Hello Lori, I'm Lizanne McGarvey Smith. My great grandfather John W McGarvey left County Tyrone in 1851 from port of Glasgow at age of 3yr with his mother Margaret Mary Conway McGarvey and his brother Joseph age 9 months. I have my DNA through Ancestry. My McGarveys were from Omagh. When we visited two years ago, we planned to meet two groups of McGarveys: Nuala and her sisters in Greencastle and Laurence McGarvey in Ballygawley. After speaking with them and with the Catholic church at Plumbridge, I am accepting that our McGarveys were in the Cranach / Plumbridge parish. Birth and marriage records do not exist for the years that would include our family. I want to return and walk through the valley. Good luck in your research. Lizanne Smith
On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 7:07 PM Lori Herman via CoTyroneList < [email protected]> wrote: > For almost 20 years, I have been looking for records for my Roman Catholic > John McGarvey/Catherine McCluskey family who emigrated to Kingston, Ontario > Canada sometime between 1823 (2nd to last son born in Ireland) and 1935 > (last son born in Canada) from county Tyrone. Father was John McGarvey, > wife was Bridget McCluskey, and children were at least, Mary (1810 – > Ireland), Michael (1812 – Ireland), Terence (1814 – Ireland), John (my > ancestor – 1818), Patrick (1823 – Ireland) and Joseph (1835 – Kingston, > Ontario, Canada). There may be more. John (Sr.) McGarvey died in Canada > in 1871. The timing is tricky because of the time of immigration – few > Canadian immigration records exist for that time period, and this is before > Griffith’s. Even parish baptisms are not available (for the area where I > think they lived) for when my family left Ireland. > > > > But, thanks to the wonderful volunteers for the CoTyroneIreland.com > website, I believe that I might have found my townland. I think it is > Lurganboy. I needed to see a list for the tithe applotment books, (the > Republic of Ireland generously tossed those over the border without > indexing them for free searches) and your indexed transcriptions have been > so very helpful! > > > > Based on the tithe records in Lurganboy, I have found McGarveys other than > John (where the Christian names are the same as those for his children), so > I’m thinking that this is a family unit in this townland), I was able to > find through Griffith’s Valuation that the land was owned by a Sir William > Verner. And looking him up, and the name of the townland (that I think > might be where my family lived), I found that PRONI has estate files that > might include information on the inhabitants of this townland during the > time period of interest! > > > > I’m trying not to get too excited by this (but I AM too excited by this). > I am thinking that my next logical step would be to find out from PRONI how > their estate file is organized and how easy it is to access records for the > time period I’m interested in (the file stretches from 1641 to 1907) – > which would be 1835 and earlier. I really don’t want to pay for a general > file search for 250+ years. Has anyone asked for searches from PRONI > before? I am really hoping that these records will confirm that my family > lived in Lurganboy township. > > Comments? Ideas? Other sources? > > > > And of course would be very happy to find any McGarveys or McCluskeys out > there who are connected to my line. I have an ancestry DNA profile, but > given that my nearest Tyrone ancestor for this line was 4-5 generations > back ….) > > > > Also, given that this family immigrated before the great famine, what do > you think might have made them want to leave? Was it the tithes? Were > there any other local problems I might want to learn about? > > > > Thanks so much! > > > > Lori Herman > > North Vancouver, Canada > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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