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Mykin and Maggieblue...just fyi I have just this week got my dna results from Ancestry and have linked them to my tree.  Zorknapp is showing as a dna match.  There are Boomers, Alderdices and McWatters scattered through the matches as well as the Partridges.  You can check it out if you  like. My profile on there is stiubhard and my tree is called Stewart/Lyons/McKenna/Young/Smith

Hi Annie.  Been a while since I chased any Wilsons  I looked up Griffith's for Tannagh and there is a John Wilson.  More interesting for me when I looked at the holding for John Wilson in Glendavagh and compared it with the modern map the farm seems to be lergely the same.  I intend to visit next week to see if anything of the old farmhouse remains.  In this part of the world old buildings were often retained even when newer ones were constructed.  I also see that an adjoining farm in Glenkeen townland was farmed by Robert Wilson.  That part of Tyrone was coming down with them!  I also plan to call off in Caledon to see if there are any local history projects/contacts.  I shall let you know how I get on.

Hi Annie. It took me a while to find the notes I had made on my last visit to the PRONI. I went through the Minterburn church records.  I didn't find my great great grandmother, Margaret Wilson, but that didn't surpise me as I know the old tradition was often that the eldest child was baptised in the mother's church.  I did find several Wilson children where the father was John Wilson.  They were Jane (b1834) Richard (b1836) Moses (b1839). For each the mother is Jane Moore and the residence is Tannaghlane, which is right beside Minterburn and Glendavagh.  There were also entries for a Henry Wilson (b1841, and a James (b1841) who appear to be twins.  Their mother is Mary Jane Melon (or Melor) and the residence is Legane.  Legane is also in the immediate area of Minterburn.  I have assumed that the children of John Wilson and Jane Moore are my great great grandmother's siblings because a) Jane and Richard are family names that reoccur in subsequent generations and b) there is a record of the marriage of a Jane Wilson to James Marshall in Minterburn Church in 1855 where the bride's father is given as John Wilson of Glendavagh.

Hi Annie.  Thanks for that.  I had already accessed the online search facility when it was launched at GRONI. I have had to ration myself to 25 tokens every pay day or I would soon end up in trouble with the bank manager    I see from Google maps that Mulnahorn Lane is not very far at all from Glendavagh Road.  Do you know what the connection is, if any, between the Mulahorn Wilsons and my John Wilson of Glendavagh?  From the looks of things my great great grandmother was one of three Wilson girls, the other two being Maria and Jane.  It's confusing though because there are lot of Wilsons in the Minterburn church records. 

Hi David

I have little or no idea about the Wilson's.  I only managed to find my great great grandparents marriage details last year on familysearch.org , and then got a hard copy through Emerald Ancestors.  I have been to Minterburn and there are still Wilsons being buried in the graveyard there...there was a service just last month.  The records aren't available online but can be searched at the Northern Ireland Public Records Office (PRONI).  None of my family have been DNA tested (although I suspect one or two have been fingerpinted  )  Out of interest, did you find a Susan Wilson who married a George Bell?  As I posted previously George Bell was a witness at my gg Grandparent's wedding and I'm trying to link him to a George Bell in Savannah, Georgia. Long shot.

Stuart