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Donoughmore or Donaghmore?

I need help to determine if there is a difference between Donoughmore and Donaghmore parishes.  My ggrandmother, Elizabeth Roulston (nee Blackburn) died July 1892 and her death announcement read: "her remains will be removed for interment in Donoughmore Bury-ground."  She died in Carricknamanna.  She was the wife of John Roulston.

My other ggrandparents, John Wray and Mary Anne (nee Long) were married in the Presbyterian Meeting House in 1848 Donaghmore.  They also lived in Carricknamanna.

According to the family stores, both the Roulston and Wray families were from the same area (Ballebofey, Carricknamanna, Killygordon) and were friends. 

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thank you

Charline

Charline

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Charline,

Donaghmore and Donoughmore are the same parish. Just different versions of spelling the same word. (Perhaps like the words jail and gaol). Spelling varies all the time in Ireland. Many places have multiple ways of being spelled.

Carricknamanna is a townland of 689 acres. In the 1911 census there were just 19 households there with a total population of 83 people. There were 2 Wray/Ray households and 3 Roulston(e), and they would all have been neighbours. Those families were all Presbyterian and so probably attended the same church.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Donegal/Killygordan/Ca…

The 1901 census for the townland appears to be missing.

Is there additional information you would like?

Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

Elwyn,

Thank you SO VERY MUCH.  Your response has answered a long standing question I have had and now it is so clear. 

Another question - my uncle is named Elwyn and my grandparents named all their children after siblings but I cannot find exactly with whom this name may have originated in the family.   Do you know if there was an Elwyn Roulston or Wray from this area?  The names that I have been difficult to identify are: Elwyn, Harold and Lloyd.  Any hints for me on this?  No records in the census for these names.  

I do appreciate your help with my original question about the parish name. 

Charline 

 

Charline

Charline,

 

Well I am obviously fairly well qualified to suggest where Elwyn comes from since it's my own name. Elwyn is exclusively Welsh. Harold and Lloyd are also primarily associated with Wales. (My mother was from North Wales). The name Elwyn is pretty well unknown in Ireland. No Irish background to those names in my opinion. You should be looking for a connection with someone of Welsh extraction I would say. I looked at the 1901 census of Ireland. There was no-one named Elwyn in Ireland at all and just 71 Lloyds (out of about 5 million people).

Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

Elwyn,

Thank you as you have been most helpful. I will start exploring the Welsh records to see if I can locate a connection.

Take care,

Charline

Charline

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