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Re: Ferguson, Gortnessey & Cunningham, Primity
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 19 June 10 00:43 BST (UK) »
Thank you. Yes that was her. I had the privilege of living with her for a year in Adelaide in my late teens (a long time ago). She was a most remarkable lady, educated in Ireland, Germany and France, which must have been most unusual in that time.
Thank you again for your interest and assistance.
Cheers,
Terry
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Re: Ferguson, Gortnessey & Cunningham, Primity
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 15 July 10 22:24 BST (UK) »
This is my first post - but I was intigued by your relationship to Samuel John Cunningham and Jane Ferguson - they are my 2 x great grandparents.   I am a descendant of their daughter Sarah Jane.   
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Re: Ferguson, Gortnessey & Cunningham, Primity
« Reply #11 on: Friday 16 July 10 06:43 BST (UK) »
Hi Sara,

So we share two of the same great/great great grandparents! It is a small world indeed.
I am descended through their first born, John Cunningham, who inherited the farm from his father. He ceded the rights to it to his brother Andrew, not to enter business as I first thought, but to study to be a teacher. He studied at Dublin College, where (I assume) he met his wife to be, Jane (Jeannie) McMillen Browne, who was also a teacher. It was some time after that that he became an auctioneer, valuer and estate agent. They at first lived in Catherine Street, Limavady, then moved to 3 Main Street, Limavady, but were probably renting because the property was converted to a bicycle shop. He must have been successful, because they then purchased 6 and 8 Main Street. The family lived in one half, and the other half was set up as a school for my grandmother Ada, which she ran with her mother very successfully until she married my grandfather in 1913 and left Ireland for good. She did return for visits on at least two but probably more occasions. My aunt (Ada's daughter) visited the house (then owned by the Mullins family) in or about 1980 and met the then owners and two of Ada's former students.
If you would like more information on Ada and her descendents, please email me directly at (*). I would love to hear from you to compare notes and share photos etc.
My wife and I are travelling out in the desert for the next three weeks and will be periodically out of range of mobile phones and therefore internet access from time to time, but I should be able to respond without too much delay.
Thank you for making contact.
Terry

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Re: Ferguson, Gortnessey & Cunningham, Primity
« Reply #12 on: Friday 16 July 10 07:40 BST (UK) »
Hi,
   The two properties you refer to in Main Street, Limavady, lay empty for some years and about a year ago they mysteriously burned down. The site was cleared and is now up for sale.

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Re: Ferguson, Gortnessey & Cunningham, Primity
« Reply #13 on: Friday 16 July 10 12:17 BST (UK) »
Kingskerswell,

Thank you for letting me know. I am a little sad to hear that that link with the past is now gone, but since the houses were known to have been standing during the Siege of Derry (according to a book I read), I guess they had had a good run.
Cheers,

Terry
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Re: Ferguson, Gortnessey & Cunningham, Primity
« Reply #14 on: Friday 16 July 10 12:39 BST (UK) »
Hi,
   The houses which we are talking about were Georgian so would not have been there in 1688. However I have a copy of an old map which shows houses on the site in 1699. The occupiers at that time, as near as I can determine, were Mistress Cambol (sic) widow and Walter Williamson.

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Re: Ferguson, Gortnessey & Cunningham, Primity
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 18 October 11 19:53 BST (UK) »
Hi

I have started following up on some family history research my father started about 25 years ago.

My Great Grandfather, Thomas Walker Todd, a farmer from Castlemellan, Co Tyrone, married Hannah Cunningham in the parish of Glendermott on 30/1/1879.  Hannah's father was Samuel John Cunningham, a farmer from Primity.  The marriage was witnessed by her brother, Andrew Cunningham and her sister, Lizzie Cunningham.  I understand she was the oldest of 11 children.

Since Thomas was born in 1846, and your Samuel John married Jane Ferguson in 1847, I suspect we could be looking at the same family.

I do not know what happened to Hannah after this - we cannot trace records of her death, but Thomas remarried on 12 October 1897.  As far as we know, Thomas and Hannah had no children.

I would be interested in any information you have on Hannah or her brothers and sisters.

Marjorie

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« Reply #16 on: Sunday 06 November 11 22:08 GMT (UK) »
Hello

I do have information on Hannah's siblings.   I have listed them below:

John Cunningham born 11.12.1847 Primity, Co Londonderry - died 21.9.1919 Castlerock Co.Londonderry
married Jane McMillen Browne and they had 5 children.

Hannah Cunningham born 1.1.1849 and may have died in Omagh 1896??? 
Married Thomas Walker Todd and they had no children.    Hannah's death would tie in with Thomas remarrying in 1897.

Andrew Cunningham born 28.2.1851 and died 22.5.1904 Glendermott Co.Londonderry
Did not marry

Isabella Cunningham born 7.1.1852
married William John Keatley     No children

Mary Ann Cunningham born 27.5.1855
married Mark Kerr              No children

Elizabeth Cunningham born 28.4.1857
married Robert Bell         7 Children

David Babington Cunningham born 24.4.1859 and died 20.6.1917
married Anna McNealy        No children

Sarah Jane Cunningham born 24.3.1861 Glendermott, Co.Londonderry and died 14.2.1919 in Wimbledon, Surrey, England
married Thomas Alexander Cochrane and they had 8 children (they were my great-grandparents).

Rebecca Cunningham born 24.2.1865 and died 1912 Londonderry
married Hugh McMonagle and they had 6 children

Samuel F Cunningham (Reverend) born 26.3.1867 and died July 1930 Old Hunstanton, Norfolk, England
married Clara Elizabeth Crook        No children.

Robert Cunningham born 21.6.1869
married Harriett Ann Shepherd               2 children

I hope this information helps.    I you would like to send me a PM perhaps we can help each other further.

Xsara237
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Re: Ferguson, Gortnessey & Cunningham, Primity
« Reply #17 on: Sunday 04 December 11 19:26 GMT (UK) »
Hello. Quite by chance, by a general internet search, I recently came across the posts on RootsChat re Cunningham. My mother is Jean Cunningham (died 10 February 2011, aged 91) and was the daughter of David Brown Cunningham of Catherine St and Main St, Limavady. She was one of nine born to David and Mary. Her brothers and sisters were Maisie (Frances May), Walter, Edith, David, Aileen, Brian, Noelle and Roy (Robert). I remember my mother and my aunts and uncles talking about their Aunt Ada and how intelligent and kind she was and that she had settled in Adelaide. I think in about 1960/61 her son (?) Harry Wesley Smith came to visit them in Belfast and I remember as a seven-year old sitting down to a grand 'tea' in his honour at Edith's who was living in the old family home, Cavehill Rd, Belfast. Perhaps he is your father? At some stage David Cunningham moved with his family from Limavady to Belfast and worked in the Bank of Ireland (?). My older brother is *, Edith's daughter is *, Aileen's daughters are * and *, Roy who moved to Belgian Congo and then Victoria, Canada had a son * and four daughters. Interested also to see your other posts re Henry Smith, Dublin. There were also cousins of my mother's living in Armagh - Joy (*) and I think Hilda and/or Noelle.

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