Issue Date: 10/5/2007
Our Armstrong ancestors originated in County Leitrim, Ireland. John Armstrong (2nd) emigrated to the US in the mid 19thC to Illinois, where he produced a large extended family. By his wives, the sisters Eleanor and Henrietta Wilson. The late 18thC and 19thC families are documented by some original written work by Dr William Armstrong writing in the 1850's.
This is a summary; there are references to
HA Poole's original text which may contain extra information.
Other Sources:
Kathi Sittner
Tom Reilly 18 Aug 2002
EC[i] of Puerto Rico - much info on William Armstrong (1752) descendants (2006/7).
|Otis A Poole
| | |Otis Manchester
| |Maria Manchester
EI Poole
| | | |David Irvine
| | |Jane Irvine
| | |Helen Kirk
|Eleanor Armstrong
| |John Wilson
| | |Eleanor Gardner
ELEANOR ISABELLA ARMSTRONG 1841
Romantic Story of Governor MacRae,
The Armstrong of Deans Hill Papers (D/3737)
AM05/03 HP2
Born: 20/12/1848, Beloit, Ohio
Parents: Augustus & Mary Bishop (Manchester) Poole
Died: 1/4/1904, Berkeley, Ca.
Married, 17/2/1876, Chicago, Ill:
ELEANOR ISABELLA ARMSTRONG 1841
AM05/04 HP3
Born: 14/9/1841, Holly Park, Leitrim,
Antrim, NI.
Parents: John & Eleanor Isabella (Wilson) Armstrong
Died: 14/6/1918, Yokohama, Japan.
Issue: (Details)
1/1. Herbert Armstrong Poole, born Forest Ave, Chicago,
15/10/1877, Died 1965. Author of "Bert's Begats" HP1
1/2. Eleanor Isabella Poole, born 16/11/1878.
Married NG Maitland. Grandmother to Antony Maitland
1/3. Otis Manchester Poole, Born 6/9/1880, Forest Av,
Chicago,
Died Missing Acres, Crozet, Charlottesville, Va, 21/10/1978.
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AM06/07 HP6
Born: 29/12/1820, Cherry Valley, Antrim
Parents: Capt. John & Helen (Kirk) Armstrong
Died: 24/9/1892, Chicago, Ill.
1820-1832: Cherry Valley with father & Charles William A.
1832-40: with cousin, John Goodfellow at Shannon Lodge.
6/1853: emigrated to USA, direct to Chicago.
1860 Census, Chicago Ward 8, Cook, Ill:
Jno Armstrong (39, Coms Nest??, $1000, Ireland), Henrietta (33, Ire), Eleanor I
(19, Ire), Henrietta (16, Ire), Wm (5 (Ill), Jennie (2, Ill), Jno (2/12, Ill),
Jno Goodfellow (63, Ire), Mary Goodfellow (60, Ire) + 1 servant.
1870 Census, 18th ward, Chicago:
John Armstrong (46, Book-keeper in elevator, Ireland), Henrietta (43, Keeping
Boarding House, Ireland), William (15, Attending school, Ill), Jane (12,
attending school), John (9, attending school, Ill), Percy (3, Ill), Ellen I
(28, At home, Ireland), Haughton Vaugh (19, Book-keeper in elevator), Ireland),
Thomas Little (18, Attending school, Ireland). +2 servants.
1880 Census, Arcola, District 82, Douglas, Ill:
Henrietta Armstrong, (51, Keeps House, Ire x3), William (23, Manager of Farm,
Ill, Ire, Ire), Anamode (20, sons wife, Ill, Ohio, Ohio), Jennie E (21, living
at home, Ill, Ire, Ire), John G (20, living at home, Ill, Ire, Ire), Percy W
(12, Away at school, Ill, Ire, Ire).
1870: bought Maple Grove, Arcola, family lived there and he still worked in
Chicago.
He was in the grain business in Chicago, and lived in various houses in the
area.
Married (1st), Dublin, 20/1/1840: Eleanor Isabella Wilson
AM06/08
Born: 8/1817, Roscommon, Ireland
Parents: Charles & Eleanor (Mullarkey) Wilson
Died: 28/4/1848, Leitrim, Ireland.
Issue:
1/1. Eleanor Isabella Armstrong, b. 14/9/1841, Leitrim.
1/2. Henrietta Armstrong, b. 11/6/1843, Leitrim, died Chicago
24/6/1870.
Married 30/11/1865, Eugene Wheeler. Dau. Bertha 28/5/1868-3/2/1875.
2 boys died young.
John Armstrong married, 22/10/1949, in Ireland, 2nd:
Henrietta Wilson, sister of Eleanor (6/1/1826-16/4/1914).
Issue:
1/1. John Henry Armstrong: 23/9/1850-28/10/1850 in Ireland
1/2. Mary Goodfellow Armstrong: 28/4/1852-21/12/1853, Chicago
1/3. William Rufus Armstrong: 18/10/1854-10/7/1906 in Chicago
1/4. Jennie Elvira Armstrong: 13/11/1857-22/8/1935 in Saginaw
1/5. John Edmond Armstrong: 18/3/1860-23/3/1912 in Beloit
1/6. Charles Wilson Armstrong: 22/5/1862-11/11/1862 in Chicago
1/7. Maud Mary Armstrong: 22/9/1863-22/2/1865 in Chicago
1/8. Eugene Charles Armstrong: 22/1/1866-5/8/1866 in Chicago
1/9. Percy Wilson Armstrong: 27/3/1867- Lives in Glencoe Ill
(1960). Poss
death, Oct 1969, Chicago, Cook, Ill. DoB given as 1/1/1889.
Married Jennie Tilt.
Issue:
2/1. Susannah Armstrong,
married
Laurence Vail Coleman 2/9/1939.
1965: res 1500 Massachusetts Av. NW, Washington DC 2005 apt 449.
Ref US SS death index, possibility at 22202 Arlington, Va.
Poss death Susannah Coleman, b. 11/3/1897, d. 7/1985.
Poss death Laurence Coleman, b. 19/9/1893, d. 7/1982.
1/10. Alice Maud Armstrong: 25/4/1868-21/7/1868 in Chicago
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AM07/13 HP12
Born: 1762, Killashandra, Cavan, Ireland
Parents: William & Jane (Irvine) Armstrong.
Died: 8/8/1830, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, England, aged 68.
(PR checked by AM, also brother William).
Extract from HP12:"… became a
midshipman in the same ship and at the same time as our late sovereign, William
the Fourth. (Prince William Henry commenced his naval career as a midshipman
under Capt. Digby, in the "Royal George" of 98 guns in the year
1779)."
Prince William recorded as in Royal George 1779
PRONI 5/11/96:
Further check of Killashandra:
P 37: 3/4/1749 Mary dau of Wm and Jane Armstrong bapt of "Derry??"
No trace of any further relevant bapts: 2 William Armstrongs married 1773 poss
one of ours, but seems that Rev WA went elsewhere.
Checked Clergy lists for Dioceses of Drum, Kilmore, Dromore, Derry, Raphoe,
Connor, Armagh, Cloghur: no sign of Rev William A.
Try Dublin and South for him.
Ref Capt John: checked PR Glenavy nil sig.
Crumlin in Killead Parish: all relevant records destroyed in Dublin.
Tithe Apportionments: (FIN/5A/147)
John Armstrong Commissioner for Vicarial Tithes 3/2/1827 for Camlin parish: a John Armstrong owned 52 acres in 5 holdings in Ballydonaghen, Camlin Parish.
PRONI T700/1 Bk9 p34
Will extracts in Stewart Kennedy Notebooks (TCD Library)
Will of John Armstrong of Cherry Valley, Glenavy, Co Antrim
David Shaw of Ayr N.B.
Alery? Maellag Stoellwell of Middlesex???
Son Edward Pakenham Armstrong
Son Charles William Armstrong
Dau Glencairn Dalrymple Armstrong
Dau Anna Maria
Connor W 2 1813
Married (2nd at Cherry Valley) 12/1818(HAP):
Ellen/Helen Kirk
AM07/14
Born: Girvan, 20/3/1783
Parents: Andrew & Margaret (McCutcheon) Kirk.
(they are a likely line from Scottish records - Bert Poole showed her as
being "Ellen" from somewhere in Scotland. Helen Kirk is the right age
and Girvan is in the Ayr area: maybe she was the nanny employed to look after
John's children after Macrae died. No trace of her marriage or death have been
found.)
Died: 1820, Antrim, NI.
Issue of John & Helen Armstrong:
1/1. John Armstrong. Born (HAP) December 21/1820 at Cherry Valley.
Married, 1st, 12/3/1801 (HAP):
Parents: General Stair Park & Glencairn Dalrymple
Glencairn died August 1816, buried Crumlin Church.
From Gentleman's Magazine, 11/1801: "At Dundalk, by special licence, John
Armstrong, esq, lieutenant and adjutant of the 71st foot, to Miss Macrae
Dalrymple, eldest daughter of Brigadier General Dalrymple."
She died 2/6/1811 (Scot PR) (ref HAP: in childbirth, bur Governor Macrae's
private burial ground, Orangefield.)
HAP has Macrae's death as 1818.
7/2004: Orangefield House said to have been the site of the control tower at
Prestwick Airport. There is no sign of it now, the airport having removed all
trace. A burial ground nearby was visited, but was 100 years too young.
http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/DalrympleJames175215195.267.shtml
Dalrymple, James (1752 — 95)
The son of Charles Dalrymple of Ayr, James Dalrymple married Miss Macrae M'Guire in 1750. She was the heiress to the estate of Orangefield in Monkton Parish, and the sister of Elizabeth, Countess of Glencairn. James Dalrymple succeeded to the estate in 1785.
The 'pulse too hot' proved his undoing. A keen hunter, he dissipated his fortune and was declared bankrupt in 1791, his trustees being the Rev William Dalrymple, Robert Aiken and John Ballantine.
