I am having a lot of trouble finding information on my ancestors the Mortons from Boyle/Arcarne, Roscommon and would appreciate some assistance as I live in Sydney, Australia. I visited Boyle a few weeks back and I have also had a report completed by "County Roscommon Heritage and Genealogy CXompany" but with little new information.
What I have to date is as follows:
Edward Morton (B: 1833 in or near Boyle) son of Felix and Mary Morton. Edward joined the Irish Revenue Police in 1852 in Boyle before resiging in 1855 (he replaced Thomas Cathcart in Revenue party 55 on Thursday 26 May 1852 was deemed to be a first class private on 23 May 1853 and he relinquished his service on 9th October 1855.) and emigrating to Melbourne, Australia on the "Schomberg" joining the victorian police force.
Tithe Applotment Books 1834 have Felix Morton on the land at Cloontikilly [possibly now Cloontikilla], Ardcarne, Roscommon. The Irish Reproductive Loan Fund have Philix Morton as guarantor No 2 of a loan, at Errirona, Roscommon in 1846. Then Felix Moreton applies for an Irish Poverty Relief Loan at Errironagh, Ardcarne in 1847. In 1853 Phelix Morton is a defendant at a Petty Court Session at Cootehall, address and occupation given as yeoman of Errerona, Ardcarn. Found guilty of having a pig wandering a public road!! various spellings of names and places evident. The family appear to have been tenanted farmers at Lord Lorton's Estate during the famine years.
Edward Morton
DJMOz
Monday 15th Oct 2018, 11:01AMMessage Board Replies
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Edward:
Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!
You don't mention the religious denomination for your Mortons but I will assume RC. The RC records for Ardcarn/Cootehall parish do not start until 1843 which may explain why the subscription site Roots Ireland does not have any records for your family.
The 1855 Griffiths Valuation head of household listings for Ardcarn and Boyle civil parishes do not show Felix. The only Morton was a William Morton in Knockarush townland in Boyle civil parish.
https://www.failteromhat.com/griffiths/roscommon/boyle.htm
Civil registration of deaths started in 1864. I searched on the free site www.irishgenealogy.ie from 1864-1900 and there were no death records for Felix or Mary Morton.
Possibly Felix had died somewhere between 1853 and 1855. Is it possible that Felix and Mary and Mary went to Australia?
You may want to add Edward's story to our XO Chronicles site and possibly someone will see a connection. https://www.irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy/ancestor-dat…
Have you considered DNA testing?
Roger McDonnell
Castlemore Roscommon, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘
Monday 15th Oct 2018, 04:22PM -
Dear Roger,
Thank you very much.
They were Catholics.
To our knowledge they did not emigrate. I guess they could have moved to a different township or even County??
I will post on the XO Chronicles site as you suggest in the hope someone might respond.
I have completed an Ancestry DNA test.
Many thanks again,
Dennis.
DJMOz
Monday 15th Oct 2018, 11:50PM -
Hi Dennis!
You may want to consider adding your raw Ancestry DNA data to Gedmatch www.gedmatch.com Gedmatch is a volunteer run site where you can load your data and see if you match someone who tested with another company and also loaded their data to Gedmatch. It expands your matchuing pool.
I searched the Griffiths Valuation for Felix Morton for all of Ireland and got "no record". Possibly his land holding was small and therefore not captured in the Griffiths.
I searched for Felix Morton death records for all of Ireland (not just the Boyle registration district) and got "no record".
Roger
Castlemore Roscommon, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘
Tuesday 16th Oct 2018, 08:13PM -
Dear Roger,
Thank you yet again for your new searches. It is frustrating to not find anything but I will continue where I can.
Many thanks,
Dennis.
DJMOz
Wednesday 17th Oct 2018, 12:22AM -
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