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The WikiTree Challenge 2023 Challenge 5

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Date: 16 Mar 2023 to 23 Mar 2023
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WikiTree Challenge 5

Organization: North of Ireland Family History Society (NIFHS)

Starting Profiles

  1. William (Millar) Boyd (1931-1977) Northern Ireland & California, US
  2. Henry George Ferguson (1884-1960) England & Ireland
  3. Seamus Justin Heaney (1939-2013) Ireland
  4. John Wilson Kyle (1926-2014) Northern Ireland
  5. Robert William Moore (1952-2011) Belfast, Northern Ireland & Estepona, Spain
  6. William James Pirrie (1847-1924) Quebec City, Canada East & County Down, Ireland
  7. Ruby Florence Murray (1935-1996) Belfast, Northern Ireland

Needs Work

Delete entries if the work is done.

  1. Needs research: Canada records Heaney CC4 Luke McGuckin (1893-1967) has 5 son-in-laws who need profiles/familes.

- Added Peter [Matthews-18170], husband of Sheila [McGuckin-100] {Warren-21178]


Brick wall ancestor

I'd love to know if my Northern Ireland ancestor fits into any lines, especially the seven starting people.

Her name is Rosanna (Fitzpatrick) Duffy, born in Belfast in 1823. Her obit states she "came across the waters with her parents and settled at Albany, NY, where she grew to womanhood." She married Thomas Duffy from Troy, NY in 1847 and "soon after moved west to Grand Rapids, Wisconsin." Thomas Duffy died in 1864 in Fordham, Adams Co., Wisconsin. Eventually, Rosanna moved to Oakland, Freeborn County, Minnesota, with her son George Thomas Duffy, and eventually they moved to Austin, Mower Co., Minnesota.

I can find nothing of her parents or anything before her marriage. I found one listing of a Rose Fitzpatrick who came to the States with a Riley and Mary Fitzpatrick, but have no idea if they are related to my Rosanna.

I'd love to know anything about where she was from in Belfast, her parentage, etc. Thank you in advance!

Susan Mocsny Thomas Mocsny - 1

Photographs

Note: Please check with your captain, Donna Baumann, if there are any questions about the images being protected by copyright.
  • add image link here

FamilySearch Image Look-ups

We have several people that visit a Family History Library (FHL) during the challenge week. Please put the link to the record, the link to the relevant profile, and your WikiTree ID so they know who to give it to.

There are also several of us that have FindMyPast subscriptions. If you don't subscribe to an Ireland site and want a FindMyPast search, just let us know!

Tell Us What You Found!!

