Curran and Stevenson Ramelton

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Lodger.

HI I am a curran from ramelton and was showing this to my farther last night and he has a great knowledge of the family history so I will sit down and try and get information from him
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Hi Rocky111,

I hope we can make a connection, I know of a Curran relation who lives at the Roughan, big house on the right at the top of the hill. He has a brother who I met about 2 years ago, he farms on the other side of the town (last house before the bridge was his directions!)
I plan another trip to the Ramelton/Letterkenny area in June to attend a wedding, so perhaps we could meet up? I have a good deal more information on the Curran and Stevenson families than I admit to on the Board, it seems to have more than its share of know-it-all's!
I was in Conway's in August this year, a good pint of stout and the Blue Goat is a great shop.
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Did you ask Joe about his Buchanan roots - his great grandmother was Rachel Stevenson....

[Lodger]

Did you ask Joe about his Buchanan roots - his great grandmother was Rachel Stevenson....

Joe?

[Rocky111]

I think that is my uncle who lives in the big house the man you need to chat to is Charlie who farms and lives close by he has a wealth of knowledge and can go back about 3 or 4 generations as one he wanight he informed me that fergusons from the high carin were also related and hynes from ramelton were also related to the currans

[Lodger]

Thanks for getting back to me, yes it was Charlie I spoke to a couple of years ago, he said that the next time I came he would take me to High Carn and show me where the Stevenson's farmed.
Patsy Hynes who lived in Clydebank, near Glasgow, was Charlie & Peter's cousin, he was the rich one of the family! The Ferguson's were connected through Annie Stevenson, they didn't move from Ramelton, unlike most of her siblings, they lived at Clooney and are buried in the old churchyard with the ruined church, right in the middle of the town.

[Rocky111]

There was a wille ferguson  from the high cairn married a bridget dotherty from loughres milford and lived in clydebank but they had no family

[Sharnie]

I am great granddaughter of james black the second marriage he had a son who went to Canada in army had 3 half sisters one half brother one my grandmother she spoke so fondly of him .would like to know about Curran/ side of family

I am great granddaughter of james black the second marriage he had a son who went to Canada in army had 3 half sisters one half brother one my grandmother she spoke so fondly of him .would like to know about Curran/ side of family

Hello,

Yes, I am still interested in the Black connection, although all I can I tell you is that after Margaret Curran's early death, her husband re-married and lived in Londonderry. I think he is there in the 1911 census with new wife, son James and further children.

Margaret and James married 12 Dec 1895 3rd Presbyterian Church, Letterkenny. She must have died around the time of her son's birth but I don't know exactly when.
Her eldest sister visited from Canada in 1923 and gave her address in Ireland as c/o her brother-in-law James Black, 1 Northland Avenue, Derry.

Hello,

Yes, I am still interested in the Black connection, although all I can I tell you is that after Margaret Curran's early death, her husband re-married and lived in Londonderry. I think he is there in the 1911 census with new wife, son James and further children.

Margaret and James married 12 Dec 1895 3rd Presbyterian Church, Letterkenny. She must have died around the time of her son's birth but I don't know exactly when.
Her eldest sister visited from Canada in 1923 and gave her address in Ireland as c/o her brother-in-law James Black, 1 Northland Avenue, Derry.

I've just been checking my original post and it should read
Patrick died at the Roughan, Ramelton in 1917. Not Charles.

Hello,

Yes, I am still interested in the Black connection, although all I can I tell you is that after Margaret Curran's early death, her husband re-married and lived in Londonderry. I think he is there in the 1911 census with new wife, son James and further children.

Margaret and James married 12 Dec 1895 3rd Presbyterian Church, Letterkenny. She must have died around the time of her son's birth but I don't know exactly when.
Her eldest sister visited from Canada in 1923 and gave her address in Ireland as c/o her brother-in-law James Black, 1 Northland Avenue, Derry.

Ye s James black lived at 1northland avenue Derry.He was my great grandfather James son grew up with the him  and he ended up emigrating to Canada .young James had a close bond with my grandmother and her sisters and brother .James.Black remarried a Sherrard lady from Derry .