The house of Orangefield for some years formed part of the terminal hotel buildings at Prestwick Airport, but has since been demolished.
http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/CunninghamJamesfourteenthEarlofGlencairn174915191.255.shtml
Cunningham, James, fourteenth Earl of Glencairn (1749 — 91)
He was born at Finlayston, the second son of the thirteenth earl. For a time he served as a Captain in the West Fencible Regiment. His elder brother having predeceased him, James Cunningham succeeded his father as fourteenth Earl in 1774. From 1780 to 1784 he was one of the Representative Scots Peers in the House of Lords. While there, he supported Fox's India Bill. In 1784, Glencairn, as patron of Kilmarnock parish, presented a staunch Conservative, the Rev William Mackinlay, to fill the vacancy, though Glencairn himself was not apparently an Auld Licht supporter, his desire being to fulfil the wishes of the majority of the parishioners. The appointment, however, produced Burns's satire 'The Ordination'. Glencairn's factor, Alexander Dalziel, drew the Earl's attention to the Kilmarnock Edition by which he was much impressed. When Burns arrived in Edinburgh in 1786, armed with a letter of introduction from Dalrymple of Orangefield (who was married to Lady Glencairn's sister), the Earl received the poet warmly in his house and introduced him to his friends. On of these was the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, Henry Erskin, who in his turn introduced Burns to the Duchess of Gordon. Another was the publisher, William Creech, who had once been Glencairn's tutor and travelling companion. Burns afterwards described Glencairn as his 'titular Protector'. He told Mrs Dunlop, in a letter of 22nd March 1787: 'The noble Earl of Glencairn, to whom I owe more than any man of earth, does me the honour of giving me his strictures; his hints, with respect to impropriety or indelicacy, I follow implicitly.' Clearly, Glencairn was able to extend to Burns the benefits of his patronage without upsetting the poet's sensibility. In fact, he was to Burns in Edinburgh pretty much what Gavin Hamilton had been to Burns in Ayrshire. When the subscription list for the 1787 edition of Burns's Poems was opened, Glencairn and his mother took 24 copies. As a result of the Earl's influence, within 10 days of the poet's arrival in Edinburgh, the Caledonian Hunt subscribed 'universally one and all', accounting for 100 copies. When the book was about to appear, Burns asked the Earl's permission to publish in an Edinburgh newspaper his 'Verses Intended to be written below a Noble Earl's Picture'. Glencairn did not give his permission, however, possibly feeling that such advertising would be too blatant.
On 4th May 1787, when Burns was leaving Edinburgh he sent Glencairn a somewhat stilted but obviously sincere letter thanking him for 'all that patronage, that benevolence, and that friendship with which you have honoured me.'
In January 1788, when Burns had decided that he must enter the Excise service, he wrote to Glencairn asking his assistance in getting him an appointment.
Glencairn never married and never enjoyed good health. In the autumn of 1790 his health began to fail and he went to Lisbon in search of relief. He returned soon after landing, on 30th January 1791.
In the letter accompanying his 'Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn', which Burns sent to Dalziel on 10th March he says 'God knows what I have suffered at the loss of my best Friend, my first my dearest Patron and Benefactor; the man to whom I owe all that I am and have!'
Her mother, Glencairn, was buried in Crumlin Church, 8/1816: her
memorial was in good condition when photographed 4/2004.
HAP's extracts from "The Dalrymples of
Langlands" gives Mrs D death as 1818, but the monument shows Aug 1816.
Issue by Macrae Dalrymple (from her diary & SRO):
1/1. Glencairn, b 12/5/1802, cut tooth 24/3/1803
SRO 1/7/93: M:
David Shaw 28/10/1826 Ayr FR223
HAP: married on November 1/1826, David Shaw of Ayr, Scotland, (5/11/1788 - May
1902) at the remarkable age of 114 years:
They lived in Ayreshire. See HAP 12 for details.
1841 Census, Wellington Sq, Ayr:
Margret Beggs
(20), Ann Duffeneagh (30), Margret Guthrie (20), Janet Hower (40), Margret
Podon (20), Barbara Shaw (12), Charles Shaw (10), David Shaw (50), Edwd Shaw
(3), Elisabeth Shaw (6), Glencairn Shaw (1), Glencairn Shaw (35), John Shaw
(13), Ackeson Smith (6), Ann Smith (30), Chls Smith (4).
There is a road near Prestwick Airport called Shawfarm Rd (7/2004).
Issue:-
2/1. John Shaw, b. September 5/1827, m. Sophia Alicia Byam
Gunthorpe,
Issue:-
3/1. David James Shaw.
3/2. Margaret Glencairn Dalrymple Shaw.
3/3. John Byam Diston Shaw.
2/2. Charles George Shaw, born November 3/1830. M. Flora
Whiteside,
Issue:-
3/1. David William Shaw.
3/2. Patrick John Shaw.
3/3. Charles Alexander Shaw.
3/4. Flora Glencairn Whiteside Shaw.
3/5. Elizabeth Dalrymple Shaw.
3/6. James Edward Shaw. ("This is the man who sent me the
above history of John Armstrong. I, (H.A.P.) visited him
on July 18/1905 at his residence, Martnaham lodge, near
Ayr").
3/7. Philip Armstrong Shaw.
2/3. David Shaw.
Born June 7/1832, died April 7/1834;
2/4. Elizabeth Dalrymple Shaw, born June 20/1835, died July
6/1851.
2/5. Edward William Shaw. Born July 24/1837, M. Jane Isabella,
Houldsworth of
Cranstoun Hill.
Issue:-
3/1. Helen Dalrymple Shaw.
2/6. Reverend
Glencairn Alexander Shaw, born January 17/1840.
2/7. Carolina Anna Shaw, born February 6/1840.
2/8. Barbara Jane Shaw.
1/2. Charles William, b 18/5/1805, cut tooth 24/1/1806
Inherited Cherry
Valley & became agent to Pakenhams.
Married, September 4/1844, Louise Isabelle, dau. of Richard Boyle Bagley, by
Alicia, dau. of Richard, 2nd Baron Castlemain
1843 directory of Antrim:
Charles William Armstrong, Esq., Cherry Valley, Crumlin.
DISPENSARIES IN
THE COUNTY OF ANTRIM:
Crumlin - Charles W. Armstrong, Cherry Valley
Magistrates
Presiding, Crumlin:
Sir. H. Pakenham, C. W. Armstrong
Died without issue on February 7/1858.
Glenavy Church:
Charles William Armstrong, late of Cherry Valley, esq, J.P. who died 8 February
1858 in the 53rd year of his life, inscribed on Glencairn Dalrymple's (his
g/mother) tomb.
1/3. Anna Maria, b 28/3/1807, ct 29/9/1807.
Married on March
21/1833, William Dysart Smith of Antrim.
1/4. Rev Edward Pakenham Armstrong, b 31/12/1808, ct 3/7/1809. Unmarried.
All listed in Officers List of time
ENTRY in OPR 1811 Kilmarnock SRO597/4 FR1026:
All recorded on one entry in 1811.
Armstrong:
Glencairn Dalrymple 1st child of John Armstrong Capt in the 7th Regiment
and McKay Dalrymple, his wife, was born May 12 1802.
Charles William their 2nd child born March 28 1805.
Anna Maria their 3rd child was born March 28 1807.
Edward Pakenham their 4th child was born December 31st 1808.
John Armstrong Life Summary from various sources:
(OL: Officers on Full & Half Pay in 1828, WO/25/749)
(AL: Army List) (HAP: Bert Poole & Dr William Armstrong)
1779 (HAP): Midshipman under Capt Digby, "Royal George", 2 yrs.
1781-2 (HAP): Enlisted 52nd Regt, soon NCO, India for abt 15 yrs
& Nova Scotia (prob. war with Tippoo & expedition against Ceylon 1795)
1792 (HAP): @ siege of Seringapatem.
10/12/1794: 1st Entry OL - 52nd Foot - Purch from S/Maj.
10/12/1794 (AL): Ensign 52nd Foot.
1795 (AL): Lt 92nd Regt of Foot seniority 31/5/94.
1/1/1796 (OL): 71st Foot - Purchased.
1796: already Sgt Major of 52nd Foot: promoted to be Ensign (in 75th Foot).
1797 (HAP): Lt Ensign, 71st Foot: Col Dalrymple CO (Donald Harrow Paymaster).
Soon Adjutant.
29/11/1800 (OL): 71st Foot, purch
1800 (HAP): Adjutant (Col Dalrymple now Brigadier)
Regt to Scotland & Dalrymple to Langlands (wife + 3 daughters)
1800 (AL): Lt 71st Highland Regt of Foot, seniority 1/9/95.
Lt Col Stair Park Dalrymple 1/9/95, in Army Col 1/1/98.
SPD there in 1805.
1801 (AL): Lt 71st (1/1/96).
15/10/1801 (OL): 71st Foot - Purchase Capt.
1/10/1802 (OL): 64th Foot - Purchased.
1802 (AL): J. M. Armstrong Illegible.
1803 (AL): JM Armstrong Capt 15/10/1801, Regt 1/10/1802.
EM Pakenham, Lt Col, 17/10/1799, wounded at ????
1803 (HAP): Genl D purchased Coy for S-in-l in 64th stationed in St Croix.
Promoted Capt.
Sir Edward Pakenham CO, who disliked brother Wm Armstrong, planter.
Took St Lucia and Capt A. served Col P.
28/11/1804 (OL): 7th Foot
1805 (AL): 7th Regt of Foot (Royal Fuzileers) Paymaster 23/11/1804, Lt 28/8/04.
1806 (HAP): Capt A. Paymaster of 7th Royal Fusileers from Capt Pakenham (now
recovered) & now Capt of this Regt.
1st Btln to Copenhagen, N.S., Martinique, Spain, Portugal.
1808 (HAP): Halifax, NS.
1812 (HAP): retired & became agent to Sir Edward Pakenham. Lived at Cherry
Valley, Crumlin, Antrim.
1811: Grand Juror
11/3/1813 (OL): Retired.
1813 (SRO): Langlands conveyed to Capt A.
6/8/1813: Arrived Cherry Valley.
1816 (SRO): "of Langlands".
1817 (SRO): "of Cherry Valley".
16/9/1816 (PRONI): 3478 mixed trees @ Cherry Valley (refer Col Pakenham)
13/4/1822 (PRONI): 9700 mixed trees @ Cherry Valley. (D2051/1)
D491/101: Cherry Valley papers: map of property dated 24/11/1801, showing 404
acres on either side of road past site of house (not yet built) & bounded
by river to NW of road.
D2051/2: Memorandum of Agreement 9th August 1858 between Rev Edward Pakenham
Armstrong and Mr William McConnell to sell at 1050 pounds Cherry Valley.
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AM07/15 HP14
Born: 1791, Ireland.
Parents: John & Eleanor (Gardner) Wilson.
Died: 7/1/1841.
Griffiths Valuation Kiltoghert parish (inc Carrick on Shannon, 1834:
Holly Park: appears as Charles Wilson as owner, seems total about 6.5 acres,
most untitheable.
Holly Park was owned by Eleanor Mullarkey's maternal grandfather, William
Haughton.
Married:
AM07/16
Born: ???
Parents: Sir Michael & Eleanor Isabella (Haughton) Mullarkey.
Died: abt 1828.
Issue of Charles Eleanor Wilson:
1/1. Eleanor Isabella Wilson.
1/3. Isabella Wilson. Born 1819, died November 22/1852.
Married in 1838,
John George Little, born 1800, died October 10/1870 in Ireland. After her death
he married, 2nd, Margaret Munns, but had no children by her.
Issue :- (by his first wife).
2/1. John Wilson Little, born August 22/1840, who in 1905
lived at Longford,
Ireland. He married Matilda J. Cody.
Issue (quote from HAP):-
3/1. George Edward Little. Born July 19/1857. Lives in
Longford.
3/2. Walter Joseph Little. Born Sept 10/1868. M. Eva
Turner.
