I would be looking at Clondermot parish, Co. Londonderry (contiguous to Donagheady)for the origins of both the Taggarts and McKeevers, Pat: there are several recorded in Griffiths Valuation c1860 http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/
Am unable to offer any further thoughts. Good luck Len Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Pat<mailto:c...@att.net> Sent: Tuesday, 20 August 2019 10:13 PM To: Len Swindley<mailto:len_swind...@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Thanks/ Ogilby Estate, Lisnacloon, Donemana,, Co Tyrone Thanks Len. The Validation is where I found Francis as he was the only Taggart in Co Tyrone. Also my Alex McKeever. I know Francis left the Ogilbys estate in 1877 not sure what he and family did but they immigrated in 1880 to US. My timeline I’m working on is where were they before the estate? Taggart is Scot/Irish so when did they come from Scotland? I’m not a trained genealogist and sometimes I just fumble around 😁. This group has given me so much help. I’m not sure if the Sarah Taggart is my branch as everything I have doesn’t list her as a child of Francis Taggart and Mary Brisland. I’ll keep looking into this. Thanks again for all the leads. Pat Sent from my iPhone On Aug 20, 2019, at 05:55, Len Swindley <len_swind...@hotmail.com<mailto:len_swind...@hotmail.com>> wrote: Pat, There are very few surviving records for this estate. Looking at Griffiths Valuation for Donagheady (1858), there are many labourers’ cottages within both Lisnacloon Upper and Lower and none of them of great value; most likely consisting of two rooms, constructed of mud and stone with straw (not thatched) roofs. Referring to William Roulston’s “Three Centuriees of Life in a Tyrone Parish: A History of Donagheady from 1600 to 1900” (2010) available as an ebook https://www.cotyroneireland.com/estore/index.php?detailrecid=15 there is a deal of information covering the Lisnacloon estate. During the Famine, William Ogilby undertook works projects offering employment to large numbers of the destitute and starving. In a letter of 1848 he claimed he was “daily employing 300 to 400 hands representing probably from 1,500 to 2,000 human beings who would otherwise have starved or been thrown on the rates [workhouse], so that if I do myself future good, I am conferring a great private benefit to the county”. Life was certainly tough in the bad old days. None of the 300-400 labourers would have held a lease on their humble residences: they were merely day labourers occupying one of the estate cottages “at will”. The estate found itself in considerable financial difficulties in the 1870s and went to sale 1901-04. Rachel Dysart generously transcribed the sale papers some years ago and contributed a file to CTI https://www.cotyroneireland.com/index.html You can locate it at https://www.cotyroneireland.com/estates/ogilby2.html CTI is a great website! Regards, LEN Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
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