Looking for Thomas Gormly and Hannah Stewart

Patricia:

I searched on the subscription site Roots Ireland but did not locate the marriage record. Most RC parishes ( I'm assuming your ancestors were RC) do not have marriage records back to 1815.

Likely your ancestors came from Northern Ireland. Gormley was very prominent in Co. Tyrone.

Have you considered a DNA test? Possibly ypu will have matches that might be able to provide info on the origins of Thomas and Hannah in Ireland.

Roger McDonnell 

Hi Patricia,

I believe I found your Thomas in the 1850 U.S. census of PA.  His wife at the time was Jane, not Hannah, and she was in her 40s while he was 70.

Have you searched all the American records for clues to William and Hannah's place of origin in Ireland? For instance, headstones, wills, censuses, old newspapers, cemetery records, records of their children, etc.  Sometimes the place of origin is found there.

I hope this is helpful.

Patricia

I did a little further searching and found another Thomas Gormly--YOUR Thomas--with Hannah and children in the 1850 census.  Sorry for any confusion!

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LDPT-PTV/thomas-gormley-sr-1776-1…

I found this information on the Lds site, I hope you can connect with the reference as I am having trouble with 404 errors, if you can not access then do a search on LDS , there is a lot of information on the site for your family

Thomas Gormley Sr

Male1776–1854 • Male

Hannah Stewart

Female1786–1855 • Female

• Marriage

  1815Washington Township, Pennsylvania, United States

Children

(6)

Samuel S. Gormley

Male1816–1882 • Male

William Gormley

Male1817–1895 • Male

Anna Gormley

Female1820–1889 • Female

Thomas Stewart Gormley

Male1822–1853 • Male

John Gormley

Male1826–Deceased • Male

+1 More Child

I apologize, I should have taken more time and posted a clearer question. I think I was just so thrilled to find what I hoped would be an Irish source of information on their birthplaces and families in Ireland. Then I could search here by parish or, more likely, county, if I understand the site properly.

What I cannot find is information on the Irish part of their lives. I have several good sources for their lives in the US, but have hit matching brick walls when it comes to their emmigration from Ireland and where they were born and lived there, plus info on their families of origin. 

Thank you for the information about Gormley being a common name in Northern Ireland--his descendant, my grandmother Cordelia McClelland Hoey, was Protestant Irish and always referred to herself as Scots-Irish, so that fits. But I'm not sure what my next step should be--if it's a common name, I'd love to narrow down the search, but I'm not a pro genealogist and not sure where to begin.

I've had several DNA tests done, but they showed descent from people in broader, usually national, areas. They in no way have helped me to learn the actual localities where my ancestral lines made their homes. Perhaps there's a way to find that data, but so far it hasn't appeared.  

Also, one US source lists 2 wives for him, which might be why another woman's name showed up in connection with him. Or, it could be an error, of course.

Thank you so much for your attention to my brick walls. If anyone can suggest a next step, I'll be most grateful. On my other, paternal lines, I was able to easily find immigration records on Geni/Ancestry/My Heritage/LDS/etc. and families of origin in England and France back to antiquity in some cases and I see now that I was just very lucky. I do realize now that I need to improve my skills. I'm just not sure where to go to do that.