Hello,
My ancestor was Minister of the church at Desertcreat in the late
1700's-early 1800's. I emailed the Rector for some information and he
kindly emailed back with details for me.
I think it would be well worth emailing and asking.
Cheers,
Kate
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From: elwyn soutter via CoTyroneList
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 1:41 PM
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Cc: elwyn soutter
Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Hamilton ancestors
Christine,
Tradition was to marry in the bride’s church after which she’d
normally attend her husband’s. So marriage and children’s baptisms are
often in different churches. In this case the bride lived in Grange.
Grange is in Desertcreat, so I’d expect that to be her family church.
The groom was a butcher in Cookstown, which is in Derryloran parish.
So I would expect the children to have been baptised in Derryloran. If
you can’t find any for the early years of the marriage it may there
were no children, or none that survived long enough to be baptised
anyway.
But to answer your question about records for Desertcreat, they don’t
appear to be on-line anywhere yet. The Church of Ireland is putting
its records on-line (free) but this is a big project and no completion
date has been published yet. In the meantime you either have to get
someone to look up the copy in PRONI or you could write to the Rector,
who has the originals. If you write to the Rector, he/she is likely to
charge for searching. Last time I checked the Church of Ireland
published rate was £18 (sterling) an hour. Some parishes get a lot of
genealogical queries and they don’t all have the time to help, so not
all reply.
Rev David Bell - Incumbent
Tullyhogue Rectory
50 Lower Grange Road
Cookstown
BT80 8SL
Co Tyrone
028 8676 1163
Elwyn
On 29/07/2019, Peggy Gordon via CoTyroneList
<[email protected]> wrote:
I also have Hamiltons from Cookstown area in my tree. Robert Hamilton
married to Margaret Mallon abt 1853. Their daughter Alice born Nov 30,
1862
married into my Duffin family on Oct 27, 1891 when she married Joseph
Duffin. Some of Joseph Duffin's great uncles emigrated to Ohio, then
Illinois, then Minnesota. I don't know what church they belonged to or
which
parish. Robert Hamilton is the right age to be a brother or a cousin to
your Thomas.I also live in Canada.Peggy Gordon
On Monday, July 29, 2019, 12:34:12 p.m. PDT, WilliamScarrow via
CoTyroneList <[email protected]> wrote:
Good Morning,
Firstly...this is a wonderful site and resource!
I am looking for a missing link in my Hamilton family that may connect me
to
some families in the US that I have found a DNA matches to.
My Great Great Grandparents were Thomas Hamilton and Mary Ann McGrath of
Cookstown, County Tyrone. They were married in 1846 in the Desetcreate
church. I have found the children born after 1850 in the Derryloran church
records, but I think perhaps there may be children born before that date.
I have tried to look at Desercreat baptisms on line, but, it seems they
may
only be available through PRONI. I live in Canada and hope to visit
Ireland
next year, but, in the meantime wondered if anyone would have a suggestion
on another way to look at Desertcreat church records.
Thank you,
Regards,
Christine Scarrow
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