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At the TIARA Annual Banquet at The Wayside Inn on November 9, 2016, TIARA honored its founding and earliest members. Co-Presidents Susan Steele and Greg Atkinson presented the longtime mem-bers with award letters and lapel pins.

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Seated in front row (l to r): Founding members Sheila FitzPatrick, Marie Daly & John Saunders. Standing are Susan Steele, Co-President, Evelyn McElroy, Jim McElroy, Sheila Macauley,

Marie Ahearn, Mary Lou Cahalane, Bill Cahalane, Phyllis Doherty, & Greg Atkinson, Co-President.

TIARA Honors its Longtime Members

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The Irish Ancestral Research Association

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In This Issue

President's Message Page 62

John Guy Ferguson: Architect of the

Philadelphia Orange Hall Page 63

A Fan Club for the McShanes Page 66

Researching Northern Ireland Page 70 Update on Irish Records Page 74

1718 Migration to Londonderry NH Page 74

Building Your Genealogical

Research Library Page 79

Registration District Map Browse Page 81 A Season of Thanks Page 81

Next Issue Page 83

TIARA at Back TO Our Past Page 83

President’s Message Greg Atkinson #1766

TIARA is as busy as ever as we close out an-other calendar year and enter a new one. We began the year continuing our work with our friends at IGSI to organize the second Celtic Connections Conference that was held in Min-nesota in August. It was another important conference. The collaboration with our IGSI friends as well as the successful end result made all the many, many hours of volunteer efforts worthwhile. TIARA is a success be-cause of its many committed and hard-work-ing volunteers. Hard working may not sound like fun. However, the satisfaction one gains from contributing to the success of an event or TIARA’s overall mission is quite rewarding. Our annual banquet this past November was very enjoyable, as it always is. Thanks Kathy Sullivan! The Wayside Inn again provided a warm and inviting space to get caught up with friends and to dine on some traditional New England fare. TIARA member Michael Melan-son spoke on his newest book, Journey, An Irish-American Odyssey. Michael has donated a copy to the TIARA library. During the ban-quet TIARA recognized long-term members in-cluding three TIARA founding members with a volunteer-designed pin and presented them with an award letter. In the past year TIARA has moved its head-quarters to Waltham, MA from Auburndale, MA and now has a new “trial” borrowing li-brary. We’ll keep you updated on how this goes. Also at the new office, don’t forget, we offer Fáilte Fridays from 3:30 -6:30 PM prior to any TIARA meeting held at Brandeis Uni-versity (just up the road from the office). May the New Year continue to bring TIARA members together to share our pride in our Irish ancestors, to learn more about our in-heritance of Irish culture and history and most importantly to strengthen our ties to those Irish men and women who have gone before us and call upon us to connect with them, honor them and remember them.

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John Guy Ferguson: Architect of the Philadelphia Orange Hall

Brian Mitchell

From the middle years of the 19th century Londonderry experienced an industrial revo-lution. In shirt making, shipbuilding and dis-tilling Derry competed successfully with the rest of the world. Her growing industries at-tracted workers and families from outside the city and county, and in the 90-year period 1821 to 1911 the population quadrupled to 40,780. In this period Derry stamped her dominance over local rivals and emerged as an important urban centre within Ireland. To-day the population of the wider Derry City area stands at over 100,000. This period of economic prosperity is reflected in the grandeur and scale of many of the pub-lic buildings and business premises that were built at this time. One architect, in particular, was responsible for designing many of these buildings which are still, to this day, among the finest in the city. This architect was Lon-donderry born John Guy Ferguson. His varied commissions in his native city included a townhall, school, shirt factory, commercial of-fice and church. All his buildings were char-acterised by rich detailing in their brick-work or stone-work. In the second half of the 19th century Derry became “a formidable example of Victorian commercial and industrial devel-opment” and this confidence was reflected in her architecture. Ferguson designed the fol-lowing buildings in Derry city during this pe-riod: Building Address Date

Opened

YMCA (razed in 1970s) East Wall 1867

St. Augustine’s Church Palace

Street

1872

Welch Margetson Shirt Factory (employed 1,000 workers)

Horace Street

1872

Apprentice Boys’ Memorial Hall Society Street

1877

Commercial Buildings (head-quarters of William Mitchell’s Foyle Line of sailing ships)

Foyle Street

1883

Guildhall (burnt in 1908, rebuilt, retaining its basic outline, by M.A. Robinson in 1912)

Shipquay Place

1890

Derry Cathedral Primary School London Street

1891

The Londonderry Sentinel of Tuesday 15 Jan-uary 1901 carried the following death notice: FERGUSON – January 12, at his residence, 20, Pump Street, Londonderry, John Guy Fergu-son, C.E., aged 72 years. [His remains will be removed for interment in the City Cemetery this (Tuesday) morning, 15th inst., at eleven o’clock. Friends will please accept this the only intimation.] Members of the Apprentice Boys’ Association are requested to attend the funeral of our late Lieutenant-Governor.

J.A. ALEXANDER, Governor R.M. BALLARD, Hon. Secretary

Members of the Orange Institution are re-quested to attend the funeral of our late Brother:

R. McCARTER, C.G.M. R.M. BALLARD, C.G.S.

Crape armlets to be worn. All members and friends are requested to assemble in Memorial Hall at half-past ten o’clock. The Londonderry Sentinel of 15 January 1901 also carried an extensive obituary of John Guy Ferguson which provides much insight into his family history, achievements and character, including the following: “The eldest son of the late Mr. Robert Ferguson, a respected Londonderry builder and contrac-tor, the deceased had two brothers, who were for a long time in their father’s business in the city as builders under the name of Messrs. J. & R. Ferguson. He himself was equipped for the profession of an architect. The earlier years of his professional life were spent in America, and the Philadelphia Orange Hall still exists as an example of the grace and skill of his work-manship, so much evidence of which is around us in our stately Guildhall, the Apprentice Boys’ Memorial Hall – a gem of architectural beauty – and dozens of large business estab-lishments of all kinds. About the middle of the sixties Mr. Ferguson returned to his native city.” By a process of natural selection, according to the Sentinel, Mr. Ferguson came to the front as a “Loyalist leader of courage and adroit-ness”. “He was an orator of the highest order, possessing remarkable fluency of language and aptness of expression. He had the power in an exceptional degree to thrill large audi-ences, and wherever he went upon Loyalist

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occasions, to Belfast, Glasgow, or wherever else, his words carried conviction by their ear-nestness and enthusiasm.” “As his professional work lives in the fine buildings that owe their amenities to his facil-ity in art so his life career as a Loyalist is out-lined in the files of this paper, which always consistently supported him in his vigorous maintenance of the principles of civil and reli-gious freedom.” John Guy Ferguson succeeded John Hemp-ton as Governor of “the Associated Clubs of Apprentice Boys”. The Apprentice Boys’ Me-

morial Hall is the headquarters of the Appren-tice Boys of Derry organisation. This organi-sation perpetuates the memory of the original thirteen “apprentice boys” who shut the gates of the city on 7 December 1688 to prevent the Earl of Antrim (a supporter of Catholic King James II) from entering the city. This action resulted in the famous Siege of Derry of 1689. The Siege of Derry was a by-product of the struggle for the English throne between James II, who had the support of Louis XIV of France, and William of Orange with the back-ing of the English Parliament. The Sentinel continues: “In private life he was extremely popular, and it illustrates a phase of his many-sided character to mention that in his young days he was a more than average amateur actor, and the oldest men among the citizens may recall his appearance in the role of “Hamlet” in the old theatre in Fountain street. He married a Canadian Lady, who died some years ago, and leaves a son and two daughters.”

