Searching for Charles Martin (1815-1887) from Donegal

Dear Deacon Jim Blume:

Thank you for your query to the message board for Ireland Reaching Out. 

We have several volunteers with knowledge of the County Donegal area and I will copy your query to them.  You might give them up to two weeks to reply to your query.  In the meantime, if you have further information that you would like to share, please feel free to do so.

Thank you for your interest in Ireland Reaching Out!

Kind regards,

Jane.

Hi Deacon Jim Brume,

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

I am afraid I mightn’t have much more to offer apart from maybe interpreting the locations of where the Martin family and the Price family would have their Homesteads in the Parish of Clondavaddog back in the 1850’s. It is so far back there would be very few documents available.

I have come to the conclusion that it was Charles Martin that would have come from the townland of DOUGHBEG in Fanad, and it would possibly have been Susanna Price that would have come from another Townland not too far away, called DRUM which can found near the main crossroads in Portsalon, Fanad.

MARTIN FAMILY (in 1858)

askaboutireland - Page showing List of townlands (occupants in Doughbeg in 1858)

Townland of Doughbeg : Charles Martin Family present in 1858 (note: Deeny family living next Plot)

Laneway taking you in to Charles Martin homestead (Roof visible in Google maps)

PRICE FAMILY (in 1858)

askaboutireland - Page showing List of townlands (occupants in Drum in 1858)

Townland of Drum : Thomas Price Family present in 1858 (only recorded Price family in Fanad)

Plot 1 in Drum, Portsalon where Thomas price had homestead back in 1858

How to use site:

1) Visit the askaboutireland.com link (above)

2) Change Map to Satellite (top left of screen)

3) Zoom in to find the Townland.

4) Find the PLOT of land using the family Plot numbers given on the sheet.

5) Use slider to help slide between Historical Map and Modern Map (upper right corner) to see whats there present day.

6) Google Maps - Open an extra page with Google Maps and compare the location in found in one site and find in the other.

I attached the Griffith Valuation Documents and a few slides, I hope this is off some help to you.

Regards Seamus Callaghan