Sent: October-31-04

I did look at your web site but unsucessfully. I guess I need all that special software etc. XXX will come over next week and set me up. I don't have my family tree stuff on the computer at all. I have an Armstrong family tree in booklet format done by a relative in the 1980's. It covers Christoper Armstrong and Ann Marchel born in 1857 and 1861 until 1980's
I'll take it out, photocopy it, and mail it to you on Monday November 1st. I am researching the Nesbitt branch right now. My Grandmother was Ada Nesbitt married to Aurther Wellington Mills who was a son of Catherine Armstrong. I want to bring the other branches (other than Armstrong) to the same level as the Armstrong existing information before I go any further back. I know it's very interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing how we are related. If I understood Carol correctly your Great Grandfather was a sister to my Great Grandmother??? Perhaps It's your Great, Great Grandfather???

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Sent: November-22-04 4:29 PM

Thanks for letting me know about your website. I looked at it and I can't connect to any of the Armstrongs listed there. However, I do have some Armstrongs in my file from Fermanagh, Ireland that came to Quebec and/or Ontario and I have attached a pdf of the following families:
1) William Armstrong b 1821 Fermanagh, Ireland, immigrated 1844 to Vaughan, York County, married Nancy Ann Downey in 1848 and moved after 1851 to Maryborough, Wellington Co.
2) Francis Armstrong b 1805 Fermanagh, Ireland married Jane Caldwell, immigrated to Shawville, Pontiac, Quebec
3) John Armstrong b Fermanagh, Ireland, married Margaret Anderson; granddaughter Margary McCrea born 1841 in Clarendon Twp, Pontiac, Quebec.
Maybe something in one of these trees will help you make a connection to more Armstrongs. I have 3 other Armstrong families in Canada originating from Ireland, but I don't know where in Ireland they came from:
- Henry Armstrong b 1816 Ireland, married 1843 in Tyrone, Ireland to Letitia Perry and settled in Lennox & Addington, Ontario
- George Armstrong b 1782 Ireland, married Anne Nixon, settled in Shawville, Pontiac Co, Quebec
- Margaret Armstrong b 1820 Ireland, married David Joseph Manchester 1841 in Quebec, lived in Rawdon, Leinsten, Quebec, then moved 1855-1857 to Huntley, Carleton Co, Ontario.

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Sent: December-15-04

Thank you for the opportunity of reviewing your website. No, our Armstrong's are not related. My Armstrong's are Presbyterian Irish from Ballygorman townland, County of Armagh, Northern Ireland. Two brothers (James and George Armstrong) married two sisters (Maria and Elizabeth Jane McCune) and they emigrated to the Quebec City area in 1829-1831, along with another McCune sister who married Andrew McKinley, and a single McCune brother who (coincidentally) married a Mary Davis, whose parents were born in Denbigh, Wales. The brothers and sisters were pioneer farmers on adjacent properties twenty miles north of Quebec City from then until the present day. (I am a descendent of the James and Maria Armstrong line, and my father was born on the original homestead.)

I hired a researcher living in County Armagh to obtain marriage, baptismal and land records for me in 2003, and was fortunate to have Maria McCune's family bible dating back to 1827 which identified the specific townland (390 acres) of Ballygorman where the McCune, Armstrong and McKinley families had been born and raised. As you may know, Irish records are in poor shape, so I consider myself very fortunate to have obtained as much information as I did.

By the way, my ancestors were staunch Presbyterians, and founded St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Valcartier Village shortly after arriving in Canada.

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Sent: January-07-05

i am a descendant of thomas clark and sarah armstrong.i do not know much about the armstrongs. i do know the following;
thomas clark and sarah armstrong came to fitzroy circa 1845? they had two sons thomas born in canada and my g grandfather henry clark born 1849.sarah armstrong died in 1856 and is buried in sunshine cemetery morris twp. county huron.my grandfather was the second son of thomas and sarah and he was born nov. 1,1880 and the midwife was an armstrong as well.he was born in morris twp.thomas clark then married elizabeth kearney and had another family.
henry clark married elizabeth way in onieda in 1878 and they settled in morris and came to portage 1884-1885.i know that they used to visit with the armstrongs from this area as well.any chance our manitoba clarks' are part of your armstrongs.

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Sent: January-12-05

I am looking for any information on Angelina (Angel) Armstrong (c1800-1875) who married James Graham (c1805-1882), a Methodist from Fermanaugh, sometime between 1823 and 1829. They moved to Canada in 1829 where they had four children:
Arthur (1830-1892),
Elizabeth (Bessie) (1833-1907),
Ann (1837-1930) and
James William (1843-1913).

Would there be any links here with Armstrongs you are researching?

