I must be even older than I thought, Jim. What about "across the schugh"? Don't hear that often now either.
B https://www.facebook.com/westulstergenealogy/ https://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/ On 18 April 2017 at 13:19, James McKane <[email protected]> wrote: > "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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >> 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 >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CoTyroneList mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist >> >> >
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