Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] ADAMS from Omagh, County Tyrone

2019-06-24 Thread Len Swindley via CoTyroneList
:00 AM To: Len Swindley Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] ADAMS from Omagh, County Tyrone Thank you Len and Elwyn I have ordered my hit of Genealogy research. This is wonderfully addictive. I can hardly wait to get my copy of ,"Ordnance Survey Memoirs", and “Ireland’s Welcome

Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] ADAMS from Omagh, County Tyrone

2019-06-22 Thread elwyn soutter via CoTyroneList
Ron, For a fairly detailed description of life around the Pomeroy area, you could read the Ordnance Survey memoirs. Have you looked at those? Cavanakeeran is in the parish of Pomeroy so you need the memoir for that particular parish. These were compiled in the 1830s on the instructions of the

Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] ADAMS from Omagh, County Tyrone

2019-06-22 Thread Ron McCoy via CoTyroneList
Hi Elwyn Thank you for the wealth of information these are the images of Irish life I wanted to know. John McKee as you have heard me say was living in Cavanakeeran when the Applotment records find him but later in Canada in 1841-2 census. Moving his family in 1838. He appears to be well

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