From: Elizabeth Vervaeke<mailto:e.verva...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, 29 January 2020 10:38 PM To: Len Swindley<mailto:len_swind...@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: FW: [CoTyroneMailingList] Cunningham Research
Len you have reopened a chapter in my research that I had as much as given.up on! Thank you most sincerely. This is so incredibly helpful . I will look forward to reading this resources . Kind Regards Elizabeth Vervaeke On Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 7:02 AM Len Swindley, <len_swind...@hotmail.com<mailto:len_swind...@hotmail.com>> wrote: From: Len Swindley <len_swind...@hotmail.com<mailto:len_swind...@hotmail.com>> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 9:31:32 PM To: Elizabeth Vervaeke <e.verva...@gmail.com<mailto:e.verva...@gmail.com>>; cotyronelist-requ...@cotyroneireland.com<mailto:cotyronelist-requ...@cotyroneireland.com> <cotyronelist-requ...@cotyroneireland.com<mailto:cotyronelist-requ...@cotyroneireland.com>> Subject: RE: [CoTyroneMailingList] Cunningham Hello Elizabeth, I am responding to your off-list message via the List as the information may be useful to other Cunningham researchers. There is little doubt that your emigrant forebear Andrew Cunningham hailed from Brackagh, Errigal Keerogue parish in County Tyrone (always important to quote the parish with Irish research); there are three townlands of that name in the county. If you go to my files of the Errigal Keerogue Tithe Applotment Books: 1832 https://www.cotyroneireland.com/tithe/errigal_keerogue.html 1833 https://www.cotyroneireland.com/tithe/errigal_keerogue1833.html you will find Andrew Cunningham in Brackagh/ Bracagh in both books and additionally a Michael in Culembrawm (Cullenbrone) in the same parish in 1832 and a Nathaniel in Bracagh in 1833. It will be most useful to locate information on the economic and social conditions in that part of Tyrone and I recommend you look at the Ordnance Survey Memoirs of the 1830s (not available online). Errigal Keerogue parish is covered in the The Parishes of County Tyrone Volume 2 (Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast). If a subscriber to this List has a copy they may be kind and scan the relevant pages for you. There are no Cunninghams recorded in Brackagh in the c1860 Griffiths Valuation of the parish but there is a Jane in Meetinghouse Street, Ballygawley and Michael in Cullenbrone. http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/ Also, refer to the online PRONI Guide to Church Records to ascertain which registers have survived from the period https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/proni-guide-church-records I note that Brackagh townlands abuts the boundary with Clogherney parish, offering another possible source for church records. All good wishes for your research, Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia From: Elizabeth Vervaeke<mailto:e.verva...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, 26 January 2020 10:37 AM To: Len Swindley<mailto:len_swind...@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Cunningham Dear Len, I have been following these messages for several years . I have been grateful for all of the tremendous contributions you are making to so many families . I have done extensive research on the Cunningham family when they left Ireland and County Tyrone to settle in Simcoe County Ontario . They remained there until my father's generation. It has been a dream of mine to find the connections in Ireland but I have as much as given up after 15 years of research. It is a very large family with many common names and birth dates . The one key element that I have continued to focus on is a family Bible that I have of Andrew Cunningham's that he wrote in in 1832. The location is "Brackagh". There are a number of variations on the spelling but the one I think is most likely to be accurate is close to Sixmilecross just south east of Omagh. I have followed so many trails down rabbit holes that haven't given me clear direction . Indeed I do have the passenger list from the Sestosis which has also been a key element.I have the land grants and almost all of the burials including photographs I have taken of the head stones of my relatives. What I would dearly love to discover is the community they left in Ireland and the family that they may have left behind. I know for certain that Andrew Cunningham and Elizabeth Clark are my great-great-grandparents . But discovering their birth and parents /siblings in Co. Tyrone would be a dream come true. Thank.you again for all your generous research and assistance !! Kind RegardsElizabeth (Cunningham) Vervaeke On Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 12:40 AM Len Swindley, <len_swind...@hotmail.com<mailto:len_swind...@hotmail.com>> wrote: Hello again Elizabeth, I’m wondering if you have visited the CTI Links menu for shipping lists? https://www.cotyroneireland.com/links.html If you go to the J & J Cooke passenger lists and click on https://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/jjcooke.shtml then the passenger manifest for the “Sesothis” which sailed from Londonderry for Quebec in 1847: there is a family of Andrew & Elizabeth Cunningham and five children from Omagh amongst a long list of passengers. One has to be careful not to accept that they actually lived in Omagh; it was necessary to quote the nearest post town for the mailing of their tickets and information re. the proposed date of departure.Again, hope this assists your research, LenSwindley, Melbourne, Australia From: Len Swindley via CoTyroneList<mailto:cotyronelist@cotyroneireland.com> Sent: Saturday, 25 January 2020 8:49 AM To: CoTyroneIreland.com Mailing List<mailto:CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com> Cc: Len Swindley<mailto:len_swind...