Interesting Finds

List interesting finds to share with the guest at the end of the week
  1. Sisters Jessie and Jane Lawson Ormrod (her second marriage) married brothers John and James Andrews Liz
  2. Thomas Andrews b 1873 died on the Titanic 1912 Liz
  3. Elizabeth Wilson (Betty) Kyle Henderson the sister of John Wilson Kyle was inducted into Hockey Ireland’s Hall of Fame in 2006.
  4. New Zealand link to Ferguson: Sir Edmund Hillary, Derek Wright and Murray Ellis arrived at the South Pole in their Ferguson tractors on 4 January 1958. They were the first to do so overland since Scott in 1912, and the first to reach it in motor vehicles. Maureen Ahern
  5. There are now seventeen Notable profiles! Celia Marsh
  6. More sporting connections - George Kyle (not in wikitree for privacy reasons), brother of John Wilson Kyle, was an Ireland Badminton International, his brother in law Noel Henderson was Ireland Rugby International and Noel's brother in law Scott Huey, was an Ireland Cricket International. Scott was inducted into the North West Cricket Union Hall of Fame in 2017. Maureen Ahern
  7. On July 9, 1900, George William Stokes was one of 46 missionaries slaughtered in the Taiyuan massacre, an especially grievous episode of the Boxer Rebellion. He was a successful color printer and philanthropist in his hometown of Dover, Kent England, where he funded and helped to establish free schools for the children of poor families. He became a missionary to China in 1892, and his desire to treat opium addicts later drew him to the Shanxi province in 1896. Jay Menchaca
  8. Eric Manfred Liddell died on his birthday he was 103. (He is 7 degrees from Pirrie-27 Liz
  9. John Montgomery (abt.1730-) appears to be involved in some sort of scam, 1790 in Belfast. John was mentioned in the The Belfast Mercury or Freeman's Chronicle on 3 September 1790 in Belfast, Antrim, Ireland. Someone named Mary Blizzard posted a warning in the paper that John Montgomery of Bunker's Hill was advertising a flat for rent that was not his. It was hers!
  10. Henry Doherty(abt 1839-) 5 degrees from seamus Heaney, was a Nailer(a maker of Nails).Tyner-799 22:38, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
  11. Harlow Barney (1803-1854) (6 degrees from Pirrie) was represented in a court case by Greenberry Lafayette Fort, a future notable and US Representative from Illinois. It was his first court briefing, and he came out on top with the better argument. The opposing counsel? Abraham Lincoln. Selvaggio-84 01:45, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
  12. The inter-related families of Andrews, Barbour and Pirrie have made many notable contributions to the industrial and political life of what is now Northern Ireland, both before and after the partition of Ireland in the 1920s. See The interlinked Andrews, Barbour and Pirrie dynasties of Northern Ireland Waldron-201 13:25, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
  13. Ruby Murray's second husband Ray Lamar was born Raymond Hotchkiss and adopted the name "Ray Lamar" as an adult, probably as a stage name. Ray and his first wife, Madge, both worked as travelling performers during their teenage years. Smith-62120 20:35, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
  14. Starting person Robert William Moore's great-great grandfather John Lowry was a mariner and sea captain for over 20 years (before changing occupations). His first wife's sister also married a sailor and sea captain (William McMeekin). They all lived on the same street in Belfast in the 1870s. William McMeekin became deputy harbour master for the City of Belfast! He held this position from at least 1877 to 1900. His son Edward McMeekin worked as a ship's engineer. Sadly Edward was found dead in Belfast's Abercorn Basin in the afternoon of 6 December 1915. There was no evidence to show how he entered the water. Hmmm... Eric Bain
  15. Starting person John Wilson Kyle's maternal grandparents Alexander Warren and Isabella (Halliday) Warren had seven children. Curiously, on the birth records for their first three daughters, the last name of their parents (Alexander and Isabella) would be listed as "WARING." When their son Alexander was born, "Waring" was also written for his parents' last names, only to be crossed out and replaced by "Warren". The last two children show "Warren" as it should be. This all seems very odd. Both the 1901 and 1911 Ireland Census returns show the family name as WARREN (as do the parent's marriage record in 1898, etc.). This also occurred in multiple registration districts, so it wasn't one sloppy registrar at fault, it seems to have been deliberate (four times). Either someone wanted to change the family name going forward or their brogue was hard for others to understand. ??? Eric Bain
  16. Someone fired a BB gun at the window of Arnold Howard Munnis's house, almost striking him and his mother-in-law in 1940.
  17. (I found this person during the challenge. He might prove to be outside the CC7, and he's on the other side of a brick wall. But he's almost definitely related to Pirrie-27 on his Montgomery line. Sorry about the long story, but it's a good one.) Samuel Cunningham (1768-1796) represented his family's Belfast-based linen business in the West Indies. In 1796, He was in St. Vincent planning a trip home to Ireland. He was only 28 years old; but he had a premonition that he was going to die enroute. So, he wrote his will. Sure enough, Samuel was in a battle at sea when a French privateer attacked the ship he was on - the Portland Packet, which was under the British flag. Samuel fought bravely with the seamen (according to the survivors) to fend off the attack and save the cargo; but he and the captain were shot and killed. Samuel is buried on the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean Sea. The ship eventually made its way back to Ireland. In 1797, Samuel's younger brother William was in St. Vincent, British West Indies, awaiting the arrival of another brother John from Ireland. William wrote a letter home to their uncle James Barber and included a copy of Sam's Will. Sam left generous bequests for each of his parents, all his siblings, the poor of Killead parish, and other named individuals. After his estate was distributed, he was celebrated for his generosity to the poor on an imposing memorial at Killead Presbyterian Church, Clady, County Antrim, with a death date of 18 October 1796. (Brawley-55 17:36, 23 March 2023 (UTC))

Free Space Pages

List of Free Space Pages created for or linked to members of this family.

