"It is in the shelter of each other that the people live." IRISH PROVERB
During the Civil War, the Four Courts, where the National Archives was based, was seized and the repository building destroyed by detonating explosives and fire in June 1922, along with most of the records held here, some dating back to the thirteenth century.
When the southern part of Ireland became independent as the Irish Free State in 1922, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland was set up to take over the records of that part of Ireland which remained in the United Kingdom.
However, some parish records remain intact at local churches & offices. Private family records may also hold valuable information otherwise lost to us. Cemetery headstones & family burial plots are also a good source of information. (Wikipedia)
When the southern part of Ireland became independent as the Irish Free State in 1922, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland was set up to take over the records of that part of Ireland which remained in the United Kingdom.
However, some parish records remain intact at local churches & offices. Private family records may also hold valuable information otherwise lost to us. Cemetery headstones & family burial plots are also a good source of information. (Wikipedia)
*Fivemiletown Church (Church of Ireland)
*Coxtown Manor & Bridgetown (We have noted that spelling varies as to Coxton or Coxtown, to Laghey to Laghy on maps, and websites, and even the national archives). *Ulster Ancestry.com *National Archives of Ireland *My Family History Map (Google Map) *Irish History Timeline *Irish Genealogy.ie (Online Records, Wills, etc.) *National Archives (Wills & Admin 1858-1922) *Ireland Civil Records (List of records) |
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*Moat Primary School of Lisnaskea
(Ann Beatty probably attended here,)
*Map: Armstrong households- mid 1800 (Ireland)
*Irish Graveyards
*Fermanagh Gold
*Armstrong Estate Records
*Irish Genealogy Records
*Old Photos of Ireland
*UK & Ireland Records @Rootsweb
*Askaboutireland.ie (Griffith's Valuation)
*Buildings of Ireland
*Ireland-The Four Providences
*Irish History (Maps)
*Irish Wills & where to find them (pg101-102)
(Ann Beatty probably attended here,)
*Map: Armstrong households- mid 1800 (Ireland)
*Irish Graveyards
*Fermanagh Gold
*Armstrong Estate Records
*Irish Genealogy Records
*Old Photos of Ireland
*UK & Ireland Records @Rootsweb
*Askaboutireland.ie (Griffith's Valuation)
*Buildings of Ireland
*Ireland-The Four Providences
*Irish History (Maps)
*Irish Wills & where to find them (pg101-102)
Flax Growers of Ireland!
I think I've had a break thru today! I've been looking for new information on the Armstrong & Beatty families, trying to see a new source or connection so that we can start moving forward again. Today, I realized that the connection is "Flax". That has to be what brought these two families together for first time! Anne Beatty & William Armstrong lived at Millview House & (flax) Mill. We know that the Magee family were well known Flax growers in Donegal as well as Philadelphia, Pa. so this would also explain how Elisabeth Armstrong came to meet Edward Carre Magee they were both working in the same business. Anne & Wm's marriage record listed both parents (Wm Armstrong & Wm Beatty) as "Farmers' which I could easily interpret to mean Flax Grower. - Mark
**The two William's highlighted in red could possibly be the parents of Anne Beatty & Wm Armstrong Sr. Land records from Griffiths valuation will be my next search to help confirm this! Griffiths Valuation of Ireland - Aghalurcher, County Fermanagh *Flax Growers (Tyrone County) 23 Armstrongs * 1796 Flax Growers Is this the common thread?! (Long list of both Armstrongs & Beattys!) *Lurgan Ancestry.com (Irish Flax Growers) (Also shows list of cemeteries & churches in area.) |
The Flax Growers list of 1796
EXCERPT 1 Armstrong Thomas Cappagh Tyrone Armstrong Thomas Clogher Tyrone Armstrong William Clogher Tyrone Armstrong William Killeeshill Tyrone EXCERPT 2 Beatty Thomas Clogherny Tyrone Beatty Thomas Termonmaguirk Tyrone Beatty William Ardstraw Tyrone Beatty William Clogher Tyrone Beatty William Kildress Tyrone Beatty William Lissan Tyrone |
"Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is a ink to an ARMSTRONG ARCHIVE. Fascinating stuff. Recognition goes to Glucksman Library. University of Limerick. Eire, Ireland.
http://longwaytotipperary.ul.ie/about/armstrong-archive/ |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enniskillen
ENNISKILLEN LONG AGO-
*Note: Index of website available on last page of website.
54 ENNISKILLEN LONG AGO. Another white marble tablet is placed in the north- west end of the gallery, in memory of the Rev. William Armstrong, a native of Enniskillen, and formerly curate of Calry, Sligo, whose devoted attachment to his flock drew forth their sympathy in a similar manner, on the occasion of his lamented death in 1840.*
o. 5. ''In memory of the late Rev. William Armstrong, a native of Enniskillen, and for a period of eighteen years Curate of Calry Church, Sligo. He was a sincere and devoted Christian, a faithful Minister of the Gospel, a NOTES. 127 warm friend, and exemplary in the discharge of every social duty. He died at Sligo, on the 29th of March, 1840, of fever, caught in the discharge of his ministerial duties, aged 48 years."
Here lieth the Body of the Rev. Gustavus Armstrong, who departed this life, March the 25th, a.d. 1832, aged 74 years. He was for more than forty years a useful Preacher of the Gospel. " They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever." Daniel xii. 3.
The Most Rev. William Magee, D.D., the learned Archbishop of Dublin, was born in Enniskillen the i8th March, 1766. He was the son of John, the second son of Mr. William Magee, who possessed some landed pro- perty near that town, in County Fermanagh. The house where Dr. Magee's parents resided, and where he was born, was next that in which the birth of William C. Plunket (the future Lord Chancellor) took place.
ENNISKILLEN LONG AGO-
*Note: Index of website available on last page of website.
54 ENNISKILLEN LONG AGO. Another white marble tablet is placed in the north- west end of the gallery, in memory of the Rev. William Armstrong, a native of Enniskillen, and formerly curate of Calry, Sligo, whose devoted attachment to his flock drew forth their sympathy in a similar manner, on the occasion of his lamented death in 1840.*
o. 5. ''In memory of the late Rev. William Armstrong, a native of Enniskillen, and for a period of eighteen years Curate of Calry Church, Sligo. He was a sincere and devoted Christian, a faithful Minister of the Gospel, a NOTES. 127 warm friend, and exemplary in the discharge of every social duty. He died at Sligo, on the 29th of March, 1840, of fever, caught in the discharge of his ministerial duties, aged 48 years."
Here lieth the Body of the Rev. Gustavus Armstrong, who departed this life, March the 25th, a.d. 1832, aged 74 years. He was for more than forty years a useful Preacher of the Gospel. " They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever." Daniel xii. 3.
The Most Rev. William Magee, D.D., the learned Archbishop of Dublin, was born in Enniskillen the i8th March, 1766. He was the son of John, the second son of Mr. William Magee, who possessed some landed pro- perty near that town, in County Fermanagh. The house where Dr. Magee's parents resided, and where he was born, was next that in which the birth of William C. Plunket (the future Lord Chancellor) took place.