@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Cunningham Hello Elizabeth, As the death of Elizabeth Cunningham falls within the period of civil registration of BDMs in Ireland, I have checked the details of Elizabeth’s death (image has not yet been uploaded on the website https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ [cid:image002.png@01D5D35C.4D71C010] This Elizabeth Cunningham died in Co. Tyrone and was aged only 31 years upon her decease, so, sadly, it is not possible that she is the emigrant. There are many instances where deaths and marriages of emigrants to the US, Canada and Australia are reported in the local press, but the details of the location of the event are always included. Sorry for the disappointing news, Elizabeth and regards, Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Elizabeth Vervaeke via CoTyroneList<mailto:CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com> Sent: Saturday, 25 January 2020 4:22 AM To: CoTyroneIreland.com Mailing List<mailto:CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com> Cc: Elizabeth Vervaeke<mailto:e.verva...@gmail.com> Subject: [CoTyroneMailingList] Cunningham July 20 1869 Died July 15, Elizabeth, wife of MR. ANDREW CUNNINGHAM, Ardstraw Bridge, county Tyrone This taken from... Cunningham Family Notes, Co. Tyrone 1828-69 Personal notices extracted from the STRABANE MORNING POST & LONDONDERRY SENTINEL Transcribed, compiled and submitted by Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia len_swindley[at]hotmail.com<http://hotmail.com> This i believe are my gr-gr-gr grandparents that arrived here in Canada and settled with their children and grandchildren in Simcoe County Ontario Canada. They arrived in 1847 and I have the passenger list to confirm. Andrew Cunningham and his wife Elizabeth (Clark) were buried here and the date of death is identical. I am assuming that this was a notice posted in their former community in Ireland although both died and were buried in Ontario. Does that seem reasonable? If so then "Ardstraw Bridge " would be a good place for me to start to trace family perhaps? -- *Elizabeth* e.verva...@gmail.com<mailto:e.verva...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ CoTyroneList Mailing List Mailing List Email Address: CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com<mailto:CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com> Change Your Preferences: http://cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com Mailing List Archive: https://goo.gl/mQCKrY On Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 12:40 AM Len Swindley, <len_swind...@hotmail.com<mailto:len_swind...@hotmail.com>> wrote: Hello again Elizabeth, I’m wondering if you have visited the CTI Links menu for shipping lists? https://www.cotyroneireland.com/links.htmlIf you go to the J & J Cooke passenger lists and click on https://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/jjcooke.shtmlthen the passenger manifest for the “Sesothis” which sailed from Londonderry for Quebec in 1847: there is a family of Andrew & Elizabeth Cunningham and five children from Omagh amongst a long list of passengers. One has to be careful not to accept that they actually lived in Omagh; it was necessary to quote the nearest post town for the mailing of their tickets and information re. the proposed date of departure. Again, hope this assists your research, LenSwindley, Melbourne, Australia From: Len Swindley via CoTyroneList<mailto:cotyronelist@cotyroneireland.com> Sent: Saturday, 25 January 2020 8:49 AM To: CoTyroneIreland.com Mailing List<mailto:CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com> Cc: Len Swindley<mailto:len_swind...@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Cunningham Hello Elizabeth, As the death of Elizabeth Cunningham falls within the period of civil registration of BDMs in Ireland, I have checked the details of Elizabeth’s death (image has not yet been uploaded on the website https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ [cid:image002.png@01D5D35C.4D71C010] This Elizabeth Cunningham died in Co. Tyrone and was aged only 31 years upon her decease, so, sadly, it is not possible that she is the emigrant. There are many instances where deaths and marriages of emigrants to the US, Canada and Australia are reported in the local press, but the details of the location of the event are always included. Sorry for the disappointing news, Elizabeth and regards, Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Elizabeth Vervaeke via CoTyroneList<mailto:CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com> Sent: Saturday, 25 January 2020 4:22 AM To: CoTyroneIreland.com Mailing List<mailto:CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com> Cc: Elizabeth Vervaeke<mailto:e.verva...@gmail.com> Subject: [CoTyroneMailingList] Cunningham July 20 1869 Died July 15, Elizabeth, wife of MR. ANDREW CUNNINGHAM, Ardstraw Bridge, county Tyrone This taken from... Cunningham Family Notes, Co. Tyrone 1828-69 Personal notices extracted from the STRABANE MORNING POST & LONDONDERRY SENTINEL Transcribed, compiled and submitted by Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia len_swindley[at]hotmail.com<http://hotmail.com> This i believe are my gr-gr-gr grandparents that arrived here in Canada and settled with their children and grandchildren in Simcoe County Ontario Canada. They arrived in 1847 and I have the passenger list to confirm. Andrew Cunningham and his wife Elizabeth (Clark) were buried here and the date of death is identical. I am assuming that this was a notice posted in their former community in Ireland although both died and were buried in Ontario. Does that seem reasonable? If so then "Ardstraw Bridge " would be a good place for me to start to trace family perhaps? --*Elizabeth* e.verva...@gmail.com<mailto:e.verva...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ CoTyroneList Mailing List Mailing List Email Address: CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com<mailto:CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com> Change Your Preferences: http://cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com Mailing List Archive: https://goo.gl/mQCKrY _______________________________________________ CoTyroneList Mailing List Mailing List Email Address: CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com Change Your Preferences: http://cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com Mailing List Archive: https://goo.gl/mQCKrY
