I'm looking for any information on John Wilson and Alice Whitefield. I think they are the parents of Thomas Wilson b:1726? and in 1736 from Calahagan, Ireland, Thomas Wilson, John Blackburn, William Delap, Daniel Winter, Patrick Carson and others, located in York County, 1736, coming from Calahagan, Ireland. This has really been a challenge for this Wilson family.
Any information or guidance, would be greatly appreciated.
Julia
PS Moved from Ireland Thomas Wilson; John and Elizabeth Marsh; Joshua and Elizabeth Marsh and children Jonathan, Peter and Abigail-1736 He came over with the Marsh family.
Monday 18th Jul 2016, 09:01PM
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Julia,
The extract you have attached refers to Quaker Meeting Houses. So I assume your ancestors were Quakers? If so, there’s copies of all the Meeting Hosue records for Ulster in PRONI, the public record office, in Belfast. They start in the late 1600s. PRONI has copied all the records at the Lisburn Meeting House which include not only those of Lisburn, but of Lurgan, Ballyhagen and Richhill in Co. Armagh, Grange near Charlemont, Co. Tyrone, Antrim, and Cootehill, Co. Monaghan. They are to be found under the reference code MIC16. In the last century indexes were made of the early registers of monthly meetings and these contain abstracts of all births, marriages and deaths up to 1859. Thereafter, new abstract registers were kept. Another valuable search aid is a list [Jones Index] of every surname occurring in the registers of the Society of Friends in Ireland and showing the monthly meeting in which each name appears. All of these are available at the Dublin Friends' Historical Library.
You would need to get a researcher to go through them for you if you can’t get there yourself.
Can’t help you with Calahagan. I don’t know anywhere in Ulster with that name, especially near a Quaker Meeting House.
Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘
Monday 18th Jul 2016, 09:49PM