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Thanks for looking for the McCrum's. 
Our direct line consists of :

Robert Crawford, married Elizabeth/Bessie Irvine, August 13, 1867. In Donaghmore.   A copy of their marriage says his father was James, but the actual church record, says his father was Isaac.

Robert and Bessie had 12 children.  Their oldest son Isaac, born in 1868, moved to Belfast, and married Elizabeth Crawford, in 1896. They had two children, Jean, and Edith Elizabeth.  Isaac worked for Harland an Wolff.  Elizabeth died in 1907.  Isaac remarries in 1913
to Lizzie Corken. 

Isaac died in 1915.  Apparently Lizzie was mean to the two girls, and they left, and moved in with some Adair relatives.

They caught the first ship, out of Ireland, in 1918, and came to Montreal, where a sister of their father (Isaac) had immigrated. 

The girls both married in Montreal.  Edith Elizabeth married a Thomas Moorcroft, from Lancashire, and they had three children, of which my mother was one.  Edith died 6 days after my mother was born, and she was raised by her father, and paternal grandparents.

We have documented all of this.  The only thing we are stuck on, is the birthdate of Robert, who was apparently from Loughorn, and the death of his father Isaac. The birth seems to be at the point when two of the Presbyterian churches, were merging, or splitting.   

The family of Robert and Bessie Irvine (of Shinn) seems to be Church of Ireland.

It may be, that we will have to wait, until these records, become available online, as searching from Canada is not possible, We have paid researchers in the past, and a very kind lady named Maud Hamill, helped out a lot.. by looking up records for us.

Thanks again, for your kind attention.

Lorie



 

Found this:

James Levy, son of Christopher Leavy and Joan Dinnigan, was baptised on September 15,1817, at Longford, County Longford.  Roman Catholic.  Sponsors were: Bernard and Catherine Leavy.


Hope this helps,

Lorie

Robert does not appear in Civil registration.  We have access to 3 or 4 paid Irish genealogy sites, and cannot find him anywhere.   He could have been born between 1844-1848, according to what records we have accumulated so far.

Lorie

Thanks a lot, I have used and contributed to that site.
I will tag along on a McCrum in Newry post, as that is where my McCrums are from


Lorie

Thanks for the information.  As i stated previously, i was looking for BURIAL RECORDS........  in Shankill Cemetery...........not death records or indexes.  Sry to have caused such confusion, and to have wasted your time. Apparently my original request was not clear enough. 

Lorie