In its detailed account of his funeral the Sen-tinel of 17 January 1901 recorded that “the thousands who participated in the great demonstration which marked the laying to rest of Mr. John Guy Ferguson, C.E., on Tues-day will not soon forget the impressive solem-nity of the spectacle.” The chief family mourners were: “Mr. George B. Ferguson and Mr. John E. Ferguson, Carl-ton Club, London, sons; Mrs White, Bal-lyreagh, Clough, county Antrim, and Miss

Kathleen Ferguson, daughters; and Mr. Rob-ert A. Ferguson, Clontarf, Dublin, brother.” Based on the above information John Guy Ferguson was born c. 1829 in Londonderry to a father Robert Ferguson, builder and con-tractor. “John Guy”, as he was affectionately known, had two brothers, one of whom was called Robert A. Ferguson. He learned his trade as an architect in the United States where he designed the Philadelphia Orange Hall. He married a Canadian lady and had two sons, George and John, and two daughters, one of whom was called Kathleen. He returned to his native city in the mid-1860s to pursue

a successful business career as an architect and to become a highly respected Protestant leader. An examination of the baptismal registers of St Columb’s Church of Ireland Cathedral, Londonderry recorded the births of the follow-ing children to parents Robert Ferguson and Jane Guy: Child’s

Name

Birth

Date

Baptismal

Date

Birth

Place

John

Guy

11 August

1829

August

1829

Foun-

tain

Street

Mary Jane

10 Janu-ary 1832

20 Janu-ary 1832

Not recorded

George 15 October

1833

25 Octo-

ber 1833

Not

recorded

Robert Al-

exander

11 Decem

ber 1836

28 Decem

ber 1836

Not

recorded

David 29 Novem

ber 1838

12 Decem

ber 1838

Not

recorded

Edward

Collum

1 July

1840

8 July

1840

Not

recorded

Mary Jane

22 July 1842

3 August 1842

Not recorded

The registers of St Columb’s Cathedral record the marriage of John Guy Ferguson’s parents: 30 September 1828, Robert Ferguson of this parish to Jane Guy of this parish. In the trade directories of the city of Derry in 1839 and 1846 John Guy’s father Robert Fer-guson was recorded as a carpenter and builder of Linenhall Street. In the 1831 census for the city of London-derry, a Church of Ireland household headed

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by Robert Ferguson, consisting of 2 males, 1 female and 1 female servant, was residing at Linenhall Street. This household presumably consisted of Robert Ferguson, his wife Jane (nee Guy) and son John Guy Ferguson. Robert Ferguson died on 15 January 1868 as the Londonderry Sentinel of Friday 17 January 1868 carried the following death notice:

DIED. January 15, at his residence, Pump Street, Londonderry, Robert Ferguson, builder, aged 70 years. [His remains will be re-moved, for interment in the Cathedral Bury-ing-ground, on Saturday morning, the 18th instant, at the hour of ten o’clock.]

The following “carved headstone and flat stone with railing” is to be found in the grave-yard of St Columb’s Cathedral:

Erected to the memory of ROBERT FERGUSON Builder of this City

who died 15th January 1868 aged 70 years also of his wife

Jane who died 5th August 1851

aged 42 years and of their children

Mary, David, Edward and [?] who died young

Sacred to the memory of Jane

the beloved wife of Robert Ferguson late of this city who died

the 5th of August 1851 aged 42 also of 4 of her children

who died young also of Mary Guy, her mother who died the 24th April 1851

also of her grandson Willie Bowen Ferguson

Born August 31st Died October 8th 1863

Based on the above information Robert Fergu-son was born c. 1798 and his wife Jane Guy c. 1809. I unfortunately could not locate a baptismal record for either Robert Ferguson or Jane Guy. It would seem that John Guy Ferguson re-turned to Ireland prior to January 1864 as the following baptismal entry is recorded in the registers of St Columb’s Cathedral: Born: 11 December 1863. Baptised: 22 Janu-ary 1864

Francis of John Guy Ferguson, architect and Catherine (his wife) of Derry George and Robert Alexander Ferguson, brothers of John Guy Ferguson, were builders in Derry in the 1860s and 1870s. The Derry database of civil marriage registers (www.derry.rootsireland.ie) records the fol-lowing marriage: Married: 19 January 1871 in St. Columb’s Cathedral, Londonderry Robert Alexander Ferguson, full age bache-lor, builder of Pump Street to Clara Joanna Ferrar, full age, spinster of Hawkin Street Father of Groom: Robert Ferguson, builder

Father of Bride: John Ferrar, Clerk in Holy Or-ders Witnesses: Robert Alexander and George Fer-guson Civil birth registers for the district of London-derry Urban Number 1 record the births of the following children to parents George Fergu-son, builder and Elizabeth Bowen of Pump Street: Child’s Name Birth Date

Mary 13 September 1864

George 8 July 1866

Robert Bowen 3 March 1868

Herbert Guy 13 March 1870

Elizabeth 9 May 1873

This concludes our journey into the family history of John Guy Ferguson who was de-scribed by one historian as “a well-known lo-cal architect, Apprentice Boy and controver-sial public figure.”

Brian Mitchell, known for his genealogical exper-

tise in North-West Ireland. is the author of sev-

eral Irish genealogy reference books including A

New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland, A Guide to

Irish Parish Registers, Irish Passenger Lists

1847-1871, and Genealogy at a Glance: Irish Genealogy Research. He holds the rank of

Member in the Accredited Genealogists Ireland

(AGI, formerly the Association of Professional Ge-

nealogists in Ireland). Brian supervised the con-

struction of a database containing one million records (dating from 1642 to 1922) extracted from civil and church registers in County Derry.

This database can now be accessed (for a fee) at www.derry.rootsireland.ie.

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A FAN Club for the McShanes Susan Steele #1025

My mother's grandfather, James Carleton McShane, was the son of immigrants from County Londonderry. This was the sum of my “townland quest” knowledge for many years. I added a large numbers of people to McShane folders as I searched records in the immi-grants’ new home, Malden, Massachusetts. These people included other family members, neighbors and associates who witnessed McShane events. There was no magic “this is it” townland reve-lation. There were, however, clues. Some seemed to indicate a specific area in County Londonderry. But was this enough evidence to claim a townland for the McShanes? A recent TIARA speaker, Jake Fletcher, re-ferred to the FAN Club (Friends, Associates and Neighbors). This theory encourages re-searchers to widen their search beyond rec-ords for an ancestor's surname. Most immi-grants left few records. By expanding research to include clusters of family, friends, neigh-bors, and associates we increase the number of resources available. These clusters may build a stronger case for relationships and may lead to that elusive piece of information. I decided to try to use the Cluster/FAN Club theory to re-examine my McShane folders. By defining relationships, I hoped to clarify info-mation about a possible townland. Before I assembled the FAN Club, I organized what I knew of the family. I began with immigrants who came to Malden: James McShane (1.1) and his wife, Rebecca

Jane Hughes. These were the parents of my great grandfather, James Carleton McShane, and his siblings listed below. 1.1 James McShane Birth: 1825, Londonderry, Ireland Death: 12 Sep 1886, Malden, Massachusetts Spouse: Rebecca Jane Hughes Birth: 1837, Londonderry, Ireland Death: 28 May 1878, Malden, Massachusetts Children: John David (1857-1889), William Patrick (1860-1938), James Carleton (1861-1943), Philip Joseph (1864-1882), Isabelle

Jane (1866-1936), Rebecca F. (1869-1953), (male) (1878-1878) Vital, church, census and property records for James’ family revealed his brother Patrick liv-ing in the same Malden household. Patrick McShane (1.2), his wife, Elizabeth Connell and their children are listed below. 1.2 Patrick McShane Birth: 1828, Londonderry, Ireland Death: 4 Nov 1895, Malden, Massachusetts Spouse: Elizabeth Connell Birth: 14 Feb 1835, County Kerry, Ireland Death: 30 Nov 1922, Malden, Massachusetts Children: John J. (1860-1881), Rose Ann

(1863-1904), Honora Agnes (1866-1891), Pat-rick James (1868-1925), Mary Elizabeth (1873-1878), Daniel Edward (1877-1934) Records for the brothers, James and Patrick (including their children’s birth certificates) gave information about their place of birth as follows: “Ireland”, “Londonderry Ireland”, “Derry County Ireland”. Could that second choice “Londonderry Ireland” be construed as an indicator of the city or just the county? Records for the brothers also gave their par-ents’ names as Patrick McShane and Rose (no maiden name). My first FAN connection began with the McShane brothers’ property transactions. In 1860 the two brothers lived in the same household on property owned by James. By 1865, James had divided the lot and the brothers were living in adjacent houses. There were a number of mortgage/property transac-tions between the brothers over the next few years. I noted a John Haggerty as a witness on transactions in 1867-1871 and a Patrick Haggerty as a witness in 1869. Were these

Friends or Associates of the brothers? I exam-ined my list of sponsors for the baptisms of McShane children. Both John and Patrick Haggerty appeared as sponsors for the broth-ers’ children. Patrick McShane was a witness on the naturalizations of both John and Pat-rick Haggerty. Time to re-examine that property in Malden. In 1870 the next door neighbor to the brothers was Rose Haggerty, age 50, John Haggerty, age 17 and Patrick Haggerty, age 15. They were Neighbors and the prior discoveries

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would indicate they might be something more than Neighbors. I followed records for the fam-ily. The boys died before their mother. Their death certificates gave the name of their fa-ther, James Haggerty. James did not appear in any Malden records and Rose Haggerty was listed as his widow in the Malden City Direc-tory. When Rose Haggerty died in 1892, her maiden name was listed as McShane. Her obi-tuary confirmed that she was the sister of Pat-rick McShane. James had already died. Rose’s death certificate stated her parents’ names as Patrick McShane and Rose Carlin. Not only did I have another McShane sibling, I now had a maiden name for their mother!

