Thank you Elwyn for your time. I figured I might be at a dead end here. Donna
Sent from my iPad > On Dec 2, 2019, at 4:26 AM, elwyn soutter via CoTyroneList > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Donna, > > Your family may not be easy to trace. Both Mary & Elizabeth were almost > certainly born before the start of statutory birth registration (1864) and so > you won’t get birth certificates for them. You need to rely on church records > for baptisms before 1864. Not all those records have survived and of the ones > that do exist, not all are on-line. So you may have to go to PRONI and search > there (or get someone else to do that for you if you can’t). > > Tradition was to marry in the bride’s church (after which she’d attend her > husband’s). However in this case one girl married in the Presbyterian church > and the other in the Church of Ireland, so we don’t even have a clear steer > on what denomination they were. > > The only hint I can give you is that both women named their first daughters > Maggie. Tradition was to name the first daughter after the mother’s mother. > So that hints that John Burrows wife was Maggie/Margaret. Not much to go on. > > I see from the marriage certificates that in 1874 John was described as a > caretaker and in 1888 as a labourer. Labourers moved around a lot, to follow > the available work, and can be difficult to trace. I looked in Griffiths > Valuation for Tyrone in 1860. There are 3 John Burrows listed but all were > farmers, so not your family. > > Probably all you can do is get someone to go through all the Church of > Ireland and Presbyterian records for Tyrone in PRONI, to see if they can spot > these two baptisms. There’s 43 parishes, so I’d say there will be about 100 > churches. Not all will have records for the period you need (some Church of > Ireland records were destroyed in the 1922 fire) but it’s still quite a lot > of records to go through. > > > Elwyn > _______________________________________________ > CoTyroneList Mailing List > Mailing List Email Address: [email protected] > Change Your Preferences: > http://cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com > Mailing List Archive: https://goo.gl/mQCKrY
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