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Sent: May-28-05

Thanks for the response. Your website is great ~ I don't see any connections right now though.
My Eleanor was born 14 May 1842 Ireland and William was born 10 Feb 1827 Ireland. The Armstrongs in Maryborough were from Fermanagh also so like you said, maybe they will connect up someday.
There was another Christopher Armstrong who was living in Listowell, Perth County in 1881. He was born in Ireland about 1830. He had a son named Harper Armstrong. I wonder which family he is linked to.
I'll keep your family in mind when researching and pass along anything I find.
Good luck to you too!

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Sent: September-26-05

I noticed your enquiry about information on the Armstrongs. I guess our families are quite closely related as you will see by the attached descendant chart. I have been a subscriber to the Armstrong list off and on for a few years and have seen very few Christopher A's in all that time. They seem to have settled in Fermanagh after leaving Scotland in the sixteenth century. The attached descendant chart will give you an idea of my family. I have quite a bit of info particularly around the early nineteenth century in Brookeborough near Eniskillen.

Robin Christopher Armstrong (1924- today)

I actually remember talking to my grandfather Christie who was born in Brookeborough in 1846!

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Sent: October-18-05

I rec'd your email with the family tree of Johanna Eady. I need to study it to see if I have any data that you don't have.

I wrote previously but I didn't have the right email address for you.

It does appear that we are distant cousins.

John Armstrong (1861-1937), son of Christopher Armstrong and Johanna Eady, was married 1st to Jane New (1859-1912). They had 4 children.

John married 2nd Isabella Patterson (New) Sampson and had 3 more daughters. Isabella was the sister of Robert New, my grandfather.

Jane New was the sister of Robert New my great grandfather. Robert and Jane were children of Young W. New and Anne Eady (sister to Johanna).

As you can see in my website I have the descendents of some of John Armstrong and Jane Eady with dates.

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Sent: October-19-05

I apologize for the error I made re John Armstrong 12 Aug 1861 15 Aug 1937 in regards to his marriages.

He married 1st Jane New 10 Mar 1859 2 Aug 1912) not Jane Eady. The information I wrote in this mornings email on Jane Eady is for Jane New. It is Jane (New) Armstrong who is buried in the Waskatenau Cemetery.

He married 2nd Isabella Patterson daughter of Robert and Mary Ann (Patterson) New.

Isabella Patterson New married 1st John Allan Sampson (1871-1909)

Isabella was the niece of Jane (New) Armstrong. It is all very confusing with both Isabella and John having children with their first spouses and then they had 3 children.

John never married a Johanna.

The Johanna Eady (1829 - ) I mentioned born in Goulbourn Twp was Christopher Armstrong’s (1828-1906) wife.

I hope this clears up the confusion.

Additional Information I have

Children of Christopher (Christie) ARMSTRONG and Sarah RIVETTE

Christopher Hibbert ARMSTRONG Born 13 Aug 1887

Fanny Jane ARMSTRONG born 8 July 1894

Edith Pearl ARMSTRONG born 14 May 1896

Thomas Eady ARMSTRONG born 15 July 1898

* Day and month from 1901 Census for Muskoka & Parry Sound, Ontario.

I have a different birth date for Caroline Wright McEwan. I have 2 Sept 1859, Ontario. That was from a 1901 Census.

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Sent: November-05-05

Thank you for your e-mail. You are a bit further back than I am with the Armstrongs.JHane Armstrong,my great grandmother married William McCormick at Magheraculmoney in 1837, As far as I have managed she was p[robably the daughter of Andrew Armstrong and Ann J olly of Derryvullan. By 1850 she reported that her parents were 'in America', they may have been the Andrew Armstrong who arrived in Quebec about 1847 and whose wife Ann died at sea.

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Sent: November-14-05

Hi, I saw your entries on Ancestry World Tree and was wondering whether we are related and whether you have information on Edward Hamilton Whelen (b. 1865 in Clarendon, QE and died in Powassan, ON). I am one of his great-great-granddaughters and am trying to put together the pieces regarding that side of the family.

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Sent: January-21-06

I am a descendent of
ID 10168 Christopher Armstrong Belfast Ireland 1828
Would you know what year his family came to Canada
and who were the other members of his family.
I have some additional information on some other Armstrongs if you are interested.

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Sent: February-10-06

I checked my records and came up with a few things.

1. The records for St Mary’s Church only begin in 1767 so therefore William Armstrong who married Jane would not be on them as his son John was born 1768.
2. John Armstrong was baptised in St. Mary’s, Ardess, on August 7, 1768.
I could not see a marriage between him and an Isabella. She was probably from another parish.
3. Their son, Christopher, was baptised in the same church on August 14, 1781. Their townland address was Corlaght, which would be roughly about 30 miles from Enniskillen, the county town.
4. Christopher Armstrong married Anne Marshall in St. Mary’s church. I am sure this is the same as Ann Marchel you mentioned in your email.
5. Christopher Armstrong you say born Belfast (75 miles away) Oct 22, 1828. There is a Christopher, son of Christopher and Anne, baptised in St Mary’s Jan 31, 1828.- address – Drumadraghy.
6. Thomas Armstrong – nothing showing for 1816.
7. Robert Armstrong, son of Christopher and Anne, baptised in St. Mary’s June 8, 1822 address – Kilsmullan.
8. Catherine – nothing showing that would be near enough.
9. William Armstrong, son of Christopher and Anne baptised St. Mary’s July 6, 1834 – address – Kilsmullan.

