Boyd:
Unfortunately, emigrants to Canada from anywhere in the British Isles
(including all of Ireland in the 19th century) were just considered as moving
from one part of the country to another. No records, other the passenger
lists, were kept of their movements.
His grandchildren referred to him as being "the meanest SOB in Canada", and
said that he had a rabid hatred of Catholics. Supposedly, he was forced to
emigrate because he had gotten a Catholic girl pregnant.
His name changes from one census to another, but it always has Alexander
Hillman-Black in it. One of the censuses list him as "George Alexander
Hillman-Black".
His death certificate lists his father as "James Black", born in Scotland; and
his mother as being "Mary Hillman", born in Ireland. He is just listed as
being born in Ireland, with no place named.
I have NOT been able to locate a marriage record for him. He married a
"half-breed" (meaning of mixed Native and British ancestry) in Manitoba Canada
and they had 12 children. This was all before Manitoba required the "Long
Form" birth record (indicating where each of the parents were born).
He is a bit of an enigma, wrapped in a puzzle. He is somewhat like the "little
man that wasn't really there".
Thank you for looking for them for me.
Lynton Stewart
On Friday, March 29, 2019, 9:33:16 AM CDT, Boyd Gray <boydgra...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Bill,
Unfortunately there are at least six James Blacks living in Tyrone in the
Griffiths Valuation of 1859, which records every head of household. This means
you need some more clues.
There will be no civil birth for Alexander, which would be a clincher as
Alexander is a much less common name, because civil registration only began in
1845. And there are no births to a couple called Black and Hillman after 1864,
which might have been possible if Alexander had been an early child.
Nor will there be a marriage because I am assuming Alexander was not married,
aged 20, when he left for Canada. There are three marriages of a James Black
between the start of civil registration of marriages in 1845 and the birth of
Alexander in 1851 but none to a Mary Hillman.
But you probably know all of this.
Is there no indication of the parish or other place name from whence Alexander
came in any of his Canadian records?
Regards,
Boyd
https://www.westulstergenealogy.com/
https://www.facebook.com/westulstergenealogy/
http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/Boyd/
On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 14:07, Lynton Stewart via CoTyroneList
<cotyronelist@cotyroneireland.com> wrote:
I am searching for any evidence of a James Black (believed to have been born in
Scotland), living in County Tyrone around 1848-1871.
He had a son, Alexander Black, who was born in August, 1851. Alexander
emigrated to Canada in 1871, reportedly as a "Remittance Man", paid an annual
sum NOT to return to Ireland. He was an active member of the Orange Order in
Canada, so I would presume that his father was also. In Canada, Alexander used
the surname of Hillman-Black, and said that his mother was Mary Hillman.
He sailed from Londonderry in April 1871, arriving in Quebec on May 2.
I have searched the online Irish records, without success.
I would greatly appreciate any information, or clues, to help me find the
family of my paternal great-grandfather.
Lynton "Bill" stewarttheoldme...@att.net
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