Christine, Tradition was to marry in the bride’s church after which she’d normally attend her husband’s. So marriage and children’s baptisms are often in different churches. In this case the bride lived in Grange. Grange is in Desertcreat, so I’d expect that to be her family church. The groom was a butcher in Cookstown, which is in Derryloran parish. So I would expect the children to have been baptised in Derryloran. If you can’t find any for the early years of the marriage it may there were no children, or none that survived long enough to be baptised anyway.
But to answer your question about records for Desertcreat, they don’t appear to be on-line anywhere yet. The Church of Ireland is putting its records on-line (free) but this is a big project and no completion date has been published yet. In the meantime you either have to get someone to look up the copy in PRONI or you could write to the Rector, who has the originals. If you write to the Rector, he/she is likely to charge for searching. Last time I checked the Church of Ireland published rate was £18 (sterling) an hour. Some parishes get a lot of genealogical queries and they don’t all have the time to help, so not all reply. Rev David Bell - Incumbent Tullyhogue Rectory 50 Lower Grange Road Cookstown BT80 8SL Co Tyrone 028 8676 1163 Elwyn On 29/07/2019, Peggy Gordon via CoTyroneList <cotyronelist@cotyroneireland.com> wrote: > I also have Hamiltons from Cookstown area in my tree. Robert Hamilton > married to Margaret Mallon abt 1853. Their daughter Alice born Nov 30, 1862 > married into my Duffin family on Oct 27, 1891 when she married Joseph > Duffin. Some of Joseph Duffin's great uncles emigrated to Ohio, then > Illinois, then Minnesota. I don't know what church they belonged to or which > parish. Robert Hamilton is the right age to be a brother or a cousin to > your Thomas.I also live in Canada.Peggy Gordon > On Monday, July 29, 2019, 12:34:12 p.m. PDT, WilliamScarrow via > CoTyroneList <cotyronelist@cotyroneireland.com> wrote: > > Good Morning, > > Firstly...this is a wonderful site and resource! > I am looking for a missing link in my Hamilton family that may connect me to > some families in the US that I have found a DNA matches to. > My Great Great Grandparents were Thomas Hamilton and Mary Ann McGrath of > Cookstown, County Tyrone. They were married in 1846 in the Desetcreate > church. I have found the children born after 1850 in the Derryloran church > records, but I think perhaps there may be children born before that date. > I have tried to look at Desercreat baptisms on line, but, it seems they may > only be available through PRONI. I live in Canada and hope to visit Ireland > next year, but, in the meantime wondered if anyone would have a suggestion > on another way to look at Desertcreat church records. > > Thank you, > Regards, > Christine Scarrow > > > Sent from my iPad > _______________________________________________ > CoTyroneList Mailing List > Mailing List Email Address: CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com > Change Your Preferences: > http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com > Mailing List Archive: https://goo.gl/mQCKrY > _______________________________________________ CoTyroneList Mailing List Mailing List Email Address: CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com Change Your Preferences: http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com Mailing List Archive: https://goo.gl/mQCKrY