3/3. John Armstrong Little. B. June 24/---- Lives in New
Zealand.
3/4. Herbert Wilson Little. B. March 7/1878. Lived in
Canada 1905.
3/5. Jane Isabella Little. B. Feb 24/ 1888. Live in
Longford 1905.
Longford Church, 1995: The main headstone was (copying correct??):
Annabel Turner died 23/6/1921, age 63
Dau Mary Evelyn Little, died 30/8/1939, age 69,
Husband Walter Joseph Little, died 2/12/1945, age 72,
Dau Norma Learmouth (Little), 28/3/1946-25/6/1969
Randolph Irwin Little, 3/8/1951-16/6/1978
A new stone: Cecil Little, 20/4/1992.
1/4. Mary Wilson. Born 1821, died March 10/1876 in Arcola, Ill,
and is buried at
Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. She married, 1st, her cousin Launcelot Vaugh of
Sligo County, Ireland. They were brought over from Ireland to Chicago by John
Armstrong. After her husband's death she
married, 2nd, John Stewart and went out to Australia. Many years later, after
his death, she returned to Arcola and lived with John Armstrong's family. No
children by her second husband.
Issue:
2/1. Isabelle Vaugh. Born 1843, died 1854.
2/2. Christiana Vaugh. Born December 25/1849 in Ireland, died
June 21/1897 in
Chicago. She married on July 19/1873 in Arcola, James P. Slater, born March
26/1843 in Edinburgh, Scotland, died September 10/1916 in Chicago of heart
failure.
Issue:
3/1. John Wesley Slater. Born September 6/1876 in Chicago,
died June
28/1933 in the Great Lakes Hospital, North Chicago. He married, 1st. about
1900, Jeanette May Osborne, they were divorced. Soon after arriving in Lansing
he married in 1907 Ethel King.
Issue:- (by his second wife)
4/1. Avis Irene Slater, born October 28/1911 in Jackson
and married in
Detroit in 1934, Lloyd Beemer, a druggist. They moved to Port Huron, Michigan.
Died (US SS) 26/5/1993, res 48236 Grosse Pointe, Wayne.
LB (US SS) b. 23/10/1910, d. 12/1978. Wayne, Michigan.
Issue:-
5/1. Barbara Avis Beemer, born in Port Huron May 12/1937.
3/2. Mary
Isabella Slater. Born January 19/1879 in Chicago.
3/3. James Garfield Slater, born October 5/1880 in Chicago, died September
1/1936. No children by either wife.
3/4. Martha (Mattie) Irene Slater. Born May 30/1882 in Chicago.
No children.
2/3. Haughton Vaugh. Born 1852, He went
insane. Never
married.
1/5. Henrietta Wilson. Born January 6/1826, died April 18/1914.
She married on October 22/1849, John Armstrong, as his second wife, his first wife having been Henrietta's elder sister, Eleanor Isabella, who died April 24/1845 after eight years of married life.
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AM08/25 HP24
Born: Said by HAP 1720, Sligo? Ireland
Died: Said by HAP to have died 1808.
Said by HAP to have been priest at Killashandra. No supporting evidence found
for this, see below for discussion.
HAP: He married a second time at an advanced age, but the name of this second
wife is not known.
Will: dated 31/12/1801, proved 16/1/1810,
Kilmore.
To be buried Drumreilly, Lease of Longfield to wife Mary & daughter Sarah,
they remaining C of E. £220 of St Croix Curr. From David Irwin, now with Wm
Armstrong to go to daus Elizabeth Kiernen & Mary Goodfellow.
1 shilling to illegitimate son James. Admon Mary Flin, widow of deceased. (From
Kathi Sittner)
This will sounds a possibility, location, Irwin, St Croix & Goodfellow
connections.
DRUMREILLY, a parish, partly in the barony of TULLAGHAGH, county of CAVAN, and
province of LEINSTER, and partly in that of DROMAHAIRE, but chiefly in that of
CARRIGALLEN, county of LEITRIM, and province of CONNAUGHT, 2½ miles (E. by N.)
from Ballinamore, on the road to Killeshandra ; containing 278 inhabitants.
This parish was separated from Templeport by act of council in 1835, and comprises
4373 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, besides a great portion
of mountain. There are large grazing farms and a vast quantity of bog.
Limestone is found here. The parish is intersected by Lake Gorradise, on which
stands Goradise of W. C. Percy, Esq., and Bush Hill, of C. Gerard, Esq. ; and
in the vicinity is Corduff, the property of W. Penrose, Esq. There is a small
island in the lake, called Robbers Island.
The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Kilmore, and in the patronage of the
Bishop The rectory is appropriate to the see. The tithes amount to £300, of
which £200 is payable to the bishop, and £100 to the vicar. There is no
glebe-house : the glebe comprises 365 acres, of which 282 are profitable land,
valued at £322. 15s. 6 1/2d., per annum. The church is a plain structure, in
good repair, built in 1737, by William Gore, Esq.
Found 5/2007:
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/QUEBEC-BEAUHUNTCHAT/2000-10/0971560977
From: JOY TWENEY <joybat@sympatico.ca>
Subject: [QC-BHC] IRWIN, Etc.
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 18:02:57 -0400
To you all,
My knowledge of the Irwin/Erwin /Irvine/Irving etc. is very limited My
Armstrong tie came from County Leitrim , Ireland. The surname Irwin was given
as a given name to my 2X Great Grandfather IRWIN ARMSTRONG.
>From O"Harts, Irish Pedigree, Volume 2 is the following:- QUOTE-
(Armstrong's here recorded a branch of the Armstrongs of Gallen Priory, King's
County, settled in Sligo. Some of whom settled afterwards in the County of
Leitrim; and after the death of Robert Armstrong, his family removed thence to
Newton Gore in the County Cavan, where his son John Armstrong married a
daughter of William Irwin (whose son married Miss Haughton * who had 3 bros.
George, William, John) and had two sons John and Launcelot Armstrong) *
Haughton: the three families of the Armstrongs, the Irwins, and the Haughtons
lived convenient to each other and intermarried a great deal)....UNQUOTE
My Armstrongs were of the Scots-Irish persuasion and were Protestants.
I also note that one Ann Irwin (age 19) married in 1734 a Martin Armstrong
..She was the eldest daughter of John Irwin of Drumedillagh, County Leitrim,
High Sheriff of Leitrim 1737....
If you have a map of Ireland handy it is easy to see how close the Counties
were where families emigrated to BEAU/HUNT/CHAT...
The Irwins, who came in a large group of settlers from Quebec to Essex County I
will check into soon ..I have been into Genealogy since 1960 and am researching
over 400 Surnames, and being a physically, non-active, Senior Citizen it takes
a bit of time to reel everyone in...
I wish I could tell you more at this sitting but as I find a clue or two I will
gladly send on to you..
Irwin Armstrong's son Francis stayed in Ormstown and married a Stewart, I
believe.. Checking this out...Have all your e-mails on hand in an IRWIN File
and will keep in touch. Thank you for your mail....
Best Wishes...Joy Bell Austin-Tweney...<joybat@sympatico.ca>
Married 15/2/1746-7, Killashandra (ref
PRONI PR):
AM 12/3/1996: found to have married at Killashandra, Jane Irvine, 15/2/1747.
HAP gives her name as Irwin, but there is a marriage in the Killashandra PR between William Armstrong and Jane IrVine, a common name around there. This is very likely the correct one.
Father: David Irwin, sometime of St Croix. Will 1777 Kilmore may be his.
HAP: she was said to have had a large mouth
and thick lips.
Danish Consulate in US Virgin Islands: http://www.dkconsulateusvi.com/inhabitans_pdf.htm
Several Irvines: John Christiansted
17/9/1774.
John William, planter, 3/10/1792.
15 Feb 1788 Curator for underage William Irvin his brother David Irwin and
relatives William Armstrong & James Irwin, of St. Croix, that although he
will be of age soon since he against their wishes married a girl (Isabella
MacGuire) from the states who is sickly by a priest from Tortola on a boat on
the sea, that he not be allowed to have access to his estate until he changes
and shows more responsibility.
Papers in PRO Dublin, D16576-649, T7038-7059, M1936-1986 contain a number of wills probably not relevant, and a collection of estate land papers which may be relevant, said to contain inter alia, Armstrong and Irwin references.
Issue:
Possible PR found at Presb records of Kildallon (Croghan) bapt shown:
1/1. James Armstrong (PR 29/10/1767) ref to illegitimate son
James in will.
PR birth: 26/9/1751.
PR: William Armstrong died Leamington Priors, 13/4/1830, age 78.
Was of St Croix as well as Ireland.
Death Notice of the time (Leamington):
"Died, at his residence in Regent Street, in this place, on the 9th inst,
Wm Armstrong esq, in the 78th year of his age, leaving a wife and child to
lament his death. He was of a noble family in the North of Ireland, and for
many years a principal merchant of the city of London, of which he was a
freeman. Mr Armstrong had also been for a long time resident in the West
Indies, and the Danish Isle of St Croix. His remains were interred on the 13th
Inst.
FROM KILLESHANDRA IRISH CRUCIANS Internet:
before 1780: First person from Cavan County
known to have gone to St. Croix. Purchased Estates Lebanon Hill and Pearl. Also
acquired Estate Mount Welcome and, perhaps, Estate Mount Pleasant.
A number of Armstrongs are recorded as having been in St Croix late 18th
early 19thC in http://www.dkconsulateusvi.com/inhabitans_pdf.htm
15 Feb 1788 Curator for underage William Irvin his brother David Irwin and
relatives William Armstrong & James Irwin, of St. Croix, that although he
will be of age soon since he against their wishes married a girl (Isabella
MacGuire) from the states who is sickly by a priest from Tortola on a boat on
the sea, that he not be allowed to have access to his estate until he changes
and shows more responsibility.
Married Margaret (ref Anna Maria's will):
2/1. James Armstrong, died at St. Croix, leaving a wife and
family. Possibly died St Croix 11/12/1812 (ref Danish Consular web site, US Virgin Islands 10/07)
2/2. Thomas
Armstrong, no data.
2/3. Catharina Armstrong, née Sophia Armstrong, died Puerto
Rico in September 14, 1831.
The last will
of Mary Catherine Armstrong, sister of Ann Mary ArmstrongEC:
dated in September 7, 1831. Mary Catherine declared that she was converted
to Roman Catholicism and in the time of her baptism, she changed her original
name, Sophia Armstrong, to Mary Catherine Armstrong. She was single and never
been married. She also declared that she born in the Danish island of St. Croix
and was legitimate daughter of "Don William y Doña Margaret
Armstrong" (At that time, Spanish equivalent to Sir William and Lady
Margaret Armstrong). Also declared that her legitimate sister Anna Maria
Armstrong-Cuveljé is her only sucessor of all her property. Also, declared that
Anna Maria will inherit all the property left to her by their first cousin, Lady
Mary Grey Egerton (Baronets of Egerton, Earls of Wilton, etc. but I cannot
connect the line yet).
