James McTeague & Eliza (Morgan) McTeague - Magherafelt - I would love some help finding the family roots.

Hi

Here are a couple of sites that may be of interest to you

 You could try checking the land records called the Tithe Applotment Books (1823-38) http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/home.jsp

or the later Griffith's Valuation (1848-64) http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/

or the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS) https://familysearch.org/

Also this site is very informative http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/

Please make sure you link anyone else in your family who is interested in their Irish heritage to our site - and indeed anyone else you know of Irish heritage.

Go n?ir? an b?ther  leat,

Kind regards,                   

Genealogy Support

Ireland Reaching Out

Hi Geraldine -

Thank you for your help.  I will take a look at those links and see if I can find them.

By the way, what does Go n?ir? an b?ther  leat, mean?

Thank you.

Donna (McTeague) Sadoski

USA

 Hi Donna

Can you give us some dates to play with?

I have just had a look to see if I can find a marriage for these two, but can't find any McTeague/Morgan marriages in the whole of Ireland on the RootsIreland http://www.rootsireland.ie/ site. (NB It is a pay-per-view site so keep your credit card handy!)

Good luck

H

Hi Hugo -

I would love any help you could provide.  Here is what I know.

Jame McTague married Eliza Morgan at St. Trea's Roman Catholi church in Magherafelt on 10/31/1851.

Jame's death certificate notes his parents as Robert and Ellen.  It notes also that he was born in the East Indies but on US census records he notes Ireland as his place of birth.  Est year of birth is 1825.

Eliza's parent were James Morgan and Eliza Badger.

When James and Eliza Morgan were married it notes Jame's last name with the spelling "McTeigue".

I don't know if that was a mistake or the actual correct spelling at the time.

James and Eliza Morgan had nine children.

Robert James -born January 1855

John - born July 9, 1857

James - born January 1858 (my great, great, great grandfather)

Henry G - born 2/14/1858 (the dates for this child's birth don't make sense-I'm still looking into this)

Hugh - born 7/7/1860

Elizabeth - 12/14/1862

Francis Joseph - 11/20/1864

Mary Anne - born 2/14/1867 - died the same year

Mary Anne - born 7/25/1869 - also died the same year

I believe the family emigrated to the US in 1873 according to one US census.

They settled in Wakefield, Massachusetts.

James and Eliza are both burried at St. Patrick's cemetery in Stoneham, MA however due to a fire at the cemetery records office in 1919 I have been unable to find the exact location of their burial.

I believe that Jame's father, Robert may have been in the 18th foot regiment but I have been unable to confirm a military connection.  I think that may be why his death certificate notes his birth as being in the East Indies.

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Donna (McTeague) Sadoski

USA

Hi Donna

Looks like you have a challenge! I have now looked again at RootsIreland to see what I can find and have to say that because of the number of variation in the way that McTeague can be spelled, these are the ones I pulled from the Irish Times .........

McTague

McTaigue

McTeague

McTeige

McTeigue

McTiege

McTige

McTighe

McTigue

Did you find the nine children from your own efforts or were they in a family bible perhaps? If you found them yourself, the surnames were probably spelled like some of the variations shown above. One thing I have learned is that there seems to be no right or wrong way when it comes to the spelling of surnames. When think that back in those day literacy was not what it is today so the person recording a name would probably have spelled it how it sounded.

As a matter of interest, where were the children born?

I don't think I can can too much but others on this forum may. Have you used the Irish section of the RootsChat Forum they have an excellent Help/Resurces section here

Best of luck

H