Looking for James Armstrong DOB abt 1837 maybe in Aghalee, gunner royal Artillery, died London 3 Oct 1899, father Hugh.

A transcription of James's baptismal record appears on rootsireland (it gives his birth date, not his baptismal date).

James Armstrong
Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1837
Date of Baptism:
Lived in Aghnahola, Currin parish,Co. Monaghan
Church of Ireland
Father: Hugh Armstrong, laborer
Mother: Maryanne Armstrong
No. 53. Minister Robert Woods.
Surname entered as Armstronge variant
of Armstrong.

This is very likely the marriage record for James Armstrong's parents:

Hugh Armstronge, Mary Browne (he was of full age; not listed for her)
08-Nov-1836
Parish: Currin Coi, Co. Monaghan
Each lived in Currin Parish [no townland given]
Witness: William Crawford
Married in Church of Scotshouse.

An Allen Armstrong was baptized 2-Jan-1825 in the Church of Ireland, Currin parish, Co. Monaghan. Parents were Joseph Armstrong, Anne Forster. Lived in Corrinary townland. (from rootsireland.ie)

Thanks Patrica,

I have found the date for James birth as 27 August 1837 with those parents but could not understand why it was a dob NOT a baptism/christening? ALSO I had found another James Armstrong dob 20 Aug 1837 baptism 27 Aug 1837 at or of Clones, co. Monaghan BUT with parents Richard & Anne so we know that is wrong. BUT it is confusing to have 1 with NO baptism & 1 with both dob & baptism? Do you perhaps have the hyperlinks you used as I had the information from ancestry which is notoriously untrustworthy with clicky-copy family trees abounding !

Re Allen Armstrong - the date is too late for the Allen in all the trees who have descendants in Canada & USA that I dna match BUT as it is in Currin parish about the time MY Gt grandfather James Armstrong was born I infer that the families MUST be related as indeed we seem to be related to a Robert Armstrong of County Antrim who ended up in Tennessee USA. Again - do you perhaps have the hyperlinkyou used to find the information on rootsireland please ?

TIA of further assistance to help us join up the Irish ancestors so the English, Canadian & Amercan cousins can be joined up in the family tree.

PS. could anyone help me find the attestation i.e joining up document for my gt grandfather James Armstrong as above. His army number understood to be 199 BUT one document found seems to state army number 194. He was a gunner in Royal Artillery & in later life served with Commissariat & Mess living in Southwark then Covent Garden, London in a Peabody building, died 1899. He joined up young - possibly as young as age 12 or 14. We have a photo of him in uniform as a "bugle boy" with dog - see below.

All other army documents relating to him only state IRELAND as place of birth.

The Attestation will not only have his townland, parish & county of birth - it will also have where he joined up & the name of the recruiting officer.

TIA.