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Seeking family in County Down and beyond for Taggart / Meeham/Meehan

I am trying to trace family from Ireland called Taggart and/or Meeham/Meehan.

My gt grandparents On my grandfather's side were Catherine "Kate" Taggart who was born in Seapatrick, Banbridge, County Down on the 11th of June 1868 and died in Salford, England in June 1952. My mum used to talk about my grandma making little soda bread men for her to eat on her return from school as a child. My gt grandad was John Kenyon of Salford 

 

This is Kate's page on my public family tree on Ancestry https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/15250357/person/3129…

I would love to know more about my family and visited Belfast a couple of years ago but hadn't realised how close I was to Banbridge. 

SanRobbo

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I can see Patrick & Anne’s marriage in Tullylish in 1866 at which time both were living in Coose.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1866/11531/8241064.pdf

Son John was born in Coose in 1867 when Patrick was a shoemaker; daughter Catherine was born in Tullylish townland  (immediately adjacent to Coose) in 1868 when Patrick was a labourer and son James was born in Coose on 5.12.1872 when Patrick was a bleacher (a process in linen making). 

A little information on Coose here:

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~rosdavies/genealogy/PLACENAMES/CiCz.htm

I had a look in the Valuation Revision records for Coose to see if I could see Patrick & Anne’s house listed. There were a lot of weaver’s cottages there but no sign of a Taggart household. However Anne’s father Charles Meehan is listed in property 1B ® which was a house and garden (on the modern Springvale Rd, Tullylish).  Possibly they were staying there. Charles is named as tenant of that house till c 1887 when he is replaced by Bernard Conlon. Presumably Charles had either died or moved away. It’s not clear what happened to him. I don’t see a death in the area at that period.

 

Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

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