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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: The 'Stafford' O'Neills of Rocktown / Ballymacpeake
« on: Monday 09 November 20 17:41 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for your message! Yes I did spot the sponsors (Margey and Mulholland) a few years back when I first started researching them and that is who the Mulholland in the tree references, though no hints have appeared on Ancestry to help me substantiate that! The Denis Mulholland had a son George and I put him in the tree as well to see if that would kickstart any thru lines but to date it has not. I may change it to Margey!

As you will have noticed every single entry on that wedding record had dispensations (usually re: Banns). Where they were cousins of any degree it is usually noted (and there are examples of that on the records). Frustratingly there is no indication on Catherine and John's wedding record (as there is on the one above them) of them being cousins at all.

I have checked my DNA with Paul's and there is no indication that we are related at all or that he is related to any of my other Rocktown O'Neills. Interestingly though he does seem to have a connection with a number of my McCloskey cousins over that side of Derry and there are some O'Neills in that line as well that he may be related to. Thanks again.

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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: The 'Stafford' O'Neills of Rocktown / Ballymacpeake
« on: Sunday 08 November 20 18:41 GMT (UK)  »
Our Kealeys of Killerfaith may have some connection to the McGraths/McGras who are family to the McAnally/Campbells of Tyrone/Antrm.  Roseanne Campbell Kealey came from Tyrone  and seems to have O'Neill family over there too, with an O'Neill birth sponsor, so it may well be that those O'Neills are the same as the Rocktown ones or, as is equally likely, we have more than one set of O'Neills in our Ancestry. We have DNA O'Neill cousins that seem to come from Wexford (that are dna linked to 4 of us descendants of John and Catherine Kealey O'Neill). Have a look at my tree. I have certainly looked at the possibility that all of these families have Bellaghy/Maghera/Magherafelt/Cookstown/Coalisland and even Rocktown connections. Quite a web!!


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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: The 'Stafford' O'Neills of Rocktown / Ballymacpeake
« on: Sunday 08 November 20 13:37 GMT (UK)  »
John married Catherine Kealey in St Patrick's Dungiven and there are plenty of records around for the family and DNA connections too. He was a grocer/butcher too with a home on Main street, Dungiven as well as a farmer. If you send me your email I'll add you to my family tree at ancestry.

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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: The 'Stafford' O'Neills of Rocktown / Ballymacpeake
« on: Sunday 08 November 20 13:22 GMT (UK)  »
It is close enough to Rocktown. I was just looking again at the 1831 census there and the Lavey church records but they do not help that much!

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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: The 'Stafford' O'Neills of Rocktown / Ballymacpeake
« on: Saturday 31 October 20 15:36 GMT (UK)  »
I'd be very interested in connecting with anyone from this line that has done their DNA for sure thanks.





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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: The 'Stafford' O'Neills of Rocktown / Ballymacpeake
« on: Saturday 31 October 20 00:27 GMT (UK)  »
Hiya, I am an O'Neill cousin too, descended from Hugh and Mary Irons O'Neill of Ardinarif , Dungiven and Rocktown. Just wondering if any of you who are linked to the Stafford O'Neills have done their DNA? I am through the female line and have done my MT dna too though that goes through our Kealey and Campbell line. It would be nice to see if any of us match up. We have no knowledge of any other siblings for John unfortunately though I think he must have had them as my mother talked of some of the aunies and uncles in America - one auntie in particular who was a lion tamer with a Circus perhaps in California. My mother and granny usedto visit Rothsay on the Isle of Bute a lot and I believe that may have been to O'Neill family. Also there is a Mary O'Neill Bradley who was the godmother of my eldest brother who is believed to have been an O'Neill somehow too, possibly a cousin through one of John's siblings.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Drumloo County Down
« on: Monday 02 September 19 22:45 BST (UK)  »
That's a good tip. Thankyou!

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Drumloo County Down
« on: Monday 02 September 19 18:35 BST (UK)  »
Thankyou!

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Drumloo County Down
« on: Monday 02 September 19 12:12 BST (UK)  »
Good point - thanks!

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