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From: JOY TWENEY <>
Subject: [QC-BHC] IRWIN, Etc.
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 18:02:57 -0400


To you all,
My knowledge of the Irwin/Erwin /Irvine/Irving etc. is very limited
My Armstrong tie came from County Leitrim , Ireland..The surname Irwin
was given as a given name to my 2X Great Grandfather IRWIN ARMSTRONG.

>From O"Harts, Irish Pedigree, Volume 2 is the following:- QUOTE-
(Armstrong's here recorded a branch of the Armstrongs of Gallen Priory,
King's County, settled in Sligo. Some of whom settled afterwards in the
County of Leitrim; and after the death of Robert Armstrong, his family
removed thence to Newton Gore in the County Cavan, where his son John
Armstrong married a daughter of William Irwin (whose son married Miss
Haughton * who had 3 bros. George,William , John) and had two sons
John and Launcelot Armstrong) * Haughton: the three families of the
Armstrongs, the Irwins, and the Haughtons lived convenient to each other
and intermarried a great deal)....UNQUOTE
My Armstrongs were of the Scots-Irish persuasion and were Protestants .
I also note that one Ann Irwin (age 19)married in 1734 a Martin
Armstrong ..She was the eldest daughter of John Irwin of Drumedillagh,
County Leitrim, High Sheriff of Leitrim 1737....
If you have a map of Ireland handy it is easy to see how close the
Counties were where families emigrated to BEAU/HUNT/CHAT...
The Irwins ,who came in a large group of settlers from Quebec to Essex
County I will check into soon ..I have been into Genealogy since
1960 and am researching over 400 Surnames, and being a physically,
non-active,Senior Citizen it takes a bit of time to reel everyone in...
I wish I could tell you more at this sitting but as I find a clue or
two I will gladly send on to you..
Irwin Armstong's son Francis stayed in Ormstown and married a Stewart,
I believe..Checking this out...Have all your e-mails on hand in an
IRWIN File and will keep in touch. Thank you for your mail....
Best Wishes...Joy Bell Austin-Tweney...<>

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