1.3 Rose McShane Birth: 1817, Ireland Death: 12 Jan 1892, Malden, Massachusetts Spouse: James Haggerty Birth: 1813 Death: 1864 Father: Patrick McShane Mother: Rose Carlin Children: John (1852-1881), Patrick (1854-1879) The next clue came from an unexpected source - a conversation in an Irish gift shop in Massachusetts. My cousin Libby was my re-search partner in the McShane townland quest. Having discovered that the shopkeep-er's home was in County Derry, Libby chatted about our search for McShane/Carlin roots. The shopkeeper said that she knew an area where there were a number of McShanes and Carlins. It was a townland called Slaghtma-nus about six miles east of Derry City. She said we would be less likely to find McShanes in Derry City. "McShane was a country name not a city name."

Could it be as simple as this? Libby and I be-gan to look at records for Slaghtmanus. There were five Slaghtmanus McShanes in Griffith's Valuation but no Patrick or Rose. There were two Carolans. Could this be Carlin? There re-ally wasn't enough information to proceed. We filed away the Slaghtmanus information but we didn't forget it! Back to traditional research. I joined a TIARA trip to Salt Lake City. While doing a subject search in the catalogue I found a manuscript that had extracted all County Londonderry

families from the 1821 census with surnames McShane, Johnston and Johnson. Each fam-ily member was recorded with their age and relationship. This was a unique find. I exam-ined all the pages. There were four McShane listings in Slaghtmanus. One family caught my attention: McShane, Pat, 40, farmer McShane, Rose, 36, wife McShane, Mary, 12, daughter McShane, Ann, 10, daughter McShane, Bridget, 7, daughter McShane, ROSE, 5, daughter McShane, John, 4, son McShane, Sarah, 2, daughter

James and Patrick were not there but they were born after 1821. Rose was listed and she was the right age. General census returns for 1831 County Londonderry were also available but were much less detailed. The information was as follows: Townland, owner, number of males, females, servants, religion. There were still four listings for McShanes in Slaghtma-nus. One listing was for: Patt McShane in a household of four males, six females, one male servant, Catholic religion. The four males could now include the two brothers born after 1821 and before 1831: James and Patrick. This looked hopeful but it still wasn't enough. I needed to go back to the FAN Club and add to the clusters in Malden and in Slaghtmanus. It was time to look at the spouses. James McShane and Rebecca Jane Hughes were married in Medford, Massachusetts in 1857. The civil registration gave Malden as the resi-dence and Ireland as the birthplace for both the bride and the groom. Subsequent records for Rebecca gave “Londonderry Ireland” or

“Derry County Ireland” as her place of birth. Did James and Rebecca know each other be-fore coming to Malden? Rebecca died at age 41 and her records were very limited. Her par-ents’ names were given as William Hughes and Isabella. I did however find a member of her FAN club who could be added to the McShane cluster. Remember those property transactions be-tween James and Patrick? In 1869, David Hughes of Concord, New Hampshire provided funds for a mortgage for James. He appeared

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again in 1871 when the mortgage was repaid. Census and New York Emigrant Savings bank records helped establish David’s age, occupa-tion, place of birth (Londonderry Ireland) and names of parents: William Hughes and Isa-bella Carruthers. My cousin Libby spent many hours researching David hoping to find a more specific place of birth. She located a family headed by William Hughes and Isabella Carruthers in Ballyarnett, an area just out-side of the city of Londonderry but could not verify that Rebecca and David were members of this family. Meanwhile I went to work on Rose McShane’s

spouse, James Haggerty. As I suspected, James had died in Ireland before Rose and her sons departed for Malden. He had been a hostler at the time of his death in Clooney Ter-race, Waterside in 1864. This area was seven miles to the west of Slaghtmanus. An exami-nation of Griffith’s Valuation for Clooney (the townland containing Waterside) and adjacent areas showed many McShanes and Hagger-tys. The Ordnance Survey Memoirs made some connections between Waterside and Lower Cumber (the parish that con-tained Slaghtmanus). Waterside provided opportuni-ties for employment including distilleries and Lower Cumber provided fuel. I had widened the area of my McShane cluster in Ireland. Cousin Libby went online to add the next members to the FAN Club. Hoping to gain fur-ther evidence for our claim to a Slaghtmanus townland, Libby posted an inquiry mentioning the townland and the surnames McShane and Carlin. She received a reply from Tim Fergu-son, a Massachusetts resident, who was re-searching a McShane from the Slaghtmanus area. Tim was interested in a Bridget

McShane who had married Daniel Ferguson. Could “his Bridget” be “our Bridget” – the seven-year-old in the 1821 census? An ex-change of many emails ensued. Tim’s Fergu-son ancestors were from Edenreagh, two townlands away from Slaghtmanus. We weren’t sure of the “Bridget connection” but we did establish a different Ferguson connec-tion. Tim’s ancestors Bridget and Daniel had a son Patrick who emigrated to Malden. Pat-rick and his family lived just a few blocks away from the McShanes. Over the years Fer-

gusons supported McShanes at funerals act-ing as pallbearers and sending flowers. A meeting between Libby’s mother and Tim Fer-guson brought back shared memories of Pat-rick Ferguson’s daughters, Bea, Elizabeth and May who were regular visitors in the McShane household. These Malden Fergusons could definitely join the FAN Club! The Fergusons in Edenreagh became part of the broad Slaghtmanus cluster. While Libby was connecting with the Fergu-sons, I was making another connection. In the 1865 Massachusetts state census a James Moore, age 27 was living with the James

McShane family in Malden. A review of bap-tism sponsors at Malden’s Immaculate Con-ception Church, more property transactions and additional census records established the existence of three Moore siblings in Malden: James, Rose and Annie. James and Rose re-mained single. Annie Moore married James McLaughlin. John Haggerty and a daughter of Patrick McShane were sponsors for the McLaughlin baptisms. Annie Moore McLaugh-lin was a sponsor for the McShanes. There was also a registry of deeds trail that included Annie and James McLaughlin, James Moore and Patrick McShane. Friends, Associates and Neighbors - the Moores and the McLaugh-lins qualified for the FAN Club. When Rose Moore died in 1893, she was sin-gle, living in Boston and had no known heirs. Her brother James, and her sister, Annie Moore McLaughlin, could not be located. In 1900, Patrick McShane’s son, Patrick J. was made “lawful agent” for Rose’s sisters located in Ireland. Margaret Moore was listed as living in Londonderry and her sister Mary Moore Muldoon was living twelve miles away from

Slaghtmanus in Donemana, County Tyrone. Mary was born in County Londonderry and married widower James Muldoon late in life. I wasn’t able to pin down Margaret’s address in Londonderry. The sisters’ names were rec-orded by a Justice of the Peace in the city of Londonderry when Patrick J. McShane was named “lawful agent.” My cluster of names in Ireland resided within a twelve-mile radius. Libby and I had spent a lot of time looking at maps of County Londonderry and surround-ing areas. It was time to walk the land! A

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TIARA research trip to Belfast was the perfect opportunity. We would examine additional records at PRONI and the GRO but we were also invited to visit Slaghtmanus. Tim Fergu-son had put us in touch with Philomena McShane, a possible relative with roots in Slaghtmanus. A tour of Derry’s walled city was part of the TIARA schedule. We met Philo-mena in Derry and left the tour to spend an overnight in Slaghtmanus. Philomena drove us through the townland, introduced us to family and friends, cooked us meals, put us up in her sister’s house overnight and drove us back to Belfast the next day. Our cousin connection was still undefined but we were

claiming Philomena as family! Philomena spent a day with us researching in Belfast. We studied tithe applotment, cancellation books, and wills for Slaghtmanus and sur-rounding townlands. An abundance of McShanes, Carlins, Moores, McLaughlins, Fergusons and Haggertys were noted. The McShane families of the 1821 census left trails that could be followed through cancella-tion books well into the 1900s. We had note-books packed with information. Returning home, we continued to organize our research and started to assemble spreadsheets with the information we collected in Ireland. The discovery of a people and places index to the Ordnance Survey Memoirs provided many ref-erences to our Ireland name cluster. Libby and I had begun our McShane research by visiting archives and libraries in an era when scrolling through microfilm and using copy machines were the primary modes of op-eration. Now new records were coming online at an increasingly fast pace. There were sources we could examine without going to

