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Tyrone / Re: Daniel Devlin in Omagh
« on: Wednesday 22 June 05 09:10 BST (UK) »
My grandmother, Mary Devlin was born about 1880 between Omagh and Gortin, a protestant. Looking at your information some thing strikes me. You say a Catholic in Orange County was unusual. perhaps that is partly why he emigrated - famine Protestant.
His mother's name is rather Protestant. My grandmother's family were certainly Catholic at the end of the 1700s and owned a lot of land between Gortin and Newtownstewart; but were supplanted by an English family, the Blackston Houstons of Beltrim and driven into poverty. Her family was decimated by a flu epidemic early 1900s or late 1800s. Her one surviving brother, John Alexander emigrated to the eastern USA and became a medical student; but died before the first world war.
You may need to look at Protestant records from Tyrone too.
His mother's name is rather Protestant. My grandmother's family were certainly Catholic at the end of the 1700s and owned a lot of land between Gortin and Newtownstewart; but were supplanted by an English family, the Blackston Houstons of Beltrim and driven into poverty. Her family was decimated by a flu epidemic early 1900s or late 1800s. Her one surviving brother, John Alexander emigrated to the eastern USA and became a medical student; but died before the first world war.
You may need to look at Protestant records from Tyrone too.