A Lisbellaw Collection - Your replies

Marlene Heggie - June '08

I am a descendent of the NOBLE and KIRK family. Anne (Noble) Kirk was married to William Kirk and their child, John Edward Kirk was born in Dec. 1876 in Drumcramph. Anne Noble (unknown maiden name and possibly Anne Kirk's mother) of Lisbellaw was present at this birth. William Kirk was from Knockninny. The family emigrated to New Brunswick, Canada approx. 1890. Other brothers and sisters of William had left for New Brunswick earlier. Anne (Noble) Kirk was from Scotland, so I understand, but I would be very interested in finding out when and how. I think that other Nobles came to New Brunswick as well. Eliza WALKER married John Kirk, a brother of William, in Ballinamallard.

I have just this month received my Great Grandparents, William and Annie (Noble) Kirk's wedding information. Very exciting to read about Lisbellaw and the Lisbellaw Collection online today. I have devoured every word of this Article.

I would love to know if there are any Nobles living in Lisbellaw at present. Or Kirks?

I would also love to get in touch with JOHN M NOBLE, who wrote one of the previous emails. Do you have his email address? Can you put him in touch with me?

I am very interested in this area of Fermanagh and thanking you for these web pages. Please contact me.

Sharon Davidson (carrothers) - Feb '08
My name is sharon carrothers. I am a descendent of Micheal carrothers. and wish information in this line or if you don't have that anything that is related.

Dee Byster-Graham - Jan '08
Hi, Seeking any person who is decended from the SNOW family who lived at 'Snowhaven' Snowhill, Lisbellaw in the 1700`s, or the DOLAN family of Snowhill during the 18/19th century.

My Great Grandmother, Mary SNOW, married Felix DOLAN at Derrygonnelly, both then immigrated to Brisbane Australia about 1862.

Any help you can give would be most appreciated

Dee Byster-Graham.

Felicity Montgomery - Nov' 06
I just came across an article by Brian Willis about the Carrothers family on the web site 'Your Place and Mine'. I am fascinated by the myriad of memrobilia gathered at the Carrothers' farm at Farnaght. I would be so interested in communicating with Sam Carrothers regarding family history.

My husband's ancestors came from the island of Inishmore. There were many Montgomery famlies living there during the 1800's. My husband's great grandfather, Robert, was born in the townland of Tully in 1834 and his father, James, was born in Tully in 1801. An Andrew Montgomery from Aughy married Elizabeth Carrothers from Farnaght.

Thank you for such an interesting article.

Jeff Fedor - July '06
John Noble - you might want to check out this family tree (the Noble Carrothers)

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~johncarruthers/index.html

My maternal grandmother is a Carrothers and I'm a descendent of Archibald Carrothers (my GGGGG Great Grandfather)

Kevin Taylor - March '06
As far as i know fleames were used for bloodletting from the larger draught cart horses .
these were allegedly thumped into a vein in the neck the idea being that infections could be reduced by letting some off the old blood out and then as the new blood was produced it would reduce the infection .
This was of course long before the days of the antibiotic. Having said that i remember them being used by the vet for this specific purpose many years ago . Anybody who can correct me please feel free to do so.

John M. Noble - Feb '06
Having 9 generations of family living in Fermanagh, I was wondering if Sam ever came across anything on any family with surname NOBLE. My great grandfather, John Noble was born in 1817 in Maguiresbridge - he had a least 2 brothers - Ralph, born in 1811, and Alexander, born in 1818. Their father's first name is unknown and their mother's name was Mary (maiden Haley). They came to Canada between 1818 and 1849.

Jean Henry - January '06
Good to see you Sam, on the net, you do look well, see you at the post office next time.

Beatrice Parke - January '06
Great to see this on the web more power to your elbow as we say in Fermanagh. Seriously though I must congratulate you in helping to promote our village. Bye the way you do look well.

John Mulholland - September '05
This is indeed a Fleam.
The little blades were used to bleed animals from the prominent neck veins.
I am a next-door neighbour of Derek and Pearl Carrothers, Coolbuck, Lisbellaw!

Patricia Carrothers Weber - April 05
I am fascinated by this site and all things related to Carrothers ancestry. I too am a Carrothers and a descendant of Thomas who came to Canada in 1835. I met Iris and Sandra about 1993 I believe at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum at Austin Manitoba, Canada. This is the museum which was the dream of Don Carrothers and is located on land donated by Tom and May Carrothers. Their farm home and yard are preserved at this site as part of a pioneer village but the house is only about 100 years old. Much of the family information I have has come from Esther Carrothers Brown. she has done much research into the Carrothers family in Canada over the years and has been to the farm at lisbellaw on a few occaisions. My husband and I hope to be able to make that trip a year from now. I have in my possession ,a gift from Esther , a small wooden bowl made with a lathe from an old yew tree that had fallen at the farm in Ireland.

Maureen Van Dinter - March 05
I visited Lisbellaw in 1998, spending time at the family home of Snowhill. The current owners were very gracious is allowing us to tour the house and revisit family history memories. My family had lived in Lisbellaw for nearly 200 years: it was wonderful to walk the streets they did.

Ellen Neumann from America has been in contact to mention her family ties to Lisbellaw before an emotional return to her ancestral home. The Dillon link to Lisbellaw and America "We come from Monticello, New York, USA. Our ancestors John and Mary settled 5 miles from here in 1851-52. The name of that town is Mongaup Valley. The older gent in the centre of this photograph is Mr John Dillon. This photo was taken in 1906, 2 years before his passing. He was born in Lisbellaw in 1822 and came to America, as so many others did, because of the Great Famine in aprox 1851. No member of our family has ever returned to his homeland until now. I have a feeling that he would be so pleased . He was the son of John Dillon and Mary Jane Murphy. He was married to Mary Welsh/Walsh. That is all I know about him. I hope that after my trip to Lisbellaw I will know more. His love of Ireland has been passed down through six generations of family and remains ever strong today in our hearts." Lisa Abbasi from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. I had recently been in touch with a DOUG CARRUTHERS from OTTAWA who told me he had been to Lisbellow and visited the CARROTHERS farm some 10 years ago. I then went to my computer and typed in CARROTHERS from LISBELLOW and magically came across this wonderful site. I have been researching my family history for the past few years and am now focusing on my Carruthers / Carrothers line. I believe I'm connected to this line from Lisbellow and London, Ontario, but am not sure for certain. My ggg grandfather was NOBLE CARROTHERS b. abt. 1809 in Bracky, Fermanagh Co., Ireland and came to settle in the Ottawa area in approx 1836. One of his sons EDWARD (MY gg grandfather) ended up moving to MANITOBA. Most of my information comes from John Carruthers of Victoria BC who is also descended from Noble and who has done extensive work on the family tree. I'm now in the process of researching Ontario records and Ireland records through the LDS Family history centre and the Ontario archives. I'm also considering writing to the Ireland Archives in Belfast to see if they possibly have any information. At the very least hopefully a copy of his marriage registration from APRIL 15, 1836 in DERRYVULLEN. If you have any advice or can point me in the right direction to where I can locate any records, it would be greatly appreciated. Look forward to hearing from you.