Mary Catherine Armstrong also left 500 British Pounds to Elizabeth, widow of
her brother James Julius Armstrong, who lived at that time in the Danish Island
of St. Thomas. Also left some property to her brother Thomas Armstrong-Cuveljé,
who lived in Great James Street-Bedford Row in London.
2/4. Anna Maria Armstrong,EC
HP:- ...who Dr. William Armstrong said he had the pleasure of meeting at Lady
Broughton's house. She went to St. Croix, and married a Mr. Cuvalie, It is
believed Lady Broughton left her three or four hundred Pounds per annum. Anna's
husband died at St. Croix, and I don't know what became of her or her family.
(Dr William's history is quoted in HP24. A son
of Thomas below.)
M. Abraham M. Cuvelje, of St Eustatius, 1811 St Croix.
3/1. William Cuvelje
3/2. Jane Cuvelje.
3/3. Julius Cuvelje.
3/4. Peter Cuvelje.
3/5. Mary Cuvelje.
3/6. Louis Cuvelje.
4/1. Edward Torres-Cuvelje.
5/1. Amelia Torres-Cuvelje.
6/1. Martha leaving issue
3/7. Anna Julianne Cuvelje.
+ 3 others un-named.
Email: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 00:41:01 -0400 From: EC[ii]
As maybe you know, Anna Maria married (1811) in St. Croix to Mr. Abraham Cuvelje, a Dutchman of St. Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles.
Anna Maria Armstrong & Abraham M. Cuvelje have 10 children:
William, Jane, Julius, Peter, Mary, Louis and Anna Julianne (I don't remember the others).
They came to the island of Puerto Rico when the Spanish Government proclaimed the Royal Decree of 1815 (Cédula de Gracias). Abraham Cuvelje and Anna Armstrong became one of the most wealthy families with the business of coffee and sugar cane plantations. One of his children was Louis Cuvelje Armstrong (in Spanish we use both last names paternal and maternal), who was a large landowner and became Mayor of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico in 1849 and in 1871. He was my great-grandfather. So Mr. Abraham Cuvelje and Mrs. Anna Armstrong were my great-great-grandparents.
Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:15:39 -0400
My maternal grandmother is a direct descendant of Mr. Abraham Cuvelje and Mrs. Anna Maria Armstrong. As I told you, they established in Puerto Rico in 1820 by virtue of the Royal Decree of 1815 issued by H.M. King Ferdinand VII of Spain. At that time, they figured as an untitled noble family in the census, military service lists, government papers, etc.
(The ancient Puerto Rican nobility is recognized and regulated today only by the Spanish Nobility Authorities. As an actual United States territory, the U.S. government neither the Puerto Rico government recognizes it today.)
Mrs. Anna Maria Armstrong died in Puerto Rico in July 25, 1855 and was buried in the Cemetery of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Ponce, Puerto Rico (the cemetery does not exist today). She also always figured here in Puerto Rico as a Roman Catholic (I don't know if she really was Catholic but the place where she was buried can give you an idea of her status, etc).
Note: Mrs. Anna Maria Armstrong was always knew in the city as "Madame Cuvelje".
Curious note: I found a legal document in the National Archives of Puerto Rico, dated in 1831, about Ann Mary Armstrong-Cuvelje, widow (his husband passed away in 1830) who sent £ 5,000 annually to her brother Thomas Armstrong, who lived, in that year, in the courtship of London. (I don't know how many years she sent money to her brother).
Abraham Cuvelje was son of Mr. Peter Cuvelje, Council Lord of the Parliament of St. Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles, in 1790's, and Mrs. Elizabeth Doncker. Abraham has a first wife named Ellen Wildman. They married in St. Mary Priory Church, Lancaster, Lancashire, England in January 5, 1796. Abraham Cuvelje became a British subject in 1799 by an act of the UK Parliament. Abraham had a daughter and a son with Ellen and get divorced. She died in 1830 in England. After that, he returned to St. Eustatius and marry Anna Maria Armstrong in 1811 in St. Croix. This last will have not the name of Anna Maria parents, very rare but not unusual between aliens in Puerto Rico at that time. The last will of Anna Maria is in another book and she made it after the death of his husband Cuvelje in 1830. She was very wealthy, this information is recognized in the last will of Cuvelje. Now, I am looking for the last will of Anna Maria but the books summarizes last wills between 1831 and 1861 without any index so I have to check each page so I can get it. Abraham and Anna Maria had seven children.
PR: 19/11/1757
md. Mary Aletta
Biggs 1784 (HAP).
IRISH CRUCIANS:
FROM KILLESHANDRA
Thomas Armstrong, Sr.
before 1783: Manager at Estate Lebanon Hill
1783: Married Mary Aletta Biggs, daughter of Dr. & Mrs. (Heylinger) Biggs.
Issue, inter alia, 2 relevant lines shown.
2/1. Dr. William Armstrong b. 1786 prob. in Modreeny, Co.
Tipperary, Ireland
d. 1871 Rathangan, Co. Kildare, md. Catherine Mary Taylor
3/1. William Rufus Taylor Armstrong b. 1813 md. Catherine
Greenwood.
Resident of Wisconsin.
4/1. Catherine Armstrong md. James Cady Ellis
5/1. Benjamin
James Ellis md. Miriam Grace Greenwood
6/1. Katherine Melvina Ellis md. Melvin Miller
Rader
7/1. Gordon Ellis Rader md. Ingeburg Antonie
Schmidt
8/1. Kathleen Louise Rader
Lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, m Mr Sittner
- 4 children ages 30, 27, 14, 12 (4/2001)
2/2. Thomas Armstrong, (23/02/1787-3/8/1863),
Married:
Catherine Louisa Cornelius (11/04/1792-5/5/1852)
IRISH CRUCIANS, Killashandra Internet:
1819: Arrived with wife Catherine (Cornelius) Armstrong, dau of Henry Cornelius.
See Cornelius Family.
Bought Estate Lebanon Hill from Dr. Benjamin Biggs. Also acquired Estate Mount
Welcome.
1840: Re-acquired Estate Lebanon Hill from son-in-law Robert Beatty. Also had
Estate Mount Pleasant.
1852: Left for Connecticut.
3/1. Charlotte Cornelia Armstrong (16/09/1821-30/5/1907)
M. 18/03/1847
John W. Culbert.
4/1. Aimee Culbert, M. Herbert Brunswick Harding, d.
30/1/30.
5/1. Ethel Harding, b. 1881,
M. 14/06/1900 Charles Stewart Mott
6/1. Aimee Mott, M Patrick Butler.
7/1. Patrick Butler[iii].
Of Alexandria, Va
(3/2003).
1/4. John Armstrong, 1762 (PR 16/1/1764)
1/5. Mary Armstrong,
abt 1764, who
married John Goodfellow, and
whose son, John, lived with John Armstrong jnr in Chicago.
PR only:
1/6. Elizabeth Armstrong - 3/2 or 27/8 1749.
1/7. Robert Armstrong - 29/4/1762.
Another descendant from Henry Cornelius, father of Catherine Cornelius.
Henry Cornelius.
Parents: Henry Cornelius
born 1795 in Mountrath
Died 1868 in Ballytarsna, Borris-in-Ossory, Queens Co. Eire.
Married (1) Eleanor Fitzgerald 14 May 1819,
dau. of Alexander Fitzgerald, born Abt. 1799 in Castletown,
died 18 Jan 1823 in Ballytarsna, Borris-in-Ossory,.
Burial: Family vault in Mountrath
He married (2) Unknown 1824.
Children of Henry Cornelius and Eleanor Fitzgerald are:
1/1. Henry (Harry) Cornelius, b. 08 Mar 1820, Antrim;
d. 16 Feb 1895, Castletown.
1/2. Ellen Cornelius, b. 08 Apr 1821.
1/3. Catherine Cornelius, b. 23 Jul 1822; d. 12 Nov 1822.
Children of Henry Cornelius and Unknown are:
1/4. Alexander Cornelius, b. Abt. 1825;
d. 16 Aug 1894,
Borris-in-Ossory.
Married Mary Lalor 28 Nov 1854 in Abbeyleix?, dau. of Joseph Lalor and Mina
Large, born Abt. 1836 in Kylebeg House, Borris-in-Ossory, D. 17 May 1916 in
Borris-in-Ossory.
2/1. Alexander Fitzgerald Cornelius born Abt. 1860,
Died 01 May 1928 in Ballytarsna, Borris-in-Ossory, Eire. Married Mary (Emma) Jane Townshend 01 Aug 1895 in Dublin, dau. of William Townshend, born 1871, and died 27 May 1951.
3/1. Emma (Eva) Eleanor Cornelius, b. 13 Sep 1895,
Ballytarsna, Borris-in-Ossory,
Queens Co. Ireland; d. 11 May 1976, Derbyshire; m. John Gillies Shields, 26 Jul
1917, Borris-in-Ossory, b. 01 Feb 1882, Gateside Farm, Galston, Ayrshire, d. 18
May 1960, Isley Walton, Leics.
4/1. Dau Geraldine Shields
5/1. Dau Rosemary (Sheilds) Cryer. Retired after 39 years with the Hudson's Bay Company. Husband retired abt 1998 - a Prison Chaplain. Resident Vancouver BC 2006.
1/5. William Henry Cornelius.
1/6. Henrietts Cornelius.
Sat, 09 Sep 2006 rosemary cryer[iv]
I have found that we have a mutual connection with Henry Cornelius my
gggg-grandfather. My info differs from yours though. I did not do the research
so I don’t know the sources.
I have the children of Henry Cornelius as the children of Catherine Connor-
married in 1791 and then Henry married Elizabeth Orr in 1814. Maybe Orr could
be mistaken for Rogers. What is your source?
If you can reply- I will send you the info I have and maybe we can compare
notes. I come down through his son Henry
and his son, Alexander. Rosemary Cryer
22 Sept 2006.
I am thinking that as Henry’s second wife was a widow, so maybe her maiden
name was Orr and the married name was Rogers. Our records show that the second
marriage wasn’t until 1814 and I only have the actual birthdates on one of
Catherine’s siblings. Obviously there is more research to be done!
9 Oct 2006 22:30:45 -0700
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/r/y/Rosemary-Cryer-Vancouver/
I am still trying to find out who mothered Henry’s son Alexander, after his
wife, Eleanor Fitzgerald died at age 24 in 1823 having had 3 children. It
looks as if it could have been Eleanor’s sister-
a) because as the 2nd son he was named Alexander after Eleanor’s father,
b) Alexander’s son had Fitzgerald as a second name. I don’t think it was legal
to marry one’s wife’s sister which is maybe why I can’t find any records!
As I live in Vancouver, and as the Irish records haven’t survived too well,
I am having trouble finding out if Eleanor had a sister and when Alexander was
born. He died in 1894 at age 69 according to his gravestone so c1825.
