Mitcheltree parents

Candice, 

The name Mitcheltree is very rare in Ireland. There are only 8 in the civil registration index, and all of those events were in Clogher registration area, so that fits with your information. None of the  8 events relate to anyone born in the 1700s.

You don?t say what denomination the family were but Church of Ireland seems likely. Have you searched the Clogher church of Ireland baptism records? They start in 1763, so you might find some of the family there. Marriage records start in 1777 but there are significant gaps. There are burial records for 1783 and then 1798 onwards. These records are not on-line anywhere, so far as I am aware, but there is a copy in PRONI Belfast. (A personal visit is required to view them).

No Mitcheltrees in Ireland in the 1901 census. No Mitcheltree probate files in PRONI or the National Archives on-line databases. No mention of the family on the PRONI name index nor in their e-catalogue.

Griffiths Valuation records a James Mitcheltree residing in Emyvale, Co Monaghan in 1860 where he had a house, offices, a yard and garden. He was the only person of that name in Ireland listed at that time.

Might be worth checking St MacCartan?s graveyard in Clogher to see if there are any Mitcheltree graves there. Try the Ulster Historical Foundation website. They may have transcripts from the gravestones on-line.

http://www.ancestryireland.com

Research in Ireland in the 1700s is notoriously difficult as there are very few records to research.

Elwyn

Thank you!  Although I didn't find what I'm looking for, I sure did learn alot!  I just have to figure out where to go from here.  Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree in the wrong country?  However, they did list birth country as Ireland on census records so I'm perplexed.  I will keep digging!  Thanks again for your reply Elwyn!!

If I were you, my next step would be to check the baptism records for Clogher Church of Ireland, to see if any of the people you are looking for are listed.

There obviously was a family or two living there for a while. Just that there weren?t many of them in Ireland. Though they don?t seem very common in Scotland or England either. The only other family I could find in the 1841 census was in Roxburghshire, and in 1851, in Leith (now part of Edinburgh). In 1861 there was one family in Dartmouth, Devon.