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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: fox, maguire in auckland
« on: Saturday 25 February 17 21:04 GMT (UK)  »
Correction: I should have written Mary Fox rather than Margaret Fox. She went on to marry Hugh Campbell in 1881. I don't have a birth record but if I have the right one in the 1901 Census  (and she was being honest) she would have been born around 1845, which seems a bit too late in relation to her other siblings and I guess would have made her too young (only around 18) to be a witness, I would guess. The other witness, clearly from the bride's family, George Gillen, would have been 21, 26 (1st definitely unmarried, 2nd probably unmarried)  or 70 (definitely married). I have no idea about customs as to witnesses in those days. But a family connection to the Foxes via the Blackers looks very likely to me.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: fox, maguire in auckland
« on: Saturday 25 February 17 18:01 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

Very impressive work here everyone. I shall explain how I fit in.

I am descended from Elizabeth Blacker who I suspect was the sister of the Ann Blacker who married Bernard Fox from Killylyn, Grange, Armagh and had the Terence Fox in 1831  who married Catherine Blacker in 1863 and was the landlord of what is now Wee Minnies in Gilford. My mother was born in Tullysaran and I have lots of connections there. A witness to my great grandfather Joseph O'Neill's marriage to Sarah Gillen in 1863 was a Margaret Fox who I think would have been his cousin born in 1820 to Ann Blacker (assuming I am right about the siblings). Killylyn is very close to Tullysaran and a lot of the weddings and possibly baptisms were in Armagh City itself, I think. So the idea that the Fox's came from Tullysaran seems quite reasonable to me.

I am not sure about Catherine Blacker being a Protestant. There have been plenty of Catholic Blackers in Armagh and I have written a lot about them without being at all clear about where my Elizabeth Blacker originated. She started her family in Loughgilly. Later children were baptised in Armagh and it was when I was looking for my great grandfather's baptism I stumbled across Ann Blacker's Terence being baptised in 1831(I believe her name was wrongly transcribed by rootsirend.ie and that threw me of the scent for years!). But now I am closer than ever to locating my Blackers, so if anyone can help.....

In any case everyone is welcome to my piece on the Blackers. 

John

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