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Armagh / Re: Calverts in Moyraverty
« on: Saturday 25 October 25 12:17 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Kiltaglassan for this excellent series of posts.

I knew Fred McClennan - he was a good friend of my father John McConnell, as a relative and I think as a member of Old Wesley Rugby Club.

Can you help me to contact passat06?

He/she is a relative of mine.

My email is david.mcconnell44@gmail.com.


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Armagh / Re: Wm McCONNELL Mary Jane BLAIR Lurgan
« on: Thursday 23 October 25 18:14 BST (UK)  »
I am most interested in this discussion.  passat06 posted that she was descended from William McConnell b 1799 and his son John McConnell b 1834 of Bowen's Lane Tiersogue.  They are my greatgreat and great grandfathers. 

John had a brother William [b 1830] who married Anne Malcolmson.  This does not quite tally with Anita's story.  But I suspect there were other McConnell families in the neighbourhood of Bowen's Lane  I would very much like to correspond directly with you Anita - see my email below.  I have relatives in Australia including an Edward who may have been born in 1820 and died in Australia.

John's sister Anne married Thomas Calvert.  I would like to correspond with passat06 and the Calverts.  I now have some DNA evidence of the early origins of this McConnell family.  We are related to McConvilles and other variations.

Readers may be interested to know that John Wesley visited County Armagh in at least 9 different years in the 1700s.  In some years he made several different visits.
 
Raymond Gillespie's book about the history of Methodism in the Lurgan area "Wild as Colts Untamed". refers to 'cottage meetings having taken place in Bowen's Lane near the McConnell home.'  The date is not recorded.

The Bowen's Lane McConnells went on to make major contributions to Methodism.

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Armagh / Re: Calverts in Moyraverty
« on: Thursday 23 October 25 17:56 BST (UK)  »
I refer to the post by passat06 see below.

I would like to correspond with passat06.  I too am descended from William McConnell [b1799] and John McConnell (1834-1902).  They are my great great and great grandfathers and lived at Bowen's Lane Tiersogue.  His daughter Anne married Thomas Calvert.  How can I correspond with passat06. 

David McConnell

Re: Wm McCONNELL Mary Jane BLAIR Lurgan
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 06 November 11 16:09 GMT (UK) »
Anita,

Your post is interesting to me.  I am fairly sure that your address "Bones Lane" is in fact Bowens Lane.  The Bowen family are shown as living in a first class house in Tiersogue at the end of Bowens Lane in the 1901 census.
My g g grandfather was William McConnell born in 1799 in Lurgan, occupation- a weaver.  One of my Uncles did a family tree and got back as far as William.
William married but I don't have his wife's details or how many children they had.  (I assume that the family were Methodists as my g Grandfather was Methodist.)
William had a son John McConnell (1834-1902) my g grandfather and he also lived in Lurgan in a townland called Tiersogue at the end of Bowens Lane, off the Banbridge Road.  (You can see it on Google) John Married Anne George, whose family also lived on Bowens Lane in 1858.
Could it be that your William McConnell who married Mary Jane Blair was in fact a brother of  my g grandfather John McConnell (1834-1902)?
If so their father was William McConnell and according to my records he died in Lurgan 1967.
If you have any record of your William McConnell's siblings that would be interesting."


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