The Williams of Kinsale, Bantry and Macroom
Browsing through the wills lodged in the Canterbury Court, which are available on both Ancestry and the UK National Archives site, I stumbled across the 1824 will of a John Williams of Kinsale, Co....
View ArticleJamiesons of Donaghadee, Co. Down
This post is merely a collation of information on the Jamieson/Jamison/Jameson families of rural Donaghadee. We descend from a Robert Jamieson of Ballyhay, Donaghadee, but it's unclear whether all...
View ArticleThe Frew Family of Killyleagh, Co. Down
This post collates whatever information I manage to gather about the Frew family of Killyleagh who my Stewarts seemed to be related to via a number of people. Most of the Frews of Killyleagh, who...
View ArticleMore Willis/Woolsey Connections...
This post expands on a few Willis/Woolsey connections, primarily through the marriage of Rev. Henry de Laval Willis and Mary Anne Woolsey in 1841....Captain John Woolsey was the High Sheriff of Louth...
View ArticleJohn and Thomas Williams of Grafton Street and Lower Sackville Street
This is another post about Williams families of Dublin as part of my ongoing search for the father of our great-great grandfather, Richard Williams of 17 Eden Quay and Dundrum. John Williams had died...
View ArticleThe Perceval Family
The second wife of Rev. John Pennefather was Elizabeth Percival (1765 - 1851) - the couple married on 19th December 1789 in St. John’s, Newport, Co. Tipperary. Elizabeth Percival was the daughter of...
View ArticleThe Family of Maria Emily Baskin, daughter of Robert Baskin and Kate Ringwood
Our great-great grandmother, Isabella Anna Pennefather, was the older sister of John Pennefather. This post concerns the family of John Pennefather's wife, Maria Baskin, and of other related families,...
View ArticleThe Wilton Family of Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
I have done extensive research into the Jones family of Dublin, from whom I descend - the earliest member of our Jones family which I could isolate was Patrick Jones Senior, floorcloth painter of 46...
View ArticleAndrew and Mary Hall of Moynalty, Co. Meath
Adelaide Anne Courtenay, baptised 10th August 1831, born at 47 Moore Street, was the daughter of Frederick and Mary Courtenay....
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The Keating Family of Ballyhay, Donaghadee
William John Anderson married Agnes Keating in Belfast city in 1877. They were the grandparents of my paternal grandmother, Agnes Keating Wilson/aka...
View ArticleSome McCullough Families of Moneyreagh, Co. Down
Because a recent Ancestry DNA test has revealed me to be somehow related to the family of Matthew McCullough who died in Moneyreagh, Co. Down, on 28th April 1874, and because my Stewart ancestors...
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The Stewart Family of Crossnacreevy, Comber, Co. Down
My father, Paul Cuthbert Stewart, descends from a family who farmed in the townland of Crossnacreevy in Comber, Co. Down....The Hearts of Steel Memorials:The Stewarts of Moneyreagh first appear in the...
View ArticleThe Courtenay Family of Ballyedmond and Dublin
Our great-great-great grandparents on our mother’s side were John Pennefather and Emily Courtenay who married in St. Mary’s, Dublin, on January 2nd 1848. John and Emily had a daughter, Isabella Anna...
View ArticleLucinda Stewart and James McGowan
I have shared both my own DNA and that of my father to a number of the online sites. The results frequently throw up new family links which I would never have come across by traditional research...
View ArticleDNA Links to the Stewart Family
Thanks to my DNA - and also my father's - being shared publicly on both Ancestry, Family Tree DNA and MyHeritage UK, I recently came across another relation - James McCartney who descends like we do...
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The Descendants of William Anderson (1804 - 1892) and Sarah Fay (1804 - 1887)...
William Anderson (1804 - 28th January 1892) and Sarah Fay (1804 - 1887) :Our paternal great-grandparents were Edward Leviolett Wilson (1872 – 1953) and Agnes Jane Anderson (1881 – 1961) of Belfast –...
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JAMES CORNWALL (1826 – 1888) AND AGNES STEWART (1827 – 1911)
James Cornwall (1826 - 1888) and Agnes Stewart (1827 - 1911)I descend from Joseph Stewart (1844 – 1908) and Elizabeth Madine (1835 – 1901). Joseph Stewart was the son of an older Joseph Stewart who...
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Lucinda Stewart and James McCartney
I have shared both my own DNA and that of my father to a number of the online sites. The results frequently throw up new family links which I would never have come across by traditional research...
View ArticleThe Tutty Family
Our great-great-great grandparents on our mother’s side were John Pennefather and Emily Courtenay who married in St. Mary’s, Dublin, on January 2nd 1848. John and Emily had a daughter, Isabella Anna...
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