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Sent: February-21-06

In reply to your e-mail inquiry of 14 January concerning Christopher Armstrong, I wish to advise you that there are no comprehensive nominal lists of immigrants arriving in Canada before 1865. Until that year, the government did not require such records to be retained. Only a few lists have been located among our holdings. Our Miscellaneous Immigration Index is a nominal card index to those lists. It relates mostly to immigrants from the British Isles to Quebec and Ontario between the years 1801 and 1849. A search of that index has failed to produce any reference to Christopher Armstrong

I am sorry we could not be of assistance at this time.

Canadian Genealogy Centre
Reference and Genealogy Division
Library and Archives Canada

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Sent: February-26-06

ARMSTRONG lookup from "The Fermanagh Story" by Peadar Livingston:

On page 501, in the bibliography, under "Antiquities"

"Armstron"Sheela-na-Gig Discoveries", JRSAI (1911) xli, 385 Not on Lustymore Island"

On page 508, under Fermanagh Families (a) Families in general, (Still in the bibliography), "Armstrong 'Aghavea Churchyard', names on inscriptions, "Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead" 1912, vii, 561

On page 509, (Still in the bibliography) under Fermanagh Families (b) Individual Families, "Armstrong "Chronicles of the Armstrongs(1902)"

On page 419, Chapter 31, "Fermanagh Families" Under the heading "Survey", paragraph one:
"In order to find ut how many people bear each individual surname in present-day Fermanagh, we have taken the 1962 Electoral Register and simply counted them. The result gives us the comparative strength of the many names in the county. It is fairly accurate but we must point out that a survey of this kind has its limitations. To begin with, the voters' lists contain the names only of registered voters over 21, Generally speaking Catholic families are larger than Protestant families. As Catholic families are, for the most part, represented by Gaelic names, the numbers given for the Gaelic families are comparatively fewer than they would be were we able to count the names of the whole population. British names, on the other hand, have proportionately higher occurrence. Secondly, some of the property or company voters given on the register do not dwell in Fermanagh at all.
Thirdly, it is extremely difficult in certain cases to classify the names. Should "Smith", for example, sometime Gaelic - be added to the McCorry? However, we feel that the result of the survey is of considerable value and we give now a list of Fermanagh's 100 most common names in 1962. Where a name has two forms, we have chosen the more common. G is placed after a Gaelic name, GF after a Gaelic name which has its origins in Fermanagh or at least was common in the area before the Plantation. B is placed after a British name and M after a name that has both a British and Irish origin. (Transcriber's Note: The following list is in the order of frequency of its incidence in the survey - i.e., number of voters in 1962. I am not going to list the numbers of voters as was done on this page. Note that the initials after the surname do not indicate the first name of the person. They are a key to the origin of the name.) MAGUIRE, GF, JOHNSTON, B (British), ARMSTRONG,B, ELLIOTT,B, MCCAFFREY, GF, O'REILLY,G, SMITH, M (British & Irish), MURPHY, G, GRAHAM,B, IRVINE,B, GALLAGHER,G, CASSIDY,GF, OWENS,GF, BEATTY,M, THOMPSON,B, MCBRYAN, BREEN, GF, NOBLE,B, DUFFY,G, DOLAN,G, MORRISON,B, WOODS,B, MCELROY,GF, MONAGHAN,GF, CORRIGAN,GF, HOEY,B (generally), MCGEE,GF, KEOWN, GF, FLANAGAN,G, ROBINSON,B, BROWN(E),B, FERGUSON,B, LITTLE, B - also BEGGAN, G, MULLIGAN,GF, LEONARD,M, CRAWFORD,B, KELLY,G, MURRAY,M, CONNOLLY, G & GF, MCCUSKER,GF, KEENAN,GF, MORRIS,G, LUNNY,G, CAMPBELL,M, NIXON,B, CLARKE,B, ROONEY,GF, MOHAN,GF, MORROW,G, MCGRATH,GF - 108 VOTERS,

This list continues on the next page, but because of its size, I am not including it here. The names listed above are all of the names listed on page 419. On page 420, the frequency of the name on the 1962 voters register begins with the name Burns and the frequency of 108 and ends with McCorry, GF, with a frequency of 57.)

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For contact or attachment information on any of the above references, please contact me at: armstronggenealogy@shaw.ca