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Aghadowey, You personally have a dna match with my father? Or you do NOT have a match? I think you can PM met now. Stacia

In addition to the Moon / McSparron link to the Dougherty family, I am wondering if there is an Archibald link as well. Have been finding DNA matches to Archibalds, but I think they are taking me further back to Scotland. Does anyone know if there were Archibalds in the area where the Moons were living, or any marriages between these families? I found just one Londonderry marriage of a Moon &  Archibald:

Name Elizabeth Archibald
Spouse John Moon (widow)
Father Thomas Archibald
Marriage    12 Mar 1857 Errigal, Derry, Ireland

I believe this was John Moon b. abt. 1829, son of John Moon (no dates), and Elizabeth Archibald (b. abt. 1832), dau of Thomas Archibald.
These are (at least some of) their children:
Elizabeth (1864-?)
John (1866-1957) m. Margaret McCulloch
Alexander (1870-?)
Mary Jane (1880-?) m. David Deveney

I'm not sure how or if they fit into the tree further up (Archibald / Moon)

Capt. William John Kidd Moon (13 Jan.1888 Fairmount, Aghadowey-20 July 1948) was the son of James Thomas Moon (superintendent Ballydevitt Bleach Works) and his wife Rebecca Kidd Millar, of Ballydevitt. This Moon family originally from Lisnamuck and no connection to your Moons.

Hello all,

I was interested to find this string. I am looking for the ancestry of the Moons of Ballydevitt, Aghivey, Co. Londonderry. I believe James Thomas Moon (b. abt. 1855, d. 1934) or his wife Rebecca Kidd Miller (Millar?) to be distant relatives. If anyone knows about this family or would like to connect, please contact me.

I have been searching for the parents of my gggg grandfather Dr. Archibald Doughery for years. He was born in abt. 1815, possibly Co. Londonderry. He was a surgeon in Garvagh, Co. Londonderry in the 1840s. He married in 1844, in Garvagh, Co. Londonderry, my gggg grandmother Matilda "Martha" Brown, daughter of Rev. James Brown, who was minister of First Presbyterian Church of Garvagh for many years. They married at the Brown's home. I can't find a record of the marriage other than a newspaper announcement.

Archibald and Martha Brown Dougherty had two sons, in late 1844 and 1846. Their son John Bones Dougherty is my ggg grandfather. John's daughter Mary Bones Dougherty m. Mell is my gg grandmother. In 1927 after her father John died, Mary Bones Dougherty Mell wrote to her uncle, James Brown Dougherty, back in Ireland, asking about her heritage on the Dougherty side. James had stayed back in Ireland, became a Presbyterian minister, a professor, and later MP. James replied to his niece, my gg grandmother Mary, that his grandfather, Archibald's father, was a rector in Magilligan, and that his ancestors before that, O'Dougherty, were from Co. Donegal. He said the only relatives left, so far as he knew, "...are two second cousins named MOON. One of them is a well-to-do gentleman residing at Ballydevitt, and formally connected with the linen business of (WS?) Adams. A great friend, as you may have heard, of Uncle Bones (see below for more on John Bones*)...His brother is a solicitor in Coleraine. A member of a highly respectable firm which my son Gerald (note: son Gerald was an attorney) may know..." James also mentions that Archibald was, he thinks, an only son and that he had three sisters, at least. The sisters were all dead by 1927.

Here is a link to Archibald - I've been tracking his life through letters and newspaper articles but my trail runs out at his parents. But Archibald left a trove of recommendation letters from his job search which I have been trying to document, in order to figure out his connections and his parents. Many of these letters are in the pictures section below:
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/152635374/person/342028105319/facts

In looking into the Moon family, James Thomas Moon (c.1855-1834) has three sons, and it appears that his sons fit these descriptions perhaps.
James Thomas Moon (1886-?) was an attorney
Daniel Christopher Stuart Patterson "Christopher" Moon (1890-1921) was possibly a solicitor / attorney (listed in 1911 census as Solicitor's Apprentice)
William John Kidd Moon (1888-1848) was in the linen trade

I am trying to link the Moons/Millers to the Dougherty family. I would like to share tree and any other information you may have about Aghadowey / Ballydevitt / Donegal with relation to Dougherty / McSparran (possibly Archibald's mother's surname but my dna does not reflect this surname), Speer, or anything else related! I do match many, many Doherty / O'Doherty / Docherty / O'Docharteigh cousins but none which I have placed in Magilligan, or Doughertys with three daughters, etc.

I would like to connect with anyone who can give me some clues as to Moons / Milllers / Doughertys in Magilligan (and trees), a Dougherty who was a Rector in Magilligan (I think this could mean a Church of Ireland rector?); what churches are in Magilligan during the 1805-1825 period for Church of Ireland, or Presbyterian, congregants which I might research; I had a note from somewhere that Archibald's mother could be a McSparran but the dna does not point to this - Were McSparrons or McSparrons in Magilligan or Donegal that could link us to them; or anything else that you think could be of use in documenting these family members.

My father has posted DNA in several places as well as GEDMatch, and I can share those details with you if you contact me as well.

Many thanks!