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Re: [Bann Valley] Introduction--my first attempt to post to the group



Hi Anne.

Just read your posting, John Stratton married to Elizabeth Gilmore connect with my husband's family. They had a daughter Sarah Jane Stratton, married to Charles Bell, this couple had a daughter Elizabeth Bell, my husband's Great Grandmother. Sarah Jane Stratton was born in Londonderry. I don't have any other details on the Ireland side, most of my findings are from Cambusnethan, Wishaw, Scotland. Give me your email address, and I will share my findings with you, they may connect with your Stratton findings.

Phyllis
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Hilts" <hilts@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <BannValley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 2:06 PM
Subject: [Bann Valley] Introduction--my first attempt to post to the group



Dear Bann Valley group, I have been a new member for a couple of weeks
now, and I'd like to introduce myself:

My name is Anne Stratton Hilts in Tucson, AZ, USA.  Our family has
been thinking for years that our Stratton ancestors were from Scotland
before coming to PA, USA in 1872.  I found out recently they were from
Derry, Ireland before removing to Scotland 1847 during the Potato
Famine, and who knows before that?  I'd like some help finding out
when they came to Derry and from whence.  I found my great great
grandfather Thomas Strattom in your church records web site, and I was
SO grateful and thrilled.  He went back home to Derry from Wishaw in
the Glasgow area to marry Nancy Nichol
11DEC1856 at First Garvagh Presbyterian Church after his first wife,
Esther Dobbins, my ancestor died of TB in 1855.  On her death
certificate it said she was born in Gortnamoyagh, Derry, Ireland in
1821 or 22 to Thomas Dobbins and Hannah Blair Dobbins.  Thomas
Stratton's parents were James Stratlin and Sarah Donnly Stratton. I
found a James Stratlin on your site in church records at First Garvagh
Presbyterian Church as a witness, along with John Knox! at the wedding of
John Stratlin to Elizabeth Gilmore 20SEP1833 or 4.
This James might be my great great great grandfather. They were all
illiterate farm laborers, weavers and coal miners, so I have found the
name spelled 8 different ways so far.

Thomas & Esther's son James Stratten, my great grandfather was born in
Derry 16JAN 1845 or 6. So far I have found no record.

Other names I am looking for are my great grandmother, Letitia Shields
Stratton born 3JAN1846 in Donegal County Ireland while it was still
part of Ulster.  Her parents were Covenanters---very Orange!  John
Shields and Oslay or Casaba Brown were her parents.  No records here
either.

Thank you for the help so far of being there on the web.  Please let
me know if you find any other records of my people, and especially
where they came from before Ulster and why.  Anne Feb 20, 2008

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