CarrowhughCeathrú Aodha

Carrowhugh · Ceathrú Aodha, “Hugh's quarter” · Moville Lower, Co. Donegal · 55°13′34″N 6°57′53″W

A family history, from a quarter of land on the Foyle shore

In 1857 a man named John White was farming a holding in Carrowhugh, a townland on the shore of Lough Foyle two miles north of Moville in County Donegal. His son James married Mary Burnside from Muff, and between 1859 and 1879 they raised eleven children in a slate-roofed farmhouse with nine outbuildings. Almost all of those children crossed the Atlantic. One of them, Rose, sailed with her husband George Morrison and their baby Mabel in 1888 and settled on the prairie in Clark County, South Dakota.

This site follows them and everyone else in the family tree: the Dooleys who left Antrim for Virginia around 1700, the Harmons, the Morrisons of the Laggan, and the rest. Each chapter says what comes from a record and what is still family memory, and the research pages show what we are still trying to find.

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Dooley 123Harmon 80Boyett 65Bussey 65Bostwick 60Dodson 60Baggett 60Ivey 58Miller 55Bell 54

The story so far

  1. 1Five generations back to CarrowhughHow the family today connects to a farm on the Foyle shore.
  2. 2Hugh's quarterThe White farm at Carrowhugh, 1857 to 1911, from the valuation, the census and the graveyard.
  3. 3Eleven children and an oceanWhere the White children went, and how they got there.
  4. 4The Morrisons of Kildrum and CarrowhughGeorge Morrison's family, from the Laggan to the Foyle shore.
  5. 5The Dooleys, from Antrim to TexasThe Dooley line as the tree has it, from Ulster around 1700 to Texas.

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