Samuel HENDRIE bc 1838 & Mary CAMPBELL bc1829

[MonicaL]

Hannah is easy enough to find on censuses as her name was consistently Hannah (not a variant). Also the family seemed to have lived at 106 or 112 Long Row for a number of decades.

The family look to have likely been in Scotland from the early 1860s. Can only see one child born in Scotland to them, as showing below in 1871. Everyone else showing as born in Ireland:

John Black 46 labourer
Hannah Black 50
John Black 19
Daniel Black 17
Margt Black 15
Mary Black 11
Matilda Black 7 https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQ7T-SJM
Address: 106 Long Row, Coatbridge

1881, at 112 Long Row, and only daughter Mary living with parents.

Monica

[MonicaL]

Surprisingly for Family Search and Ireland....think I found their marriage back in Derry:

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGJV-65V

Monica

Added: Someone else researching this line here http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.black/4671/mb.ashx

[Ruskie]

Hi Monica, Thanks so much for all the excellent information. I didn't even think to chase up Samuel's sister. Hannah must have been the sister in Gartsherrie that he was on his way to visit when he met his end in the canal.

The marriage of Hannah and John seems strangely similar to the 27th October 1848 marriage between Samuel Henry and Mary Campbell - that too took place in the Presbyterian Manse (I think the word was Manse) at Ballywillan.

Of course I am going to have to get some more credits at Groni to view the Hannah/John marriage certificate. 

[MonicaL]

Hannah's details seem to confirm you are at least getting warm in Ireland  That post on a/try that I added above gave a witness name for Hannah marriage as being a Thomas Henry, so maybe another sibling?

Monica

[Ruskie]

I don't believe it!

There are NO father's names on that Coleraine m/c. 


(I will see if I can trace Thomas Henry ...)

[MonicaL]

One other marriage showing on FS also at the Presbyterian Meeting House in Ballywillan Parish here https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGNT-7X1

Monica

[Ruskie]

Thanks Mon, I will have a look at that one too.

I am in two minds as to the name of the witness Thomas Henry (allegedly):

[MonicaL]

No wonder you are in two minds...He is Thomas Black rather than Henry isn't he!

Monica

[Ruskie]

It initially looks like Henry but I am unsure about the H - looks more like a P to me (Thomas Percy?  ) Is that the original signature? Or was the form filled out in the same hand?  I have included a bit of the surname Henry on the left for comparison ...

Monica, I don't really know. I suppose the surname could be Black. But there looks to be a y with a long tail at the end unless that is a fancy k.