Catherine Pinkerton b. 15 May 1861

[LindaGW]

I am trying to find out more about the background of Catherine Pinkerton, who, according to family tradition, was born in Donegal 15 May 1861.
She was married to Robert Anderson of Strabane, Tyrone, in Stranorlar Presbyterian Church on 15 April 1879.  On the marriage certificate, her residence is Tyrcallen (is this Tircallen?) and her father's name is John Pinkerton, labourer.
Her life after the marriage is pretty much accounted for but I don't know anything about her parents or her siblings.  Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Linda

[Elwyn Soutter]

Tyrcallen is likely to be the same as Tircallan. Spelling varied enormously in Ireland.

It might be worth looking for the Pinkerton family in Stranorlar 1st Presbyterian’s records. Their baptisms start in 1821 and marriages in 1846. Copies of the records are held in PRONI, Belfast.

I looked for John Pinkerton in Griffiths Valuation. The only listing in the Stranorlar area was for a John Pinkerton who, in 1857, was in Lisnaree townland where he rented a workman’s house, garden and 1 acre of land. Labourers often moved about a lot and so that might be the same man who was in Tircallan (which is near Lisnaree) by the time of the 1861 marriage. No Pinkertons in Tircallan in the 1901 census.

[LindaGW]

Thank you so much for the information.  The John Pinkerton you found in Griffith's Valuation is likely her father.
You suggestion to seek out the Stranorlar 1st Presbyterian records is a good one.  I live in Canada - hopefully within the next couple of years I'll be able to get to PRONI in Belfast.  I'll add this to the ever growing list of things I must look up when I'm there.
Catherine and Robert moved to Strabane and Robert died sometime in the 1890's.  Catherine subsequently remarried and emigrated to Canada, where she died in Calgary in 1925.

Thanks again for your help.

[Elwyn Soutter]

There's 3 possible deaths registered in Strabane for a Robert Anderson that might fit: 1867 - 1894; 1856 - 1892 or 1852 - 1892.

[LindaGW]

Thanks for this.  I don't know when Robert Anderson was born but I don't think he could be the first one you mention since this guy would have been only about 12 in 1879 when Catherine and Robert were married.  I suppose the only way to find out which of the remaining two is him would be to order both death records and see which one is the better match with the information we do have.  Either that, or wait until I can travel to Ireland and get to the PRONI.
Catherine and Robert's youngest child, Thomas Anderson (killed in WWI) was born Apr-Jun 1890 and Catherine appears in Strabane as a widow on the 1901 Census, which is why I think Robert probably died in the 1890's.  By the 1911 Census Catherine is remarried to John Mulholland.  Do you think that their marriage record may have a little more information about Catherine's parents than does the record for her first marriage?

Thanks again,
Linda

[gaffy]

There was a Catherine Pinkerton born in Donegal in 1857 to parents John Pinkerton and Margaret Fairman. She had at least 1 brother Hugh (b. 1859) and two sisters (Margaret b. 1864 and Mary Jane b. 1870).

Parents John and Margaret married in 1856, they came from Convoy, his father was Hugh a baker, her's was Jack, a farmer.

All Presbyterians by the way.

Added: And there was a John Pinkerton born to father Hugh in 1833 and a Margaret Fairman born to father John in 1830, all in the same area.

[Elwyn Soutter]

  I suppose the only way to find out which of the remaining two is him would be to order both death records and see which one is the better match with the information we do have.  Either that, or wait until I can travel to Ireland and get to the PRONI.

For the death certs, you would need to get them from GRO Roscommon or GRONI in Belfast. PRONI don’t keep death certs. (They have Church of Ireland burial records and wills, but not death certs. Presbyterians generally didn't keep burial records.)

I also noticed this family living in Strabane, but born in Donegal, and wondered if there was any connection ie possible brother to Catherine.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tyrone/Urney__East/Castletown/1754837/

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Tyrone/Urney__East/Castletown/851228/

[rathmore]

on the family search site:- http://familysearch.org


Catherine Pinkerton married apr-jun 1879, Volume No. 2, Page 329, Digital folder 4179386, Robert Anderson has the same Digital folder 4179386

have a look on the Donegal Rescources site:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~donegal
type in the Basic search box, Pinkerton

under heading_ First Raphoe Presbyterin Church, Raphoe Parish, Financial statement 1867-pew holders and stipend payers,
Alexendar, John Pinkerton and John Pinkerton Sen mentioned.

Their is also a Rev Alexandar Pinkerton mentioned,

Mr Alexander Pinkerton of Ramelton

[aghadowey]

on the family search site:- http://familysearch.org


Catherine Pinkerton married apr-jun 1879, Volume No. 2, Page 329, Digital folder 4179386, Robert Anderson has the same Digital folder 4179386

The digital folder number is for LDS records only and not to be used when ordering certificates.

These are the details needed to order the marriage certificate-
Marriage: Robert ANDERSON, Apr./June 1879 Stranorlar registration district, volume 2 page 329

The LDS site also lists extracted birth of son Robert Anderson in 1880-
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FGXV-CR5
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FR3B-P4L