Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] McWilliams family Aughnacloy

2018-05-07 Thread Boyd Gray 
Hi Barrie:

Taken from A Topical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837, and found here:
http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/A/Aughaloo-Dungannon-Tyrone.php
.. Cottage Hill is the country seat of the Moore family of
the Parish of Aghaloo in County Tyrone, just north east of the small town
of Aughnacloy.

Cottage Hill is a large estate house in the townland of Mulnahern, just
south east of Aughnacloy.  It is still there, just off the A5 and just
north of the border with the Republic of Ireland.

However, I do not think that John McWilliams actually lived in Cottage Hill
itself.  Here is his marriage:

Civil Marriage Record
Date of Marriage: 28-Aug-1866
Parish / District: DUNGANNON County: TYRONE
Husband Wife
Name: John Mcwilliams Isabella Corbitt
Address: Mullaghmore Mullaghmore
Occupation: MERCHANT
Age: 22 20
Status: Bachelor (Previously unmarried) Spinster (Previously unmarried)
Husband's Father Wife's Father
Name: James Mcwilliams George Corbitt
Address:
Occupation: FARMER FARMER
Husband's Mother Wife's Mother
Name:
Address:
Occupation:
Witness 1 Witness 2
Name: James Simpson John Burns
Address:
Notes:
PARISH OF CLOGHER AUGHNACLOY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.HUSBAND'S AGE GIVEN
AS FULL OVER 21.WIFE'S AGE GIVEN AS MINOR UNDER 21

John and Isabella had at least three children, and I suspect considerably
more:

Action Source Surname First Name Year County
View Church Baptism Mcwilliams John 1873 Co. Tyrone
View Church Baptism Mcwilliams Emily Jane 1876 Co. Tyrone
View Church Baptism Mcwilliams Margaret 1878 Co. Tyrone

Oddly, even though his father only held a 16 small farm (see below), John
describes himself variously as a merchant, a farmer, and, in the case of
John in 1873, a "Gentleman"!

This is the exact location of John's father's farm, and presumably
therefore, where John was born:

Griffith's Valuation Record Information
Tenant
Family Name 1 MCWILLIAMS
Forename 1 JAMES
Landlord
Family Name 2 COCHRANE
Forename 2 WILLIAM
Location
County TYRONE
Barony DUNGANNON, LOWER
Union CLOGHER
Parish AGHALOO
Townland MULLAGHMORE, WEST
Place Name MULLAGHMORE, WEST
Place Type TOWNLAND
Publication Details
Position on Page 26
Printing Date 1860
Act 15&16
Sheet Number 60
Map Reference 7

James McWilliams held Plot 7, a 16 acre farm.  A Mary Anne Corbett held the
farm next door and a James Corbett rented a house from James McWilliams on
Plot 7.  There is still a house on Plot 7 in the same location as that of
James McWilliam.

In 1870, the farm passed from James to either Mary or Margaret (the name is
changed at one point) McWilliams.  In 1903, the farm passed from Margaret
to William McWilliams.

This is probably the death of Mary/Margaret; I wonder is it John's mother:

Burial/Death Record
Name: Mary Mcwilliams Date of Death: 01-Aug-1901
Age: 96 Parish / District: AGHALOO
Address: Mullaghmore County: TYRONE
Status: Widow (Female) Roman Catholic
Occupation: FARMER'S WIDOW Sex: Female
Graveyard Informant
Graveyard: Relationship: Son
Parish: Name: James Mcwilliams
County: Address: Tullybliety
Notes:
OLD AGE.

Not sure who this is but it is very sad and definitely family:

Burial/Death Record
Name: Tho. Mcwilliams Date of Death: 05-May-1894
Age: 37 Parish / District: AGHALOO
Address: Mullaghmore West County: TYRONE
Status: Not Married Roman Catholic
Occupation: FARMER Sex: Male
Graveyard Informant
Graveyard: Relationship: Coroner
Parish: Name: John Malone
County: Address: Tyrone
Notes:
ASPHIXIA CAUSED BY HANGING HIMSELF WHILE TEMPORARILY INSANE. INQUEST
HELD.ON 07/04/1894.

This is the family in the censuses:

1901:
Residents of a house 9 in Mullaghmore West (Aughnacloy Rural, Tyrone)
Surname Forename Age Sex Relation to head Religion Birthplace Occupation
Literacy Irish Language Marital Status Specified Illnesses
McWilliams Mary 95 Female Head of Family Presbyterian Co Tyrone Farmer Read
and write - Widow -
McWilliams William 21 Male Grand Son Presbyterian Co Tyrone Farmer's
Grand-Son Read and write - Not Married -

1901:
Residents of a house 3 in Mullaghmore West (Aughnacloy Rural, Tyrone)
Surname Forename Age Sex Relation to head Religion Birthplace Occupation
Literacy Irish Language Marital Status Specified Illnesses
McWilliams Thomas 70 Male Head of Family Roman Catholic Co Tyrone Farmer Cannot
read - Married -
McWilliams Mary 70 Female Wife Roman Catholic Co Tyrone - Cannot read -
Married -

(Odd that this family is Catholic)

1911:
Residents of a house 9 in Mullaghmore West (Aughnacloy Rural, Tyrone)
Surname Forename Age Sex Relation to head Religion Birthplace Occupation
Literacy Irish Language Marital Status Specified Illnesses Years
Married Children
Born Children Living
McWilliams William 34 Male Head of Family Presbyterian Co Tyrone Farmer Read
and write - Single -

This is the Moore family, who DID live at Cottage Hill:

Aughnacloy Death Announcements 1831-69
Deaths recorded in Aughnacloy and the Parish of Carnteel, Co. Tyrone,
extracted from personal notces inserted in the LONDONDERRY SENTINEL and
LONDONDERRY

Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] McWilliams family Aughnacloy

2018-05-06 Thread Margaret Barnes 
Hullo Barrie,

According to my Phillips Atlas of Tyrone, Cottage Hill is approx. 2 kms south 
of Aughnacloy just off the A28 - Caledon Road.

If you google “Cottage Hill, Caledon, Tyrone” you will come up with lots of 
matches and even photographs of the house.

Margaret in Oz.



> On 6 May 2018, at 12:05, Barrie Hesse  wrote:
> 
> I have sketchy information on my grandfather's family. The John and Isabella 
> (nee Corbitt) McWilliams family emigrated to South Africa before 1887. They 
> lived in a house called Cottage Hill in Aughnacloy. I want to know if there 
> is still a house in Aughnacloy called Cottage Hill (or that used to be called 
> that). I am travelling to Aughnacloy this month and hope to locate it. I have 
> a photograph of the house which was taken by a since deceased relative.
> 
> Many thanks
> Barrie Hesse
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
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[CoTyroneMailingList] McWilliams family Aughnacloy

2018-05-06 Thread Barrie Hesse 
I have sketchy information on my grandfather's family. The John and
Isabella (nee Corbitt) McWilliams family emigrated to South Africa before
1887. They lived in a house called Cottage Hill in Aughnacloy. I want to
know if there is still a house in Aughnacloy called Cottage Hill (or that
used to be called that). I am travelling to Aughnacloy this month and hope
to locate it. I have a photograph of the house which was taken by a since
deceased relative.

Many thanks
Barrie Hesse

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