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Anne Perry (nee Browne) of Urney Parish, Cos. Tyrone & Donegal Died 1891
AN INTERESTING FAMILY HISTORY
On Tuesday last the remains of the
late MRS. PERRY, Cloughfin, were interred in Urney graveyard. She is the
last of a family who owned immense property over some hundred years ago in
Urney. The first of her family was LIEUTENANT JAMES BROWNE, who owned
Cormikelly, Magheracallaghan, and three townlands of Fearn, and three
townlands occupied by the Young family, Mounthall. It was one of her
relatives who occupied the pulpit of Urney Presbyterian Meetinghouse at the
Seige of Londonderry – REV. DAVID BROWNE. She was of the family of
SIR ROBERT FERGUSON, Bart., by her grandmother, AGNES FERGUSON;
and by her mother, SARAH KNOX, she was the fifth generation of
JOHN KNOX, the ‘Reformer of Scotland”.
Extracted from the Derry Journal,
September 2, 1891
PERRY – [Died] August 30, at
her residence, Cloughfin, ANNE, relict of the late ANDREW
PERRY, and daughter of the late FERGUSON BROWNE, ESQ., Fern
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