McCauley from Clones

[Rodger]

I am looking for the parents of James McCauley from the town of Clones in the county of Monaghan. He was born about 1797 to 1806 and married Anne Jane Brakey. They came to Ontario Canada about 1840 with three children James, Isaiah and John. The 1852 Canada census shows that he was Presbyterian and a farmer. He died in Canada in May 1885. I have his history in Canada. I believe his family were members of the Scots House Rectory in Ireland . He may have had a brother Alexander.

[Elwyn Soutter]

Statutory records of births, deaths & marriages started in Ireland in 1864 (1845 for Protestant and Non-Conformist marriages). Prior to that you are heavily dependant on church records, where they exist. In general, there are few records prior to 1800.

In your case your ancestors all left before the start of statutory records. You do know that they came from Clones and were Presbyterian. That helps but I suspect the problem you may face is that there are no church records covering their births, and possibly their marriage and births of their children because they just don’t go back far enough. I am not familiar with the “Scots House Rectory in Ireland” (As a general rule Presbyterians tended to have Manses rather than Rectories, which seems a more Church of Ireland term). There appear to have been at least 3 Presbyterian churches in and around Clones.

The Public Record Office for Northern Ireland (PRONI) has copies of many of the parish registers, including those for Clones, and has a list of those held elsewhere. www.proni.gov.uk/
The records themselves are not on line and you need to search them in person. PRONI is temporarily closed until April 2011 but there are temporary arrangements to view this data at Cregagh Library, Belfast. See PRONI website for details.

You might want to check graveyards for possible deaths (eg Alexander, if he remained in Ireland). Though some Presbyterian churches do have their own graveyards, it was quite common to use Church of Ireland graveyards too.


Elwyn

[Rodger]

Thanks Elwyn this information is helpful.
 Rodger

[Anarchivist]

Hi!  My name is chuck hill.  I'm descended from Alexander McCauley, son of James McCauley and Anne Jane Breakey.  I was wondering if you have found James' parents or Anne's?  Alexander's son, Samuel Harvey Perdue, is my grandfather.  I have not had much luck.  I was in County Monaghan in 2009 but only for a day, and the Library was closed.  However, I did discover that the Breakey's were most likely French Heugonauts.

I found the following on Ancestry World Tree:

# ID: I147100
# Name: Alexander Brakey McCauley
# Sex: M
# Birth: 1 MAY 1842 in Chinguacousey Twp., Peel Co., ON
# Death: 1924 in SK
# Burial: Rosedale Cemetery, Moose Jaw, SK
# Occupation: 1881 Well Digger
# Note:  Western Land Grants: NE section 34, Twp. 23, Rnge. 4, W3. Son Geo F. had SE quarter of same section  Ref: 1851 Census, Chinguacousey Twp., Peel Co., Canada West(ON), Section 3, p28d-29a, age 8, b Ireland
    1881 Census, Simcoe Twp., Norfolk Co.(North), ON, Dist. 158E, p14, family#67, age 36
    1911 Census, Twp. 23, Rnge. 4, W3, Moose Jaw Dist. SK, p10, house#124, age 67(May 1844), father, in home of George McCauley

Father: James McCauley b: BET 1804 AND 1805 in Ireland
Mother: Ann Jane Breakey b: BET 1809 AND 1810 in Ireland
   
Marriage 1 Elizabeth Alice Woolman b: 31 MAY 1851 in England
* Married: 24 JUN 1868 in Nanticoke, Haldimand Co., ON 1

Children:
   1. James Isaac Isiah 'Jim' McCauley b: 25 OCT 1869 in Ingersoll, Oxford Co., ON
   2. Ann Jane Elizabeth McCauley b: 11 NOV 1870
   3. Alexander William John McCauley b: 19 APR 1873 in Jarvis, Haldimand Co., ON
   4. George Francis McCauley b: 5 AUG 1874 in Simcoe, Norfolk Co., ON
   5. Alfred Henry Woolman McCauley b: 8 MAY 1877 in Simcoe, Norfolk Co., ON
   6. Charles Anson Letchfield McCauley b: 27 NOV 1878 in Simcoe, Norfolk Co., ON
   7. Henry Stanton Brock McCauley b: 28 JUL 1881 in Simcoe, Norfolk Co., ON
   8. Samuel Harvey Perdue McCauley b: 20 NOV 1883 in Chinguacousey Twp., Peel Co., ON
   9. Lilly May McCauley b: 5 NOV 1888 in Enniskillen, Lambton Co., ON

and

# ID: I147107
# Name: James McCauley
# Sex: M
# Birth: BET 1804 AND 1805 in Ireland
# Note: Ref: 1851 Census, Chinguacousey Twp., Peel Co., Canada West(ON), Section 3, p28d-29a, age 46 NOTE Place of birth is Ireland for all persons, this may be in error as Alexander, age 8 was supposedly born in this location where the census was taken ??!!!!
    1881 Census, Chinguacousey Twp., Peel Co., ON, Dist 140B, Div 3, p10, family#48, age 78

Father: ? McCauley
Mother: Mary b: BET 1766 AND 1767 in Ireland

Marriage 1 Ann Jane Breakey b: BET 1809 AND 1810 in Ireland
* Married: in Ireland

Children
   1. Ann Jane McCauley
   2. Isaiah McCauley b: 1 AUG 1828 in Monaghan, Ireland
   3. John McCauley b: BET 1834 AND 1835 in Ireland
   4. Francis 'Frank' McCauley b: BET 1838 AND 1839
   5. Alexander Brakey McCauley b: 1 MAY 1842 in Chinguacousey Twp., Peel Co., ON
   6. Mary Jane McCauley b: BET 1846 AND 1847

[Rodger]

Thanks Chuck. I didn't have this information on Alexander. I don't have any information on James or Annie's parents yet except the 1852 census which lists James mother Mary 84 years and widowed.  Most of my information on the McCauleys ( which is extensive) has come from a descendent of Alexander's brother John McCauley.

[mindfulroz]

Hi
No information directly on McCauley or Breakey/Breaky/Brakey, but if the family originated from Clones then the Breakey side at least could connect to a Breakey line from the area around the townlands of Lislea/Lisleagh, Corrinary (and various spellings), Carnroe and the area of Scotshouse, and parishes of Clones and Currin. If've you've done DNA then you could find some links to Breakey and McCauley through that. There are some quite old records from St Andrews CoI church of Scotshouse, but I'm not sure of where these are now located.
Maybe this helps. If you find anymoe on the Breakey side, I'd be interested