh whose diocese includes part of Tyrone.  Alternatively he may have been attached to the Diocese of Clogher,  or the Diocese of Raphoe, both of which also include large parts of Co. Tyrone.
A private subscription library in Belfast, the Linenhall Library, probably holds clergy lists and church histories.  I will do a cursory search for you and if anything interesting turns up I will let you know.

Brian
 

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