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Does anyone have a Doyle family who may have lived in Graig-na-managh or Brandondale in the mid 1800s?  I have a Maria Doyle who ended up in Canada as the (possibly common-law) wife of Archdall Burtchaell, and no record of her previous existence in Ireland.  She probably would have been born around 1835.

I have a William Weir baptized in Lack, Fermanagh, on August 27, 1826.  He is the son of Christopher and Agnes Weir, but I know nothing about them.  He brother to my great-great-grandmother Phoebe (Weir) Burtchaell.  I don't have much more than that on William, except the names of his siblings, as I have just discovered them.

Hi Susan,

I see you are writing from the UK, so I assume your part of the Burtchaell family never left Ireland.  Note there is ongoing confusion about Archdall’s marriages.  He appears to have been legally married to a Hannah Gore who was quite a bit older than he, but he came to Canada with a woman named Maria, who her descendants thought was a Gore, but there appears to be no marriage record for them in Ireland or Canada.  So, at this point we don’t know whether Maria was a Gore, a Doyle or a Howitt.

Father Jim Burtchaell, who did the extensive genealogy document from which I take my information, has this note regarding ARCHDALL BURTCHAELL and MARY HOWITT:
 
“The paternity of Margaret B Burtchaell as recorded here is conjectural.  The baptismal register of the Duiske Abbey Church (Catholic) in Graiguenamanah records the baptism of a Margaret B. Burtchaell, born 28/3/1852 to “Archbold” Burtchaell and Mary Howitt.  The father’s given name is quite unusual, and fits ill with all the Murphys and Corcorans and other conventionally Catholic names with which the clan of Catholic Burtchaells in Graig intermarried.  It may well be a confusion for Archdall Burtchaell, son of Augusta Byrn and Patrick Burtchaell.  Archdall was born in November 1824 and would have been 27 at the time of Margaret’s birth.  He was one of those who later emigrated to Canada and did not return.  He is reported as having married a woman named Gore.  This is mentioned because of a longstanding recollection among the Catholic Burtchaells from Graig that one of the Protestant Burtchaells had gotten a local Catholic girl pregnant.

“More about Archdall Burtchaell and Mary Howitt:  Friends:  1851.”

Please keep me abreast of anything more you might learn.

Linda Ford

Hi Bob,

 Yes we PROBABLY are distantly related.  I have the extensive history researched by Fr Jim Burtchaell and referred to by Robert Burtchaell in an earlier post in this thread.  I have found David Burtchaell married to Jane Walpole in 1835.  They are listed with six children:  Albert, Edward, Mamie, Anna, Lottie and David. No Peter or Mary Jane but maybe Fr Jim just didn't find them.  Could Mamie be Mary Anne? (There are also a Peter and Mary of the previous generation, born to Sir David Burtchaell and Jane Dames, but they are too old to be yours and Mary died a spinster.) Do you have any additional information that would help me?

Linda

So, who are you Ken?  Are you a Burtchaell, or a descendant by another name (as am I)? And from whom are you descended?  Are you in Canada?

The 1903 genealogy, is that the one done by George Dames Burtchaell?  The more recent one by James Tunstead Burtchaell is much more accurate and all encompassing. 

If you would like to correspond privately, give me your email address.  Otherwise, leave a note here and I will respond.

Linda from BC, Canada