Fergusons of Offaly (King's County')

Census

• 1851 Census of Scotland
  • Name: FERGUSSON, John
  • Address: Friars Vennel (821):
  • Parish: Dumfries
  • Relationship: head of household
  • Marital Status: married
  • Occupation: PLUMBER/coppersmith
  • Age: 38
  • Born: born Tullamore Ireland Household No: 7/2
  • Son: John, age 4, born Dumfries
  • Dau: Helen, age 8, born Dumfries
• 1861 Census of the United Kingdom
  • Farnham, Her Majesty's 41st Welch Regiment, South Camp Aldershot, Kent
    • FERGUSON, J. (or I.?), 25, Soldier, Pvt. 41^st Regiment, Kings Co., Ireland

Civil Registration

• Births

  Name	Father	Mother	Birth Date	Birth Place
  John	Michael FERGUSON	Margaret WARD	21 Jun 1865	Philipstown
  Esther	George FERGUSON	Catherine FENNELL	25 Sep 1865	Parsonstown
  Patrick	William FERGUSON, labourer	Mary KELLY	9 May 1866	Frankford
  	John FERGUSON	Catherine LARKIN	26 Jun 1873	Parsonstown

• Marriages
  • 1849 Aug 21, Church of Ferbane, v 9, p575
    • Morgan Ferguson, 25, full, soldier 89th Regt, Banagher (parish of Reynagh), Samuel Ferguson, farmer
    • Hannah Bailly, 19, minor, servant, Skehanagh (parish of Wheery or Killagally), Joseph Bailly, farmer
    • wit: Nicholas Meade, William Downing
    • Note: this record is crossed out in the registrar's book.
  • 1850 Jun 3, Parish Church Clonmacnoise, District of Parsonstown, v 9, p 558
    • Mathew McGaraghty, full, batch, soldier 29th foot, Shannon Bridge, Mathew McGaraghty, White Smith
    • Elizabeth Ferguson, 18, spin, Shannon Bridge, James Ferguson, prisoner
    • wit: Thomas Pardy, Isaac Gourly
  • 1852 Feb 5, Parsonstown, v 9 p 504
    • Julia Ferguson and James McCoy, Clonmacnoise
  • 1871 3 620, Anne FERGUSSON Parsonstown
  • 1882 1/4 3 477 Mathew FERGUSON, Parsonstown
  • 1882 1/4 3 479 Mathew FERGUSON, Parsonstown
  • 1882 2/4 3 403 Joseph Henry FERGUSON, Parsonstown
• Deaths
  • 1873 Mar 19, Bridget Fergusson of Lisduff, Widow, 92, Bridget Ferguson present
  • 1874 May 7, Phillipstown, Marcalla FERGUSON, Married, 68, A Poor Dialing Woman, Disease of the Liver and Stomach, Wm Arnott GOWING, coroner for Kings County
  • 1875 Dec 18, Phillipstown, John FERGUSON, Widower, 79, Labourer, Cancer of Eye, Mary FUREY, Phillipstown
  • 1883 1/4, William FERGUSSON, 77, Parsonstown, v. 3 p. 524
  • 1889 4/4, William FERGUSON, 75, Parsonstown, v. 3, p. 383

Court Records

Directories

Emigration

• Convicts from Ireland to Australia
  • William Ferguson, 28, 07/03/1849, 10 yrs, Convict ordered to be discharged, 09/05/1855

Estate Records

Family Trees

Griffith's Valuation of Ireland

Land Records

Marriage Lists

Memorial Inscriptions

Military Records

• Registers of Seamen's Services
  • 1862 May 2, Richard James Ferguson, born: Birr

Public Records Office

Document	Name	Surname	Born In	Served In	Age At Discharge	Dates
WO 97/47/12	Leonard	FERGUSON	Kilbride	4th Dragoon Guards	40	1796-1819
WO 97/47/7	James	FERGUSON	Killadora	4th Dragoon Guards	46	1797-1826
WO 97/2777/70	John	FERGUSON	Ceard, Kilbride	44th Regt	b.~1836

Miscellaneous

Newspapers

Obituaries

Parish Records

• Alexander Ferguson chr. 01 Nov 1811 Tullamore COI, s/o Alexander Ferguson, Dumfries Militia and Ann Gordon

Poll Books

Spinning Wheel List, 1796

Tithe Applotment Books

Wills