Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] ADAMS from Omagh, County Tyrone

2019-06-21 Thread Nancy Dorrien via CoTyroneList
Thank you for that information it was very informative and helpful. Dorrien Realty Nancy Dorrien Broker 00974079 ndorr...@mlode.com 408-209-2444 > On Jun 21, 2019, at 9:03 AM, Jacque via CoTyroneList > wrote: > > > Great information, and very interesting. > > Thank you for posting it,

Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] ADAMS from Omagh, County Tyrone

2019-06-21 Thread Darlene Mulligan via CoTyroneList
VERY interesting indeed - I have put a copy into my ancestry file, thank you so much for such detailed information. We leave for Ireland TONIGHT for a two week adventure, and hope to make even more discoveries. I will only have a very short period of time to visit OMAGH, where my ancestors

Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] ADAMS from Omagh, County Tyrone

2019-06-21 Thread Jacque via CoTyroneList
Great information, and very interesting. Thank you for posting it, Elwyn. Jacque On Friday, June 21, 2019, 11:24:12 a.m. EDT, elwyn soutter via CoTyroneList wrote: Ron, Ireland has always been a largely agricultural county. Land was the biggest source of employment in the 1830s

Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] ADAMS from Omagh, County Tyrone

2019-06-21 Thread elwyn soutter via CoTyroneList
Ron, Ireland has always been a largely agricultural county. Land was the biggest source of employment in the 1830s and it still is today. The country has almost no natural resources eg coal, iron ore, valuable minerals, oil etc and save for linen mills and ship building in Belfast, the industrial

Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] ADAMS from Omagh, County Tyrone

2019-06-21 Thread Ron McCoy via CoTyroneList
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

Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] ADAMS from Omagh, County Tyrone

2019-06-21 Thread elwyn soutter via CoTyroneList
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