Thompson Family

Does your John Thompson come from Letterkenny area? I'm trying to add more to my Thompson side who all appear to be within the Donegal-Tyrone area.

Not sure of John's origons, but he was supposedly married at the First Presbyterian Church in the parish of Armagh, Co. Armagh 7 June 1855. He was said to be living at Cloughfine (can't verify spelling) at the time of his marriage. His parents names are given as Alexander Thompson & Elizabeth Liney. I have his children's names and DOB, but this dosn't help with Irish info as they were all born in Australia. 

My Thompson family were recorded at Corrovady (Donegal) in the 1901 Census. My Grandmother signed the Ulster Covenant while in Letterkenny 1918. Her fother was William John Thompson married to Rebecca Jane McConnaghy. William John was the son of James Thompson & Susanna Wilkinson.

The family were all Presbyterian Church of Ireland.

I cannot track the family outside of Corrovady & Letterkenny.  I have recorded as the family of WJT & RJT: James, Margaret,Matilda, David, Robert,Jane (Jennie), Wiliam John.

Do any of these track to your family?

regards

Alan

Hi Alan

It looks to me as though we do not have a link here, but I'm happy to follow it through until we are sure.

The children of John and Jane Ann Cummins (also seen as Cummings, Commins) are as follows.

Sarah, Eliza, Alexander George, Mary Ann, George, Jane & John, all of whom were born in Australia.

John & Jane arrived in Moreton Bay, Queensland 24 Jan 1856, aboard the 'James Fernie'. He was 24 and Jane was 19. They were accompanied by her unmarried sister, Sarah.

I have managed to find a little info about them after their arrival, and last year found John's headstone in the Warwick Qld cemetery.

Our John's father was Alexander, and his mother was Elizabeth Liney, but I haven't been able to find out anything about them. By what I have seen in Ancestry.com the spelling of her name could be quite wrong.

A note in RootsChat in 2005 from another researcher says that she was able to find their marriage record, but in an Irish site I tried, there was no match to the info I provided. 

I have been able to procure George Thompson's birth certificate (he is my husband's grandfather), and it states that his parents, John and Jane, were both born in Armagh, Ireland. At the time of George's birth in 1865, John was 31 and Jane, 28.

All the best

Margaret

If there is a connection it would have to be before 1800 as my Thompson line are still in Ireland till many of the family dispersed to USA, Canada and NZ.

There's a Malcom Thompson in Castlefinn who has a family tree on My Heritage website that may give you a link? Worth a look perhaps?

Regards

Alan

the eldest son of wjt and rjt, james was my grandfather. i have a fair bit of information on the family, more recent than into the past. before corrawaddy the family came from "the raws" Castlefin.

if i can hel[ further please email me

Hi Alan.

My Grandmother was Sarah Ashe from Corrovady,Letterkenny. She married my Grandfather,William Thompson of Sheskin, Raphoe, Co. Donegal.  Cousins of my Grandfathers also from Sheskin all emigrated to Australia and New Zealand in the mid !800s and l believe a couple moved to the USA as well.  My grandmother's Ashe relations also moved to NZ to a place near Auckland called Thames.       

A Distant cousin of mine has a very extensive history of the Sheskin Thompsons, the Fairmans and Mehaffey families on a Website called Thompson of Sheskin,Ramogy.

That sounds like a promising link. My Grandmother, Matilda Thompson,was living in Corrovady when she married by Grandfather , John George Orr Bates, from Carnowen... which is 14 Km from Raphoe.