Military Profiles

BRITISH MILITARY

  • John Murray (abt.1865-) Joined at 19 and was a Private in the Inniskilling Royal Fusiliers. He was in South Africa and Malta. Served for 21 years.

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

WORLD WAR I

New Categories

  1. Bellaghy Cemetery, Bellaghy, Londonderry
  2. Mochrum, Wigtownshire

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Ancestors

Brick Walls

These links will be added mid-week by Mindy and Donna. Remember to claim any brick wall bounties in the G2G!

Brick Wall Ancestors

  1. Arthur Boyd (abt.1800-)
  2. Joseph Bell (1821 - 1896)
  3. Peter Scullion (abt.1830-)
  4. Catherine (Kincade) Halliday (abt.1834-abt.1910)
  5. William James Gallagher (1882-1940)
  6. Anna Eliza (Neill) Montgomery (1790-1875)
  7. Daniel Murray (abt.1835-)

Resources

Please list any resources that you have. We all gain knowledge from eachother!

General WT Resources

  • Editing Tips This page shows basic markup that can be used on WikiTree profiles and Space pages. Please remember not to use tables on Challenge profiles.
  • Example Challenge Profiles This is a guideline on how the profiles can look.
  • WikiTree Browser Extension This addon is great for a lot of things, but the main help for the Challenge is the "auto-bio" button that it puts on the profiles. This will give you basic narrative you can add to. It is also great for adding stickers and cleaning up GEDCOM clutter. Let your team captain know if you need help learning one of these features!
  • The Background Images Category contains pages that you can find a large variety of background images on. Most of them are tiled (repeatable) images.
  • WikiTree+ is valuable for so many things! Here are a few of the search features you can use for challenge profiles: (Go to WikiTree+. In the "Search" section, look at the "Text search" box and then "Text:" underneath that. Leave the ProfileList parameter and change the text at the end to search for different things. You can copy the text below and paste it in the text box. Click "Get profiles.") Thank you Aleš!!
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England
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Ireland
  • Tip: The census records are a good start, and you should be able to find images of all the birth records for each child on irishgenealogy. They have exact birth date, places, fathers Occupation, and mother’s maiden names. Once you get that, you can search for the marriage of the parents, and that gives their fathers names. The civil records are great, but only go back to 1864 for births, a bit earlier for marriages.

New Zealand





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Hello All, I am new to the WikiTree Challenge I do not know what exactly to do but will have fun learning how to navigate the databases!
I have never participated in a "Challenge," so I'm not sure what happens. Will it help me answer a question that has baffled me for many years? My ancestor, David Dougherty (abt 1698 - about 1789), came to America in 1744, from Donegal) with his wife, Polly Scoytt (about 1710 - About 1785), and son, Thomas, and settled in New York. Does the "Challenge" help in discovering roots in Ulster? James Dougherty-2721
posted by James Dougherty
I had this question with my first Challenge. The benefit to your own tree is indirect. For the Challenge, there are seven people for whom we are trying to find connections and to create profiles for those connections. The starting people were selected by the North Ireland Family History Society. Connections could be immediate family and extended blood family, in-laws and their connections, distant cousins, etc. But whomever you add to the tree (for this Challenge) has to connect (possibly in a chain of links) to one of the original seven profiles. You could come across one of your ancestors in one of those connected profiles; but that's not a given. I found that I learned so much about Wiki-tree tools, genealogical databases, and collaborative chat from my first Challenge. That definitely helped me with my own connections.
posted by Mary (Brawley) Fuat