Wanghop family

Sue:

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I checked Roots Ireland, the Tithe listings, Griffiths Valuation and the 1901 census and could find no evidence of the surname Wanghop in Co. Cavan. Did she marry in Ireland? Was the family Church of Ireland or Presbyterian?

Roger McDonnell

There are a few Wauhope families in Cavan in the statutory registers. I suspect that may have been the family name in Ireland.

Looking at the 1901 census, there’s only 1 and they were Presbyterian.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Cavan/Carnagarve/Carnalynch/1053814/

Thank you all so much, its such an unusual name!

I am pretty sure they were Presbyterian, Elizabeth had brothers Hugh born 1821,James born 1823 and sister Margaret 1817.all in Cavan

Elizabeth married in Canada,   

I guess the records dont go back that far?

Thanks again

Sue

Sue,

The only Wauhope (and variant spellings) that I can see in Co. Cavan in the civil indexes all seem to be around the same civil registration area ie Bailieborough. That’s where the 1901 census family lived too. They lived in Carnalynch townland. Looking at the tithe applotment records for 1833 there was a Joshua Whahope farming there.

http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/home.jsp

By the time of Griffiths Valuation in 1865, he appears to have been replaced by John Wauchab.

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=nameSearch

A John Wauhope married Dorthea Orr in 1861. (Their marriage certificate should give you that John’s father’s name).

Their daughter Helen appears to have been born on 3rd Sept 1894 at Carnalynch. Other children I can see in the civil indexes: unnamed female 6.7.1881; James Alfred 30.5.18880; unnamed female 27.6.1879 & William Edwin 25.3.1873. There were 11 children altogether of which 8 were still alive in 1911. Note that one of their children had evidently moved to the USA as there’s a grandchild born there in the 1911 census:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cavan/Carnagarve/Carnalynch/315194/

Several of the birth certificates mention that John Wauhope was a farmer and auctioneer.

I spotted a marriage for Louise Frances Wauhope of Carnalynch to James Alfred Lamb of Wheatfield Co Armagh at Trinity Presbyterian church Bailieborough on 4.10.1894.  One of the witnesses was Emilia D. Wauhope, so a sister perhaps. Tradition was to marry in the bride’s church. So hopefully Trinity is the family church.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_re…

Presbyterians in Ireland don’t use the parish system, and so which church they attend was/is a matter of personal preference and not necessarily the closest to where they lived.  Trinity is also known as 2nd Bailieborough Presbyterian. It only has baptisms from 1863 onward and marriages from 1845 onwards. So not much use for ancestors from the early 1800s.

Other Presbyterian churches in the area are 1st Bailieborough (baptisms 1861 and marriages 1845) and Seafin. That church doesn’t appear to have any baptism records at all, and it’s marriages only start in 1846. So not very helpful. You might find a gravestone for the family and get information that way. If they are not in any of the Presbyterian graveyards try the local Church of Ireland as Presbyterians often used Church of Ireland graveyards.

Incidentally if the family were Presbyterian that generally indicates they originated in Scotland. They most likely moved to Ireland in the 1600s as that was when they main major Scots migration took place.