Salt Lake City or Belfast. Because all of our McShanes were in Malden by 1866, we had been unable to find applicable vital or church records in Ireland. A 2016 search for digital images of Catholic Parish Registers at the Na-tional Library of Ireland produced volumes covering baptisms and marriages in “Water-side, Derry City and Glendermott 1864 – 1881”. A quick scroll through the first pages revealed McShanes, McLaughlins and Moores from Waterside and Slaghtmanus. These vol-umes demanded further attention. We

needed to continue to examine our name clus-ters closely. There are of course still further connections to be made and questions to be answered on both sides of the Atlantic. Will there be a magic “this is it” connection to Slaghtmanus? I’m not sure… we’ll keep working on the evi-dence. For now, I’m just happy to be a mem-ber of these FAN Clubs! Sources; (Thanks to speaker Jake Fletcher for reviewing the FAN principle and providing the following reference for fur-ther reading.) Mills, Elizabeth Shown. QuickSheet: The Historical Bi-

ographer’s Guide to Cluster Research (the FAN Princi-ple). (Baltimore: GPC, 2012). Mills, Elizabeth Shown, “Quick Lesson 11: Identity Prob-lems & the FAN Principle,” Evidence Explained: Histori-cal Analysis, Citation & Source Usage (https://www.evidenceexplained.com/content/quicklesson-11-identity-problems-fan-principle: [22 September 2016]) Mitchell, Brian. The Ordnance Survey Memoirs; a Source for Emigration in the 1830 http://www.historyireland.com/volume-4/the-ord-nance-survey-memoirs-a-source-for-emigration-in-the-1830s/ Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol 28: County Londonderry IX, 1832-38 (Parish of Cumber) Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol 34: County Londonderry XIII, 1829-30, 1832, 1831-8 (Parish of

Clondermot, covering the Waterside of Derry city) The Ordnance Survey Memoirs are a uniquely de-tailed source for the history of the northern half of Ire-land immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6" Ordnance Survey maps. The Memoirs document the landscape and situation, buildings and antiquities, landholdings and population, employment and livelihood of the par-ishes. https://www.booksireland.org.uk/store/ordnance-survey-memoirs/ordnance-survey-memoirs-of-ire-land-index-of-people-and-places

The TIARA Library has a set of The Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland

Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland: Index of People and Places

Provides over 100,000 entries for people and places, indicating the parish, county, volume and page num-ber of each reference. The TIARA Library does not have a copy of the Index. There is one at Boston College’s O’Neill Library.

Catholic Parish Registers at the National Library of Ire-land http://registers.nli.ie

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Researching in Northern Ireland Kevin Cassidy #3806

Researching a family tree is a constant pro-ject. Just like playing a game of solitaire, one finds a few records and tracks down a few leads, and then things stand still. Be mindful of any and all opportunities to inspire you to resume the chase and flip more cards when your hunt grows cold. Recently, I read Irish Roots in County Down: Stories of Family & Place. Researchers across the world searching County Down families compiled the stories. One consistent resource

mentioned in these essays was Ros Davies’ County Down website: freepages.geneal-ogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/. Af-ter unsuccessfully trying to glean a bit more on my County Down ancestors with the nu-merous resources there, I noticed a link called Links-Other Very Useful Websites http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ances-try.com/~rosdavies/WORDS/links.htm. My great-grandparents, John McGuigan (1860-1897) and Catherine McGinn (1860-1911) were married at Clogher, County Ty-rone in 1888. Catherine was the eldest child of Patrick McGinn and Alice McWilliams. Civil registration of births, deaths and Catho-lic marriages commenced in Ireland on 1 Jan 1864. Six McGinn births were registered from 1864-1874. The Irish birth certificate is in-formative, yet basic. The mother’s maiden name is included, as is place of birth. One must be mindful of personal nicknames and surname synonyms. Always obtain all birth and baptismal records that exist for a family to ensure as full a picture as possible. This family lived at Newtown Saville in Clog-her parish. Newtown Saville sits across multi-ple townlands; among them Dunbiggan, Lisnarable and Tamlaght. There were no McGinn listings at Lisnarable, but there were some at both Dunbiggan and Tamlaght. Knowing only the name Newtown Saville had made identifying the correct McGinn family problematic. The townland name is the most local geographic descriptor an Irish re-searcher can find.

Five birth certificates and Catherine’s mar-riage record listed the McGinn residence as Newtown Saville. Only the 1870 birth record of Catherine's sister, Ally McGinn, revealed that they dwelled at Tamlat(sic) townland. The exact townland of residence was required to identify the correct McGinn ancestors in both the Tithe Applotment (1823-1837) and Grif-fith’s Valuation (1848-1864) records. Because most 19th century Irish census were de-stroyed, these land valuation records serve as a census substitute and are sometimes the only remaining trace of Irish ancestors before they emigrated.

On 6 March 1899, an estate was settled for the property of Patrick McGinn (1827-1897), late of Tamlaght. Alice McGinn, of Tamlaght, the widow, was granted £89. This established that Alice was alive through 1899. When the 1911 Irish Census was posted online at www.census.nationalarchives.ie, I found a possibility in Belfast. Head of family Alice McGinn, 74, was a widow born in County Ty-rone and had delivered 8 living children with all 8 still living. As a widow, she should not have answered this question and it was scratched through, but legible. This woman lived with two of her children: Alice, 38 and John, 35. They were both single and born in Tyrone. Checking the 1901 Irish Census on microfilm I found the same family plus son Michael listed at Clondara Street. Alice McGinn was 65. Michael and John were 25 and 23 and daughter Alice was 27. None of these four spoke Irish and all four were born in Tyrone. Alice was widowed and her children were not married.

After checking the Irish Death Index, I ordered a certificate for Alice McGinn, 77, who died on 12 Jul 1919. The informant was her son, Mi-chael McGinn, who also resided at 23 Clon-dara Street. A diocesan clerk in Belfast was able to provide burial details from Milltown Cemetery. Alice and three other McGinns were buried in plot No. YE-12-B, in section 38. John McGinn, 40, died 1918 from the influ-enza pandemic. Two burials stumped me.

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Elizabeth McGinn, 62, 13 Benares Street was buried in 1922 and Margaret McGinn, 62, 53 Bombay Street was buried in 1941. I had no idea who these women might be. I decided to move on to other research.

Alice McGinn's unmarked grave

Photo from author’s personal collection

Irish Roots in County Down motivated me to

get back to work on the McGinn family and provided several resources and strategies to pursue. The General Register Office Northern Ireland (GRONI) maintains a website at https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk. This site allows a researcher to access their database of Northern Ireland vital record events for births over a hundred years old, marriages 75 years or older and deaths from 50 years ago or more. Paying for a minimum of one credit al-lows access to search the index and 5 credits

allows one to view the actual document. Cer-tificate copies can be obtained for an extra charge. I paid for several credits, opened the intri-guing prospects and quickly learned that the Elizabeth McGinn buried in 1922 was the wife of Michael McGinn. The Margaret McGinn buried in 1941 was the second wife of Michael McGinn. He had survived both wives and lived until at least 1941. The database is simple to use and I quickly found a 1928 marriage between Michael McGinn, widower, of 13 Benares Street and Margaret O’Hanlon, spinster. The Irish civil marriage record identified the name of the groom’s father as Patrick McGinn, farm la-bourer. It sometimes lists if the father is de-ceased, but not always. It never lists the name of the mother of the groom or bride. I found a 1953 death certificate for Michael McGinn, about 72, at 53 Bombay Street. The address 13 Benares Street showed that Mi-chael was living there in 1922 and in 1928 when he remarried. He was living at 53 Bom-bay Street in 1941 when he was widowed the second time and in 1953 at the time of his

death. These addresses were first discovered in the Milltown Cemetery burial register. Eve-rything was lining up and matching previous information. Rechecking GRONI’s vital rec-ords indexes, I found an Alice Maginn, 85, who died in 1954. When I opened her full file, I saw she was late of 53 Bombay Street and knew immediately that this spinster was my great-grandaunt. Her actual age at death was 83. Milltown Cemetery verified that Michael

1919 Death Record of Alice McGinn

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and his sister Alice were buried there near their relatives in grave plot IF-21-B. I found a 1911 marriage in the GRONI index for County Armagh between Michael McGinn and Mary Elizabeth Loughlin. I was not sure this was the right couple, but Armagh is adja-cent to County Antrim where the Clondara Street part of Belfast lies. A small part of Bel-fast is in County Down. Checking the search-able sacramental registers at the Irish Family History Foundation (IFHF) website, at www.rootsireland.ie, I found this Michael was the son of Patrick McGinn, farmer. Next, I contacted St. Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral in the city of Armagh and learned that the groom was baptized at Beragh, County Tyrone. This was a curiosity because Beragh is not Clog-her, but in other research questions, I have often seen names improperly recalled or mis-read. This was particularly true with ages on both census records and death certificates for this family. The church marriage record did not identify the groom’s mother. Was this my

Michael McGinn? The 1911 marriage records stated that Mi-chael was a soldier. This did not square with the censuses and later vital records that listed him as either a labourer or an old age pen-sioner. I utilized another resource from Irish Roots in County Down and joined the County Down Genealogy Group through Yahoo. I posted a request for help trying to find Irish military records; a gentleman named Dave looked at www.findmypast.ie and found Mi-chael McGinn, husband of Mary Loughlin.

