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Blythe's of Tamlaght, C. Tyrone

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I am interested in making contact with anyone researching Blythe's in County Tyrone. My GGG grandfather, William, a farmer and carpenter who I believe may have lived in the Tamlaght area. He had a number of children including my GG grandfather, Alexander Harkness Blythe. I believe that another child, Eleanor Jane Blythe, emigrated to the US where there are many descendents (I have made contact with some of them via DNA on Ancestry). Another child, William, married Anne Marshall from Kilnaheery, Co. Tyrone. After William died in 1865 Anne emigrated to Canada with her children and settled there. She remarried in Canada. I have also had a number of hits DNA hits from descendents of this line.

Carmel Lynch

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William Blythe and Anne Marshall were married on 22.11.1849 in Clogher Cathedral. Tradition was to marry in the bride’s church so that should tell you the Marshall family were Church of Ireland and it was their parish church. Their records start in 1763, so you may be able to trace them back from that. There’s a copy in PRONI (the public record office) in Belfast.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_re…

William’s townland was Tamlaght. His father was a farmer and carpenter. Griffiths Valuation for Tamlaght (1860) lists William Blythe in Tamlaght. There was also a Thomas Blythe next door who is likely to be related. William had plot 2 which was a 27 acre farm. That farm today is up a lane off the Springhill Rd, between Ballygawley and Seskinore.

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=nameSearch

No Blythes in Tamlaght by the 1901 census:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tyrone/Cecil/Tamlaght/

Judging by the 1901 census the Blythes were also Church of Ireland so probably Clogher COI records should have that family too.

I don’t see a death in 1865 for Wm Blythe junior, nor one in the period 1864 to 1871. In 1871 there was one who died aged 81. That might be Wm senior. The certificate ois not available to view on-line free yet. You can view the original certificates on-line on the GRONI website, using the “search registrations” option:

https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk

You will need to open an account and buy some credits. It costs £2.50 (sterling) to a view a certificate.

Looking at the death records for the Clogher area, I note a couple of other Blythes there who were carpenters, so possibly it was a family trade.

Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

Hi Emlyn, 

Thank you for your answer, particularly for the line to GRONI.  Are you related to the Blythe's?

 

Kind regards,

 

Carmel

Carmel Lynch

Emlyn,

I have looked through my records and see that I have the death cert for William Blythe that you mentioned.  I sent away for it to the GRO office here in Dublin.  It records that he died of paralysis x 2 days and his daughter, Matilda Blythe, was with him.  He did indeed have a daughter, Matilda, so this may well be hime.  It lists his occupation as carpenter.  Carpentery was indeed a family trade in this branch of the Blythe's.  The only thing that does not ring true is the death place - Arduncheon which is in County Fermanagh.  I suppose it's not a huge distance from Tamlaght and he may have been living with another relative there or visiting at the time of his death.  

 

Kind regards,

 

Carmel

Carmel Lynch

Carmel,

There is an Ardunshin/Arduncheon in Fermanagh but there’s also one near Clogher, about half a mile north of Clogher town.  The one in Fermanagh is in Lisnaskea’s registration area. If you have the certificate I identified, it should be in the Clogher registration area.

I looked at the Valuation Revision records for 1881 (on the PRONI website). There’s no Blythe household in Ardunshin, so I suspect he hadn’t lived there very long, or was lodging with someone else.  But it’s not terribly far from Tamlaght so it could well be your man.

I am not related to these families. I am a volunteer for Ireland Reaching Out.

Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

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