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Early Irish migration to Newfoundland
Series : The Irish in Canadian History : No. 1 Click here to view larger image. Contents : Preface: This is the first of a series of brief articles about the Irish who emigrated to Canada, and those who made notable achievements or, contrariwise, achieved notoriety by other means. Much attention is paid to the Continue reading
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A brief window into the Ferguson family of Farriter townland, 1729–1775
A brief window, indeed, has been opened for the ancestry and descendants of the Ferguson family of Farriter townland. Our interest in this family begins with the marriage in 1736 of David Ferguson (c.1711–bef.1775) and Margaret, daughter of John Huggins (I) of Glenarb townland. David and Margaret had at least two sons, and possibly more, Continue reading
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2024 New Year’s Day News Reader
… to our readers with interests in Ireland’s history, herewith a series of articles either with New Year’s Day as the predominant theme or newsworthy events occurring on that date. Happy New Year to all! Index of articles with New Year’s Day themes : The articles in this list link to transcripts farther down this Continue reading
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Arthur McMahon of Lisnagrot: Presbyterian Minister and United Irishman
A review of our transcripts of historical news transcripts for Kilrea and environs reveals three articles pertaining to the Rev. Arthur Mc Mechan, A.M., alias M’Meekan, later McMahon. Mr. Mc. Mechan opened an Academy in Lisnagrot townland, only to shut down operations within the space of four years: How had these events unfolded? Had the Continue reading
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Elopement in Kilrea & Tamlaght O’Crilly during the 1700s: Did your ancestor elope from a marriage?
Surnames mentioned: — Adams, Black, Boyd, Church, Clements, Downing, Hunter, Jameson, Mc Mullan, Mc Peake, O’Hara, O’Kenan, and Poleek. The 20th century notion of elopement is that of two young people who, having become thoroughly enamoured of one another, run away to marry. Reasons for doing so include one or both parties not having attained Continue reading
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Recent updates posted to Arborealis
It has been a very busy few months here at Arborealis, with recent updates to the website in line with WordPress’s new Full Site Editor method for designing, launching, and maintaining a website. At this date, we have completed about two-thirds of this task. We might have made greater progress but have continued to publish Continue reading
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Update: The “lost” children of James Huggins [jun.] (1803–1849) of Glenkeen
Discoveries of new records made during the past few years have led to revisions of one page on Arborealis, James Huggins [jun.] (1803–1840) of Glenkeen in the parish of Aghaloo, county Tyrone. The title of the original page did not feature square brackets around the suffix, jun., and James was stated to be of Glenarb Continue reading
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Software upgrades driving modern printing press technology (again)
Begging our readers’ patience, as much as my own, please bear with us while significant software upgrades are rolled out across Arborealis. In keeping with the introduction by WordPress™ of significant developments in its web design interface, appropriately called Gutenberg™, the design theme for Arborealis has changed. This change was necessary to accommodate updated methods Continue reading
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Marriage settlement of William Stevenson & Elizabeth Fleming (1716)
Just over three hundred years ago, Capt. James Stevenson of Stewartstown and William Fleming of Portadown executed a marriage settlement [link pending] on behalf of their respective children, William and Elizabeth. The resulting deeds of lease and release , dated 19th October 1716, are lengthy and verge on the turgid. Nevertheless, a careful parsing of Continue reading
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Irish Deeds – Updates re: Indexing & Transcription Projects
29th Nov. 2023 note: — The scope and organization of the Irish deeds section on Arborealis were recently reorganized. The purpose of this blog article is to inform our readers of updates in the Irish Deeds section on Arborealis. At the time of writing, the sub-sections include: End notes : Source citation for this page: Continue reading
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Mary McDonnell in, “The lot of the soldier’s wife” (revisited)
Since writing the first installment of “The lot of the soldier’s wife” in 2015, the recent discovery of a (third) marriage record lifts Mary McDonnell out of the inscrutable murk of family history mystery. Nevertheless, Mary has led us on a merry genealogical chase to learning what was her lot for the twenty-one years between Continue reading
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Christmas Day at the Poor-house in Armagh, 25th December 1844
Published in the 31st December 1844 edition of The Armagh Guardian: Christmas Day in Armagh. On Wednesday last the annual dinner was given to the inmates of the Armagh Poor-house, by his grace the Lord Primate; the dinner consisted of roast beef and plum pudding, with ale. Same day 100 of the aged and infirm poor Continue reading
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Birth of Robert Kennedy at Carland, parish of Donaghmore, 22nd December 1683
On this day 337 years ago, the Rev. Thomas Kennedy (1625–1714) and Mary O’Brien (c.1651–1721), his wife, celebrated the birth of Robert Kennedy, their youngest child, at Carland in county Tyrone. 1 , 2 During his early life, Robert ran the expected course of education in Glasgow prior to ordination at Benburb Presbyterian in county Continue reading
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Family history mystery: Adam & Robert Kilpatrick of Lislea, parish of Kilrea
The children of one of our nearly related Kilpatrick families of Lislea townland seem to have disappeared from the Irish record, qualifying as another family history mystery. Adam Kilpatrick (IV) was born on 13th December 1834 in Lislea townland in the parish of Kilrea, county Derry, the son of Adam Kilpatrick (III) (d.1837) and Hester Continue reading
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Rev. Gilbert Alexander Kennedy of Cambusnethan
A research friend, Jonathan Gray of Killeeshil & Clonaneese Historical Society and keen student of all things [Kennedy + Carland], often refers to the “genealogy” of ministerial descendants from the Rev. Thomas Kennedy (1625–1714). 1 This 17th century Rev. Mr. Kennedy was the first minister at Carland c.1646, and what Mr. Gray says is remarkable. Continue reading
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In search of three children of James Huggins [jun.] of Glenkeen, in the parish of Aghaloo (1st writing)
This blog post was written to highlight a search for those children of James Huggins, jun., who have disappeared from the Irish records. The several children of interest were born in the parish of Aghaloo and county of Tyrone. Each was baptised in the parish church of St. John (Church of Ireland) in Caledon: Margaret Continue reading
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Portent of the Great Famine in December, 1844
In December, 1844, the Limerick Chronicle† contained a portent of the Great Famine of 1845–1852. In that edition was issued one of the earliest warnings of the looming and terrible visitation of the potato blight, famine, and disease in Ireland. A serious rot had been detected in the potato pits in several districts. At that Continue reading
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Inaugural edition of The Armagh Guardian, published 3rd September 1844
On 3rd December 1844, John Thompson published the inaugural edition of his new weekly journal, The Armagh Guardian. At this juncture in his publishing career, he kept a general print shop at 63, English-street in Armagh. No matter how much and how loudly they doth protest, then as now the news issues forth from bias. Continue reading
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Website redesign: Column shift, inline-six :: One more, once!
Website redesign v.3.3:—Early in the New Year, I learnt that the software which had formed the basis for building Arborealis since June, 2014 was no longer supported. This went a long way to explaining why, for several months at least, merely inputting several phrases or switching windows between that software and other programs or webpages Continue reading
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Family history mystery: Agnes Stevenson and the Rev. Mr. Pattison of Edinburgh
This latest family history mystery item involves the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Pattison (the former Miss Agnes Stevenson), who lived in Edinburgh in the early 1800s. Agnes Stevenson was born c.1733-ish in Stewartstown, county Tyrone. She was the daughter of William Stevenson (c.1691–c.1765) and Ann Stewart. Ann Stewart was a daughter of Andrew Stewart (1672–1715), Continue reading
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