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Hello, I would like to discover details of the wife of Joseph McEwan c1778. They were the parents of William McEwan c1815 born in Tyrone Donaghcedee Ireland from whom I am descended.
regards
Max Bancroft
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William is in a number of GR trees. Get in touch with the 'owners' to find out if they have any info
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Is that Donaghedy, Tyrone?
Where have you found the information you give, please?
I've looked on Ancestry, FS, and irishgenealogy.ie, without finding a William with those details
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for ref
1881
Name: William McEwan
Age: 65
Estimated birth year: abt 1816
Relationship: Head
Spouse's name : Mary McEwan
Gender: Male
Where born: Tyrone Donaghcedee, Ireland
Registration Number: 701
Registration district: West Calder
Civil Parish: West Calder
County: Midlothian
Address: East Street Mossend 14
Occupation: Miner
ED: 4
Household schedule number: 82
Line: 8
Roll: cssct1881_302
Household Members:
Name Age
William McEwan 65
Mary McEwan 58
Robert McEwan 18
wife for pob
Name: Mary McEwan
Age: 58
Estimated birth year: abt 1823
Relationship: Wife
Spouse's name : William McEwan
Gender: Female
Where born: Balmaclellan, Galloway
Registration Number: 701
Registration district: West Calder
Civil Parish: West Calder
County: Midlothian
Address: East Street Mossend 14
Occupation: Miner Wife
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Thanks, Maddie.
Working back through the censuses -
he married Mary Jane Gilfillan in 1840 in the Gorbals, Glasgow.
GILFILLAN
MARY JANE
WILLIAM MCEWAN/FR1309 (FR1309)
17/04/1840
644/2
70 258
Gorbals
Parish record does not name his father.
Where did you find his father's name, Max?
Births of the children from 1851 census as proof of right marriage:
MCEWAN
ANDREW
WILLIAM MCEWAN/MARY GILFILLAN FR600 (FR600)
M
29/12/1844
652/
20 501
Old Monkland or Coatbridge
MCEWAN
JAMES
WILLIAM MCEWAN/MARY GILFILLAN FR626 (FR626)
M
03/01/1847
652/
20 552
Old Monkland or Coatbridge
MCEWAN
MARGARET
WILLIAM MCEWAN/MARY JANE GILFILLAN FR1021 (FR1021)
F
15/12/1850
644/2
50 262
Gorbals
William Mcewan
in the 1851 Scotland Census
Name: William Mcewan
Age: 36
Estimated birth year: abt 1815
Relationship: Head
Spouse: Mary Mcewan
Gender: Male
Where born: Ireland
Parish Number: 644/1
Civil Parish: Glasgow St Mary
County: Lanarkshire
Address: 122 Saltmarket
Occupation: Carter
ED: 8
Page: 17
Household schedule number: 50
Line: 9
Roll: CSSCT1851_156
Household Members:
Name Age
William Mcewan 36
Mary Mcewan 26 - "Galwayshire" - ie Galloway
Mary Mcewan 9
Andrew Mcewan 6
James Mcewan 4
Margret Mcewan 4 Mo
(plus 2 lodgers)
1861 says Mary was born New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire (about 2 miles from Balmaclellan).
1871 says "Balance Cillan", Kirkcudbright.
1881 says Balmaclellan.
Can't see her birth.
ADDED:
William's death cert says his father's name was John, deceased, and his mother was Rebecca McEwan, ms Brown, deceased.
MCEWAN
WILLIAM
71
1887
701/ 15
WEST CALDER
Died 9.30am, 7 Feb 1887, at 14 Earl Street, [something ], West Calder.
Married to Mary Gilfillan.
Cause of death: dropsy.
Informant: Robert McEwan, son.
A tree on Ancestry says his father's name was Andrew, but offers no proof to refute the death cert info.
I can't find John & Rebecca's marriage.
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there are a number of trees on ancestry
William MCEWAN found in 88 trees
William MCEWAN from tree McEwan and Egan 2019
Record information.
Birth 1815 Tyrone Northern Ireland
Marriage 29/03/1840 Bothwell Lanarkshire Scotland
Residence 1881 Glasgow Barony Lanarkshire Scotland
Death 07/02/1887 West Calder Midlothian Scotland
Record information.
Father John MCEWAN (Born 1788)
Mother Rebecca BROWN (Born 1790)
Spouse Mary Jane GILFILLAN (1821-1889)
there are no source documents,info from a tree on family search
trees seem to have copied each other
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I don't know where they are getting John and Rebecca's ages from. Can't find their births, deaths or marriage in Ireland.
Perhaps they're just guessing.
They also have the wrong marriage date and place for William.
No William McEwans married in Bothwell in 1840.
One tree ("My Ryan Family Tree" ) has the correct marriage, but says his father John was born in Maybole, Ayrshire - which seems unlikely, and no proof is offered, though I suppose it's not impossible.
One ( Wallis family tree) has the correct marriage, but gives his father's name as Joseph - no proof.
One says Rebecca was born in 1826 - ten years after she gave birth ?!
One has seized on an 1871 census for an Edinburgh family with parents John & Rebecca McEwan, and therefore given William a lot of completely wrong siblings.
If you're taking your info from other people's trees, Max, be aware that they are largely untrustworthy. People often don't check actual records, but only guess, or copy wrong stuff from other people.
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