The Notice Board
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This is the place for those who want to leave a message for anyone who might visit this site. You might be looking for a lost relative, a former student, an old friend, or possibly just some local information - whatever.This notice board is moderated - i.e. I decide on content. As a general guide: if it is fit to be read by a shy 12 year old, I'll post it. Please be aware that I will have to print your e-mail address so that people can answer. There should be a
Limavady connection in your
message. As new messages are added to the top, older ones are removed
from the bottom, so if you want your message to last for years, you
have to repeat it after a while. Photographs are published at my discretion - with an upper limit of one. People looking for information about their
ancestor, might be interested in the link below, which gives access to
the 1911 Irish census returns for Limavady. |
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16th May 2012
Martin Gleason writes: Hello, I am seeking information about my great grandmother, Sarah Jane
Kane, born 1834-1836, who emigrated to America from Newtownlimavady
between 18491851 and eventually settled in Chicago. It is family lore
that Sarah Jane had some twenty siblings and that a brother, James J.
Kane, who was thought to be the oldest, preceeded her to America and
brought her to Philadelphia. Other siblings settled in New York,
Boston, and Philadelphia. A sister, Margaret Kane, moved with Sarah
Jane to Chicago where Sarah married Patrick Flaherty, a native of
Galway. Their first child, Mary Flaherty, was my grandmother. Their
children, in order of birth, were John, Sarah, Anne, Elizabeth, James,
Joseph, Patrick, Thomas and Charles. Sarah Jane Kane Flaherty died n
Chicago in 1886. We suspect that the father of Sarah Jane was named
James Kane or John Kane, Roman Catholic, residng in Newtownlimavady as
of the 1831 census.
We would be most grateful for any information that would assist us n
finding persons or places related to Sarah Jane.
Many thanks,
Martin Gleason
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21 April 2012 Hi.
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5th April 2012 Images of the Crindle and Myroe
If anyone knows where
I could find pictures of the area around Crindle and Myroe around the
time of the 1911 census I would be very grateful to hear from you.
I know my grand father lived at 13 Crindle Rd at the time of the 1911 Census.
Yours
Tom C. Taylor
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4th April 2012
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24th December 2011
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19th September
2010Hello --
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July 2010 I was born in Limavady 50 years ago and am trying to trace exactly where. My father was in the RAF and we were temporarily housed in a farmhouse called Shanreagh which was where I was born in October 1960. Later we moved to Shackleton Crescent married quarters. I was wondering if Shanreagh Park is where the house was and indeed if it still exists. There were two other families, I believe, that lived on the street, Mr and Mrs Millar with their son Jim, and Mrs Deachon with two children and an elderly mother. Any information would be much appreciated. I am coming to visit next month in the hope I may be able to trace my birthplace. Angela Marshall (nee Green)
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February 2010 It is wonderful to be able to open the web site of Jochen Lueg and view the latest in Limavady--from whence came my grgrgrandfather, Nathaniel McCaughey, to Pennsylvania, USA. Thanks, Jochen, for your up-to-date news of the wonderful town of Limavady, which we visited this past September. June G. Eddins
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February 2010 I
am trying to create a picture of my father's life, he was killed in
Normandy in 1944 when I was 2yrs old so I do
not remember him and would like to know more about his life before he
met and married my mother.
His name was Robert Lee and he
joined the army when he was sixteen as a bugle boy.
He met my mother when he was stationed at
Shoeburyness, in Essex.
When he was a boy he and his two brothers,
William and Joseph, were brought up on a farm at Tamlach by a John Mc
Arthur and his family. The 3 boys were brought over
from Coatbridge after their mother, Sarah Ferguson, lost her
memory after losing a child. I am guessing about 1918 or thereabouts.
Their younger sister remained in Scotland
to be looked after by an aunt. Presumably their father William remained
there too working in the iron foundries at Old Monkland.
Their mother was cared for until just
before she died at Drumacarney, by an 'Aunt Martha' .
She was still alive at the time my father
was killed in 1944.
His brothers William and Joseph lived in
Limavady until they died. Uncle Joe died in 2003, he had 5 children.
I have recently learned that their mother
Sarah Lee is buried in the churchyard at Ballykelly (Church of Ireland)
which I hope to visit one day.
But I cannot locate Tamlach or
Drumacarney, have they been swallowed up and lost their identity as
such.
There is mention of a Drumacarney Bridge
being widened (off the Baranailt Road) but I can find no other mention
of it, or Tamlach.
I would appreciate any information on his
life in the area until he joined the army at sixteen, I believe the Mc
Arthurs were a large family and 'Aunt Martha' had children too so maybe
someone will know the story of the three boys being given a home on the
farm at Tamlach.
Maureen Orford (nee Lee)
Reply to Maureen
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January 2010
My great grandmother Catherine Doherty, daughter of James Doherty and Roseanne (Cassidy) Doherty was born 1858 and came from Cathers Row in Limavady. From what I have to date she also had a brother Alexander who was living in Philadelphia in 1907. And a brother John who was a Pork Dealer in Irish Green Street and married to Catherine?, by 1911 they had 6 children. Their parents James and Roseanne Doherty died 1912 and 1903 respectively and are buried in Row Mill Graveyard in Limavady.The address they lived in at time of death was William Street, Limavady. Their headstone was erected by their grand daughter Anna. Would love to make a connection with relatives or anyone who could help. Thank you. Marie Crowley |
This is a long shot:
Ian Buckley
My father's father left his wife and son around 1932 in Rochdale, Lancashire (when my father was 6 years old). He was born in Rochdale in 1895 and as far as I know from my research he had no family connections outside Lancashire. He was never seen or heard from again by his wife or son. However - it was said that after he left his wife and child he moved to Limavady to either work in or to run a 'pot shop'. I'd always understood that a 'pot shop' was an establishment selling china, though I learn recently that it is an Ulster expression for a bar. His name was Chriss Buckley (that's the way it was spelled on his birth certificate), though he could have been known as Chris or Christopher, I suppose. He was a joiner by trade. So, in order to find out if the family tradition has any truth in it - and hopefully to find out what became of my grandfather - I wonder if the name Chriss Buckley, in the context of Limavady in the early to mid 1930s, rings any bells with anyone reading this.
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24th November 2009
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