John Thomas McCormick (1821 - 1885)

Born 1821 in Urney West, Donegal, Ireland

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret Leitch — married 21 Sep 1853 in Urney, County Donegal, Ireland

Descendants

Died 20 Dec 1885 at about age 64 in Urney West, Tyrone, Ireland

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Biography

John Thomas McCormick. was born in 1821 in Urney West, Donegal, Ireland.^[1] He was the eldest son of Joseph and Elizabeth McCormick.^[1][2][3] He married Margaret Leitch, daughter of Samuel Leitch in 1853 in Urney, Strabane, County Tyrone.^[1][2] He died in 1885 in Urney West, Tyrone.^[1][3]

Research Notes

John Thomas McCormick & Margaret Leitch / (b.1821 d. Dec.20, 1885) (b.1826 d. Dec.28, 1896) / John Thomas McCormick, the eldest son of Joseph and Elizabeth McCormick, married Margaret, the daughter of Samuel Leitch of the townland of Skelpy in parish of Urney, Co. Donegal. They were married by Vincent B. Smyth in the presence of Wm. John Leitch, James Gordon and Joseph McCormick on September 21, 1853. The groom would have been 32 and the bride 27. As their marriage residence is listed as being of Ballought (various spellings), a townland near Sion Mills in the parish of Ardstraw, Co. Tyrone, when their first child was born, it follows that John Thomas acquired land in Ballought not more than a few years before his marriage. Although living in the parish of Ardstraw, they continued to attend church in the parish of Urney, Both husband and wife were buried in the McCormick grave in the "Old Cemetery" of "Urney Church". / John Thomas, as the eldest son, would ordinarily have inherited the Drumbane farm but in many cases the oldest son would not care to wait until the death of his father and could well have worked out some other form of settlement. Marrying and living in the same home as ones parents as well as other unmarried brothers and sisters was not always a satisfactory arrangement. The most likely explanation is that John Thomas� father Joseph acquired the land as he is listed in the Hamilton Rent Books of 1849/50 as to having land in Ballought (or Ballaugh as it is spelled there). John Thomas then acquired the land from his father at the time of his marriage. / John Thomas and his wife Margaret had nine children, six sons and three daughters.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Our McCormick Ancestry. Rewritten and updated by David McCormick. Viewed December 9, 2021.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGVD-XJ6B : 4 February 2020), John Thos Mc Cormick and Margaret Leitch, Marriage 21 Sep 1853, Urney, Strabane, Ireland; citing General Register Office, Dublin; FHL microfilm 101,351.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} McCormick & McCormack Family Notes, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland 1825-69 Extracted from personal notices and items inserted in the Strabane Morning Post & Londonderry Sentinel Transcribed, Compiled and Submitted by Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia. Sep 30 1853. [Married] On the 21st inst., in Urney Church, by the Rev. V. B. Smyth, John Thomas, eldest son of Mr. Joseph McCormick, Drumbane, to Margaret, daughter of the late Mr. Samuel Leitch, Skelpy [Londonderry Sentinel]