"Shank's Mare"........... gosh I haven't heard that quote for many years!!
Jim McKane South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Boyd Gray <boydgra...@gmail.com> wrote: > These are all fascinating histories, Teena and I wish one of them belonged > to my tree. Oh to know in so much detail what happened to people when they > disappeared into America. We all have lost dozens if not hundreds in that > way. > > However, I am often perplexed by the placenames given in these family > histories, usually written by the descendants of the emigres who do not > really know Ireland and its geography or society. One, for example gives > their home as Antrim, Co Tyrone. And this one gives a marriage of someone > from Carrickfergus to someone else from Strabane, opposite ends of Ulster. > I know that my own folk rarely married "beyond" the schugh"! With no form > of transport except Shank's Mare, they did not travel much more than a few > miles from home in their entire lives. It was mainly clergymen or the very > rich who could make such distant connections so I suppose that has to be > the explanation, if there has not been an error. > > But still, what fun it would be to "own" one of these and to tease out the > truth as far as it was possible. > > Thanks. > > Boyd > > https://www.facebook.com/westulstergenealogy/ > > https://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/ > > On 17 April 2017 at 23:46, Teena from BC <4theloveoftyr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Susanna PATTERSON FINLEY's descendants >> >> Robert Finley born in Ireland (Derry?) and died at Carrickfergus in >> 1809. He was a gunner in the Castle at the seige of Bell Isle (He >> served in the reign of the last three kings of England). In the Parish >> of Carrickfergus is listed the marriage of Robert Finley to Susanna >> Patterson, daughter of Robert Patterson of Strabane, County Tyrone, >> Ireland, on May 16, 1740. >> >> The eldest son, John Finley died at the Parish of Choghill County >> Antrim and his will mentions his son, Francis, his son, John, who was >> in America at that time, his son James, and a daughter, Margaret, who >> had married Mat Blakely. >> >> The second son, William, left a will dated Jan. 1, 1816 and mentions >> his sons, James, Mathew, Pat, Robert, John and daughter, Agnes. >> >> There is little information concerning the other children of Robert >> Finley and Susanna Patterson in the writings of Major France, >> indicating to us that Susanna, Mathew, David, and Thomas might have >> migrated to America, thus accounting for the absence of records in >> Scotland. We do know that James died at Belturbet, unmarried, in 1817 >> >> Conner and Masters, pioneer families of Guernsey County, Ohio; ... >> Conner, E. Margaret Masters (Emma Margaret Masters), 1908- >> https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89066040254 >> _______________________________________________ >> CoTyroneList mailing list >> CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com >> http://lists.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist >> > > > _______________________________________________ > CoTyroneList mailing list > CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com > http://lists.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist > >
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