Montgomery

Charlotte,

You have done well to get back to 1705. Very few people manage that in Irish research. Killycapple is in the parish of Lisnadill.  Unfortunately they have no church records (for any denomination) for the 1700s. No Montgomeries there by the time of Griffiths Valuation in 1864.

You also mention Port Norris. I don?t know of any place by that name in Armagh (which is effectively landlocked and so unlikely to have any ports anyway). Nearest is probably Mountnorris, parish of Loughilly. No Montgomery households there in 1864. Many of the churches there do have records for the 1800s.

You could try findmypast or Ancestry to search British military records for John Montgomery.

You don?t say what denomination your family were but looking at the 1901 census for Armagh, there were 133 Montgomeries, 41 of whom were Presbyterian, 58 Church of Ireland, 17 Methodist and 8 RC. So that suggests it?s predominantly a settler name. So William Montgomery?s ancestors were probably Scots who settled in the area some time in the 1600s. Could be any time that century but there was a big exodus from Scotland in the 1690s, due to famine there.

I had a look at the Muster Roll for the area around Killycapple c 1630. (Barony of Fewes). There was a Wm Montgomery there, on the land of Sir Archball Atchison Kt, who had a sword & pike, and is described as possibly son of Robert Montgomery who held Edenkennedy in freehold 1622. He was the only Montgomery listed in the area at that time.

Elwyn