Hi
I am looking for family and records of Curry McCloughan, born 1825 Kilmore, County of Armagh. Curry, his wife Martha Coyle and their daughter Margaret emigrated to Australia in 1854 on the ship "Patrician". Around 1860, Curry and his family settled in the gold mining village of Hargraves in the central west of New South Wales.
Fingers crossed.
Les Lyons
Ngunnawal ACT Australia
Hello Les
Thanks for your message, for a first port of a call we would recomend tryng the Irish Family History Foundation website
for records linked to the County of Armagh. http://armagh.rootsireland.ie/
I've also attached a guide for tracing Northern Ireland ancestors.
Plus a further guide for passenger lists, unfortunatly records tend to date from 1890 but this guide will help point you in the right direction.
best of luck
Bernadette
IrelandXO Volunteer Partner
Birth registration only started in Ireland in 1864. Prior to that you have to rely on church baptism records.
Here’s Curry & Martha’s marriage in 1854. Both lived in the townland of Ballylisk, in the parish of Kilmore:
Tradition was to marry in the bride’s church (though it might have been the groom’s church too). Mullavilly Church of Ireland has baptism, marriage and burial records from 1821 onwards. There’s a copy in PRONI in Belfast. I don’t think the records are on-line anywhere.
Griffiths Valuation (1863) lists a Thomas McClogher in Ballylisk. Perhaps a relative? He had plot 11f, a weaver/labourer’s cottage. There was also a Curry family in the townland, so perhaps that’s where Curry got his forename. Here’s a death for a Thomas McCloughan nearby in Tandragee, in 1882 aged 66. A brother to Curry perhaps?
Hi Bernadette and Elwyn
Many thanks for your responses. I appreciate getting advice on where to look and I'll pass on to you what I find.
Minus 2 this morning and we are in another lockdown here in Canberra. So sitting in a warm room chasing up dead people is great way to keep warm, and sane.
Best regards
Les.