Friends, I wonder if I can change my preference to only receiving
updates on Tyrone County names of Glass and Moore. The form doesn't
seem to allow for that unless I'm not understanding how to do it. If
that isn't possible, I'd like to unsubscribe. I'm getting too many
emails about names not connected to my family. I do have your site
bookmarked and love the info which pertains to my ancestors! 😊
With thanks, Mary Dean, mdshalo...@charter.net
-----------------------------------------From: "Lynton Stewart via
CoTyroneList"
To: "CoTyroneIreland.com Mailing List", "Boyd Gray"
Cc: "Lynton Stewart"
Sent: Friday March 29 2019 8:13:39AM
Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Black and Hillman
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 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
[1]https://www.westulstergenealogy.com/ [2]
[3]https://www.facebook.com/westulstergenealogy/ [4]
[5]http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/Boyd/ [6]
On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 14:07, Lynton Stewart via CoTyroneList
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" Stewart theoldme...@att.net [8]
_______________________________________________
CoTyroneList Mailing List
Mailing List Email Address: CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com [9]
Change Your Preferences:
[10]http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com
[11]
Mailing List Archive: [12]https://goo.gl/mQCKrY [13]
Links:
------
[1] https://www.westulstergenealogy.com/
[2] https://www.westulstergenealogy.com/
[3] https://www.facebook.com/westulstergenealogy/
[4] https://www.facebook.com/westulstergenealogy/
[5] http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/Boyd/
[6] http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/Boyd/
[7] mailto:cotyronelist@cotyroneireland.com
[8] mailto:theoldme...@att.net
[9] mailto:CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com
[10]
http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com
[11]
http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com
[12] https://goo.gl/mQCKrY
[13] https://goo.gl/mQCKrY
_______________________________________________
CoTyroneList Mailing List
Mailing List Email Address: CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com
Change Your Preferences:
http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com
Mailing List Archive: https://goo.gl/mQCKrY
