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Subject: PML Search Result
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 12:49:38 -0800
From: tony colhoun <tcolhoun(a)powercom.com.au>
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Source: GC-Tyrone Ireland Queries
URL:
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/Ireland/Tyrone?read=840
Subject: colhoun 1700 - 1800s
Surname: colhoun, colquhoun
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I am a descendent of Samuel Colhoun (1803-1875) born probably at
Teeronail
a property at Lifford, Co. Donegal, Ire. He died at Omagh, Co. Tyrone,
his family home then being called Lisanelly House. He and his
siblings,
and possibly others of his family, were buried at the Old Burial
Ground
near the Presbyterian Church at St Johnstone, Co Donegal. The names of
his parents are unknown but his mother may have been a Buchannan
(perhaps
from a previous marriage) and she probably died 1858 age 96.
Samuels siblings were Matthew, James, John and Frances Jane.
Matthews
children were William James, Robert, Matthew Jnr, Joseph, George and
Ann
Jane. They were living at Sunderland, Eng.in 1903. I think Joseph
(name
changed to Colquhoun) died in Sunderland in the early 70s aged c.92
or
93. James married, lived in London and spelled his name Colquhoun.
John
and Frances Jane didnt marry and were apparently living at Teeronail
when
they died, as was Matthew.
Samuel Colhoun(and brother James) lived in Port Spain Trinidad in
early
1840s. Samuel married Caroline Lison. They had three children, John
(1845-1917),
Samuel Jnr (1847-1913) and a girl probably named Frances (d. 1855/6?)
John Colhoun and Samuel Colhoun Jnr left Trinidad 1855 and after a
period
in Glasgow joined their father in Ireland. Samuel Colhoun Jnr went to
live
at Buncrana, Co Donegal. He had one son, Samuel Lipson Colhoun, who
married
twice and had ten children. Some remained in Buncrana, others went to
Keighley
(Yorkshire). When he went to Canada in 1913 he took Ernest, his oldest
son, with him. Ernest stayed there when Samuel Lipson returned to
Ireland.
John Colhoun was my great-great-grandfather.He migrated to Melbourne,
Aust.
in 1865 and married Elizabeth Millington of Cheshire, Eng. within a
week
of arrival. They had eight children of whom six survived childhood. I
am
descended from John through his oldest surviving son, Samuel Ernest
Spearman
Colhoun (1868-1925), his oldest son, Ernest Harry Lanfear Colhoun
(1897-1980)
and his second son, Desmond Lawrence Colhoun (b. 1926)
I assume that my family has descended from a member of the Colquhoun
Clan
who went to northern Ireland as part of the Plantation of Ulster in
the
17th century. And that, regardless of how he spelled his name at that
time,
his descendants adopted the Ulster spelling Colhoun along with the
other
clan members by the end of that century. I am trying to fill the gap
between
Samuel Colhoun of Omagh and that descendent who moved from Scotland to
Ireland, probably Co. Donegal. I am also interested in knowing about
others
who may be related to members of his family.