The military record detailed quite a bit about this Michael McGinn. He had served many years and retired to Lenelea townland, County Armagh. The troubling question was his exact birthplace being Ballinhakin parish in Omagh town, County Tyrone. I had the birth certificate for the Clogher born Michael McGinn, born 1 Sep 1872 in Newtown Saville to Patrick McGinn and Ally McWilliams. Was there another Michael McGinn born in the fall of 1872 to a Patrick McGinn in County Tyrone? The IFHF data-base was searched again for Michael McGinn births and baptisms in County Tyrone in 1872. Born 19 Oct 1872 and baptized on 30 Oct 1872, Michael McGinn was the son of Patrick McGinn and Mary McGovern of Beragh. The marriage notation column on this baptismal record listed his marriage to a Mary Loughlin on 16 October 1911 at St. Patrick’s Armagh. So there it was: absolute, irrefutable proof

that I had been barking up the wrong family tree. This was disappointing because Michael and Mary had two children in 1919 and 1920 that might have had living descendants. I re-alized that I had just seriously botched the life story of my Michael McGinn from 1901 to 1919. When I realized my mistake, I returned to the old adage, work from knowns to unknowns. I knew that Michael was in the 1901 Irish Cen-sus on Clondara Street as a brewery labourer.

1928 Civil Marriage Record of Michael McGinn and Margaret O’Hanlon

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His next definite appearance was as inform-ant for his mother’s death record in 1919. I thought I found him in the 1911 census liv-ing on Tralee Street in Belfast. Enumerated as a boarder, Michael McGinn was a 35-year-old single, general labourer, born in Ty-rone. However, I was unable to find any mar-riage for Michael McGinn and Elizabeth be-tween 1901-1922 in Ireland or England. In 1953, Michael’s estate was executed and granted to his adopted daughter, who lived in Liverpool. This reduced the likelihood that there might be McGinn descendants still in Northern Ireland. No success has been made

on what became of the third and fifth chil-dren in the McGinn family: Patrick McGinn born 1864 and James born 1868. Patrick's birth date in the baptismal register and the civil birth register disagreed because families would change the date of a birth at registra-tion to avoid late fees. If the 1911 Irish census is correct, they both lived to adulthood. Having been burned jumping to conclusions on this family, I was concerned that the Clon-dara Street people may not even be my people. Checking the IFHF database again, there was only one Tyrone family where the parents were Patrick and Alice/Ally McGinn. That family was Patrick McGinn and Alice McWilliams of Clogher parish. This supported my belief that the Clondara Street McGinns were my family. I wrote to St. Malachy’s in Belfast where Mi-chael McGinn remarried in 1928. I was hoping the notation column might list where he was baptized. I received an email copy of the mar-riage certificate, that while not listing a bap-tismal notation, did list both parents’ names,

unlike the civil marriage certificate. The groom’s parents were recorded as Patrick McGinn and Alice McWilliams. This defini-tively established that I had found the right family. Following this success, I tried looking at yet another source mentioned in Irish Roots in County Down. The website ScotlandsPeople at scotlandspeople.gov.uk has multiple records available and is similar to the GRONI website.

One can only wish to make use of as many Scottish records as possible. These records commence in 1855. In particular, the birth certificate lists the date and place of the par-ents’ marriage. The marriage record lists both parents’ names. The death certificate names any spouses of the deceased and his parents’ names. The site also has church records (1538-1854) and censuses (1841-1911). I searched the timeframe from 1901-1922 and there were two Michael McGinn marriages. It costs a credit to look at the matches. When the names of the women came up, I immedi-ately gravitated towards the 1917 marriage between Michael McGinn and Elizabeth Shevlin. I quickly redeemed the 5 credits to open the full record. In the 1911 Irish Census, Michael McGinn boarded in a household headed by Elizabeth Shevlin, a married woman. The Scottish mar-riage certificate verified that this was my Mi-chael because his father was Patrick McGinn, deceased and Alice McGinn maiden surname

McWilliams. Apparently, sometime between 1911 and 1917, they moved to Scotland. The 1919 death certificate for his mother listed Michael as living back on Clondara Street. With every new piece of information learned, the picture became clearer. Elizabeth and Mi-chael married at St. Michael-Glasgow on 15 September 1917. Michael was employed as a forge labourer. A check of the IFHF database found Elizabeth Shevlin was the widow of Pat-rick Shevlin whom she married in 1888. She

1928 Church record of Michael McGinn's 1928 marriage

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was born Elizabeth Boal on 7 Apr 1865. Eliz-abeth was 52 years old at the time of her sec-ond marriage and had no children with Mi-chael during their marriage. She was 57 years old at the time of her death. There are always new questions created for every answer found. Keep asking questions, hunting down leads and create as complete a picture of the family tree that you can. Kevin Cassidy’s research on his McGinn family an-cestors appeared online in the August /September 2016 edition of Internet-GENEALOGY (www.inter-net-genealogy.com).

1718 Migration to Londonderry NH

Brian Mitchell

The first step in what was to become a large-scale exodus of Ulster Scots in 18th century was taken when 311 ‘inhabitants of the North of Ireland’ (including 12 Presbyterian minis-ters) appointed, by petition dated 26 March 1718, Rev. William Boyd of Macosquin to ne-gotiate a grant of land from Samuel Shute, governor of New England. It is uncertain how many of the petitioners ac-tually emigrated on Boyd’s return from Bos-ton with a favourable report, but it is known that neither Boyd nor any of the twelve minis-ters who signed the petition did so. At least five of the clergymen who signed this petition served or had served as ministers of Presby-terian congregations in the Coleraine area. They were: Robert Higginbotham at 1st Col-eraine from 1710to 1770; John Porter at Bushmills from 1713 to 1738; Henry Neill at Ballyrashane from 1709 to1745; Thomas El-der at Ballyrashane from 1700 to 1704 (when he signed the petition he was minister of Kil-more congregation in County Down); and James Thomson at Ballywillan from 1718 to 1747. It is estimated (Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718-1775 by R. J. Dickson) that one thousand north Irish people disembarked from ten vessels at Boston in 1718. Four of the ships are detailed in Boston port records:

Vessel Port of Departure Tons Passengers

William & Elizabeth

Londonderry 40

William & Mary

Coleraine 30

McCallom Londonderry 70 100

Mary & Elizabeth

Londonderry 45 100

It would appear that the bulk of emigrants ar-riving in Boston in 1718 came from the Bann and Foyle Valleys. James MacGregor, son of Captain MacGregor of Magilligan and minister of Aghadowey Pres-byterian Church (near Coleraine), accompa-nied by some of his congregation arrived in Boston on 4 August 1718. On 31 October

Update on Irish Records

Virginia Wright#2480

On September 8, 2016, Heather Humphreys T.D. Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs announced that the General Register Office’s (GRO) historic records of births marriages and deaths are now freely accessible at irishgenealogy.ie. The years covered in this release of records are: Births: 1864-1915, Marriages: 1882-1940, and Deaths: 1891-1965. The GRO is currently working on updating further rec-ords of marriages dating back to 1845 and deaths dating back to 1864. These will be included in future updates to the website. The Public Records Office of Northern Ire-land (PRONI) also had a major announce-ment in September. PRONI has partnered with the General Register Office of Northern Ireland (GRONI) to bring a birth/death and marriage certificate search service to PRONI’s Public Search Room. It is now pos-sible for researchers visiting PRONI to

search GRONI’s full database from 1845 right up to present. This is a payable search service in which customers will be required to register with GRONI. The access offered by GRONI only to those researching in Bel-fast does not have the same restriction as the online GRONI searches at https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk/ which allows only access to birth records over 100 years old, marriage records over 75 years old, and death records over 50 years old.

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1718, James MacGregor and Archibald Boyd presented a petition for a grant of land to the House of Representatives of Massachusetts ‘on behalf of themselves and twenty-six others already arrived in Boston and forty more fam-ilies who were about to emigrate from Ireland.’ They obtained the right to settle in twelve square miles of unclaimed Massachusetts land. In the spring of 1719 the little colony left their winter quarters and went to Haverhill, where they heard of a fine tract of land about fifteen miles distant, called Nutfield, so named be-cause of the abundance of its chestnut, wal-

nut, and butternut trees. In May 1719 James MacGregor assumed pastoral charge of the settlement; thus, the first Presbyterian con-gregation in New England was formally organ-ised. Nutfield’s Presbyterianism set it apart from its predominantly Congregational neigh-bouring New England towns. Indeed, Nutfield has been described as the first Presbyterian community in America. In June 1722 Nut-field, by charter granted by Governor Samuel Shute in the name of George III, was incorpo-rated as the town of Londonderry. The names of the earliest settlers of London-derry, New Hampshire are known as listed on the ‘Map of a large portion of the original town of Nutfield settled in 1719 and chartered as Londonderry in 1722, prepared and drawn by Rev. J G McMurphy.’ 390 names are recorded within their appropriate lots. [See Table start-ing on page 76] It would appear that 35 people, who signed the petition in Ireland in 1718, indicating their intention to emigrate, were settled in Londonderry, New Hampshire by 1722. They

were: James & Randall Alexander, John Blair, William Caldwell, William Campbell, John Clark, Andrew & John Cochran, David, James & John Craig, John Gray, James Gregg, James, John & Robert McKeen, Robert Miller, John Mitchell, James & John Moore, James Morrison, James Nesmith, James Patterson, James Rodgers, James Smith, James & John Thompson, William Wallace, Robert Wear, James, John, Robert, Thomas & William Wil-son, and John Woodburn.