I am the granddaughter of Emma Eleanor (Eva) Cornelius through her eldest
daughter, Geraldine.
Visited by A Maitland, 1995.
Originally from medieval times, a Catholic Church on the site of an old fort.
During Reformation converted to Protestants and remained in use until 1841 when
new Parish Church built.
April 2001:
Hi, Antony - I'm glad you answered! I would
be willing to send you a copy of the material I have which was written by Dr.
William Armstrong. It comes from the St. Croix Landmark Society Archives.
Evidently Dr. William sent a copy to his sons, and the one from Thomas John
found its way into the Archives, only minus a few pages (at least). I
understand that much of this information is also in the book, The Dalrymples of
Langlands, a copy of which is in Edinburgh's library if I am understanding
correctly. But I have not been able to get the book or copies of it yet. I've
also been trying to get some other things in Edinburgh concerning Dr. William
Armstrong but, as I mentioned, the researcher I hired has not sent the material
he says he has found. Do you have any idea who one contacts in Scotland
concerning researchers who are disreputable and walk away with your money? He
is supposedly a "Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland."
I'd like to report him!
Anyway... When my daughter and I were in Ireland, we found first went to The
Church offices in Dublin to check for "Rev. Wm. Armstrong" and found
that he was not on their books. Then we found his marriage record - William
Armstrong to Jane Irwin, "daughter of David" - but did not get a
copy. Might you be able to send me one? It's not available here on film. We
were really pressed on time. The old church is being restored, by the way, and
there are still Armstrongs living in the town. We noted that
none of his children were baptized in the Church of Ireland records in Killeshandra and began to wonder whether perhaps this was because he was simply married in the Church of Ireland to make it a legitimate marriage (a requirement at that time) but actually attended the Presbyterian Church. We had to go to Belfast to find the Presbyterian pastors lists and church records. He was also not a Presbyterian minister. But in the Presb. church records of Kildallon (formerly called Croghan - just outside of Killeshandra) we did find the following baptisms of children with William or William "of Longfeld" as the father:
Elizabeth bp. 3 Feb. or 27 Aug. 1749 William
bp. 26 Sep. 1751
Thomas bp. 19 Nov. 1757 Robert bp. 29 Apr. 1762 John bp. 16 Jan. 1764
James bp. 29 Oct. 1767
There are also several Mary's and many children without parents named.
And there are numerous Goodfellow and Keirnan/Kiernan (see below for significance)
and Irwin families, at least three William Armstrongs who were having children
around 1745-65, and including a William Armstrong Sr. and Jr., two other
William Armstrongs, and a "David Irwin & Company" (presumably
because he was involved in trading in St. Croix - see below!) in the tithe
records of 1746-47. Note that the above baptism dates are very close to what we
would expect for the family of (Rev.?) William Armstrong and Jane Irwin as
presented in your records and those of Dr. William Armstrong!
We also found in the Belfast Archives what I believe to be an abstract Of the
will of this (Rev.?) William Armstrong... It was written 31 Dec. 1801 and
proved 16 Jan. 1810, which is certainly not out of the question for someone who
died "around 1808" (according to your uncle's information and my Dr.
William Armstrong's accounts) and whose children had all moved elsewhere except
perhaps for the youngest daughter. He named his wife, Mary (the second wife we
already know existed!) and a young daughter, Sarah, by this wife. He also named
his eldest son, William, "of St. Croix" (and I have evidence that
this William was in St. Croix around this time!), and two daughters including
one we already know about, Mary Goodfellow, and another named Elizabeth
Keirnan. The other sons, unfortunately, were not named. He gave his land lease
at Longfield (which lies just over the Co. Cavan line in Co. Leitrim) and 220
pounds of St. Croix currency which he had received from his father-in-law,
David Irwin, to his son, William, and specified that his bequests were to be
given only if the children remained in the Church of England (Ireland). He also
requested that he be buried in the Church of England cemetery in Drumreilly,
which also lies barely in Co. Leitrim just northwest of Killeshandra. The
church is there in a very idyllic setting, but no gravestone remains for
William or any other Armstrongs... Jane Irwin's father, David Irwin, also left
a will in 1776, proved 1777 in the Kilmore Diocese, in which he is "of
Coramahon" - also in Co. Leitrim, just south of Drumreilly and Longfield
and west of Killeshandra. The will was not abstracted, so we have no record of
its contents.
We also visited the home where John Armstrong lived at Cherry Valley and found
out that someone from the U.S. who is also a descendant through John visited
there last year. But the owners could not find his name and address...
And we visited a fabulous bed and breakfast place in Co. Laois which was actually
the home of Luke Flood, the second husband of my Mary Aletta Biggs, mother of
Dr. William Armstrong. Dr. William lived there between about 1790 and 1800, at
which time he was sent to the University in Edinburgh. That's why I need the
Scottish records....
I have tried to prove all of the information concerning your uncle's write-up
and have found that, for the most part, it seems very accurate. I have no
reason to disbelieve it. In this first generation, the only thing which really
bothers me is the "Rev." tag... If it's true, I think he was not an
official pastor ordained by the church, but he could have been an itinerant
pastor, I suppose. It appears that he was originally Presbyterian but became
persuaded of the Church of Ireland faith, as were his children.
Oh yes - Second wife Mary remarried to a Mr. Flin(n) by the 1810 proving of
William Armstrong's will....
I'd like to go back and look at more of the church records and see if I can
find more information. Also the Belfast Archives. I have a feeling we should be
able to find more, such as something on that Longfield lease. There was another
William Armstrong who OWNED land at Longfield in Co. Leitrim, but he is
definitely not our William. And I certainly hope I'm not mixing up the two. But
with the will, it certainly appears not, because there are too many connections
- David Irwin, money in St. Croix, a second wife, an eldest son William in St.
Croix, a daughter who married a Goodfellow, a death around 1808-9, etc.
I'll look forward to your thoughts and perhaps a copy of that marriage certificate
if you have it. And if you'll send me your address, I'll send the papers from
the St. Croix Archives.
Oh, I almost forgot - My line of descent is:
* (Rev.?) William Armstrong md. Jane Irwin
* Thomas Armstrong md. Mary Aletta Biggs
* Dr. William Armstrong b. 1786 prob. in Modreeny, Co. Tipperary, Ireland d.
1871 Rathangan, Co. Kildare
md. Catherine Mary Taylor
* William Rufus Taylor Armstrong b. 1813
md. Catherine Greenwood
* Catherine Armstrong md. James Cady Ellis
* Benjamin James Ellis md. Miriam Grace Greenwood
* Katherine Melvina Ellis md. Melvin Miller Rader
* Gordon Ellis Rader md. Ingeburg Antonie Schmidt
* Kathleen Louise Rader (me)
I live in Salt Lake City, Utah - Have four children ages 30, 27, 14, and 12.... Kathi
Address: Kathi Sittner
1560 Tomahawk Dr.
Salt Lake City, UT 84103
18 Aug 2002 From: Tom Reilly[v]
Dear Mr. Maitland, I stumbled on your "Armstrong " information site while looking for background on my own [more mundane] Armstrong, Montgomery and Irwin Families. A few loose threads caught my eye!!
Several internet sites mention the 9 gt.grandsons of Johnnie of Gilnockie brothers of Col. William Armstrong 1600-1664 who obtained land near Brookboro’ Co. Fermanagh. Three of his brothers are said to have moved to Carrickmakeggan and Longfield Townlands in Leitrim near Killashandra.
The Godley Papers mention a 1739 Irwin lease for Drumsillagh, Drumbrick, Aghavilla and Kilbracken Townlands These are on the Godley Estate of Ld. Kilbracken as is Longfield and which the Godleys bought from Richard Morgan [once known as Craigstown.]. A summary of these Irwins is in Irish Ancestor 1990, 278 in case you hav’nt seen it. Best Wishes, Tom Reilly
16 Sep 2002
Dear Antony, Many thanks for your Email. I am a retired geologist living in West Cork and Dublin, Ireland. My mothers Montgomery family also are found in the early Killashandra Anglican Church Registers, possibly from William Montgomery son of John christened there in 1746. I also have an Armstrong grandmother from Monoghan with suggested Johnnie of Kilnockie link hence my interest.
Loose threads!!! You probably are aware of all this but several Internet sites give details [not yet checked] of the 9 sons of Col. William Armstrong of Brookeborough. Of these Alexander [1631-1721] is said to have settled at Carrickmackeegan and John [1625-1695] and Robert [1610-] were said to have died in Longfield, both these being townlands near Killashandra but in Co. Leitrim. There is mention of a lease for Longfield of 26/6/1665 [Lawchill] as held by Martin Armstrong, in the Godley papers. The Godleys of Kilbracken took over the Leitrim part [Craigstown] of Richard Morgans estate, who had bought the Craig Plantation Estate in 1734. A paper in the Irish Genealogist mentions the local Irwin family who also held land from Richard Morgan and there is mention of many Irwins in the various Woodford, Arvagh and Killegar Rentals. some probably descendants?
Have you been through these? I will keep an eye out for any Irwin/Armstrong mentions when I start looking at Deeds etc. if you could do likewise for Montgomerys.
Best wishes, Tom Reilly.
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AM08/27
Assumed from PR for Helen's birth. No
further information.
Married:
Issue:
1/1. John Kirk
1/2. Samuel Kirk
1/3. Andrew Kirk
1/4. Mary Kirk
1/5. Helen Kirk
1/6. Margaret Kirk
1/7. Agnes Kirk
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AM08/29 HP28
of County Sligo, Ireland. no other
information about his life.
(ref HAP & John Armstrong 2).
Married:
Issue:-
1/1. Charles Wilson. died January 7/1841.
1/2. John Wilson. died in India about 1845. Never married.
1/3. George Wilson. County Sligo, Ireland.
He married Mathilda Burrowes
1/4. Henry Wilson. died young.
1/5. Marianne Wilson. Married Russell Hunter.
1/6. Eleanor Wilson. Married John Lilly.
1/7. Margaret Wilson. Never married, probably died young
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AM08/31 HP28
Irish, a Justice of the Peace, and Queen's Counsel for County Sligo.
Married:
Born: 1780, Father William Haughton (who
died 6/1780, no further info.)
Died: 1820
Issue:
1/1. Eleanor Isabella Mullarkey
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AM09/63 HP62
William Haughton was of Holly Park,
Leitrim, Ireland. Holly Park was old inherited property of the Haughtons for
generations. Of his marriage nothing is known. He died in June 1780. (ref HAP
& John Armstrong)
Griffiths Valuation Kiltoghert parish (inc Carrick on Shannon, 1834:
Holly Park: appears as Charles Wilson as owner, seems total about 6.5 acres,
most untitheable.
Holly Park listed http://www.buildingsofireland.ie
Location on Ordnance Survey 1:50,000
Sheet No : 33 Grid Letter : G Grid Reference : 956044
Had land in Chaughduff Tullylumion Lismorefir & Bahin Bog
Issue:- (9 in all, born before 1800).
