Slaters from Scotland to Ireland to Canada 1800s

[cairolyle]

I am looking for the Slater family that lived in Muff Parish, Drumskellan, Donegal, Ireland in the early 1800s and may have come from Scotland. They were known as the Slaters of The Rock.

Before my grandmother died in 2004, the year I started my research, she swore we were originally from Scotland. Didn't know where though....great. So I am starting my search on possible Thomas Slaters who may have emigrated from Scotland to Ireland and were farmers by trade....at least they were when they got to Canada....maybe they were literally slaters in Ireland. I don't know. I wish I had more information. I do know that there is a direct line of Thomas Slaters....so someone loved that name!!!  This name may still be in records somewhere in Scotland.    please help!

My g.g.g.g.grandfather was Thomas Slater and he was born 1862. I believe his father was also Thomas Slater (at least that is the name on his daughter's marriage certificate...Mary Ruth Slater married James Greer) and am still trying to find that information. Thomas went to Canada in 1851, and I have all of that info. I do have a person who is trying to help me find more info on the Slaters in Ireland, but I welcome any help!  Does anyone know of a Slater family that moved from Scotland to northern Ireland? One person thought my Slaters could have come from Perth or Caputh and since this was Perthshire...perhaps folks would have some info. If there is a better discussion board I should be on, please advise.

Joy
Florida, USA



Moderator Comment: If anybody can help, then please check out this thread on the Perth Board as well,
to avoid duplication of efforts. Thanks
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,231050.0.html

[KarenM]

Hi Joy

What part of Canada did they come to?

Karen

[maryderry]

HELLO AGAIN JOY, FINALLY GOT TO GO TO THE CEMETERY. FIRST WENT TO DRUMHAGGARD SORRY NO HEADSTONES FOR SLATER.      WENT ON TO MUFF COFI CEMETERY FOUND TWO SLATERS.
SAMUEL SLATER DIED 21-11-1946 AGE 55.

THE NEXT ONE JUST SAYS SLATER LENAMORE, LENAMORE IS NOT VERY FAR FROM MUFF.
I HAVE TAKEN SOME PHOTOS FOR YOU,WILL PUT THEM ON LATER.

 TRYING TO FIND OUT IF THERE ARE ANY CEMETERY RECORDS FOR BOTH.WILL GET BACK TO YOU AS SOON AS I CAN.

                                                REGARDS MARY.

[cairolyle]

Mary Thank you thank you thank you!!!  I can't tell you how much I appreciate what you have done! I wonder what other cemeteries they could be buried in. Do you think they could have been buried on their property? I know they were Presbyterian and that there were some Pres cemeteries in that area...but other than that, I have no idea what there could be. Wish I could be there!!

I will wait eagerly for any other info you come up with!

Joy

[aghadowey]

Joy- many Presbyterian churches in Ireland did not have their own burying ground and as they were years ago entitled to be buried in Parish (Church of Ireland) ground this explains why so many Presbyterians were buried in C. of I. ground. Sometimes the headstones were removed by the Parish Church after a plot was not used or a family moved away and sometimes Presbyterian burials were not recorded in the burial register.

[cairolyle]

They settled in New Brunswick, Canada. More specifically, Eel River.

Thanks,
Joy

[aghadowey]

I am looking for the Slater family that lived in Muff Parish, Drumskellan, Donegal, Ireland in the early 1800s and may have come from Scotland. They were known as the Slaters of The Rock.
Before my grandmother died in 2004, the year I started my research, she swore we were originally from Scotland. Didn't know where though....great. So I am starting my search on possible Thomas Slaters who may have emigrated from Scotland to Ireland.... This name may still be in records somewhere in Scotland.
Does anyone know of a Slater family that moved from Scotland to northern Ireland? One person thought my Slaters could have come from Perth or Caputh and since this was Perthshire...

Joy- your Slaters from Co. Donegal could certainly have been from Scotland but several generations further back than you are assuming. The descendants of Scottish settlers would have called themselves Ulster Scots rather than Irish even after hundred years or more in Ireland. You really need to trace your family in Donegal first before trying to find where in Scotland they might have come from originally.

New Brunswick records are very good and might give more information than Irish records.

[mossy]

Hello
This might be a bit of help.

Griffiths Valuation  1847-1864

SLATOR THOMAS BRADLEY JOHN DONEGAL MUFF DRUMSKELLAN



SLATER, Mary Anne   Birth
   Gender:   Female
   Birth Date:   18 May 1872   Birthplace:   178, Moville, Don, Ire
         Recorded in:    Donegal, Ireland
         Collection:   Civil Registration
   Father:   John SLATER
   Mother:   Jane KELLY
Source:   FHL Film 255850   Dates:   1872 - 1873

[LH]

On their website, the Mormons list:-

Thomas Slater -   Gender: Male   Birth: 15 APR 1826 Muff Parish, Drumskellan, Donegal, Ireland

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