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Hugh Kennedy Stewart, Born Drumkern, Ballyclog, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, Emigrant to Mitchell, Ontario, Canada

A Sad Tale of Emigration
Transcribed, Compiled and Submitted by
Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
len_swindley[at]hotmail.com

 

December 10 1870 Londonderry Standard

STEWARTS – November 6, at Fullerton, Canada, of scarlet fever, SAMUEL OLIVER, aged 7 years and 9 months; on the 16th, JANE, aged 17 years and 10 months; and on the 17th, HUGH KENNEDY, aged 10 years and three months, children of MR. HUGH KENNEDY STEWART, Fullerton, Mitchell, Canada West, formerly of Drumkirn (sic), county Tyrone

 

Drumkern is a townland within Ballyclog Parish, Co. Tyrone

c1860 Griffiths Valuation Ballyclog Parish Co Tyrone records JAMES STEWART in Drumkern Index to Griffiths Valuation: Ballyclog Parish, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland (cotyroneireland.com)

1826 Ballyclog Tithe Applotment Book records no Stewarts in Drumkern although a ROBERT KENIDY is Index to the Tithe Applotment Book, Ballyclog Parish, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland 1826 (cotyroneireland.com)

 

KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CEMETERY, MITCHELL, PERTH COUNTY, ONTARIO, CANADA
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Photo: Google Street View
The grave of SAMUEL OLIVER STEWART & HUGH KENNEDY STEWART
The grave of JANE STEWART & JAMES STEWART
The grave of ELIZA JANE STEWART (wife of HUGH KENNEDY STEWART)

In Memory of ELIZA JANE Beloved wife of H. K. STEWART, Died Apr 27, 1871 aged 41 years

Photos submitted by Patricia van Horn