1/1. Jane Haughton. She married John Dickson,
Issue :-
2/1. Mary Jane Dickson, born 1799, died March 6/1866 in
Chicago and buried in Graceland Cemetery. She married John Goodfellow, born in Cavan, the first cousin of John Armstrong. John Goodfellow was the son of John Armstrong's aunt Mary Armstrong, the only daughter and sixth child of the Rev William Armstrong. Goodfellow was a carriage builder.
1/2. Anne Haughton.
She married abt
Oct 1796, William Vaugh, Irish, a farmer, probably son of James Vaugh of
Leitrim. Marriage evidently had broken up by 1821. John Dickson appointed to administer
the lands left to Anne by her father which had been in the name of her husband.
(ref marriage settlement deed of arrangement when marriage broke up)
Issue:-
2/1. Margaret Vaugh, married Sans Pierce,
2/2. George Vaugh, married Margaret Hewitt. Both died in America
2/3. James Vaugh, a trader in produce.
2/4. Maria Vaugh, married Francis Erwin,
2/5. John Vaugh, came to America.
died abt 1846. M. Miss Nichols.
2/6. Launcelot Vaugh, was an engineer and died in 1852.
He married Mary Wilson, daughter of Charles & Eleanor Isabella (Mullarkey) Wilson. She was born in 1821 and died March 10/1876 at Maple Grove, Arcola, and buried in Graceland Cemetery. Further details about her will be found under subject HP14.
2/7. Jane Vaugh, married William McCormick,
1/3. Isabella Haughton.
Married Richard
Jordan, Irish, rank unknown.
Issue (with additions by Tom Colquhoun[vi],
4/2006):-
2/1. Mary Isabella Jordan, b Carrickfergus abt 1803,
Married John
Augustus Reid, b Dublin abt 1796 son of John Reid and Miss O'Mahony. Captain,
4th Dorset Regiment, and was at Waterloo 1815. HAP has John killed at Waterloo,
but census 1851 shows that to be incorrect. In Glasgow 1851. GG Grand parents
of Tom Colquhoun. Nine children.
3/1. Hannah Jemima Reid, M. Thomas Parks
3/2. Maria Jane Reid ( - dec.)
3/3. James Reid ( - dec.)
3/4. Christina Wilhelmina Reid B. Dublin 1828 - dec.)
3/5. Matilda Edith Reid B. Dublin 1831 - 1900)
D. 16/12/1900 16
Battlefield Gardens, Glasgow, age 69. M. James Pollock Browne (B.1835) Gorbals,
20 Jun 1854, son of Mathew Browne and Mary McGill. Married 2nd
Christina McDonald.
4/1. John Reid Browne
4/2. Mary Browne
4/3. Edith Browne
4/4. Jane Reid Browne B. 2 Carlton Court,
Glasgow 12/6/1868
D. 20 Dec 1947 22 Midcroft Avenue, Glasgow, age 79 years M. Peter Gilchrist
Colquhoun St Johns Ch, Sauchiehall St, Glasgow, 17 Dec 1889. B. 109 West
George Street, Glasgow 27 Jan 1863, son of John Colquhoun and Elizabeth Bain.
D. 23 February 1920 No. 19 Dixon Avenue, Glasgow, at 57 years, watchmaker.
5/1. John Colquhoun B. Grangemouth 23 June 1891.
D. infancy
5/2. Matilda Edith Colquhoun B. 18/7/1892, Glasgow,
116 Waterloo
Street M. Robert Ritchie Queens Park Parish Church, 18 Feb 1917. B. Inverkip
1891, s of James Ritchie & Catherine Darroch.
6/1. John Patrick Mitchell Ritchie ( - dec.)
6/2. Jane Reid Colquhoun Ritchie ( - dec.)
6/3. Robert Darroch Ritchie ( - dec.)
7/1. Peter
Ritchie ( - )
7/2. Dawn Ritchie ( - )
7/3. Rodger Edgar Thomas Ritchie ( - )
5/3. Elizabeth Colquhoun B. Glasgow,
116 Waterloo street 5 October 1894. D 6/10/1894 Glasgow, 116 Waterloo Street
5/4. Peter Gilchrist Colquhoun born Glasgow,
116 Waterloo Street 20/10/1895 D. 20/11/1895 116 Waterloo Street
5/5. James Browne Colquhoun B. 31/10/1897
116 Waterloo
Street, Glasgow 31 Oct 1897, D. 11/9/1956 22 Midcroft Avenue, Glasgow, at 58
years.
M. Janet Scott Ritchie Hillhead, Skelmorlie, 01 Jun 1927. Born Langhouse,
Inverkip 23/2/1902, dau of Thomas Ritchie and Janet McFarlane. D.14/11/1989 at
87 years of age.
6/1. James Iain Colquhoun B. 19 Dixon Avenue,
Glasgow 05 Feb
1929 (1929 - )
M. Marjorie Alice Irvine (1933 - 1997)
7/1. Eileen Jane Colquhoun ( - )
M. Victor
Moore
8/1. Christine Moore
8/2. Jennifer Moore ( - )
7/2. Alice Colquhoun
M. John
Chesney
8/1. Kathryn Chesney
8/2. Eryn Chesney
8/3. Glenn Chesney (1988 - )
7/3. Colin Irvine Colquhoun (1954 - )
M. Dorothy
8/1. Daniel Colquhoun
9/1. Brianna Colquhoun
8/2. Jamie Colquhoun (1976 - )
9/2. Connor Colquhoun
8/3. Pamela Colquhoun (1981 - )
9/3. Nathaniel
6/2. Edna Ritchie Colquhoun (1931 - )
M. Hermann
Heinrich Gotthold Clauss
7/1. Jurgen Robert Clauss
M. 1st
Birgit
8/1. Eva Catriona Clauss (1993 - )
8/2. Hannah Janice Clauss (1994 - )
8/3. Karin Clauss
M. 2nd Bernd Blümlein
8/4.Lisa Catriona Blümlein ( - )
7/2. Barbara Clauss (1956 - )
M. Ralf
Dieter Scheid
8/1. Claudia Scheid
8/2. Annette Scheid (1983 - )
8/3. Daniella Scheid (1988 - )
6/3. Thomas Ritchie Colquhoun (1941 - )
Janice Underhill
(1946 - )
7/1. Gavin James Colquhoun (1970 - 1991)
7/2. Jennifer Jane Colquhoun (1973 - )
M. Alan
Masterson
8/1. Aedan Gavin Masterson (2005 - )
7/3. Judith
Anne Colquhoun (1973 - )
M. Angus Forsyth
7/4. Lesley Jill Colquhoun (1979 - )
3/6. Eliza Reid
B. Dublin 1831
M. Hutchesontown, Glasgow, 26 April 1860, James Miller
3/7. Mary Reid B. Dublin 1836
M. Hutchesontown, Glasgow, 1859 David Gray.
3/8. Meica Laura Reid B. Dublin 1842
M. J. D. Porteous
3/9. Isabella Reid B. Dublin 1842
M. James Gregory 1/3/1866.
2/2. Jane Jordan, married Mr Atkins,
1/4. Elizabeth Haughton. She married Oliver Haskin,
Issue
2/1. William Baskin, married Maria Deaker of Dublin.
2/2. Mary Baskin, married Robert Thompson of Dublin.
2/3. Isabella Baskin. Never married.
1/5. Eleanor Isabella Haughton.
She married Sir
Michael Mullarkey,
Issue :- (handwritten: possibly part only)
2/1. Eleanor Isabella Mullarkey, married Charles Wilson
VAUGH
NOTES
http://vaugh.co.uk/deeds/r16.htm
TRANSCRIPT OF A DEED FROM THE REGISTRY
OF DEEDS DUBLIN
Year 1797 Vol 494 Page 566 Entry 337087
To the reg appointed for registering Deeds & so forth A Meml of an indented
deed of sett bearing date the twenty second day of Oct one thousand seven
hundred & Ninety six made between James VAUGH of Leitrim in the County of
Leitrim of the one part & William HOUGHTON of said place Gentn of the
second part & Wm VAUGH & Ann his wife of the third part Recting a
Marriage having been solemized between the said Willm & Anne and reciting
several annuities to be paid to the said William and Ann out of the lands of
Chaughduff Tullylumion Lismorefir & Bahin Bog situate in the county of
Leitrim and also reciting that for certain considerations in said deed
mentioned the said James VAUGH assigns all his right title & interest to
the lands of Mallaghbawn situate in said county aforesaid to the said William
& Anne to hold for the term of their natural life & after their decease
to the use of the issue of said marriage in such measure as the said William
should die possessed of To go to and amongst such children share and all th...
which sd contained several such clauses & covenants ....... thereunto had
... off... & which said deed & meml are witnessed by .... of the city
of Dublin Attorney & John VAUGH Leitrim in the county of Leitrim Gentm
James VAUGH Signed sealed in presence of Jsoai BOTHIER & John VAUGH the
above memorial John VAUGH maketh oath & saith he is a subscribing witness
to the said deed of which the above writing is a meml & saith he saw the
said deed & this meml duly executed by the said James VAUGH who appears to
be executing party to said deed this meml & saith the name Jno VAUGH signed
as a witness to said deed & this meml is the Deponants proper name &
handwriting sworn before me this 9th day of Nov 1796 A master appointed by
commission for taking Affidavits in the county & I know the Dept John VAUGH
http://vaugh.co.uk/deeds/r17.htm
TRANSCRIPT OF A DEED FROM THE REGISTRY OF DEEDS DUBLIN
YEAR 1821 VOL 760 PAGE 252 ENTRY NUMBER 516187
MORMON CHURCH FILM NUMBER 0467069
To the registrar appointed by act of parliament for registering deeds
conveyances and so forth
A memorial of an indented deed of Separation bearing date the second day of
March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one and
made by and between William VAUGH of Rockbrook in the Coy of Leitrim
Gent of the first part Anne VAUGH otherwise HOUGHTON his wife of
the second part and John DICKSON of the city of Dublin Gent of the third
part Whereby after reciting that divers disputes and unhappy differences had
for some time past arisen between sd Wm and Anne and that in
consequence the said Anne had for some time lived separate and apart
from and sd Wm and Anne had mutually consented and agreed to live
separate and apart from thence forward and recitg that sd Wm VAUGH was
then seized and possessed of The Towns and lands of Mullaghbown Upper and Lower
Drumhearney under & by virtue of leases thereof to him made and that the
said Anne as one of the Co Heiresses of her late father Wm HOUGHTON
Esqre deceased was entitled to one undivided fifth part of the Towns and Lands
of Creaghduff Lismorefin & Tullylinmore with there Sub denominations all
situate in the Barony and County of Leitrim and partition had then lately been
made there of and reciting that the said Anne had consented and agreed
to take upon herself the B____th of supporting cloathing maintaining and
educating from thence forward all her unmarried children being nine in number
all begotten by the said William VAUGH and to enable her so to do the
said Wm VAUGH did remise release and for ever quit claim to the said Annes
share or portion of said lands of Creaghduff Lismorefinn and Tullylimnon and
did thereby not only charge the same and the sd lands of Mullaghbown upper and
lower Drumhearny with one annuity or sum of fifty five pounds as and for the
support maintenance and cloathing of the sd Anne and her children and said
Wm did thereby for ever quit claim to all or any property which the said
Anne then had or should thereafter acquire and did covenant not to
institute any suit against her in the ecclesiastical or any other Courts for on
acct of her
living apart from him and it was thereby covenanted and agreed that in case of
nonpayment of the said annuity that it should be lawful for the sd John DICKSON
to distrain for the same and in said deeds are contained other covenants and
agreements and said deed and this memorial are witnessed by Sandys PIERS of
Lisdalkey in the Coy of Leitrim Gent & John LAWDER of Ashfort in the
Coy of Roscommon Atty at law Wm VAUGH (Seal) signed and sealed in
presence of Sandys PIERS John LAWDER the above named Sandys PIERS
maketh oath and saith he is a subscribing witness to and did see the deed
whereof the above is a true memorial and the above memorial duly executed and
saith the name Sandys PIERS set and subscribed as a witness to said deed
and this memorial is the depts proper name and handwriting Sandys PIERS
sworn before me this 2d day of March 1821 at Drumsna in the County of Leitrim
by virtue of a commission to me directed for taking affidavits in said County
and I know the dept John BUSH Comr
A true copy. B CANIEN
Dublin 12/12/05:
O'Hart Irish Pedigree, V2, p26: (National Library)
Armstrong:
The family of Armstrong here recorded, which was a branch of the Armsrongs of
Gallen Priory, King's Co., settled in Sligo. Some of them afterwards settled in
Co Leitrim, and after the death of Robert Armstrong, his family removed to
Newtown Gore, Co Cavan.
