Hello Listers, Life was not always a bed of roses for our Tyrone forebears (offering great encouragement for emigration) and occasionally there were catastrophic events as reported in the Londonderry Journal in February 1841
February 16 1841 AWFUL CATASTROPHE. – On Friday, the 5th inst., Mrs. McGinlay, wife of Mr. Daniel McGinlay, of Tivenny, in the parish of Ardstraw, having left his house with the intention of procuring some cure for one of her children, which had been scalded; and, having fastened the door, left her three children and a pig inside. The distance she had to go was about a mile, it was some time before she returned, and, melancholy to relate, the house took fire, and we regret to state, that her three children and the pig were consumed to ashes. How the fire originated is impossible to conjecture. [The McGinlay family are not recorded at Tievenny in neither the Ardstraw parish tithe applotment books (1833 & 1834) or Griffiths Valuation (1858)]. (Londonderry Journal) What a tragedy! Regards, Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia (volunteer transcriber of files submitted to CoTyroneIreland) http://www.cotyroneireland.com/ Sent from Mail for Windows 10
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