Hello,
I am looking for the family of William Halliday and Ann Jane (McCreight) Halliday of Lurgan. Baptisms of four of their children are recorded in Lurgan 1st Presbyterian 1823-1829.
Also looking for the family of James Halliday and Mary (_____) Halliday also of Lurgan. Baptisms of five possible children are recorded in Lurgan 1st Presbyterian 1817-1830.
William and James Halliday may have been brothers.
Thank you.
Susan
Did these 2 families stay in the area or did they leave? (If they left in the 1830s or 1840s there may not be many other records of them).
What were their occupations? If farmers, I note there were a few Halliday families farming in Monbrief and one in Lurgan itself in the 1833 tithe applotment records:
http://www.irishgenealogyhub.com/armagh/tithe-applotments/shankill-parish.php
Griffiths Valuation lists a Robert Halliday farming in Monbrief in 1864. Plot 9, a 3 acre farm. The family were gone by 1901.
There are other Halliday families in the general area in the statutory records. Hard to advise on your families without a little more information on them.
Hello Elwyn,
Thank you for your reply. The James and William Halliday in the 1833 tithe applotment records look very promising.
By 1847, William and Ann Jane's son, Trotter Halliday, and their four daugters, Mary Jane, Rebecca, Ann and Belle, emigrated to America. I have no record of William and Ann Jane leaving Ireland.
In March 1851, James and Mary Halliday (my 2nd great-grandparents) and their eight children are in Preston, Lancashire County, England census. It's believed they left Ireland around 1846. Eventually, some of their children emigrated to America. James Halliday's occupation in 1851 was silk weaver, although he may have farmed while in Ireland.
I shall look more closely at the tithe applotment records. I greatly appreciate your help!
Best wishes,
Susan
Susan,
If James Halliday was a silk weaver in Preston, then he was probably a weaver and or labourer in Ireland too. There’s quite a difference between a farmer and a weaver, so you wouldn’t often find a farmer later being a weaver, unless a very small farmer.
I had a look for deaths for William and Ann Jane Halliday post 1864 (which is when death registration began) but did not see any in the Lurgan area. Suspect both either died before that or left the area. There were some other Hallidays in the area, including a family of Grocers in Lurgan town, but they were Quakers.