Ancestor from Drummond,

Lozzdownunder,

There are 5 townlands called Drummond in Tyrone. I think the one John Mulligan lived in at the time of his 1889 marriage was in Aghaloo parish. It is 266 acres in size. In the 1901 census there were 10 inhabited houses and the total population was 29. There were 2 mills in the townland, a scutch mill and a corn mill. (Scutching is  a process in linen making).  John appears to have had the corn mill. That property is/was down a lane off the modern A28 near it’s junction with the Darklane Rd, a few hundred yards from Ballymagrane Presbyterian church (between Aughnacloy and Caledon).

http://www.placenamesni.org

This looks to be John Mulligan in the 1901 census when he was staying with a family in Aghintaine:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tyrone/Aghintain/Aghintain/1726552/

And this looks to be Emily in 1901:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tyrone/Aughancloy_Urban_Aughancloy_Town_in_17_files/Derrycush__part_of__Urban/1724162/

This looks to be John, in Drummond, in 1911:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Tyrone/Aughnacloy_Rural/Drummond/853872/

According to the census, John’s house was near the corn mill. It had 2 to 4 rooms, 2 windows at the front and the roof was perishable, probably thatch.

The Valuation Revision records for Drummond show John Mulligan as tenant of the corn mill (plot 20a) until 1897,  when Alexander Smiton took over. John doesn’t appear in the records after that, though it is evident he was there on census night in 1911. Presumably he didn’t stay too long. The records run through to 1929 but there’s no sign of him in that townland after 1897.

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/services/searching-valuation-revision-books

Birth registration didn't start in Ireland till 1864. If you are looking for John’s birth, then depending on which age you use (50 in 1901 and 64 in 1911), he was born around 1846 – 1850. So well before statutory birth registration.  So you won’t get a birth certificate for him.  You would need to search church records for his baptism. He was Presbyterian and lived very close to Ballymagrane Presbyterian, so that may be where he was baptised, but not necessarily. (Both censuses confirm he was born in Tyrone. That’s all we know).  Unfortunately Ballymagrane baptism records only start in 1851 so there may not be a record for him if that is where he was baptised. However you might find any siblings born 1851 onwards. Aughentaine Presbyterian isn’t too far away so perhaps worth checking its records. They start in 1836. (Copies of both churches records are held in PRONI in Belfast, Neither is on-line anywhere so far as I am aware).

I searched for Adam Mulligan, farmer, but without success. There was no Mulligan farm in Aghaloo in Griffiths Valuation in 1860, let alone near Drummond.  So possibly John’s father farmed somewhere else in Tyrone, and was dead by 1860. (There are no Adam Mulligan deaths, 1864 – 1901, anywhere in Ireland.

Incidentally you say John was married in Ballymagrane Presbyterian. That doesn’t appear to be correct. His marriage was in Dungannon 2nd Presbyterian church. Tradition was to marry in the bride’s church (after which she’d usually attend her husband’s).  So presumably  Dungannon 2nd was Emily’s church.

Hi, thankyou. Your reply is very interesting and useful. That helps me narrow it down. I was about to submit a search form to the PRO for $30 but have to choose a parish. The lock down has given me time to find one other sibling to John Mulligan , a Jane ( father Adam)whom was married in Ballymagrane Presbyterian church in Dungannon in 1889 as well. So this will keep me busy. I have also found a few leads to a family tree on ancestry with a James Charles Mulligan.b 1841. With father Adam. One of the descendents of this tree is a dna match to me. So I do think James Mulligan was a possible brother to John as well.

Lozzdownunder, 

You say Jane was married in Ballymagrane in 1889 “as well”.  Same year as her brother’s marriage but different church. However it does point to Ballymagrane as being the family church at that time. Worth checking for gravestones there and in Aghaloo Church of Ireland (Presbyterians were often buried in Church of Ireland graveyards).

Jane Ramsey (nee Mulligan) died at Drumearn on 7.4.1895 aged 45.  John remarried to Annabella Jeffares, in Carnteel Church of Ireland on 15.9.1900. This is them in 1901 & 1911.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tyrone/Aughnacloy_Rural/Drumear/1723969/

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Tyrone/Aughnacloy_Rura…

Hi, thankyou. It appears finding Jane had been useful as is you explaining the bride's church. I will search the gravestones around Ballymagrane and Aghaloo church of Ireland. Shame that Jane passed in 1895, I see she was older as well when marrying John Ramsey.

Thankyou for you informative response.