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From: "Mark Lusby" <>
Subject: HUGHES SAMPSON Magherafelt BLAKELEY Castledawson
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:03:26 +0100


Dear Listers
Derry extracts from posting by Brian Magaoidh on the NIR-Antrim list :

Belfast Weekly News 14 January 1893:
SAMPSON: George Hughes, Magherafelt, County Derry, Ireland, wants to hear of
his sister, Mrs Rose Anna Sampson; when last heard of three years ago was
living in Toronto, Canada, America. Any information will be thankfully
received by her anxious brother. American papers please copy.

Belfast Weekly News 28 January 1893
BLAKELEY: Should this meet the eye of any of the friends of Martha Blakeley,
who married Robert Leacock, shoemaker, and emigrated to Toronto, Upper
Canada, in 1842 or of her sister, Isabella Blakeley who emigrated with their
son, Robert Leacock, January 1846 or '49, daughters of William Blakeley,
Bleachworks, Castledawson, communication will be thankfully received by
their sisters, Rebecca and Mary. Address- Alex. Blakeley, Moyala Bleach and
Dye Works, Castledawson, County Derry, Ireland.

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