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Donegal / Re: STEWART families in Donegal
« on: Friday 15 March 19 17:47 GMT (UK)  »
G'day, Alex, & thanks for the speedy response to my query! There might be a good possibility we are related thru these and other Stewarts, then, as I have collected more than a few possible relatives named "Alexander," or "Alex," one of them named William Alexander Stewart, who is living in the same place as my g-g-grandfather Thomas and other ancestors there in Scott Co., IA, after the bunch of them moved there from Armstrong (later Clarion Co., PA):

Example:
1854 IA State Census of Le Claire Twp., Scott Co., IA [all neighbors]:
Samuel More [Moore], 4 males, 4 females, 1 alien, total 8 persons
William A. [ALEXANDER--jms] Stewart, 6 males, 3 females, 1 naturalized, total 9 persons
Samuel Wilson, 6 males, 2 females, 8 aliens, total 8 persons
John More [Moore], 4 males, 6 females, 1 militia, 1 naturalized, total 10 persons
James Brown, 7 males, 3 females, 1 naturalized, total 10 persons
THOMAS STEWART, 3 males, 2 females, 1 ALIEN [sic], total 5 persons
Nathaniel Wilson, 1 male, 1 militia
William Jamison, 1 male, 1 female, total 2 persons
James Wilson, 4 males, 3 females, total 7 persons.

These families (and many, many more) are all intermarried and tended to travel in related groups of cousins/uncles, etc.

Other associated families are PORTER, WILSON, SIMPSON, HIRL, WRAY, CAMPBELL, (LOTS with given names "FINLEY") etc. I have a ton of them waiting to be sorted out.

Since you suggested it, and I'd very much prefer it, we might just change to corresponding privately.

Best regards,
Jack

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Donegal / Re: STEWART families in Donegal
« on: Friday 15 March 19 12:49 GMT (UK)  »
I just discovered "RootsChat" and so don't know quite how it works as yet. I have been researching my STEWART ancestors for many years now. My g-g-grandfather, Thomas Stewart (1818-1904) immigrated from the Ramelton, Co. Donegal area ca. 1828/9 through Philadelphia, PA to Armstrong Co., PA and there married in 1848 Elizabeth Brown (1821-1912) in Zion church, Shannondale, Clarion Co., PA. I believe Elizabeth Brown's family also came from the same general Ireland location. The family, along with other similar immigrant families, migrated from Armstrong/Clarion Co's., PA to the Scott Co., Iowa area en-masse, and many inter-related marriages ensued. After the Civil War, in which Thomas and many of his fellow Irish immigrants served, many of these families then moved on to Nebraska, Kansas, and points west in a group where they claimed "bounty lands" for their military service. These families include STEWART, BROWN, ENGLISH, MOORE, MCFATE, DAVIES, PORTER, WRAY, GALBRAITHE, and many more. I would be very interested in exchanging research of these families with anyone interested.

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