haslet

[lsetters1]

Seeking info on John Haslett, immigrated to USA around 1816/1817 from Ireland. His birth year works out to 1796 give or take a few years.  Arrival was in South Carolina, USA. He had a son, Mathew Lucien, born 1817 possibly en route.
My Mother, deceased, was the great granddaughter of Mathew Haslett. My Mother remembered coming into an inheritance around the 1940's from the sale of a castle in Ireland that came down thru this Haslett line. I have not been able to find the Will here in Kentucky, USA. Any help would be appreciated. I know this isn't much to go on but its all I have.
Thanks you
Lsetters1

[kingskerswell]

Hi,
   Welcome to Rootschat. The information you are looking for is well before Civil registration began in Ireland ( 1845 for Protestant Marriages and 1864 for other marriages as well as births and deaths). You will have to rely on church records where these exist and to use those you need a much more detailed location for the birth rather than just the county.
   Having said that I have a record of two distant relatives called Matthew Haslett one born 1780 and the other 1828. However I have no idea what became of them and I believe they were born in Co. Londonderry.

Regards

[lsetters1]

thanks so much for responding....as you can see I have very little information but that's ok, I will keep plugging along!! 
Thanks again
Linda

[aghadowey]

Welcome to Rootschat, Linda. The first thing you need to do is remove your email address from the first post here since we aren't allowed to post personal details.

You've put this topic on the Tyrone board- does this mean you know or suspect that's where the family lived in Ireland?
Stories can get embellished over the years so maybe there wasn't a 'castle'- I know one family history that shows a picture of the family mansion in Ireland but it was the landlords house built in the same townland after the family went to America! However, if an estate was settled in the 1940s there will be records (probably PRONI, Belfast is the best place to look) but you do need either the name of the deceased or a townland. PRONI have Will Extracts on their website (some with images of the wording of the Will copied into Will Books) so you can take a look here (but remember that there will be numerous variations of the spelling of the surname).
applications.proni.gov.uk/DCAL_PRONI_WillsCalendar/WillsSearch.aspx

[kingskerswell]

Hi,
   The calander of wills in PRONI give the deaths of two ladies, Alice Haslett in 1924 and Annie Haslett in 1940. Annie left a large sum of money and a property known as Shakespeare House in Belfast. These two ladies were sisters and are descended from the family of the two Hasletts I mentioned above.

Regards

[dogdocla]

I have an Andrew Hazlett Smyth in my family tree - not I'm not quite sure where to place him though! He was born in Maghera Londonderry in 1822, then moved to Tyrone around 1859.

Andrew lived in Drummond, Crossdernot, Tyrone from 1876 to 1908 per the Valuation Revisions. He died in 1908. His will is online at PRONI:

http://applications.proni.gov.uk/DCAL_PRONI_WillsCalendar/WillsSearch.aspx