From the beginning, the colonists of London-derry were divided in both civil and religious allegiance. As early as June 1720 a large pro-portion of the colonists were complaining about the character of the men that were be-ing invited to settle. There was tension be-tween the English and Ulster Scots. In the words of Rev. Jesse G McMurphy (compiler of 1722 map of Londonderry): “The English churchmen were in a minority, and greatly maligned by the Scotch, who came to America as disaffected and aggrieved occu-pants of confiscated lands in the northern counties of Ireland, despising the Irish, whom

they had displaced, for their obedience to a foreign religious potentate, and hating the English with a national rancor for having gained authority over them by the treachery and baseness of court favorites.” The English in Londonderry remained apart from the other settlers, and in the laying out of homesteads managed to secure a range of fine land that became known as the English Range. The Wentworths and many loyal sub-jects to the crown formed almost a separate colony in the town. Londonderry, New Hampshire was to become the second largest town in early colonial times and the towns of Derry and Windham were formed from it. In 1790, the first year that a census was taken, the population of London-derry, New Hampshire was 2,622. As was typical of New England towns in the 18th century, political and economic pres-sures led to the division of the large town of Londonderry. In 1740, the town of Windham was set off from Londonderry and granted a

charter. In 1827, 295 citizens petitioned the legislature to divide Londonderry into two towns. The western portion retained the name Londonderry, and the eastern portion became known as Derry. According to the census of 2000, the popula-tion of Londonderry was 23,236; Derry, the fourth most populous community in New Hampshire, 34,021; and Windham 10,709.

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Settlers of Londonderry New Hampshire in 1722

Surname Lot # / Notes

Surname Lot # / Notes

Surname Lot # / Notes

Adams, William 27 Bell, John 15 Clark, George 19

Adams, William 22 Bell, John 66 Clark, Thomas

Adams, James 43 Blair, John 158 Clark, George

Aiken, James 82 Blair, John Clark, Thomas

Aiken, Edward 67 Blair, John Clark, George

Aiken, Nathaniel 67 Blair, John 157 Cochran, William

Aiken, Edward Blair, John 33 Cochran, Robert 31

Aiken, Edward 68 Blair, James 32 Coghran, William 115

Aiken, William Bogle, David 33 Coghran, John 63

Aiken, Edward Bogle, Thomas 33 Coghran, Thomas 30

Aiken, William 7 Bogle, David Coghran, John 101

Aiken, James 7 Bogle, Thomas 12 Coghran, Peter 101

Aiken, William 24 Boyes, Robert Coghran, Andrew 101

Alexander, James 88

Boyes, Robert 21/Congrega-tional Church

Coghran, WIilliam 45

Alexander, John / Meadow Boyes, Robert Coghran, Widow 124

Alexander, Randall 90 Boyes, Robert 21 Coghran, Peter 51

Alexander, James 57 Boyes, Robert 2 Coghran, Ninian 51

Alexander, Randall 109 Butterfield, Jonathan 34 Coghran, John 45

Alexander, Randall 37 Calderwood, James 70 Coghran, William 45

Alexander, James 20 Caldwell, Thomas Coghran, John 55

Allison, Samuel 26 Caldwell, William 100 Coghran, Andrew

Anderson, John 135 Caldwell, Thomas 100 Coghran, Nathaniel 163

Anderson, John 41 Campbell, William 25 Craig, David

Anderson, Allen Cargill, David 137 Craig, John

Anderson, John 67 Cargill, David, /Saw Mill Craig, David

Anderson, Robert 162 Cargill, David, Jr 8 Craig, David 105

Anderson, James 63 Cargill, David, Jr 202 Craig, James

Anderson, James 42 Cargill, David, Sr 45/Fulling Mill Craig, David 40

Anderson, Allen 34 Cargill, David 43 Craig, David 46

Arbuckle, Robert Cargill, David 44 Cristie, Jessie 52

Archibald, John Cargill, David, Sr 196 Crombie, John 158

Archibald, John Cargill, David, Jr 196 Crombie, John 138

Archibald, John 31

Clark, Matthew 75/ Church & Graveyard

Crombie, John 9

Archibald, John 74 Clark, James 23 Dickey, Samuel 161

Archibald, John 2 Clark, Matthew 39 Dickey, David 91

Barnard, John Jr Clark, Matthew 74 Doak, Robert 130

Barnard, John 1 Clark, James 160 Doak, Robert 175

Barnard, John 11 Clark, James 67 Doak, James 175

Barr, Samuel 157 Clark, John 105 Doak, John 175

Barr, John 77 Clark, John 125 Doak, Robert 74

Barr, John 6 Clark, James 42 Doak, James 74

Barr, John 77 Clark, John 24 Doak, John 74

Barr, Samuel 155 Clark, Thomas Doak, James 125

Bell, John 92 Clark, George Doak, John 125

Bell, John 40 Clark, Thomas 19 Doak, James 113

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Settlers of Londonderry New Hampshire in 1722

Surname Lot # / Notes

Surname Lot # / Notes

Surname Lot # / Notes

Doak, John 13 Gregg, John 63 McGlaughlan, James

Doak, Robert Gregg, James 37 McGregor, Rev. James 102

Duncan, John Hill, Lady 147 McGregor, Rev. James 185

Duncan, John Holmes, Abram 170 McGregor, Rev. James 43/ Meeting House

Duncan, George Holms, Abram 170 McGregor, Rev. James 43

Eayers, William 15 Holms, Abram 81 McGregor, Rev. James 184

Eayers, William 91 Holms, Abram 19 McKeen, Samuel

Eayers, Christopher Houston, Samuel 158 McKeen, John

Fulton, Samuel 2 Houston, Samuel 175/ Grist Mill McKeen, Janet

Giffens, Nehemiah Houston, Samuel 31 McKeen, Robert 155

Gillmore, William 44 Houston, Samuel 61 McKeen, Robert

Gillown, William 131 Humphrey, William 25 McKeen, Samuel 59

Givean, John 18 Humphrey, William 715 McKeen, John 59

Givean, John 97 Hunter, James McKeen, Janet 59

Glendinnen, Archi-bald

1 Hunter, James 176 McKeen, Robert 3/461 acres

Goff, John Karr, Daniel 37 McKeen, James 5

Goff, John Sr. 2 Kennedy, Robert McKeen, James 47

Goffe, John Jr. Keyes, Elisa 9 McKeen, Robert 63/ Saw Mill

Goffe, John Jr. 174 Kidder, Joseph 113 McKeens, The 191

Graves, Samuel Kidder, Joseph McMurphy, Alexander 101

Graves, Samuel 16 Kidder, Joseph McMurphy, John 101

Graves, Samuel Jr. 4 Kidder, Benjamin 185 McMurphy, John 128

Graves, Samuel 171 Kidder, Benjamin 109 McMurphy, Alexander 53

Graves, Samuel 176 Kidder, Joseph 20 McMurphy, John 41

Gray, John 132 Kidder, Benjamin 24 McMurphy, John 71

Gray, John 16 Kidder, Benjamin 92 McMurphy, Alexander 72

Gray, John 147 Kidder, Joseph 60 McMurphy, John 71

Green, Henry Leslie, James McMurphy, John 187

Green, Henry 92 Leslie, James 80 McNeal, John

Green, Henry 54 Leslie, James 27 McNeal, Alexander 35

Gregg, James 72 Liggett, James 93 McNeal, James 115

Gregg, Samuel 72 Liggett, James 72 McNeal, James

Gregg, William 88/ Saw Mill

Lindsey, James 182 McNeal, John 105

Gregg, John 88 Lindsey, James 81 McNeal, James 165

Gregg, James 28/Pink-erton

Academy

Lindsey, James 190 McNeal, James

Gregg, James 3/saw mill &Grist

Mill

Lindsey, James 26 Merrell, Abel 124

Gregg, John 4 McAllister, David 159 Merrell, Abel 54

Gregg, James 56 McCay, Charles Merrell, Abel 1

Gregg, Samuel 56 McClurg, John 62 Merrell, Abel 54

Gregg, James 92 McConoghy, John 65 Miller, Robert

Gregg, James 66 McCurdy, James Mitchell, John 31

Gregg, John 66 McDuffie, Daniel 68 Mitchell, John 39

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Settlers of Londonderry New Hampshire in 1722

