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Hughes Moore - County Monaghan

Extract from a family bible in written in Comraghs parish County Monaghan in 1845...

"William Hughes who was a commissioned officer in the Royal Britains (the Welch horse guard) from Whitchurch Wales and fought at the Boyne in 1690 and after the war lived in the Isle of Cope County Down, from where he removed to Drumnagrella and Comraghs and was married to Mary Moore to who he had two sons William and Henry.

I am looking for any information thing on William and Mary. Was Mary from the Moore family in Clones ?

 

Many thanks

Bob Hughes

 

 

shen1306

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Bob,

I would suspect that the location in Co. Down is Copeland Island. Just off the coast from Donaghadee. Used to be a small farming island. Nowadays mostly just a few holiday homes. I don’t think anyone lives there permanently any more. 6 inhabited houses in the 1901 census. (No Hughes):

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Down/Bangor/Copeland_I…

No regular ferry to Copeland but its usually possible to get someone in Donaghadee to take you over, should you ever want to visit. 

Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

Thanks Elwyn.

Yes, William Hughes left the Copeland Islands sometime after 1690 and moved to County Monaghan. Its there that the trail goes dead. I can find no record of his marriage to Mary Moore. or a Moore family with a Mary in the lineage.

 

Bob

shen1306

Bob,

Chances are there are no records to find. Few churches in Ireland have records for the early 1700s, and of those that do not all are on-line.

You can use this site to look to see what church records exist for Monaghan, and where they can be accessed. Tradition was to marry in the bride’s church, after which she’d normally attend her husband’s.  So you would need to know the Moore family denomination.  (I’d assume Church of Ireland or Presbyterian in this case).

https://www.johngrenham.com/browse/

Many early Church of Ireland records were lost in the 1922 fire in Dublin, eg for Aghabog parish in Monaghan, and in some other cases churches simply didn’t keep records for the early 1700s, or if they did they have long been lost. Very few Presbyterian churches have records for the 1700s.

Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

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