Fleming & Griffin From Dromore & Drumquin Tyrone

Mary Fleming nee Griffin born early 1800s.

Lived Cornamuck Townland Dromore Parish Tyrone

Parents Alexander Griffin/Griffith and Jane Summerfield/Summerville

Married John William Fleming of Dromore Parish

Living in Drumquin in 1854

Issue:  Jane 1833, Margaret 1835 & Robert c1852

To which state, city, area in Australia did Jane & Margaret Fleming emigrate?

To which state, city, area in Australia did Jane & Margaret Fleming emigrate?

In 1854 they came to NSW on the south coast first of all to  Jambaroo Valley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamberoo,_New_South_Wales  near a city

called Wollongong   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollongong

Margaret Fleming married her cousin James Griffin/Griffith and he was then killed in a

logging accident.  They had 2 children.   She then married another Griffith cousin called

Alexander and the family moved to a place called March near Orange NSW on the

other side of the blue montains.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange,_New_South_Wales

 

Jane Fleming married Samuel Priest and she too settled in the March/Orange area.

The Griffith boys had came out much earlier along with many others from Tyrone

settling at Marshall ount  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Mount,_New_South_Wales

   - named after Marshall family of Dromore.

By the time our Robert Fleming came out in 1879 Margaret was living near Orange

and he went there too.  He was about 27yrs old and I think it was he who came

to Australia with the photo of his mother (Mary Fleming (nee Griffin).  He also had

a photo of himself  taken about the same time. (see attached) As we have never sighted a photo of

his father perhaps he was already deceased, in jail or elsewhere ? when Robert

came to oz.   We have possibly four DNA matches with Flemings in USA.

Some who settled there in the 1600s and others who emigrated from Ireland much later.

Some of these Fleming matches in the USA may have been Quaker families.

Here in Australia our Flemings chose to attend the Congregational Church and/or

the Methodist. 

 

Our Flemings of Drumquin/Dromore may be distantly cousins to the Flemings of Bridgewater

Farm Dromore who left for Canada after the Big Wind of 1836 and settled in Toronto.  We

seem to have a very distant dna match with that family.   William Fleming of Bridgewater

Farm on the Old Coach Road married the widow of George Noble.  There is a book about

this Tyrone family called "Polly of Bridgewater Farm"and a film clip online

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTeiU0grVLo   and the book http://pollyofbridgewaterfarm.com/

which is also read in Northern Ireland/ Ireland schools.   Our common ancestor with this

family may be back in England even before the plantation and after the conquest of 1066.

 

 

 

Thanks for that info. I'm interested to learn how you identified the County and Townland for an 1854 arrival in NSW. Did you find emigration papers?  Or other source in Co. Tyrone?

 

Hello,

I did reply to you private but am just posting this here in case anyone is following the conversation

The NSW Gov has shipping records on a searchable site but before they came online

many years ago we applied for the details of the shipping records and were sent the information

they contained.   We also ordered and paid for copies of the original records from the archives

So we obtained the ships names, the place of abode or native of info and parents name

and place of abode if alive.   They also made mention of other relatives alive in the colony

and for Robert the mention of a sponsor a Mr Thomas Alexander (Dromore) who was

like a character reference for him before he left Dromore.  I think that there are two shipping

reels for each ship - there were back then - and each had similar and/or different or new info

so worth checking both reels for the particular ship of interest.   I think one may have been

completed on boarding and the other completed on disembarking?  But anyways all the

shipping records are in the "ARK" project which is held in alot of public libraries and family

history societies around oz and also NSW State Records office in Sydney.   The NSW

Records office has lots of shipping and convict records. http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/