kelly's in shotts

[Janethepain]

Hi Steve!

They are my great great grand parents too!  Their daughter Catherine married Henry Duffy in Omoa Square/Cleland, and they are my Great grand parents!  Their son Joseph (born 1895) is my beloved granda!

How are you related to Thomas and Mary Jane Lamont ? I have found many fellow researchers related to my dad's side of the family, and equally I have found people on my maternal grand mother's side, the Reynolds and McDermotts, who are burrowing away, researching our common pasts.  But you are the first person I have come across researching on my mum's fathers side of the family!

Although I have found out little - well nothing really! - about Thomas Curran, I have managed to find out a lot about Mary Jane's ancestors if you are interested??

The only thing I have been able to trace about Thomas and Mary Jane, before the marriage, is a possible entry on the census  in West Calder, at 18 Baker Street, with a wife mary, and a 5 month old daughter catherine.  The names are all right, but Thomas is given as english!

Could this be them, they could have been living together before they married at the Wishaw church (St Ignatius - my local!) in February 1872.  Interestingly Mary Jane is not on the census with her parents 1n 1871 either, so it would fit in, but really it is just an idea!?

Any way - Ive just remembered that I have a birth cert for Catherine in December 1873! But then again, she could have been named after a previously deceased sibling of the same name!  I guess we will never know!

It was Ellen & Mary Jane Curran ( daughters) who married the McConnachie brothers ( Michael & Arthur) - what you say sounds very possible, about knowing the McConnachies from ireland - a good direction to be investigating in!

Hope to hear from you again

Jane

[MonicaL]

Hi Jane

IGI shows the mother of the baby Catherine that you have found as a possible on the 1871 census as Mary GRAY:

CATHERINE CURIN Birth: 16 OCT 1870 West Calder
Parents: THOMAS CURIN and MARY GRAY

Another daughter, Mary Jane born to this couple on 01 JUN 1872 in West Calder. Your Catherine, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Lamont) born on 25 DEC 1872 Shotts, Lanark.

Monica 

[edinburgh86]

Hi Jane

Thanks for the offer of information about the Lamonts, I'd be very grateful and haven't started looking on that side yet.

I'm related to the Currans/Lamonts on my mum's side. My grandparents (her parents) were first cousins - Ellen (Ella) being the daughter of Edward Curran, and Edward (Eddie) being the son of Ellen Curran and Arthur McConnachie; as you probably know, Edward and Ellen were children of Thomas and Mary Jane.

Tracing the McConnachie's has been very easy but not so the Currans in Ireland, so I was about to switch to the Lamonts..

I started looking into the Curran roots because my mum has a picture of Thomas Curran (or at least we think it's him). I'll post a photo of it if you're interested?


Thanks again


Steve

[Janethepain]

Yes I would be very interested!
Although I have traced my family back pretty much as far as you can go - bearing in mind that they all came over from Ireland, and that records for the catholic masses were just about non existent, I have very few pictures back past my grandparents. 

If you make one more post here, that is a third post, I will be able to send you aprivate messages and my email address to ease communication.

Hope to hear from you soon!

[sancti]

1 RC baptism showing on SP

BORN -20/02/1876 BAP[T. - 24/03/1876 CURRAN ROSE ANN - THOMAS CURRAN/MARY LAMOND AT HAMILTON, ST MARY'S

[edinburgh86]

Hi Jane

I'm sure that we have photos of Catherine's siblings Ellen and Edward Curran in their later years. I'll dig them out next time I visit my mum and send you a copy of them and the picture of Thomas.

Steve

[Chesapek]

Hi
I am reading with interest your posts about Omoa in Clelland which is the next village to where I live and my gr grandparents lived  there they lived in the square which my Mum was just talking about tonight she used to vist her grandfather grandpa Dowler as she always calls him my gran Rose Dowler was born not far from the square .
Also my gr gr grandmother on my Dads side was Catherine Curran born 1852 in Donegal .
 

[Janethepain]

High, Chesapek,  I have relatives on my mum's side going back to the 1851 census, living at Omoa square (Duffy), and most other branched were in Omoa by the 1880's.  I too live close to Omoa square, in Wishaw - though in my childhood I lived in the south of England, and even worse, I was born in Shotts!!  I wonder if your Catherine Curran could be a sister of my Thomas Curran.  Do you have her parents names ? I do have Thomas' parental details from his death cert.  My maternal great grand parents were, on the male side, Duffy and Curran, for neither of which do I know where they originated, and on the maternal side, McDermott  and Reynolds.  The McDermotts were from Lismacarol in Derry, and the Reynolds were from Carnlough and Cushendall on the Antrim coast.

I assume there will be Duffys, Currans, McDermotts and Reynolds in what is now known as Cleland, who are not so distant relatives of mine!

Jane

[Chesapek]

Hi Jane
I don't know anymore about Catherine other than shw married Francis Newlands and they had 15 children I do have lots of info on the children which have links with America which I think half the population at that time had .
I do have a picture of her and I would love to find out more about her was Thomas born in Donegal ?
I noticed another name you are looking for which is Burke my gr gr grandfather Francis mothers maiden name was De Burgh but in some documents she is referred to as Burke they came from Carlton in Glasgow .There could be links somewhere along this tree .
It was my Gran on my mums side that was born in Auckinlee in Celland
and then lived in Omoa Sq she was Rosie Dowler does that name ring a bell? her Mum came from Longford in Ireland .Also did you know anyone in Shotts with the name McKeown .
I could be here all night I have been doing this for a while now and get so engrossed .
Mulvey was a name my mum remembered from the square 

Ree