PEW SHANKS HASTIE

[meowkat]

My ancestors came from County Down, I don't know where thought and so far I haven't been able to trace them before they arrived in Scotland.

I do have some dates for them, hopefully somewhere there will be a record of them. They moved to Scotland about 1840.

Thomas PEW married Elizabeth SHANKS, daughter of Robert Shanks and Elizabeth BOLTON, probably some time before 1819
They emigrated to Scotland with the Following children:

• Robert Pew born County Down about 1819
  Elizabeth Pew aborn about 1824
  Marther Pew born about 1828
  Agnes born about 1830
  Isabella Smith Pew born about 1833
  Thomas Pew was born in County Down on 12 April 1837.

Their eldest known child, Robert married a Janet HASTIE (daughter of Jamed HASTIE and Mary BELL) in County Down in 1837, she was also born in County Down about 1819.
They had at least two children in Ireland before moving to Scotland before the 1841 census.
Elizabeth and Alexander, Elizabeth was the eldest.

The Irish resources baffle me. I've tried searching my ancestors online, but nothing has come up. I was hoping that someone might be able to help me.

Thank you

[BallyaltikilliganG]

start with http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/ and look up hasty, pugh etc for possible clues
good luck, jim

[moggerdog]

Hello,

I am searching the very same family tree. I had got as far back as Thomas Pew and Betty Shanks but no further. I too am having trouble with Irish records. Thomas Pew is my great-great-great-great grandfather.

[soapy1]

Hello Moggerdog,

I also have Thomas Pew & Eliz Shanks in my direct line. Their daughter Isabella Smith Pew married daniel Gray Russell, my grt grt Grandfather.#

They stayed in Quarry Rd Airdrie

[Elwyn Soutter]

There is only 1 will for Pew/Pugh listed on the PRONI wills site. The will itself has been destroyed but the abstract has survived:

Letters of Administration of the personal estate of John Pugh otherwise Pew late of 32 Moffatt-street Belfast Gentleman who died 27 December 1884 at same place were granted at Belfast to Joseph Francis Pugh of same place M.D. the Child. Effects £1,207. (This John Pugh/Pew was born 1822).

Griffiths Valuation (1863) has no entries for Pew in Co Down. The name does however appear as Pugh, and there are 9 entries, all in Kilkeel parish. If you have no other leads, and you know your ancestors exact religion, you might want to research parish records for Kilkeel to see if you can find any baptism and marriages that match the information you already have.

www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml

You can see what parish records exist on the PRONI site:

www.proni.gov.uk/index/research_and_records_held/catalogues_guides_indexes_and_leaflets/online_guides_and_indexes.htm

[kingskerswell]

Hi,
    If Letters of Administration were issued it means that there never was a will and the courts gave approval to a responsible person to dispose of the estate. There may be some documentation associated with this available at PRONI.

Regards

[aghadowey]

Kingskerswell is correct that there was no Will filed but as far as I know all pre-1900 administration paperwork was destroyed when the Four Courts burned.

[meowkat]

Hi folks,

It's nice to get so many replies after having posted this ages ago. I've done my very best to serch the family back even further online. I keep hitting a brick wall- nearly 2 years on and I m no further back. I'm hoping that all the imformation ISN'T online. Those of you who know Irish genealogy well, could it be possible that there might be further records available only in hard copy?

I'd like to take a trip to Ireland sometime to try to fill in the gaps.

[Elwyn Soutter]

The parish records are not all on-line, and many need to be looked up on microfilms either at PRONI or by ordering them in to your nearest LDS library. If you think there is any merit in my suggestion you research the PUGH families in the parish of Kilkeel (since that’s the spelling that was most common in Ireland and Kilkeel is the only parish in Co Down that they are listed) you may be interested to see that there was still one Pugh family farming there in 1901. I looked to see what religion they were to narrow your search, but it turns out to be a mixed marriage so that may not help quite so much:

www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Down/Mullarton/Mullartown/1235569/