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Mervyn Howe (sp HOW or HOE) Looking for who his wife was Son Hamilton (1812 Lisbellaw)

Fermanagh

I am seeking to any thing more than the fact that Mervyn Howe died in Fermanagh Ireland in 1876. I do follow where his son Halilton Howe came to Canada after being born in Lisballaw in 1812 and died in 1892 in Middlesex Canada. Hamilton married Jane Brown 1818 -1879 . Seems that Mervyn owned property around a place called Tattymcaul but other than his Death in Jan 30 1876 I only have an estimated birth at 1784. If were to really explain what I am looking for It would be how the HOWE family got to Northern Ireland and possibly some how connected with a possible Distant relative Abraham Howe of Broad oak Essex England 1598-1683 where He came to America in 1636 to Sudbury Mass. As I understand the Church of Irland at some early time asked that all Irish churches send to Dublin all the Birth, Death,, records to the Main Church in Dublin and then some time later somebody Burned all these records that now places a stop on finding much of anything out. I do realize that the church has issues in Northern Ireland and has acted quit insane in the past. Would any one straighten me out on the truth here or even point me in the right direction as to how to approach the HOWES???

Bob Zeh

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Bob,

Griffiths Valuation for 1862 lists Mervyn Howe in Tattymacall. He had plots 10 & 1 which totaled just over 19 acres of land. That farm today is up a lane off the Carrowkeel Rd, outside Libelllaw.

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml

The Valuation Revision records on the PRONI website show the farm being tenanted by William Howe after Mervyn’s death, until 1882 when James Bannon took over.

William Howe was Mervyn’s son and was born around 1829 (according to his marriage certificate). He married Margaret Montgomery on 22.6.1863:

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1863/09650/5499984.pdf

Judging by a tree on Ancestry, William emigrated to Canada in 1881 and died there in 1908. He and Margaret had about 9 children, all born at Tattymacall

Your family appears to have been Church of Ireland. That, and the fact they live din Fermanagh, tends to point to them being of settler stock. In common with 50% of the population of that county they likely settle din Ireland in the 1600s, as part of the Planation of Ireland, either from Scotland, England or Wales. You appear to have some information suggesting origins in Essex.  Unfortunately there are no paper records which go back far enough to know for certain. The records for the Church of Ireland in Derryvullan only start in 1877. Earlier records had been sent to the Public Record Office in Dublin for safekeeping but unfortunately were destroyed during the Irish civil war in 1922 when the record Office was burned down. The loss of the records was not deliberate or targetted at the church. Just an unfortunate by-product of the civil war.

A short article on the Plantation of Ireland:

http://orrnamestudy.com/plantnire1610.htm

Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

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