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Tullyconnell 192 Tyrone Dungannon Upper Artrea Cookstown Ulster
John Greer | Marriage of John Greer and Elizabeth Nesbit - 1855 |
Elizabeth Greer | Marriage of Elizabeth Greer and James Fleming |
Nancy Ann Greer | Nancy Ann Greer's Baptism entry |
John and William Greer | Letter from John to William Harkness Greer |
John Greer | Photo of Headstone in Nebraska |
James (Tievena Greer) and William Harkness Greer |
Letter from James to William Harkness Greer - 1860 Mentions John's wife is poorly (presumably Rebecca Duff and places James Greer of Tievena as being born in 1775, and an Uncle Samuel). Asking William for money for his brother John. |
James Greer | Born: 1779 | |
James Greer married Elizabeth Harkness, and they had 3 sons and a daughter who were brought up at Tullyconnell, Artrea Parish, Co Tyrone. All 3 of his sons emigrated to America; two of them, William and Samuel when out together in 1837, and married out in America. John remained in Tyrone and he married twice in Co Tyrone, before taking his second wife and family to join his brother William initially in Ohio. | ||
John Greer | |
Father: | James Greer |
Mother: | Elizabeth Harkness |
Born: | 10th Jan 1810 in Tullyconnell, Artrea parish, Co Tyrone |
Died: | 26th October 1896 in Marquette, Nebraska obit |
Buried: | Richland Cemetery, NE |
1st Wife: | Rebecca Duff | 2nd Wife: | Elizabeth Nesbit |
Born | Born | 1827 | |
of Tyrone,
?Coagh
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of Ballygoney,
Co Tyrone
Details of Marriage |
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Died | Before 1863 | Died | 6th May 1890 |
Children | Children | ||
Matthew | b. 1837 | Sophia | b. Abt. 1858 |
Nancy Ann | b. 20 Dec
1841 Batism doc |
William | b. Abt 1859 |
James | b. 21 Jan 1843 | Thomas | b. Abt 1861 |
Samuel | b. Abt. 1863 |
On Nancy Ann's marriage certificate (14th April 1863, Glasgow), John Greer was listed as the father but the mother's name was listed as Rebecca Greer [deceased] Mother's maiden name Duff. James Greer was baptised at Brigh Presbyterian church, as was Nancy Ann. Their nearest presbyterian church Little is known of Matthew or James Greer, they did not emigate with their father and his second family. |
Griffiths
Valuation (1859)
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John Greer | of Tullyconnell, Artrea Parish | ? acres |
Griffith's Valuation (1859) shows the John Greer living at Tullyconnell, in plot 3?. There was a group of houses on one side of the road (where the photo of the cows are), and their land was the other side of the road, and the field shape is still the same. |
Cows standing in the field where the house was | |||
The
field that they leased is still the same shape today (May 2000) as it
was in 1859
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Map showing
the location of the Greer land within Tullyconnell townland, showing
the location of the group of houses and well.
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John Greer, Samuel Greer and William Harkness Greer all emigrated to America and their story continues in |
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