Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Historic Counties of G.B and Ireland

Here is a link to a map of the Counties of Great Britain and Ireland that may be useful in your research.

Counties Map

Monday, January 8, 2007

James Hadden of Dunmacmay, County Tyrone

Hello there
I am Christine Baines (nee Hadden) – a descendant of James Hadden (my great great grandfather), of Dunmacmay, County Tyrone who was born in 1810 and died 1874 (a farmer).
His wife was Margaret Stewart Hadden born 1817 died 1892.
Children of James and Margaret are:

Samuel Hadden born 1841 died 1922
William Hadden born 1844 died 1921
Lilly Jane Hadden born 1846 died 1884
James Hadden born 1850 died 1911
Mary Jane Hadden born 1851
Margaret Hadden born 1852
John Hadden born 1852 died 1917 Boston, USA
Sarah Hadden born 1859 died 1886
Fanny Hadden born 1860 died 1935 Boston USA

Many of the above are buried in Minterburn Presbyterian Church Cemetry, County Tyrone.

Samuel Hadden’s wife was Louisa Langford born abt 1841 in Dockhead, Surrey, England. (my great grandparents).
They married 1870 in the Parish of St Mark, Old Street, Shoreditch, London where Samuel was working as a city missionary.
Louisa died in 1910 in Belfast .
Rev. Samuel spent many years as Superintendent of the East Belfast Mission at 99 Euston Street, Ballymacarrett, Belfast working amongst the poor people.

His obituary:

The death is announced of Rev. Samuel Hadden , who was for a number of years minister of the Independent Church of Donaghy.
On his removal to Belfast the church was closed .Mr. Hadden,had,since then,been an active and useful minister of the Congregational Church. He rendered great and untiring service in connectionwith the successful East End mission and was greatly beloved by all associated with him, whether as fellow-workers or the many who benefited by his ministrations and constant efforts of the welfare of those in suffering and distress.

James HADDEN Descendants

Below is a link to a PDF file showing the descendants of James Hadden (b.1809 in Dunmacmay, Tyrone).
Descendants settled in Tyrone, Yorkshire, U.K. and Boston, Massachusets.

James HADDEN Descendants


This is a large format file - you will have to zoom in several times in Acrobat Reader to view the diagram in detail.
After zooming open the bookmarks tab.
Clicking on a name in the bookmark will locate the name box in the tree.

Data submitted by Christine Baines
Rob Dickinson's line added - Aug 2013