Landrum - Ireland and Preston, Lancs - help in finding Irish link pls...

[heywood]

hope you don't mind my popping in:
Andrew Landrum b 1864 d 1879 seems to be  the son of Alexander and Mary A - see opening post of suitcase.

1871 RG10; Piece: 4212; Folio: 92; Page: 12

these devlopments look really good - I'm glad for you both

[suitcase]

Hi,

Yes, that's right, that's my Alexander and Andrew and William are both his children...so there would definitely seem to be a link here between Alexander and Andrew b1815 - my assumption is brothers  but yet to prove that

Do let me know if you have anything else PearlJim, and I shall keep hunting...

Suitcase

[suitcase]

Me again - assume you have the census records:

In 1871 at 12 Jutland st, you have:
Andrew Landrum     head            56        m                  b Ireland
Jane Landrum          wife              55       m                  b Ireland
Jane Stephens         dau              26       u                   b Ireland
Thomas Landrum    son               19       u                    b Ireland
Andrew Landrum    son                15       u                   b Preston

...so this would be your Andrew aged 15.
Given that Thomas was born in Ireland and Andrew in Preston, we can assume they came over between 1852 and 1856 approx although I can find no trace in 1861 census

Then in 1881 45 Gillett Street, Preston
James Swindlehurst   head            28        m             b Preston, Lancs
Jane Swindlehurst     wife              35        m            b Ireland
Andrew Landrum       father in law 68        w             b Ireland
Sarah Landrum         sister in law   28         m           b Preston
Ada Landrum             dau (of Sarah I assume)         b Preston

Jane Stephens has remarried to James Swindlehurst
Sarah is married to Thomas Landrum (see above 1871) - she and Ada appear twice in 1881 census, here with the Swindlehursts and also at home with Thomas and other children in Accrington....

I have also census records for your Andrew and his family from 1881 onward if you don't have them?

There are census records for Alexander and Mary Ann in Preston from 1861 through to 1901. Interestingly in 1861 they have a visitor - John Stephens, a 17yr old carpenter from Ireland - wondering if some link to Jane Stephens above?

In 1861 the only other Landrums in Preston seem to be George (62yrs), his wife Kate (52 yrs) and their children: William (21), Andrew (18), Jane (16), Mary (14), Margaret (12), with lodgers Mariah Nixon (17) and Ellen Stephens (14) - Stephens again...can't be just co-incidence...although I can't work out how George and Kate fit in with my Alexander or your Andrew...

So frustrating as I'm sure the link is there, just got to find it...

Suitcase

[PearlJim]

Thanks for this - interesting . Somewhere I believe ther is an Enniskillin connection.
If I find anything I will keep you posted

[Kath68]

Hi Suitcase - the George and Kate Landrum in Preston in 1861 are my Great great great grandparents.  Their son William - his daughter Martha married Arthur James Baybutt and had my Grandmother Marjorie in 1915. I can’t get any further back than George and Kate.