Thanks for the many kind words on and off-list... for those wondering,
the Yank (me) is wearing the tie-dye shirt, Elwyn is wearing the better
smile.
Dave (who today met another cousin with shared G-Grandma, down in County
Leitrim! Saw original Knott homes at Corramartin (in beautiful repair!)
and Derrinkeher Raycroft (decrepit, someone attempting to recover it),
as well as the Evans family home Drumerkeane (decrepit, though likely
used as a country place in the 1970s since I saw a cassette tape on the
table).
Quite a trip,
Dave
------ Original Message ------
From "Peggy Gordon" <[email protected]>
To "Dave Vanable" <[email protected]>; "CoTyroneIreland.com Mailing
List" <[email protected]>
Cc "Valerie Stewart" <[email protected]>
Date 8/31/2023 8:37:17 PM
Subject Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Re: Fantastic Day in County Tyrone -
thought I'd share!
Which man is Elwyn?
On Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 05:33:05 p.m. PDT, Valerie Stewart via
CoTyroneList <[email protected]> wrote:
Dave,
Thank you for sharing this lovely reunion with you and sending the
photo of you and Elwyn!
It is lovely to see the face of this kind, generous, really skilled
man.
He was instrumental to me finding my family's church and the benefits
of that at my visit to Carnowen, County Donegal, last September.
Safe and HAPPY travels,
Valerie
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 2:25 PM Dave Vanable via CoTyroneList
<[email protected]> wrote:
How often does one see the church in which their great-grandparents
were married in 1874 (3000 miles from one's home), AND meet in real
life four people whose great grandma was a sister to one's own
great-grandma?
Today was my day for this, thanks in no small part to Elwyn Souter's
assistance with investigation to confirm several things, not the least
of which was identify the location of the Venables family farms in
Cormore and Tullycorker, as well as the Foster (my middle name) farm
in Tullyquin Glebe.
As Elwyn noted, I was lucky to have some solid leads: my great
grandfather's wedding registration in the US with both of his parents'
names from County Tyrone, leading to William Venables and Annabella
Foster and their marriage at Aughentaine Presbyterian, and the trail
was pretty warm. Elwyn's going to PRONI to find records that pretty
much confirmed our theory about the Foster family and Annabella's
mother's name were quite exciting finds.
While we were visiting Aughentaine Presbyterian today a woman and her
son wandered in -- turns out that HER first cousin had told her that a
distant Foster cousin from the US would be at the church at 3pm today,
so she just arrived and we had a lovely conversation :-) plus tea late
this afternoon with the cousin whose name I had known previously (met
via an acquaintance of a cousin on the Knott side - see PS - who said
"I think I took care of a Foster in the old age home, let me check
into it for you" and sure enough that led to these two additional
cousin meetings.
The Irish are amazing.
Here's a picture of Elwyn and I back in Dungannon so I could pick up
my car after our spending the afternoon together.
One never knows when strands of information might come together...
Dave
PS: Tomorrow I'm headed to County Leitrim in the care of another
cousin whom I met via MyHeritage (again, g-grams were sisters, this
time on the Knott/Evans side) ; she and her sister will take us on a
tour of various Evans and Knott connections including two original
Knott homesteads :-) Monday I'll meet up with the 83-year old owner of
Corramartin, one of these places).
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