SEEKING INFO-SIBLINGS OF ROSANNA ARMSTRONG&JOSEPH HENDERSON MARRIED,CHURCH OF IRELAND UPPER MOVILLE 1846,MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE SAYS ROSANNA WAS FROM WHITECASTLE&JOSEPH FROM DRUNG,CAVAN.FATHERS WERE BOTH FARMERS,NAMES GIVEN AS DAVID HENDERSON&ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG,AS THESE ARE SCOTTISH SURNAMES,WHERE CAN I FIND MIGRATION RECORDS? I HAVE ALOT OF INFO FOR ROSANNA&JOSEPH AFTER THEY SAILED TO CANADA IN 1847,ANY HELP WILL BE MUCH APPRECIATED.
Hi Teresa,
I think you should investigate their birth records. The surnames are quite likely Scottish but I would think that both families arrived in Ireland at least 100 years earlier. They may have been Scots-Presbyterian originally. You could try to see if there is a history of Presbyterianism for the areas mentioned on the net. I know there is one for east Cavan. You could also look at the Tithe Applotments carried out around 1826.Try for the parents in this.Every farmer is named in each townland of every county. This is the next best thing to a census.
Best of luck in your search.
The main group of settlers came from Scotland in the 1600s and there are no records of who most were or exactly where they came from. However Henderson and Armstrong are both names common in the Scottish borders. Many from that area were encouraged to move to Ireland in the 1600s both as a part of the Plantation of Ireland and to reduce the lawlessness on the Scottish borders where many were engaged in extensive crime. They were known as the border reivers (reiver is a Scottish word for a robber) and the Border Reivers have their own website now, where you can read a little more about it. You?ll find both surnames listed there, but as I say there?s little realistic chance of tracing exactly where in Scotland they came from as the records just don?t exist either in Scotland or in Ireland.
http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=thescottishthist;id=24;url=http%3A%2F%…
Here is the link to the Church of Ireland baptisms in Drung at that time. No mention of Henderson however there are plenty of Armstrongs. I wonder if they had cousins in Donegal?
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~adrian/LDSBap01.htm
Hi Teresa,
Perhaps, you could concentrate on the deaths of the fathers, on the marriage certs, does it say if the fathers are deceased? if not, it would hopefully take them into the time of Civil Registration, when you can get the certificates, on them you will have an informer & if it is a member of the family it would give you another lead to go on.
Now I have found on a marriage cert in my own family that the place of residence, was not the place where the family lived, but the place where the groom lived, What was Joseph Henderson's occupation?
Civil registration records are available from the General Register Office (GRO). These start from 1864. You can access the website here:http://www.groireland.ie/research.htm Or you might try Valuations office in Dublin (http://www.valoff.ie) which will have a record of the land registry from 1855 to modern times. This will assist in seeing what happened to any land the familymay have owned (as it usually passed on to a relation).
You could also try contacting the Cavan Co Library for further assistance.
Cavan Genealogy,
1st floor,
Johnston Central Library,
Farnham Street,
Cavan Town,
County Cavan.
Tel: +353 (0)49 4361094
Fax: +353 (0)49 4331494
Email: cavangenealogy@eircom.net
Regards Carmel