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Alexander Hicks Fairley/Elizabeth Hicks

Immigration details concerning Alexander Hicks Fairley and His Wife Elizabeth

(1) Details re Alexander Hicks and Elizabeth Fairley (Nee Hicks)

  1. My great-great- grandfather Alexander Hicks Fairley was born in County Carvon, Ireland in 1810. His parents were Alexander and Elizabeth Fairley (maiden name Hicks). Unfortunately I know nothing about his siblings.

  2. Alexander married Mary Ann Clarke in 1833 in Ireland. Mary was born in 1814.

  3. Alexander and Mary Fairley Immigrated to Australia with their two children Rebecca and Elizabeth (both born in Londonderry), on the ship “Adam Lodge” leaving from Londonderry on March 29 and arriving in Australia July 13th 1837. They landed at Neutral Bay Sydney and disembarked on July 17th.

  4. Both Alexander and Mary were Church of England when they left Ireland.

(2) Research sources I have used.

  1. Ancestry.com.au search facility

  2. *Australia The Early Years: Reports from the Ulster journal, Ch 3: Alexander Fairley's letter home, Sept 2, 1837.

Do you have the baptismal and/or civil birth record? Parent’s marriage record? Did you search the Griffiths Valuation, 1901 and 1911 Censuses. Have you searched Roots Ireland or reviewed the parish register on the National Library of Ireland site?

 (3) Research sources I do not have or have not searched.

  1. Baptismal and/or civil birth record

  2. Parent’s marriage records

  3. The Griffiths Valuation, 1901 and 1911 Censuses or Roots Ireland or reviewed the parish register on the National Library of Ireland site?

I have a free site at My Heritage.com and Ancestry.com.au but am not a financial member at present.

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Laurice:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

I assume you mean Co. Cavan?

I searched Roots Ireland from 1800-1820 for a baptismal record for Alecander Fairley but did not find a record. Roots does have a good number of Church of Ireland parish records on their data base but a number of those churches do not have records back to 1810. I also searched for the marriage record with no record. Civil registration of non-Catholic marriages did not start until 1845. I also looked on the Tithe listings data base. There were no Fairley records a few Hicks records and many Clark/Clarke records.

Roger McDonnell

http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/home.jsp

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Hello Roger,

Thank you for your searching for me and so prompt. I am dissappointed to see you have not been successful though diligent in your research. Yes the area is Co Cavon I think though my records added the r.

I did notice you spelt Alexander with a c instead of an x could that make any difference? Or could the spelling of Fairley have changed.

Where do you suggest I try next?

Regards,

Laurice

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Laurice:

Alecander was a typo.

I looked for baptismal records in Co. Derry for the two girls with no success. I looked for Fairley/FairlyTithe records in Co. Cavan with no record. I don't have any further suggestions at this time. A few of the C of I churches in Cavan are not on Roots so there is a thin possibility that church records exist for your family but I would say that it is more likely that records are not available.

Roger

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Roger:

Thank you very much for trying.

I guess I have done well to get this far but so hoped to get Alexander's Hicks Fairley's parents and thought it quite possible knowing his parents names were Alexander and Elizabeth (nee Hicks), and that his two children were baptised in Derry.

I am seriously considering a trip to Ireland as I am currently writing a novel based around his life and would love to fill in the blanks for the story, and so I could go to where his home was and his parents graves as well and meet any possible relatives in the area still living.

* There is a copy of the first letterAlexander wrote home to his family (*Australia The Early Years: Reports from the Ulster journal, Ch 3: Alexander Fairley's letter home, Sept2, 1837), I'm not sure if that document may have any more clues from yout end.

Re Alexander Hicks Fairley's wife Mary Ann Clarke- her father's name was Thomas and her Mother Christina.

I guess I will need to get another paid membership for Ancestry and My Heritage to see if I can get any more information.

Thank you again for trying to help me.

Kind regards,

Laurice

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Roger:

Hello again, I have just been looking through my files for any extra clues and come across a blog from a Ray Green back in 1999. There were no replies when I discovered it, but I am going to try his email adrress as he probably has more info since then, though so long ago, I may be lucky.

He has included some information that may help us both I hope.

Mary Ann Fairley born Clarke was the daughter of Christina Clarke born Muirhead.

Their daughter Rebecca was born in 1834 and Elizabeth in 1835. I think this would have been in a census before Alexander and Mary left Ireland.

Alexander Hicks FAIRLEY had brothers James, Richard and David.

Mary Ann had a sister Rebecca CLARK who married Mills BOYD.  

I'm not sure where Ray got this information from but trust this may give an extra clue or two.

If I get a reply from Ray I will give that information also.

Thank you again.

Laurice Martin

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Laurice:

Currently on vacation but I will look at the new information and get back to you by Monday.

Roger

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Roger,

Thank you.

Enjoy.

Laurice

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Thanks Roger will try them.

Regards

Laurice

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Roger I was hoping you could put me in touch with Laurice as Alexander Hicks Fairley is my Great Great Great Grandfather.  I have just recentnly been to Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia to visit the gravesite for Alexander and Mary Fairley and I would be interested in any information that Laurice has about the Fairleys.

Cheers

Graham Fisher

gfishere@iinet…

Graham:

Based on your comment, the system should have sent Latrice an e-mail advising of the new comment.

Roger

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Hello Roger and Graham,

I have only just received this message today regarding Graham's trip to Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia so am sorry I didn't know sooner as I would certainly have replied.

Graham if you would like to contact me direct at:  

lauricemartin@hotmail.com

I would love to exchange what we each know. How exciting to find another decendant of Alexander Hicks Fairley. Alexander was a carpenter and a very good one at that. I trust you visited at least one of the homes he helped build, preferably the one with his and his wife Elizabeth's portrait in their foyer.

Trust you enjoyed your visit to Australia. How strange that we both visited Braidwood around the same time, if I had known I would certainly have tried to coincide our visits.

I look forward to hopefully getting to talk with Graham further.

Thank you Roger for picking up the glitch.

Blessings to both of you,

Laurice Martin

lauricemartin@hotmail.com

 

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Hello Roger,

Thank you again for letting me know re Graham Fisher's request to contact me. He has indeed answered my reply through e mail and since we both live in Australia we will continue to correspond via e mail etc.

If we come up with new pieces of information that I think would be of benefit to send through to the message board I will update.

Blessings,

Laurice

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Greetings to all. My 4x great grandfather (James) was one of the brothers of Alexander Hicks Fairley. James was a ships carpenter and he married Eliza Ann Storey, their daughter Catherine Maria Fairley married James Dunlop 12th Feb 1873 in Londonderry. Their daughter Elizabeth married Andrew Kinkaid on 18th August 1903. They had a daughter called Georgina Jane Kinkaid (Daisy) born in 1911.
Daisy was my grandmother. She lived in londonderry all her life with my grandfather Archibald Peoples and they had 2 girls, Norma and Elizabeth. Elizabeth is my mother.

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