BDMs in a scrap book kept at Welchtown

Scrapbook from Glenfinn & Welchtown, Co Donegal

Irish Flag

From the scrapbook kept at Stranorlar


Johnstone - McCay wedding 1897
John E St George Johnstone & Geraldine Isabel Mary McCay
	Geraldine Isabel Mary McCay was witness to Donaldson/ McQuade wedding

Johnstones lived at Bawnboy House Cavan.
McCays were from Derry

R H Johnstone

M E Johnstone

Bawnboy House Co Cavan

Isabel Johnstone
1887 New engines of the Cavan & Leitrim Railway were named after the Directors' daughters.
The first mainline engine, built - engine No. 1, - was named after Isabel the daughter of
R.H. Johnstone of Bawnboy.

See Johnstone Photo Gallery

Read the story of the engine and the Johnstone family

Henry McCay	Geraldine Isabel Mary McCay's parents were Henry McCay, a lawyer from Derry and Esther Ann Crookshank.(Eacie) Eacie's sister Cecilia married Rev Joe Rawlins1829-1907 of Burt Londonderry. From 1878-1907 he was rector of St Peters Church Templeport Co Cavan	Esther Ann Crookshank.

	Wedding 1902 Arthur Cotton Whiteabbey & Constance Byron Castlerock
	The Cottons were managers of the various Railway Projects in N & W Ireland in 19th Century
	1857 Griffiths Valuation of Donegal - a John Byron was in Meenbog townland in Donaghmore Parish - close to Kilteevoge
	1909 Marriage William Cunningham Kilcadden & Agnes Walker Ballybofey	1919 Death Announcement Maude Cunningham Ballybofey


1909 Death Announcement Rev Canon Arthur Hunter Lifford	1947 Death Announcement Jane Buckley Thurles	1961 Death Announcement Norman Holland Omagh



1911 double wedding in Vancouver - Emily Lecky & Charles Miller, Derry, Violet Lecky Derry & Bernard de Montenay Mertens, England

Presents given by Canon & Mrs McQuade, Miss McCay, Mr & Mrs A Johnston, Mr & Mrs A J Hall.


Bernard de Montenay Mertens (1880-148) was born in Ardingly, Sussex where his father, Reverend Frederick de Mounteney Dirs Mertens was headmaster of Ardingly College. Bernard was an electrical engineer and worked in Londonderry Ireland before he emigrated to Vancouver, Canada in 1908. He travelled on SS Canada with Mrs Catherine Miller, a widow from Medville Allegeny, Pennsylvania. He lived in Chilliwack BC. He married Violet Lecky in 1911. In 1948 they are shown as returning to USA on the Queen Mary bound for New York. Their address in Canada was 1915 W 13th Ave Vancouver. She died 27 May 1952 in Vancouver

1901-Bernard Mertens	1901-Bernard Mertens-emigration	1948 Mertens to USA

	Link between Leckys & McCays
	Sketch by Emily May Lecky & Geraldine Isabel McCay 1896

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