His son John m dau of William Irwin (whose son m. Miss Haughton, who had 3
brothers George, William and John).
Son of John: Launcelot,
Son of Launcelot: Thomas b abt 1807.
Footnote: The 3 families of Armstrong, Irwin and Haughton lived convenient to
each other and intermarried a good deal.
Memoires of the Family of Haughton in Ireland, by Rev WB Steele of Enniskillen.
(MS9869)
These Haughtons do not seem directly related to ours, and were Quakers. Wilfred
Haughton was an adventurer who came with Cromwell (listed between 1642-6). He
came from the North West of England, and may be from the de Hoghtons of
Preston, related to Richard Vernon, Antony Maitland's step father-in-law.
Papers in PRO Dublin, D16576-649, T7038-7059, M1936-1986 contain a number of
wills probably not relevant, and a collection of estate land papers which may
be relevant, said to contain inter alia, Armstrong and Irwin references.
DALRYMPLE
FAMILY NOTES
Scottish Record Office: 1/7/93
Also:
Jane Armstrong: b: 25/5/1840 Kilmarnock FR2133
Parents: Charles Armstrong/Alice Thornhill
Jessie Gowlay: c:11/6/1843 Colmanell FR173
DALRYMPLE:
Charles: c:19/10/1721 Ayr FR797
Parents: James Dalrymple/Margaret Ramsay
Glencairn: c: 10/9/50 Monkton FR57
Father: Charles Dalrymple
James: c: 21/6/1752 Monkton FR59
Father: Charles Dalrymple
Charles: c: 28/11/1753 Monkton FR62
Father: Charles Dalrymple
McRae: b: 19/6/1758 Ayr FR386
Parents: William Dalrymple/Susannah Hunter.
Margaret: c: 13/7/59 Monkton FR73
Father: Charles Dalrymple
William: c: 11/8/1762 Monkton FR82
Father: Charles Dalrymple
Williamina: c: 9/10/1804 Monkton FR376
Parents: Charles Dalrymple/Margaret Boswell
Charles: c: ?/8/1790 Monkton SRO606/1FR251
Parents: James Dalrymple/Jannet Dunlop
Charles: c: 11/12/1773 Monkton FR180
Macrae: c: 21/9/1785 Monkton SRO606/1FR230
Parents: James Dalrymple/Jannet Dunlop
James: c: ?/3/1787 Monkton SRO606/1FR238
Parents: James Dalrymple/Jannet Dunlop
Glencairn: c: 26/1/84 Monkton SRO606/1FR222
Parents: James Dalrymple/Jannet Dunlop
Betty: c: 30/4/1767 Monkton SRO606/1FR99
Sarah: b:28/2/1777 Monkton FR180
Parents: James Dalrymple/Susanna Cunningham
CUNNINGHAM Susannah: c: 29/1/1727 Irvine FR88
Parents: Robert Cunningham/Isbel Bennermose
KIRK Helen: b:20/3/1783 Girvan FR258
Parents: Andrew Kirk/Margaret McCuttcheon
OPR Monkton SRO606/1FR99
Betty Dalrymple lawful daughter to Charles Dalrymple of Orangefield was born on
21st April and baptised on 30th April 1767 before the witnesses William
Campbell of Fairfield and Mr David Shaw Minister in Cayltoonn (Campbelltown??)
Baptised by William Dalrymple minister in Ayr.
OPR Monkton SRO606/1FR222:
Glencairn Dalrymple Dunlop natural son to Jannet Dunlop whom she fathered on Mr
Dalrymple of Orangefield was born on 3rd January and baptised on 26th January
1784 and represented by Duncan Good.
OPR Monkton SRO606/1FR230:
Macrae Dalrymple Natural daughter to James Dalrymple esq of Orangefield and
Jannet Dunlop was born on 3rd August and baptised on the 25th September
1785 and represented by Duncan McKelvie was sponsor for the child.
OPR Monkton SRO606/1FR238
James Dalrymple natural son to J Dalrymple esq of Orangefield and Jannet Dunlop
was born on February 1787 and baptised in March following.
Langlands/Stair Park/Armstrong.
Examination of the Records of Sazines at SRO (30/3/94).
Langlands, Stair Park Dalrymple and John Armstrong are covered by many entries,
relating mainly to SPD's mismanaged affairs.
ref Ayr 9962:
The trustees for the creditors of Major General Stair Park Dalrymple of Langlands
seized 7/1/1811 (misc property in Kilmarnock) on Disp of Mrs McRae Dalrymple,
with the consent of John Armstrong, her husband, Paymaster of 7th regiment
of foot, Elizabeth D., daughter of SPD and Glencairn D, his relict. 3/6/1807.
Further property seized 22/6/1813.
Loan by Donald Harrow entered.
In 1816, John Armstrong described as "of Langlands", but during sale
of properties to James Dunlop in 1817 he was "of Cherry Valley".
1819: seized property from SPD to General Alan Dyce.
9487: 19/9/1809: £1500 loan seized to Robert Reid, 20/9/1784, by Capt SPD.
7815: 30/4/1805:
Brig Gen SPD as heir to Sarah Dalrymple of Langlands and Dr William Park MD,
her husband,-his mother and father, seized 6/4/1805 in land, houses and yards
in and about Kilmarnock. on Pr CC by commissions of the Marchioness of
Tichfield 20/3/1805.
OPR: a Stair Dalrymple born 30/7/1743 Inveresk of James Baronet/Dalrymple and
Christian Hamilton (689/8 FR2544).
It seems probable that SPD may have been born surnamed Park, and maybe his
children also. He married Glencairn Dalrymple of Langlands. He inherited
Langlands from his mother's side, who was a Dalrymple. He seemed to have spent
a life fraught with financial difficulties, but seemed to have succeeded in
dying leaving a number of long term, unsettled debts which appear to have taken
John Armstrong about 10 years to sort out.
Some property was only transferred to him in 1805 from his parents, Sarah
and Dr William Park. His property was seized for his trustees in early 1811,
but the entry has a date of 1807 attached.
MISCELLANEOUS BACKGROUND INFO.
Irish Genealogist Magazine, Oct 1945:
Abstract of Wills from Swazey Collection.
Armstrong, Alexander of Carrickmakeggan, Leitrim, Gent.
Dau Sarah, Jane, Wf Francis, Son Martin, Brothers Simon & Thomas (of Ahavora,
Fermanagh).
21/1/1720-1.
Armstrong, Simon of Aghamor, Leitrim, gent.
To be buried at Killeshandra. Brother John & his son Martin, and brother
Thomas & his son Christopher.
Armstrong, Thomas of Ahavore, Leitrim, gent.
To be buried at Killeshandra. Lease of Drumhart, Cavan. Wife Elizabeth & unnamed
children.
4/1/1733, proved 16/7/1735
Armstrong, James of Coothill, Cavan, gent.
Wf Anne (Bradshaw), 3 ch, Valentine, Thomas & John.
Bro Thomas, John & Conway, sister Margaret.
3 daus of John A of Scarvy: Margaret, Mary & Elinor.
Exec. John Bradshaw of Lysabrack Monahan & bro William of Cavin, Monahan. 21/7/1752,
proved 2/3/1753.
Armstrong, Christopher of Gortemore, Leitrim, esq.
Wf Elizabeth, ch James, William & John. Son-in-law William Ingram of Gortemore.
24/2/1753, proved 26/5/1755.
Armstrong, Robert of Carrigellan, Leitrim.
To be buried at Killeshandra (where my dear father was).
Wf Elinor, natural son Frank, brother Christopher.
Exec. William A. esq & Captain Robert A.
2/1/1763, proved 27/3/1764.
Armstrong, George of Pullebacon, Cavan.
Wf Sarah, Son Thomas (<21), Brother John, James Sister Alice.
18/9/1769, proved 1/10/1768.
Armstrong, Alice of Pullakeil, Cavan, Widow.
Son John, dau Alice Clindinning, Sons James & William.
26/12/1769, proved 2/4/1770.
Armstrong, James of Lisgool, Fermanagh, esq.
Nephews John (s of brother Thomas of Castle Balfour) & James.
10/1/1777, proved 22/11/1782.
Armstrong, William of Killbracken, Leitrim, esq.
To be buried at Killeshandra.
Son Simon, Now Wf Lucy (Nicholls).
19/9/1777, proved 3/8/1778.
Armstrong, Nemon of Chapleizod, Dublin.
Military man in Dublin. 27/5/1789, proved 2/1/1790.
Armstrong, Hugh of Derrycheldy, Fernamagh
N/A, 10/1/1793, proved 22/9/1793.
Also reference to a will of James Armstrong of Killeshandra, 1797.
Irish Genealogical Office: Ms111f fol 265:
Confirmation of Arms to descendants of Surgeon Major Robert Alleyne, Indian
Army (?), and to his grandson, James Robert Alleyne, only son of Charles
William Alleyne of SHANNON LODGE, Co Leitrim, Dec 21 1940.
(Shannon Lodge was John Goodfellow's house in 1840's).
Irish Genealogical Office: Ms111c fol 31:
Grant of Arms to Maj Gen William Wallace Kenny 1922.