Surname Lot # / Notes

Surname Lot # / Notes

Surname Lot # / Notes

Mitchell, John 138 Phillips, Rev. Samuel Thompson, James

Montgomery, Hugh 139 Phillips, Rev. Samuel 101 Thornton, Joshua 71

Montgomery, Hugh 105 Phillips, Rev. Samuel 65 Todd, Andrew 114

Moon, John 104 Pierce, Stephen 127 Todd, Andrew 30

Moore, John 141 Pierce, Stephen 27 Todd, Samuel 171

Moore, Samuel 141 Pierce, Stephen 178 Tyler, Jonathan 10

Moore, Samuel 111 Pinkerton, John 160 Tyler, John

Moore, James 32 Procter, Edward 35 Walker, Alexander

Moore, Samuel 164 Procter, Edward 176 Walker, Alexander 182

Moore, John 164 Ramsey, Hugh 49 Wallace, John 37

Moore, John Ramsey, Hugh 49 Wallace, John 173

Moore, Samuel Rankin, Alexander 75 Wallace, John 29

Morrison, Samuel Rankin, Samuel 98 Wallace, William

Morrison, Samuel 64 Rankin, Samuel Walton, Colonel

Morrison, Robert Reed, Matthew 177 Wear, Robert 1

Morrison, James 89 Reid, James 177 Wear, Robert 184

Morrison, John 89 Richey, John 33 Wentworth, Governor 48

Morrison, David 174 Richey, John 150 Wentworth, Gov. John 17

Morrison, David 53 Robie, John Wentworth, Lt. Governor 38

Morrison, Samuel 53 Rogers, James 36 Wentworth, Governor

Morrison, John Scobey, John Wentworth, Governor 38

Morrison, Robert 55 Senter, John 157 Wheelwright, Colonel 158

Morrison, John 2 Senter, John 155 Wheelwright, Colonel

Morrison, Robert 44 Senter, John 23

Wheelwright, Colonel John

Morrison, David 38/ Pres-byterian Church

Senter, John 71

Wilson, Robert 69/ saw mill

Morrison, James 19 Shields, John 182 Wilson, Hugh 69

Morrison, James 73 Shields, John 42 Wilson, Robert 131

Morrison, John 73 Shute, Governor Wilson, James (Black) Murray, James Simonds, Joseph 28 Wilson, James (Curly)

Nesmith, James 36 Smith, James Wilson, James 11

Nesmith, James 158 Spalding, Andrew 31 Wilson, Elizabeth /saw mill

Nesmith, James 14 Spalding, Andrew 169 Wilson, Benjamin 30

Nichols, William 148 Spalding, Andrew 147 Wilson, Benjamin 55

Nichols, William 73 Spalding, Andrew 76 Wilson, John 55

North?, William 120 Stark, Archibald Wilson, William 34

Nutt, William Steele, Thomas Wilson, William 150

Osgood, Jeremiah Steele, Thomas 35 Wilson, Thomas 94

Patterson, James Stewart, John 64 Wilson, Thomas 159

Penhallow, Samuel 46 Stewart, John 64 Wilson, Robert

Penhallow, Samuel 193 Thom, Ar? Wilson, James

Penhallow, Samuel 108 Thompson, William Woodburn, John

Penhallow, Samuel 18 Thompson, William 76 Woodburn, John 46

Penhallow, Samuel 125 Thompson, John Woodburn, John 76

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Building your Genealogy Research Library

Pat Deal #3076

As a genealogist you might be interested in adding to your research library. To complement the focus of this newsletter edition on Ulster, we are listing some books on Ulster or specific counties. These books are available for order through TIARA with special member pricing. A Massachusetts Sales tax of 6.25% will be added to the price of each book. Shipping and handling from TIARA, within the US, is $5.00 for first book, plus $2.00 for each additional book. These book summaries are edited from published sources Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors: The Essential Genealogical Guide to Early Modern Ulster, 1600 – 1800. Author: William J. Roulston. Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation. Member Price: $12.00 plus tax and shipping. A comprehensive guide for researchers of ancestors in 17th and 18th-century Ulster. This book provides reliable guidance on sources for this critical period, whether of English, Scottish or Gaelic Irish origin. The location of these records and how they may be accessed is provided. Book appendices include an index of pre 1800 church records for Ulster; a detailed description of nearly 250 collections of seventeenth and eighteenth-century estate papers; and a summary of the records available from each parish in Ulster. William Roulston is Research Officer with the Ulster Historical Foundation. He was a well-received speaker at the second Celtic Connections Conference, co-sponsored by TIARA and IGSI in August, 2016 in

Minneapolis, MN. Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians, second edition. Author: Ian Maxwell. Publisher: Pen & Sword Family History. Member Price: $20.00 plus tax and shipping. An expert introduction for researchers to the wealth of material available in archives throughout Northern Ireland. An easy-to-use guide to the comprehensive collections available at the Public Record Office of

Northern Ireland (PRONI), is a key feature of Ian Maxwell’s handbook. He also summarizes the records held in many libraries, museums and heritage centers across the province and provides detailed coverage of records available online. Maxwell shows how researchers can make good use of church records, school registers, land and valuation records to trace their roots to the beginning of the nineteenth century and beyond. Ian Maxwell is a former record officer at PRONI and is now a writer and expert on Irish Genealogy. A Pocket History of Ulster. Author: Brian Barton. Publisher: The O’Brien Press, Ltd. Member Price: $7.00 plus tax and shipping.

This book unravels the complicated origins, causes and course of Ulster history. The book traces the roots of the social divide, discusses the partition of Ireland in 1921 and the decline of Northern Ireland into instability and war. The book deals with the Civil Rights movement and the modern upheavals including the various ceasefires and agreements right up to the Good Friday Agreement. Ulster Emigration to Colonial America, 1718-1775. Author: R.J. Dickson. Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation. Member Price: $19.00 plus tax and shipping. First published in 1966, this 2016 edition marks the book’s 50th anniversary. The book remains the acknowledged work of scholarship on the eighteenth-century movement of families and individuals from the north of Ireland to the New World. Carefully examined are the economic, social and political context of emigration. This anniversary edition includes an Introduction by Dr. Patrick Fitzgerald of the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies in which he considers recent developments in the study of emigration from Ulster. Dr. Fitzgerald acknowledges ‘the enduring debt we owe the author for his professional, careful and often painstaking historical research.’ Dickson’s study continues to provide a firm foundation for the relationship between Ulster and America.

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Researching Armagh Ancestors: A practical guide for family and local historians. Author: Ian Maxwell. Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation. Member Price: $19.00 plus tax and shipping. Armagh has a rich history contributing to the distinctive character of its people. By the end of the 18th century the County was one of the most prosperous and the most densely populated in Ireland. Though history has taken its’ toll on records, much has survived and is accessible in the catalogues and searching aids in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI). In this book, Ian

Maxwell encourages using the fullest range of sources available. A strong feature of this book are the reference appendices, including a breakdown of administrative divisions, listing some 1400 townlands and unofficial townland names in earlier use. Provided for each is the civil parish, barony and poor law union. Researching Down Ancestors: A practical guide for family and local historians. Author: Ian Maxwell. Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation. Member Price: $15.00 plus tax and shipping. Of the nine counties of Ulster, Down claims a particularly fascinating history. Vikings came to raid and then settled along the coast. Later, the Normans seized control, constructing castles, monasteries and abbeys. In the seventeenth century, thousands of Scottish and English settlers poured into Down, establishing themselves in the north and east of the county. Meanwhile the native Irish were able to preserve their way of life in south Down where their close-knit communities

were sufficiently well organized to co-exist with the newcomers. The distribution of surnames in the county provides lasting evidence of its complex history. This book provides a practical guide for researchers in County Down. As with other Ulster counties, records have become increasingly accessible in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, (PRONI). Covering a breadth of material this book has particular value in the detailed listings of the records of landed estates, churches and schools, as well as the

appendices listing townlands and unofficial place-names for the county. Tracing Derry-Londonderry Roots. Author: Brian Mitchell. Publisher: Clearfield Company. Member Price: $14.00 plus tax and shipping. In this 67-page booklet, Brian Mitchell summarizes the steps and resources for research in the city and county of Londonderry (also known as Derry). In the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, the city of Derry was a major port of embarkation for Irish emigrants. County Derry was populated by persons of Gaelic Irish, Scottish, and

English origins, many of whom were part in the exodus to the Americas, Great Britain, and Australia. The book discusses the fundamentals of Irish research, emphasizing the importance of location. Included is a review of the main record sources for Derry, including civil and church registers of births, marriages and deaths and maps of Catholic Parishes and Presbyterian Congregations. Mitchell’s sources, including Internet sites and local offices. Written by one of Ireland’s leading genealogists this book will aid County Derry-Londonderry researchers. Brian Mitchell was a well-received speaker at the second Celtic Connections Conference, co-sponsored by TIARA and IGSI in August, 2016 in Minneapolis, MN. County Londonderry: Sources for Family History. Author: Brian Mitchell. Publisher: Genealogy Centre, Heritage Library, Derry. Member Price: $6.00 plus tax and shipping In this 28-page booklet, Brian Mitchell summarizes the many resources enabling research in the city and County of

Londonderry (also known as Derry). Included are vital record and townland sources and maps of Catholic Parishes and Presbyterian Congregations. Published in 1992 this booklet does not include internet sites but is a very useful overview of information sources for County Derry-Londonderry researchers. Books can be ordered, using your credit card, from TIARA – Books, 84 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453.

