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BROTHERS WILLIAM ARMSTRONG AND JAMES ARMSTRONG BORN IN SALRY,  CO FERMANAGH . iRELAND,

WILLIAM WAS MARRIED TO  FRANSE  ELENOR GRAHAM REED  IN FERMANAGH CO IRELAND HE REMARRIED IN BOSTON AFTER ELENOR DIED IN 1840 IN BOSTON 

  WILLIAM ARRIVED TO THE US 1832 AGE 28 HE CAME FIRST THAN   THOMAS ARMSTRONG CAME IN 1834 WHO ALSO CAME FROM SALRY FERMANAGH CO IRELAND THAN JAMES CAME TO BOSTON AFTER 1836

JAMES WAS MARRIED TO JANE WATSON IN DROMORE COUNTY DOWN  IRELAND JANE DIED IN BOSTON 1842 OCT. 20 AGE 37 THEY HAD TWO SONS THOMAS 1836 IN IRELAND AND LEVI WATSON 1839 IN BOSTON

BIRTH DATE OF WILLIAM 1804

BIRTH DATE OF JAMES JAN 15 1808

WE HAVE OBIT AND DOCUMANTATION OF THESE FACTS

BUT WE CAN NOT LOCATE THE PARENTS OF THE BROTHERS OR THEIR WIFES AND CONNECTED FAMILIES

PLEASE CONTACT US  THRU MY EMAIL ADDRESS

soncatcher2@yahoo.com

THIS IS LEVI DUDLEY ARMSTRONG GREAT GRANDSON OF JAMES AND HIS SON ROBERT DUDLEY ARMSTRONG  MY FATHER

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Sunday 3rd Mar 2013, 03:06AM

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  • Hello Janet,

    I would suggest that you go to www.rootsireland.ie and imput these names with a wide margin for error on these dates.  From experience it's more than likely that these dates are incorrect.  yes they may be on a tombstone and yes they may have been in the obit, and yes it's possible that they are correct.  But I have found that most people who emigrated didn't have a birth cert or a baptismal cert and hadn't a clue what age they were.  Many people were illiterate and when asked what ages they were in foreign port took a wild stab in the dark.  This has turned out to be the case in so many researches.

    If you go to the irish census of 1901 and 1911, you would have expected people to have aged by 10 years.  However when the old age pension was introduced in 1909 people had to go to parish churches to find out what their birth date was.  That is why people who were 65 in 1901 turned out to be 80+ in the 1911 census.

    All I'm saying is, keep an open mind.  Nobody celebrated birthdays back then so they never knew what age they were.

    The site is free to join and trawl through and you'll only be charged to view the record you want to open.

    Happy hunting,

    Anne K Dennehy

    Sunday 3rd Mar 2013, 07:15PM

  • No shortage of Armstrongs. Attached are baptisms in Magheracross.


    Bob Graham (County Fermanagh XO)


     

    Sunday 10th Mar 2013, 12:35PM

  • Looking for any information on John and Hester Armstrong. We believe they left Ireland, probably Fermanagh, 1875-85 to settle in Canada. Have searched Griffith's Valuation with no success so far. Any other thoughts on where I might search?

     

    Kelly Armstrong

    Ile des Chenes, MB Canada

    K_Armstrong

    Wednesday 3rd May 2023, 05:29PM

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