Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Black and Hillman

2019-03-29 Thread Mary J. Dean via CoTyroneList
uot;, "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 considere

Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Black and Hillman

2019-03-29 Thread Lynton Stewart via CoTyroneList
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

Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Black and Hillman

2019-03-29 Thread Boyd Gray via CoTyroneList
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

[CoTyroneMailingList] Black and Hillman

2019-03-29 Thread Lynton Stewart via CoTyroneList
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