07 November 2013

Enniskillen Cathcarts

In researching my ancestor, Alexander Cathcart (b. 1715), which has been an almost futile effort, I've been seeking other Cathcarts in County Fermanagh, Ireland, and specifically Enniskillen, where I know he spent some of his life. I found some info I thought would be helpful to other people looking for Cathcarts in this area.

There is a list of cemeteries in Fermanagh at http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/fermanagh/cemeteries.htm.  Of all of the cemeteries listed, I only found Cathcarts at Carne Cemetery.

That particular site is full of information and I found the following to be very interesting. It places some Cathcarts in Enniskillen whom I recognize from my other research. They are Allan, Hugh, James, and Malcome Cathcart; as well as Gustavus Hamilton, who married Jane Cathcart on January 13, 1721 or 1722 in Enniskillen; and Robert Johnston, who may be the same Robert Johnston who married Jean Cathcart on January 20, 1710 in Enniskillen. Michael Foster is not listed below, but you may find it helpful to know that a man by that name married a Jean Cathcart in Enniskillen on January 29, 1710.

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From DERRY AND ENNISKILLEN by Thomas Witherow is the following list of signers to a "Humble address of the Governors, Officers, Clergy , and other Inhabitants of your Majesties' Town of Enniskillen" which was forwarded to William and Mary from that city in 1689.

To their most Excellent Majesties King William and Queen Mary The humble Address of the Governor, Officers, Clergy, and other inhabitants of your Majesties’ Town of Enniskillen, in your Majesties Kingdom of Ireland.  We your Majesties’ most faithful and most loyal subjects do in the first place offer up unto Almighty God our most humble thanks for the deliverance vouchsafed us from our merciless and bloody enemies; and next unto your most sacred Majesties for your gracious care taken of us, and in sending Major-General Kirk to the relief of the poor handful of your Majesties Protestant subjects left in this place and Derry (whose miraculous holding out, under God, has been the preservation of the Protestant interest in this Kingdom), and for those worthy officers sent to this place by him; among which the honourable Colonel Willaim Wolseley, our Commander-in-Chief, under whose great and happy conduct God has been pleased to bless us with the most sacred Majesties on the eleventh day of March last, so we shall persevere in the same dutiful allegiance to our lives’ end, ever imploring the Divine Majesty to continue your prosperous reign, long and long over us, most humbly begging your most sacred Majesites favourably to accept this Address of your most humble and sincere obedience, which we shall ever be ready to make both good with our hearts and hands.


Alexander AchesonFrancis Aldrich Daniel Armstrong
John Armstrong Martin ArmstrongThomas Armstrong
John BallardClaudius Bealy Ambrose Bedel
William Birney Hugh BlairWilliam Blashford
James Browning John Browning William Browning
Marcus Buchanan Theodore Bury James Campbell
William Campbell Christopher Carleton George Cashell
Allan Cathcart Hugh Cathcart James Cathcart
Malcome Cathcart William CharletonRobert Clark
Isaac CollyerGeorge CooperGeorge Corry
Hugh Corry James Corry John Corry
Arnold CosbyeEdward CosbyeLawrence Crow
John Crozier Edward DavenportThomas Davenport
John Dean Paul Dean(Provost) James Delap
James Devitt Edward Dixy Cor. Donellan
George Drury Robert Drury Au. Ellis
Edward Ellis Francis Ellis Francis Ellis
Hercules Ellis James Ewart Francis Folliott
Samuel Forth Daniel French John Frisell
William Frith All. Fulton John Fulton
Hugh Galbraith John Galbraith Bar. Gibson
Francis Graham James Graham William Gore
Edward Gubbin John HaleAndrew Hamilton
Gustavus Hamilton(Governor) George Hammersley George Hart
Morgan Hart Thomas Hart Jason Hazard
Daniel Hodson Povey Hookes Henry Howel
H. Hughes Thomas Hughes William Jivine
Henry Johnston James Johnston(2)Robert Johnston(2)
Thomas Johnston William Johnston Charles King
F. King James King John King
William Kittle Thomas LeturvelMatthew Lindsay
Thomas Lloyd John Lowder James Lucy
Robert McConnell William McCormick Charles McFayden
James Matthews(2)James Mitchell Andrew Montgomery
Hugh Montgomery Robert Moor Toby Mulloy
John NeperRichard NewsteadThomas Osborne
William ParsonsJohn Price John Rider
John Roberts James Robison Robert Robison
Thomas Roscrow William Ross George Russell
Ninian Scot Thomas Scot John Sherriffe
Thomas Shore Ichabod SkelsonWilliam Slack
Henry Smith W. Smith Aylet Sommes
Robert Starling Robert StevensonRichard Taylor
Robert Vaughan Robert Ward George Watson
Matthew Webster Robert Wear Thomas White
Roger Wilton William Wiseheart Edward Wood
John Woodward Matthew Young(2) Thomas Young

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