Younger son of Randall Young Kenny of Killashandra co Cavan, & Anna Maria
his wife, dau & co-heiress of William Armstrong of Kilbraken, Leitrim, and
grandson of William Kenny of Drumboory, co Monahan.
Griffiths Valuations & Tithe Applotments:
Wilsons in Leitrim: none relevant for Leitrim GV 1856
GV for Kiltoghert parish (inc Carrick on Shannon), many Vaugh's & Irwins in
Bellanaboy Village. Some Armstrongs, but none recognisable.
Tithes 1834:
Holly Park: appears as Charles Wilson as owner, seems total about 6.5 acres,
most untitheable.
Haughton, Leitrim: GV nil relevant.
Armstrong, Antrim: GV 1862, Camlin, nil relevant, but much of village owned by
Rev Arthur H Pakenham.
Buried @ Leamington Priors:
John Armstrong 11/8/1830 aged 68
William Armstrong 13/4/1830, age 78.
Irish Marriages:
Rev William Armstrong m. Margaret Tew Marlbore St, Killester, Co Dublin,
Sept 1786.
PRO Northern Ireland:
Killashandra PR:
Microfilm records start in 1735, but are difficult to read until about 1747. A
number of Armstrongs were active in the Surrounding villages.
Page 20:
Marriage of William Armstrong and Jane Irvin (note v not w) 15/2/1747, at Killashandra
and presumed resident there, other entries had place name attached.
No other relevant entries in christenings until 1770, or deaths until 1790
except as follows:
Burial: John Irvin esq of Drumvilla(?), Carrigallen 6/10/1772: Jane's father?
Burial: Jane Irvin of Drumskelly(?) 16/5/1782.
Perhaps as the priest here, the children were christened at Kilmore Cathedral?
Other parts of the parish are Kilmont, Drumkeern, Corlespratten, Derrylane.
Land Records:
Pakenham Estate papers, Crumlin. 14630 acres, £15601 value.
Includes maps & leases by William Armstrong.
PRONI: 13/1/99
Checked:
John Armstrong name card index: nil sig
(references to JA as agent to Viscount Montgomery)
Glenavy for marriage of John Armstrong & Ellen Kirk & deaths: nil
D491/101: Cherry Valley papers: map of property dated 24/11/1801, showing 404
acres on either side of road past site of house (not yet built) & bounded
by river to NW of road. Other papers in file, not relevant to us.
D2051/2: Memorandum of Agreement made this day 9th August 1858 between Rev
Edward Pakenham Armstrong and Mr William McConnell. Mr Armstrong agrees to sell
and Mr McConnell agrees to buy at 1050 pounds all the estate and interests of
his and said Edward Pakenham Armstrong subject to an annuity payable to Mrs
Louisa Isabella Armstrong during her life and to the trusts of the will of the
late Mr John Armstrong esq liable to come into force after the death of the
said Edward Pakenham Armstrong.
(Louisa Isabella Armstrong was widow of EPA's elder brother, Charles William
who died earlier in the year).
D2051/1: Statements to Pakenhams of tree planting by John Armstrong at Cherry
Valley:
16/9/1816, 3478 mixed trees (refer Col Pakenham)
13/4/1822, 9700 mixed trees.
Army Lists for John Armstrong:
1795: Lt 92nd Regt of Foot seniority 31/5/94.
1800: Lt 71st Highland Regt of Foot, seniority 1/9/95.
Lt Col Stair Park Dalrymple 1/9/95, in Army Col 1/1/98.
SPD there in 1805.
1805: JA 7th Regt of Foot (Royal Fuzileers) Paymaster 23/11/1804, Lt 28/8/04.
Re: Armstrongs of Kiltoghert
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:20:33 +1300
From: "Patricia O'Shea"[vii]
Hello Antony. I have just come across your webpage and notice references to
Armstrongs of Kiltoghert, Leitrim. I have a 3xggrandfather, Thomas Armstrong,
who gives birthplace as Kiltoghert.
I have what I think is his marriage and children who lead on to my line but
have just discovered this link to Kiltoghert from his Militia discharge papers.
I'm not sure from your webpage if this is one of your lines - if not, do
you have links to others researching this family? I would love to confirm the
data I have.
Here is the direct line you speak of (working backwards):
Patricia K O'SHEA b 1940 Matamata, New Zealand daughter of Ernest Frederick (O)
SHEA and Maisie Jean CAVANAGH
Ernest b Boyle Roscommon, 1903 son of James Bartley (O) SHEA and Jane Elizabeth
ARMSTRONG
Jane Elizabeth b Boyle, Roscommon 1878 daughter of Francis ARMSTRONG and
Wilhelmina LOANE
Francis b Manchester, England 1845 son of Francis ARMSTRONG and Mary Ann
JOHNSON
Francis b Boyle, Roscommon 1817 son of Thomas ARMSTRONG and Catherine CARNEY
Thomas may be the Thomas ARMSTRONG for whom I have militia discharge papers.
Discharged 1835. Residence Boyle, Roscommon. Age 58 yrs. Birthplace Kiltoghert.
Occupation shoemaker.
All these ARMSTRONGs seem to have strong links with the Roscommon
Militia/Connaught Rangers. Both Thomas and Francis the elder were shoemakers. Francis
the younger was on the permanent staff of the militia and the Rangers for over
30 years.
I have most of the marriage and sibling information etc (mainly from COI
registers at the RCB library) and am presently working on the disappearance of
the sons of Francis and Wilhelmina - I suspect they may have gone to South
Africa for the Boer War perhaps and stayed on there. This is a hunch based on
the fact that Francis' cause of death in 1916 was cerebral malaria, which would
be unusual given that he appears to have spent most of his life in Boyle. His
Army records do not indicate any overseas service so I am guessing at a visit
to his sons in SA around 1910.
In your experience, is there any possibility that he would have left a will?
Wilhelmina died in 1927 in Boyle - I have visited Boyle several times,
frustratingly I find out more after each visit which makes me want to go back
for another search!! I'm sure you know this feeling!!
Irish Trip August 1995.
Visited Cavan, a thriving market town, much changed since HAP's visit in 1905!
Its most notable feature is the relatively new and very attractive Catholic
Cathedral for the diocese. Stayed the night in Killeshandra, where the Rev
William Armstrong was a priest in the 1750's: Captain John Armstrong and his
brothers and sister were born there, between about 1742 and 1765.
The present Church of Ireland Church is a mid 19th Century building on the
Cavan side of town, and is in good repair, with a new sign and some recent
graves. On the road west of the village centre, opposite a large creamery, is
the old burial ground. It contains graves of both Catholics and Protestants.
The burial ground encloses a derelict church with the date 1688 engraved on a
crest above the west door. It was built in the restoration style. It is
overgrown with trees growing out of the walls, no roof and, most extraordinary
of all, several graves in what was the nave and a family crypt. The west end
has a set of steps between floors. The present floor level is well below the
present ground floor.
A side room with a brick vaulted ceiling was off to one side: the caretakers
said that it was said to have been used for gambling and drinking when the
building was in better order (the caretaker was in her 70's and this was a
story relayed from what she described as an old person in the village). On the
west wall was a plaque commemorating James Hamilton of Castle Hamilton. I think
that this was probably the church over which the reverend William Armstrong
presided in the 1750's. The graveyard was very overgrown, but a project is in
hand to restore the whole site: EEC money!
Some graves were visible, two of which were Armstrongs:
John Armstrong, died April 13 1888, age 75, erected by his son Thomas.
Alexander Armstrong, died 5/1/1883, age 68, and daughter Lucinda died 29/12/1913,
age 62.
Also John Sheridan, died 1818.
We picked up a boat at Carrick-on-Shannon. It was another busy town, making
much out of the tourist traffic on the river. The Church of Ireland was not too
old, but had a few graves in it of interest:
William Armstrong, died 17/2/1879, aged 7 yrs & 9mths.
Also Henry aged 1 year.
John Irwin died 24/10/1847, aged 76 + family.
We moored at Leitrim for the night. It is probably not much changed in layout
since HAP's visit in 1905, but considerably more prosperous. There appears to
have been little extra building recently. There is a small recently built RC
church. The main local churchs were at Carrick and Drumshando.
We tried to stay the night on the way from Dublin at Roundwood House in Queen's
County (now Co Laois), which was owned by The Reverend William Armstrong's son,
William: it is now a high class Bed & Breakfast establishment. It was fully
booked, unfortunately.
We moored for the night at Cootehall, from where some Armstrongs came, but the
RC church was fairly new: a notice refered to the refurbishment of the burial
ground.
We passed through Longford on the way back to Dublin: the Church of Ireland
Church was in good repair, but the graveyard had been let go, but was being
tidied up. It was the church for the nearby barracks. We found a Little grave:
The main headstone was:
Annabel Turner died 23/6/1921, age 63
Dau Mary Evelyn Little, died 30/8/1939, age 69,
Husband Walter Joseph Little, died 2/12/1945, age 72,
Dau Norma Learmouth (Little), 28/3/1946-25/6/196
Randolph Irwin Little, 3/8/1951-16/6/1978
A new stone: Cecil Little, 20/4/1992.
Visit to Glenavy & Gartree Churches 24/9/98
Glenavy: only monument relevant:
Large Slate Monument with grave plot surrounded by iron railings, inscribed as
follows:
"Erected by John Armstrong of Cherry Valley, 1819.
In memory of Glencairn Dalrymple, widow of General Stair Park Dalrymple, died
Aug 1816.
Also
Charles William Armstrong, late of Cherry Valley, esq, J.P. who died 8 February
1858 in the 53rd year of his life.
Gartree Church.
The family church of the Pakenhams of Langford Lodge, built in its present
state by General Hercules Pakenham. Now surrounded by disused RAF Airfield, the
buildings of which are used by an engineering firm. The monument to John
Armstrong as seen by HA Poole in 1905 still exists in good condition over the
arched gateway. The church was restored within the past 15 years. The walls
are full of memorials to Gen HRP and his offspring.
Churchyard:
Stones:
1. ARMSTRONG
in memory of Isabella
died 9 nov 1965
James Armstrong Died 9 May 1980.
2. In memory of our dear father Thomas Saunders who died 3 March 1889 aged 72
years.
Also Joseph Campbell our stepfather who died 13 April 1911 aged 54 years.
Our dear mother Alice Campbell who died 11 Feb 1927 aged 77 years. Her dau
Margaret Armstrong who died 19March 1941 aged 71 William Armstrong of
Ballynadrentagh, Crumlin, who died 15 Feb 1966 aged 71
His loving wife Margaret Armstrong who died 25 November 1990 aged 89
Erected by Herbert & Mary Freyne. (not in N Irish phone book!)
3. Hercules Dermot William Pakenham born 29/7/1901, died 2/6/1940
4. Thomas Henry P, Lt Gen b 26/5/1826, died 20/2/1913.
5. Under seat by door, relatin