Francis Layden / Glackaunadarragh?
Hello everyone. My great-great-grandfather Francis Leyden was said to have been born in County Leitrim to parents Francis Layden and Mary Hart, around 1815. My father told me we came from a place in Ireland where everyone was a Layden. The Tithe Applotment Books have a Francis Layden in Glackaunadarragh, Inishmagrath parish. Almost half the tenants listed in that townland were Laydens, although I understand that the Laydens have gone now and the townland is almost deserted. The NLI only has parish registers for 1835-1839 for Inishmagrath I found some records for Laydens, including one Francis Layden who was a sponsor at a baptism in 1838, but nothing conclusive.
Francis junior married Winifred Currans from Sligo. They left Ireland for the Dumfries/Maxwelltown area around 1848/9 with their daughter Mary, and settled there. A Scottish birth certificate for one of their children says they married in May 1843 in Susie Ireland (which I think could be Sooey in Sligo).
All the information I have about the Laydens (so far) comes from Scottish records. I would really like to find out for sure where the family came from, and flesh out the Irish side of my family tree.