Hughes family, probably Middletown, Tynan parish
I realize there is very little information available for the early 1800's, but I keep hoping that someone else from the same family is looking for ancestors. My gggrandfather James Hughes, was born c1810. Because he named his oldest son Joseph, it is possible that his father's name was Joseph. He emigrated to England and because I cannot find his marriage to Eliza Cashin (most likely not from Armagh), I cannot be sure that Stockport, Cheshire, where he was living in 1842, is where he first settled. His oldest daughter Mary was not baptized in Stockport so they might have arrived in another city when they emigrated. Civil records begin the 2nd half of 1837 so it is possible that James married early in 1837. There is a story that has been passed down in this family, that James was studying medicine in Armagh but he had to leave that behind when he emigrated. I would think that he did not go to college but rather served as an apprentice to a doctor. The only Joseph Hughes in Armagh at the time of the Tithes lived in Middletown, Tynan parish, and in Middletown there was also a doctor so there is a good chance James came from Tynan parish. I am looking for other Hughes families who named an oldest son Joseph. Perhaps my James was a younger son and was forced to emigrate, but perhaps an older brother remained in the area. I am not sure which names are Hughes names and which are Cashin names, but the names of James's children in their birth order are Mary, Joseph, Eliza, Ann, Alice, James, George, and Peter. There is no son named for Eliza's father so it does look as if Joseph was named for James's father. I am including this message, always hopeful that I will learn which family was mine in Armagh. Thank you, Janice Kenney Fortado