HI Elwyn In your response you say ," Only wealthier folk such
as farmers and merchants could afford a gravestone." In our modern world Farmers are not considered wealthy people in North America they are down the cast system pretty far. Some of my family records in Tyrone or upon coming to Canada they list themselves as being Farmers as opposed to Labourers or servants or renters etc..like most of the other settlers here. Does them listing themselves as Farmers mean something more then we take from it today? Does it mean money or position in the 1830"s? Can you elaborate on that for me if it does what would that entail for them and their families? Cheers Ron McCoy On 2019-06-21 8:33 a.m., elwyn soutter via CoTyroneList wrote: > Darlene, > > You can use the Griffiths Valuation site to see where the surname > Adams was found in Co Tyrone in 1860. There are 144 listed, right > across the county. There were 223 Adams in the county in the 1901 > census. > > But the problem you really face is that hardly any parishes in Tyrone > have any records for the mid 1700s and so even if you knew exactly > where Thomas was born, there probably isn’t a documentary record of > it. > > With regard to burials, it very much depends on what their trade was > and again what denomination. Only the Church of Ireland routinely kept > burial records, so if your ancestors were another denomination it’s > unlikely that there will be any church records of their burials > (assuming records exist in the first place). Only wealthier folk such > as farmers and merchants could afford a gravestone, and the vast > majority of people were buried without one. So it’s important to try > and establish what their occupation was to assess the likelihood of > there being a gravestone to find. > > > _______________________________________________ CoTyroneList Mailing List Mailing List Email Address: [email protected] Change Your Preferences: http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com Mailing List Archive: https://goo.gl/mQCKrY
