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Sarah (nee Orr) Templeton

Sarah (nee Orr) Templeton

Born
1824-01-01 12:00:00
Died
1910-04-17 12:00:00
Gender
Female
Place of migration
Stayed in Ireland

Sarah Templeton (nee Orr) was a Protestant from County Antrim and married Adam Templeton.  Adam was a weaver from a family of flax-growers and weavers.

Sarah was born about 1824 (son of George Orr, a farmer, and her mother was probably Agnes)

They married in 1852 in Roseyards Presbyterian Church in Ballymoney when Sarah was about 28 and Adam 26. Roseyards Church has kindly provided copies of records held there, on which this information is based.

They had eight children, five sons and three daughters before Adam died in 1869. 

Sarah and many of their children ended up in Belfast, while two of their children emigrated to New Zealand (their eldest son, John, as well as Margaret) and one son emigrated to Canada.

Margaret is my great-grandmother and she emigrated to New Zealand as a single woman in 1879 and married Thompson Graham (also from County Antrim) soon after arriving (he had emigrated 5 years earlier).

Margaret's daughter Sarah Annie was my grandmother and my daughter is called Sarah.

Associated communities

Antrim

County Antrim, or Aontroim in Irish, is located on the north-east shore of Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland.  It has beautiful rugged landscape and is home to the World Heritage Site, Giant’s Causeway.  Our county town is Antrim town and we have a population of approximately 618,108.

Other ancestors in this community

Buildings in this community

  • Benvarden, Coleraine, 2015

    Location: Antrim

    36 Benvarden Road, Dervock, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, BT53 6NN

  • 11 Crocus St

    Location: Antrim

    11 Crocus St, Belfast Ireland

  • Carrick-a-Rede Bridge

    Location: Antrim

    Co. Antrim

  • Armoy

    Location: Antrim

Timeline events in this community

  • 1850s

    George McFall

    <p>Occupation</p>

    1857-01-01 12:00:00

  • 1840s

    Robert Curran, Sr. of Portaferry, Co. Down (approx. 1806-1871), wife Catherine (c. 1799-1879, their son Capt. Robert Curran, Jr. of Portaferry, Co. Down (approx. 1836-1890)

    <p>A brief timeline of the Family of Mr. Robert Curran, Sr. a Whitesmith/Blacksmith of Portaferry, Co. Down, his wife Catherine, and their son, Capt. Robert Curran, Jr., also of Portaferry, Co. Down, Ireland.</p>

    1840-01-01 12:00:00

  • 1820s

    McSherry Family (Seafarers, not family of Farmers of same village also named McSherry) of Killough, Co. Down, later of Belfast, c. 1807-1891

    <p>Devout Irish-Catholic Ship Captain, Master Mariner and Pub/Tavern Inn/Hotel Owner Richard McSherry of Killough and Ardglass areas of Eastern County Down (husband of Mary Adair, presumably also from somewhere in County Down), both later moving to Belfast (15 Corporation Square, 20 Gamble Street, 58/60 Tomb Street, and 35/39 Dock Street) all in the Old Sailortown neighborhood) of Belfast, Co. Antrim, Ireland. </p>

    1825-01-01 12:00:00

  • 1840s

    Irish press warns against Jamaican Indentured Servitude

    <p>The theme was always the same: the pestilential climate of the island, the reduction of poor emigrants to slaves, the severity and cruelty of the planters (and planter-dominated Assembly clinging to every vestige of oppression) and, of course, the absence of priests and chapels.</p>

    1840-12-01 12:00:00