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

["matt williams" <mattwilliams1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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