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I hope that somebody recognises the family names and is able to make a connection with you.

 

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I came upon your post this morning.

My great grandfather was John McKittrick married to Mary Jane Willis.

As far as I know they had 5 children.

William John 1856, Fanny 1857, Edward James 1867 (my grandfather), Emma 1869, & Thomas 1872.

I have partial outline of their decendants with the exception of Emma  1869 to Sept 1910.

I'm responding to a 7 yeaar old post so we'll see what develops.

David McGeoch

London, Ontario Canada

Dear David

We are second cousins. I am descended from the youngest of the children: Thomas McKitterick, born in 1872.

In fact there were 10 children. Five of them died in childhood. Emma died unmarried in 1910, in Loughgall. John and Mary died in 1900 and 1910 respectively. Mary Jane Willis was the second wife of John McKitterick. He was a baker in Loughgall. 

Thomas (Tom) became a teacher and married the teacher who was working with him in Richhill National School. He was later ordained priest in Durham and they spent the rest of their lives in England. 

The other three children emigrated to Canada, as you will know. My aunt, Kathleen McKitterick, visited Canada in the 1970s and met a large number of cousins. I remember her mentioning Lilian McGeoch, who I think was your mother - and was an artist?

It may be of interest to you to look at the family tree I have made using Ancestry.com. (I'm not at all sure about the siblings of John McKitterick - they are surmise, based on help from Armagh Ancestry.) There are two trees called McKitterick. The other one was made by Mary-Jane McKitterick, who lives in Ontario and is descended from William John McKitterick.

Thank you for being in touch. I hope you're keeping well, and out of the way of the virus.

Best wishes to you and the family

Mary Goodman nee McKitterick

 

Dear Mary

Your reply was quite welcome and it looks like you have a good account of the decendants of John McKittrick.

I copied an outline of this tree from my Aunt Connie probablly back in the early 70's. It would appear all the Canadian 

relatives dropped the e from McKitterick as all the official records here are to McKittrick. I can't recall whether I met 

your mother or not but I'm sure my mother Lillian & my Aunt Connie would have been delighted. They both kept in

touch with their cousins here. 

By avoiding the virus I've had idle time to look in to family history leading me to your post. As I'm a novice I assume 

that to peruse your family tree at ancestry.com I take a membership and then navigate to your tree outline. Hopefully 

then I can see if you're missing anything I can furnish from this side of the ocean.

I don't always catch the Ireland emails at first. My email is mcgeoch@sympatico.ca.

Take care yourself and here's to a Happy & Healthy New Year.

David & Irene McGeoch.