Hi everyone i am trying to trace my Great Grandmother she was Catherine Cranney and she married Thomas Mc Atamney, Thomas and Catherine had one child my grandmother Agnes McAtamney. Thomas was killed by a train in Pontzpass on a Saturday evening and after his death catherine took her share of her family farm and went to Australia leaving my Grandmother with her paternal grandmother promising to send for her shortly after that , this would have been around 1910-1913, the only know relation i have heard about was a man called Lenord Malone who lived around the fourtowns area, i information would be greatly received
yours Shane Smith
Shanesmith
Friday 16th Aug 2013, 08:13AMMessage Board Replies
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I wonder if this is Agnes with her paternal grandmother in 1911:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Armagh/Poyntz_Pass/Aghantaraghan/307397/
There?s a birth for a Mary Agnes McAtamney registered in Newry Oct ? Dec 1908, Vol 1, page 695. You can order a photocopy of that for ?4 from GRO Roscommon. It would tell you the child?s parents names and so whether you have the right family.
The revaluation records show that Eliza McAtamney acquired and rented the 6 acre farm in Aghantaraghan in 1904 (plot 61). She bought it in 1909 under the Land Act and her name remains against it till 1919 in the revaluation records when Ivor Monaghan acquired it.
The railway runs through Aghantaraghan and plot 61 is right up against the railway boundary so that fits well with your information about Thomas being killed there. (Chasing a stray cow or crossing the line perhaps?). From the map, the line seems to be on a curve there so perhaps he didn't see the train coming.
There is also a marriage registered in Newry for a Catherine Cranney Apr - Jun 1908 Vol 1, page 925. Not sure who she married though. Thomas McAtmaney isn't coming up as a match.
I wonder if this is Catherine in 1901:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Down/Glen/Ballyblaugh/…
Ahoghill Antrim
Friday 16th Aug 2013, 11:13AM