Hugh Gormley Sen Craighadoes
Hugh Gormley's parents were Robert Gormley and Mary Gormley nee Coll.
Robert and Mary Gormley's ages on the form are incorrect. Robert was 56 at that time. Mary was 58.
The house is listed has having two outhouses - one was a piggery and the other was a fowl house. House was thatched. 2 rooms. 2 windows in front of house. One person was sick the day the census was taken 31 March 1901 and there are only three in the house. Josiah Galbraith was the owner of the house.
Mary Gormley died suddenly at Craighadoes in 1906 on the 20 December. She had cerebral softening for six months. Isabella was present at her death.
Later her husband Robert, is described as a widower living in Cuttymanhill, St Johnston, in the census of 1911 and is said to be 74 years old. It was a thatched one roomed and one window house. He didn't own the house. Again this age is probably mistaken.
Robert suffered from chest problems and dementia. He died in Drumucklagh in 1915 on 21 January at 71 years of age.
Hugh Gormley was born 20 October 1877 at Drumucklagh.
His sister Hanna married Patrick McBrearty.
His sister Mary married Michael Houston.
Hugh married Margaret Duggan or Doogan.
Her baptismal certificate follows.
Back of cert.
Hugh and Margaret's census entry for 1911 can be seen below. He is listed as 35 years old.
He personally completed the census form. He described himself as an Agricultural Labourer. The house in 1911 was slated. 2 rooms with two windows at the front. The owner was Hugh Gormley himself. There was one shed.
Their son Hugh Gormley was born November 4 1920. He was baptised on the 14 November in St Baithin's Church, St Johnston by Rev Daniel McGinley PP. The sponsors were Francis Houston and Anne Houston.
Hugh Gormley his father died 28 February 1953. The death cert follows signed by registrar Mary Doyle.
The Cert below was dated 30 Meitneamh 1961 and his birth cert was done out in the same day in Stranorlar
Hugh Gormley is buried at Clonleigh Cemetery, Lifford. The location is not far to the left as you enter the gate. The exact site has been lost. His daughter Mary McConnell was buried there also having died in 1950.
His wife Margaret died 21 September 1963 in Ard Baithin, St Johnston, and is buried at St Baithin's Church, St Johnston. Her death cert follows and then her memoriam card.
| PERSON | RELATIONSHIP | NEE | BIRTH | MARRIAGE | DEATH | WHERE? | BAPTISM |
|
MARY
GORMLEY |
MOTHER | COLL | 1843 | 14/10/1860 | 20/12/1906 |
CRAIGHADOES AT HANNAS BIRTH |
|
|
ROBERT GORMLEY |
FATHER | 1844 | 14/10/1860 | 21/01/1915 |
CRAIGHADOES AT HANNAS BIRTH |
||
| HANNA | DAUGHTER | 12/02/1871 |
25/08/1861 is another Hanna |
CRAIGHADOES | ST JOHNSTON | ||
| HUGH | SON | 20 OCTOBER 1877 | DRUMUCKLAGH | ||||
| GEORGE | SON | ||||||
| ROBERT | SON | 21/01/1869 | ST JOHNSTON | ||||
| EDWARD | SON | 30/07/1880 | ST JOHNSTON | ||||
| CHARLES | SON | ||||||
| PHILIP | SON | 26/07/1863 | ST JOHNSTON | ||||
| JOE | SON | 21/12/1873 | ST JOHNSTON | ||||
| ANNIE | DAUGHTER | ||||||
| MARY | DAUGHTER | 30/04/1865 | |||||
| MAGGIE | DAUGHTER |
Photo of Robert Bob Gormley and a friend dating from the 1920s
Robert Gormley Craighadoes passport from 1948
APPENDIX FROM AN ANCESTRY WEBSITE
REGARDING MARY COLL'S BROTHER
I have now found Hugh Coll's father to be Daniel
Coll. No known mother as yet. James John Coll was baptised in St
Johnston Co. Donegal in 1860 so they have to be there somewhere.
Maybe a paid researcher may be able to help me do you think? Just an
idea so I can get a lead to somewhere. The sponsors were a Mary Coll
and Robert Gormley. No address is shown on the record. Denomination
is Roman Catholic.
Robert Gormley and Mary Coll had children
Mary b. May 2 1865 Isabella b. May 25 1867 Hannah b. Feb 12 1871
Hugh b. Oct 20 1877 per IGI index