Looking for McLoughlin/McLaughlin relatives

Heather,

Griffiths Valuation for 1862 lists just 1 McLoughlin household in Drumshane. That’s around the village of Lisnarick. He had plot 1c which was an agricultural labourer’s house and garden. He also had an acre of land on plot 11.

The revaluation records show him remaining there till 1879 when it reverted to the Archdale family.

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/proni

No McLoughlins in the townland in the 1901 census.

I see a Catherine McLaughlin death registered in Irvinestown on 28.12.1866, aged 73. Ann McLaughlin on 7.5.1873 aged 44; & a John McLaughlin 26.12.1879 aged 82. An Anne McLaughlin married a Breen on 9.2.1869. Another on 8.5.1876 to a McCaffrey.

I can’t say whether any of these are your family or in Drumshane but they fit the information you have given, and died within the Drumshane area and you might want to look at them.

You don’t say what denomination the family were but if RC it’s in the parish of Enniskillen. Their records baptism & marriage are on-line on the NLI site. Baptisms start in 1838, marriages 1817.

Hi Heather

I couldn't find any listings of either spelling in Fermanagh in the current Irish phone book

Col

Thankyou so much for both of those replies. If it rains all day tomorrow as expected I will explore the information further.  I will post when dicoveries I do or don't make.Heather

Heather,

You can view the original death and marriage certificates on-line on the GRONI website, using the “search registrations” option:

https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk

You will need to open an account and buy some credits. It costs £2.50 (sterling) to a view a certificate. 

Hi Although I have not had any success in pinning my family down more specifically I now think it is time to visit Irvinestown, Kesh, Lifford and Drumshane to get a feeling for where my great grandfather came from and take a few photos of the area. I am staying overnight on June 21 at Mahons. If there is anyone in the area that could share some hsitory with me it would be good to meet up for a drink. heather

Loved my visit to the area in June where my paternal great grandfather 's wife and child lived when he was transported to Australia in 1849.  Such a beautiful area with the rolling hills, lakes ans cows everywhere (no wonder he stole a cow).  I enjoyed visited the Lifford Courthouse where I was greeted with great hospitality by the woman at the front desk and shown around the cells where James would have been held prior to sentencing as well is the courthouse which is now a cafe.  A local volunteer has transcribed  Assises proceedings from local newspapers and it was exciting to discover Jame's sentencing there.  Would anyone be able to tell me which newspaper this would have been in in May 1848 so that I can see the original. Apparently I am the firdst person to have "claimed" a convict from their records.  I am not ashamed - it was a difficult time in Ireland and this was Jame's only offence.  At the time of his death in 1901 my great grandfather, who took over the lease a dairy from 1858, owned 5 properties, including the dairy, one for each son.  His grandson, my father, was a Labor Minister of the Crown in the Tasmania Parliament in the 1960s.