Petitions of Insolvent Debtors Court, Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland July 1839
Extracted from Perry’s Bankrupt Gazette; August 3 1839
Transcribed, compiled and submitted by Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
len_swindley[at]hotmail.com
Petitions for relief from insolvency scheduled to be heard at Omagh, Co. Tyrone, July 13, 1839
[Bankrupts were detained in the Omagh Debtors’ Gaol until outstanding debts had been cleared to the satisfaction of creditors]
Many names and former places of residence are spelt phonetically, so a reasonable degree of creativity is required to locate a possible forebear
INSOLVENT DEBTORS
| SURNAME | GIVEN NAME | FORMER RESIDENCE | OCCUPATION |
| BAIRD | James | Fintona | merchant |
| BLACK | Robert | Ballybray | weaver |
| BRIEN | John | Trillick | butcher |
| BURUS | James | Upper Back | farmer |
| CARDLE | Anne | Ballywhillen | widow |
| DEVLIN | Hugh | Mullaghatague | farmer |
| DICKSON | Samuel | Tonagon | road contractor |
| DONNELLY | John | Strabane | weaver |
| DUNLOP | Alexander | Beagh | carpenter |
| FERGUSON | Robert | Killycurragh | blacksmith |
| HAMILTON | Robert | Carnalea | labourer |
| HARTLY | George | Omagh | innkeeper |
| HOLLIS | George | Longridge | pensioner |
| HUNTER | John Charles, jun. | Long Back | farmer |
| JOHNSTON | John | Lislain | farmer |
| JOHNSTON | John | Lislain | farmer |
| KANE | Denis | Dungarvan | publican |
| KANE | Denis | Dungarvan | publican |
| McALEER | John | Shepperd Lees | farmer |
| McCALLION | Thomas | Annagher | labourer |
| McCLEAN | Thomas | Omagh | pensioner |
| McCLUNG | Charles | Skelga | cattle dealer |
| McCUSKER | Edward | Aughadulla | farmer |
| McELVAIN | Benjamin | Moneymore | nailor |
| McELVOGUE | James | Dervernagh | farmer |
| McKENZIE | Hugh | Carnan | weaver |
| McKEOWN | Hugh | Turkvallin | labourer |
| McKERNAN | Rose | Tomagh | farmer |
| McKINNEY | Conn | Attaghmore | weaver |
| McKINNEY | James | Tatnagilta | farmer |
| McSORLEY | Hugh | Drumoain | farmer |
| MONAGHAN | Peter | Newtownstewart | merchant |
| MOORHEAD | John | Knockrow | labourer |
| MORRIS | Denis | Gallon | farmer |
| O’NEILL | John | Anaghmore | labourer |
| OWENS | Christopher | Prolisk | farmer |
| PARK | William | Castletown | carpenter |
| RAMSAY | James | Drumsonis | labourer |
| STEWART | John | Dromore | labourer |
| STEWART | William | Killymore | farmer |
| VAUGHAN | Robert | Newtownstewart | yarn merchant |
| WALES | Hugh | Drumconviss | linen manufacturer |
| WALKER | Matthew | Augher | pensioner |
| WHITE | William | Cookstown | merchant |