Robert Flemming

mugsy:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

I assume your ancestors were Church of Ireland. The subscription site Roots Ireland has records back to the late 1700s/early 1800s for about six of the C of I parishes in Donegal but many of the other parishes have records which start much later. I did a search on Roots Ireland and could not find any records of the two marriages mentioned in your note or the baptismal record for Mary Flemming around 1801. Likely their parish was one of the parishes with records starting much later in the 1800s.

You are welcome to add Robert's (and Mary's) story to our XO Chronicles site https://irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy/ancestor-database  This IRO article may also be of interest. https://irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy/ancestor-database

Roger McDonnell

Hi Roger: Thanks for looking into my post. You are correct, they probably were Church of Ireland parishoners but William Gray may have been Presbyterian and his family originally from Scotland but I cannot prove this. Most of my family, C of I or Catholic seem to end with their births in Ireland. I will look closely at your attachments. My main problem is that I do not know where many of my family were from other than "Northern Ireland" so do not know the county to attach any stories to. Thanks again, Marcia