Pat, You say that you are not sure if the Sarah Taggart is your branch, as everything you have doesn’t list her as a child of Francis & Mary. All I can say is that on her marriage certificate she gave her townland as Liscloon, her father as Francis Taggart, labourer and as you have said yourself he was the only 1 in Tyrone. So it’s a bit of a coincidence if he’s not her father.
Elwyn On 20/08/2019, Len Swindley via CoTyroneList <[email protected]> wrote: > I would be looking at Clondermot parish, Co. Londonderry (contiguous to > Donagheady)for the origins of both the Taggarts and McKeevers, Pat: there > are several recorded in Griffiths Valuation c1860 > http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/ > > Am unable to offer any further thoughts. Good luck > > Len > > Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows > 10 > > From: Pat<mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, 20 August 2019 10:13 PM > To: Len Swindley<mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Thanks/ Ogilby Estate, Lisnacloon, > Donemana,, Co Tyrone > > Thanks Len. The Validation is where I found Francis as he was the only > Taggart in Co Tyrone. Also my Alex McKeever. I know Francis left the Ogilbys > estate in 1877 not sure what he and family did but they immigrated in 1880 > to US. My timeline I’m working on is where were they before the estate? > Taggart is Scot/Irish so when did they come from Scotland? I’m not a trained > genealogist and sometimes I just fumble around 😁. This group has given me > so much help. I’m not sure if the Sarah Taggart is my branch as everything I > have doesn’t list her as a child of Francis Taggart and Mary Brisland. I’ll > keep looking into this. Thanks again for all the leads. Pat > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 20, 2019, at 05:55, Len Swindley > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Pat, > > There are very few surviving records for this estate. Looking at Griffiths > Valuation for Donagheady (1858), there are many labourers’ cottages within > both Lisnacloon Upper and Lower and none of them of great value; most likely > consisting of two rooms, constructed of mud and stone with straw (not > thatched) roofs. > > Referring to William Roulston’s “Three Centuriees of Life in a Tyrone > Parish: A History of Donagheady from 1600 to 1900” (2010) available as an > ebook https://www.cotyroneireland.com/estore/index.php?detailrecid=15 there > is a deal of information covering the Lisnacloon estate. During the Famine, > William Ogilby undertook works projects offering employment to large > numbers of the destitute and starving. In a letter of 1848 he claimed he was > “daily employing 300 to 400 hands representing probably from 1,500 to 2,000 > human beings who would otherwise have starved or been thrown on the rates > [workhouse], so that if I do myself future good, I am conferring a great > private benefit to the county”. Life was certainly tough in the bad old > days. None of the 300-400 labourers would have held a lease on their humble > residences: they were merely day labourers occupying one of the estate > cottages “at will”. > > The estate found itself in considerable financial difficulties in the 1870s > and went to sale 1901-04. Rachel Dysart generously transcribed the sale > papers some years ago and contributed a file to CTI > https://www.cotyroneireland.com/index.html You can locate it at > https://www.cotyroneireland.com/estates/ogilby2.html CTI is a great > website! > > Regards, > LEN Swindley, Melbourne, Australia > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ CoTyroneList Mailing List Mailing List Email Address: [email protected] Change Your Preferences: http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com Mailing List Archive: https://goo.gl/mQCKrY