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Registration District Map Browse Virginia Wright #2480

Shane Wilson has added another free tool, The Registration District Map Browse, to his website swilson.info. It is a useful visual aid for Irish genealogists that provides a Google Maps view of the registration district of inter-est to the researcher. The user can select the registration district di-rectly from a pull down list of registration dis-tricts. A search by county or a wildcat search (3 or more characters) of registration or dis-pensary districts is also offered. Clicking on the district name brings up the full details and map. The town which was the center for the District is marked in red; the dispensary districts are marked on the map and a key to the color coding for them appears on the left of the page. Identifying and locating adjacent registration districts is key for researchers who need to ex-pand their search area. In this browse tool, adjacent registration districts are also listed on the left and marked in yellow on the map. The Registration District Map Browse tool joins a collection of digitized maps of Dublin and Ireland, a revised and improved townland

database, scans and extracts from a number of directories, a database of Catholic parishes as they were during the mid-1830s, Catholic and civil parish links for over 1,000 parishes, and map coordinates to over 2,000 churches and chapels, all freely accessible on Shane

Wilson’s website.

A Season for Thanks Susan Steele #1025

I have just returned from a Thanksgiving gathering and my thoughts have turned to TIARA. We are closing out a very busy year. All of the TIARA activities depended on

volunteers. We are so grateful for the time, energy and creativity our members devote to our organization. I will attempt to recap some of the 2016 events and give a “shout out” to our many “helping hands”. First of all is there is the TIARA Board and Committee Chairs. Some of these names appear on our website front page. Others need to be added to the list. Co-President: Greg Atkinson, Co-President: Susan Steele, Vice President: Kathy Sullivan, Co-Recording Secretary: Joanne Delaney, Co-Recording Secretary: Molly Walker, Corresponding

Browse tool view for selected district Newry

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Secretary: Pam Holland, Finance Director: Gary Sutherland, Newsletter: Virginia Wright, Foresters Project: Susan Steele, Membership: Pat Deal, Volunteers:, Julie Rizzello, Library: Joan Callahan, Webmaster: Pat Landry, Computers: Charlie Jack, Richard Wright, Trip Committee: Marie Ahearn, Janis Duffy, Celtic Connections Committee: Greg Atkinson, Mary Choppa, Office & Fáilte Fridays: Susan Steele, Books: Mary Choppa Next come the members of the committees. Many hands make a lighter task for the committee chair: Vice President Kathy Sullivan has a staff of two: Marie Ahearn and

Julie Rizzell. Newsletter Editor Virginia Wright also has an official staff of two: Marie Ahearn and Richard Wright. There are many others who have helped get the newsletter ready for mailing and place the pdf version on the website: Pat Landry, Pat Deal, Sheila FitzPatrick, Joanne Delaney Connie Koutoujian, Julie Rizzello, Barbara SanClemente, Claire Smith, Alice Wadden, and Richard Wright. There are also the TIARA members who have contributed articles and photographs this year: Kathleen Berube, CSJ, Kevin Cassidy, Geraldine Cox, Pat Deal, Mary Ellen Doona, Mary Lee Dunn, Judy Flynn, Pam Holland, Patricia McHugh, Susan Reid, Julie Rizzello, Susan Steele, Kathy Sullivan, and Virginia Wright. Susan Steele has a loyal group of Forester Project volunteers. Some have been with her since the beginning of the project in 2004! The 2016 volunteers were: Marie Ahearn, Liz Barnett, Bob Cavanaugh, Mary Coyne, Carlyn Cox, Pat Deal, Nancy Fennessey, Carolyn Jack, Connie Koutoujian, Michael Shaughnessy, Pat Willis and Virginia Wright.

Julie Rizzello took over Eva Murphy’s Volunteer Coordinator position. Here are some refreshment volunteers. Fran Caddigan, Carlyn Cox, Pat Deal, Joanne Delaney, Marie Dorsey, Janis Duffy, Nancy Fennessey, Judy Izenberg, Pat O’Grady, Gary Sutherland, Margaret Sullivan, and Molly Walker. I know I’ve missed some people here. Again you are all appreciated! Marie Ahearn and Janis Duffy’s Trip Committee members are: Sheila Byrnes, Mary

Choppa, Bill Kelley, Pat Landry, Joyce Wadlington and Virginia Wright. Books: Mary Choppa manages our book sales inventory and often oversees the book sale area at TIARA conference booths. Susan Steele fills mail orders. Mary's additional "staff" is listed in the Conference section of this article. TIARA moved to new office space this year. I thanked move volunteers in a previous article but they deserve another “round of applause”: Don Ahearn, Marie Ahearn, Liz Barnett, Pat Deal, Joanne Delaney, Sheila FitzPatrick, Carolyn Jack, Charlie Jack, Connie

Koutoujian, Brian Reynolds, Michael Shaughnessey, Susan Steele, Gary Sutherland, Richard Wright, and Virginia Wright. Our new office has space for a small library and a larger conference room. Library: Joan Callahan gets new books ready for shelving and keeps our "LibraryThing" catalogue up to date. Susan Steele and the following Fáilte Fridays volunteers have helped staff the Library: Marie Ahearn, Liz Barnett, Pat Deal, Joanne Delaney, Sheila FitzPatrick, Julie Rizzello. Marie Ahearn led our first Family History workshop in our new conference room. Presenters included: Carlyn Cox, Pat Deal, Cate Ryan, Susan Steele and Kathy Sullivan The Celtic Connections Committee was a joint effort of TIARA and the IGSI. In a previous newsletter, I identified those who contributed to the very successful 2016 conference! The 2018 Celtic Connections Committee is already hard at work under the leadership of Greg Atkinson and Mary Choppa. TIARA members

of that committee include: Marie Ahearn, Pat Deal, Joanne Delaney, Janis Duffy, Sheila FitzPatrick, Connie Koutoujian, Pat Landry, Kathy Roscoe, Susan Steele, Kathy Sullivan, Gary Sutherland, and Pat Willis. Celtic Connections Conference 2016 was just one of the many conferences TIARA attended. TIARA members staffed booths and tables at the Massachusetts Genealogical Council, the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists, the South Shore Irish Festival, Irish Fest at the Irish Cultural Centre of New England, the

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Braintree Department of Elder Affairs Introduction to Genealogy Program, the New York State Family History Conference and we traveled to Dublin for the Back To Our Past conference. Volunteers at various conferences included: Mary Choppa, Pat Deal, Joanne Delaney, Paul Delaney, Danielle Doran, Sheila FitzPatrick, Pam Holland, Lorraine Roberts, Kathy Roscoe, Michael Shaughnessey, Susan Steele, Kathy Sullivan, Barbara Valente, Molly Walker, and Mary-Alice Wildasin, Richard Wright, and Virginia Wright Mary Choppa and Sheila FitzPatrick have been working on the New England Regional

Genealogical Conference 2017 plans. We will be looking for help to staff the TIARA booth in April! Our 2016 calendar was packed with events. Volunteers gave many hours to our organization. We give you our heartfelt thanks and we apologize for possible omissions to this list. We would not survive or be as successful as we are without you!

TIARA at Back To Our Past Virginia Wright

The Irish Family History Centre, (formerly Eneclann) invited TIARA to be part of Back To Our Past

again this year. The event was held in Dublin October 21-23. Kathy Sullivan, Virginia Wright,

Susan Steele, and Richard Wright traveled from Boston to tend the TIARA table and were assisted

by Mary Alice Wildasin and Danielle Doran who were vacationing in Ireland at that time. Many

attendees at the event stopped by to learn about North American records and repositories or to

seek help or advice with their research. We had numerous success stories finding information of

their ancestor’s lost relatives in US records.

Next Issue Next April will mark the 100th anniversary of the US entering WW I. The Spring issue of the newsletter will remember those who served. Have you researched any ances-tors who served in the military? Which country did they serve? How did historic events impact their family’s lives? Found useful online records or other helpful sources for military research? Share your research story with TIARA members and submit your military themed article for the next issue of your TIARA newsletter. Other articles of Irish or genealogical inter-est are always welcome. Please send sub-missions for the Winter Newsletter to newsletter@tiara.ie or mail to TIARA by January 30.

Virginia Wright and Kathy Sullivan Susan Steele chats with visitor to the TIARA table

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