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19thC McAskies-Whitehouse Ardstraw Tyrone  Ireland

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The McAskies came from Scotland to Ardstraw, near Castlederg, Co Tyrone in 18th Century or earlier. They farmed in the townland of Creevy 


Ardstraw Parish Townlands

2nd son John - born about 1800 at Creevy married Betty Gordon about 1820 - they lived in Whitehouse townland                    My Gordon Connection

John & Betty Gordon McAskie were my great great grandparents. She was the heiress of the Whitehouse farm from her father David Gordon. He is mentioned in the Tithe Applotment records of 1834 at Whitehouse. 

1829 Feeholders Register for Co Tyrone- David Gordon and John McAskie of Whitehouse registered

John & Betty had 9 children - Elizabeth, James, Phoebe, Isabella, Margaret, David, Mary Jane, Joseph, & Nancy.

1.Elizabeth  married Thomas Forbes from Clare Co Tyrone on 29 November 1860 in Drumlegagh Church  

They had 10 children:-  George, Jean, Thomas, Margaret, Elizabeth, Andrew, Mary, Rev Dr John and Rev James.

Mary married Lloyd Jones & their son was a doctor,

2 .James 1823-1897 became a Presbyterian minister -  Rev James in Co Monaghan. He married twice

3. Phoebe married John Gordon 1837-  from Golan,  Kilmacrenan Co Donegal on  2 November 1858 in Drumlegagh Church - John's father was William They had 5 sons:-  Moses, Joseph, William, David, born 1864 & Andrew born 1866.

Moses had 2 sons Douglas & John, both Sea Captains. David emigrated to USA and settled in Albert Lea Freeborn County Minnesota 

4. Isabella married James Fyffe from Erganagh in Castlederg 2nd Presbyterian Church on 24 February 1874.

5.Margaret 1826-1889 married William Gordon 1825-1887 from Braade Clonleigh Co Donegal in Drumlegagh Church on
1 December 1864.

 6  David 1830-1914 married Isabella Boggs 1832-1906 on 17 Oct 1853 at Newtownstewart C of I - he started a flax mill at Scarvagherin

7.Mary Jane 1832-1903 married Joseph McAskie 1812-1887 - on 27 Oct 1853 in Ardstraw Parish Church  He was the son of Matthew McAskie Whitehouse born 1805 married 1830. (certainly cousins of the my McAskies)

Joseph McAskie and Mary Jane McAskie wedding

 Mary Jane & Joseph had 4 children:
Margaret 1856-1956 , Mary Ann 1858-1872, Eliza Jane 1871-1954
& Josephine Cochrane McAskie 1897-1997 (who was adopted).
Josephine was the daughter of a servant who died after an accident in the deep snow.

8. Joseph 1832-1909 was my great grandfather & inherited the farm. He married Sara Stewart 1848-1919 on  23 Mar 1871 at Drumlegagh Church Ardstraw

 Joseph McAskie

9. Nancy 1840-1905 married James Orr 1830-1914 on 26 Dec 1861 at Drumlegagh Church Ardstraw .They had 6 children:-

William 1863-1945,     John James 1867- 1949,      Robert 1871-1950,     Joseph 1873-1953,     
Caldwell 1874-1932     Margaret 1876-1907

William, Joseph, John & Caldwell remained single. Margaret married Tom McAskie -  her cousin, son of David & Isabella Boggs & they had 2 children Robert & Lily
 
 

A Scottish connection - William McAskie who returned from N Ireland to Scotland in 1820s

Then in early 19th Century, partly as a result of the famines in Ireland and partly because of the growing employment opportunities in the Clyde Valley and the Lanarkshire coalfields in Scotland, many Irish families were attracted to those parts of Scotland.
One was William, born in Ulster and married at Carluke about 1827 to Jane Burton, who was born in Lanarkshire. Scottish descendants of this man have documentation which talks of brothers who went to N Ireland from Skye and established a Jute Mill near Strabane, near Castlederg.This William was said to have been a toll-gate keeper, but became a coal miner in Scotland. He later settled in Lesmahagow and then Kirkmuirhill. He died in 1861 aged 58. His father was shown as William McAskie a cotton weaver.
 

The Allen family farmed nearby and descendants went to Australia in 1856

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The Davis family farmed nearby and descendants went to Canada with McAskies

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