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ArmaghKillyman (Armagh)

Hello Team,

I am tracing my Irish roots and I have a few!, However It is this line that I would like to start to trace. If you could be of any help it would be most appreciated.

Fanny Fox (McElindon) is of particular interest. I would also like to know how her son, my third great grandfather Bernard Fox got to Australia.

Thanks so much and look forward to your reply.

Lena Lockett

Generation 1?Patrick FOX?[a bricklayer] of Clonmore Co Armagh Northern IRE ?B circa 1805 d before 1842 Co Armagh N IRE?Married 1 June 1828 Dungannon Parish Co Tyrone, N IRE?Fanny (Frances/Euphemia) McELINDON?of Derrycrew Co Armagh N IRE?B circa 1805 1810 D 27 May 1840 Derryhubert Killyman Parish Armagh Northern IRE??

Northern Liberator p 8 13 June 1840-?The Dublin Gazette of yesterday offers a reward on the appalling subject of the murder of a woman named Fanny Fox, who was found in a bog, about three yards from her dwelling house, in the townland of Derryhubert, parish of Killyman, county of Armagh, on the 25th. ult, with five wounds inflicted on her head, from the effects of which she died two days later.???

Children of Patrick FOX and Fanny MCELINDON-?

?1. Catherine GRAHAM (FOX)?B 1830 D 29 January 1920?M Archibald GRAHAM??

2. Bernard FOX (This is my direct line)?B 24 June 1832 Clontyclay Armagh ?D

3 October 1909 Swan St, Wollongong?

Sailed per Commodore Perry arrived Sydney 1 May 1856?M 17 May 1858 St Mary's Cathedral Sydney ?

Spouse- Eliza KEARNEY ?B 11 Nov 1833 Corrinshigo Armagh ?D 12 Nov 1903 Swan St, Wollongong?

?3. John FOX?B 20 September 1835 Dungannon Parish Tyrone IRE?Died or left the Armagh Union Workhouse 9 May 1847????

Generation 2 ?

Catherine FOX?B 1830 Killyman Parish Co Armagh N IRE ?D 29 January 1920 360 Bridge St, Drummoyne NSW?Buried Field of Mars Cemetery East Ryde NSW?

[Catherine FOX and her two brothers, Bernard and John,?entered the Armagh Union workhouse on 17 February 1842]. ?Sailed per Earl Grey arrived Sydney 6 October 1848?

Married 14 October 1852 St Phillips C of E Sydney NSW?Archibald GRAHAM [baker/ miller]?B 1813 Keady Co Armagh N IRE ?D 7 May 1893 Keira Cottage, Cross Roads Wollongong NSW?

Sailed per Coromandel arrived Sydney 2 October 1838?

Residences-?1852 Bathurst St, Sydney NSW?1852 [May] George St north, Sydney NSW?

1854 'Canterbury Farm' Dapto Rd, Dapto NSW?

1861 'The Mill' Crown St, Wollongong NSW?1893 'Keira Cottage' Crossroads Wollongong NSW??

Children of Catherine FOX and Archibald GRAHAM-??1. Archibald GRAHAM?B 13 May 1853 Sydney D 24 May 1920 Manly?M 29 August 1882 Sydney Spouse- Elizabeth Sarah CUMMINGS??and others

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You don?t say what denomination the family were but I?ll assume RC. Killyman civil parish falls within the RC parish of Dungannon. Their earliest records start in 1821, and so it?ll be hard to get back any earlier than you have already done, at least from church records.

I notice that Pat Fox was born in Clonmore. Looking at Griffiths Valuation for Clonmore in 1864, there was one Fox household there. That was Daniel Fox who was on plot 25 which was a farmhouse, outbuildings and 10 acres. That farm today is on the Clonmore Rd, near JMC packaging.

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=nameSearch

I?d say there?s a fair chance that Daniel and Pat might be related. The revaluation records show that the farm changed to Francis Fox in 1869, then to Daniel in 1870 and then to Patrick in 1881. Pat Fox gave it up in 1893 and it changed to a different family.

I notice a Patrick Fox death registered in Armagh on 29.8.1883 aged 95. You might want to investigate that in case he lived in Clonmore. (You can view the death on-line for ?2 on the GRONI website. Use the search death registrations option.).

https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk

You could check the tithe applotment records for Killyman to see who was on the farm c 1820/1830. Unfortunately those for Cop Armagh are not on-line. However there is a copy in PRONI, in Belfast if you can get someone to look them up for you.

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