Burns and Stanley Family History

Author: Richard

  • Thomas Henry Davidson

    Thomas Henry Davidson (c1848-1911) was the uncle of my great grandfather William James McCann, (pictured here with his wife Mary Ann Taylor and his daughter, my grandmother Eliza McCann).

     Thomas Henry Davidson was better known as Hammerhead and worked as a lighterman. Both the McCann and Taylor families had men who worked as lightermen. Hammerhead: a Glimpse into the Life of a Lighterman appeared in the 2020 edition of History Armagh p34-39 and can be viewed at History Armagh 2020

    Links to family tree

    William James McCann and family can be found here

  • Charles Stanley

    Charles Stanley (1818-1906) was my great,great uncle and appeared in the 2021 edition of History Armagh p20-26 in an article entitled Three Lives – Charles Stanley, his brother-in-Law and granddaughter.

     His brother-in-law was George Charles Brackenridge (1814-1879) and his granddaughter was Elizabeth Adah Noel Hobart (1892-1937). The article can be viewed at History Armagh 2021

    Elizabeth Adah Noel Hobart known as Adah at school and Betty in adult life. She married twice first to Oswald Armitage Carver and then over ten years after Waldo’s death at Gallipoli she married Bernard Law Montgomery

    Links to the family tree:

    • Charles can be found on the family tree at here
    • George Charles Brackenridge who changed his surname from Trimbel to Brackenridge can be found on the family tree here
    • Elizabeth Adah Noel Hobart can be found on the family tree here

  • Abigail Burns

    Abigail Burns (1859-1934) pictured here with her youngest daughter Margaret Martin, was my great,great grandfather’s James Burns first cousin and her story appeared in the 2022 edition of History Armagh p21-24 in an article entitled Finding Abigail, a DNA Journey.

    The of finding of a DNA match on the Family Tree DNA website led to the discovery of a branch of the family living in Amsterdam NY who had emigrated from Cladymilltown.

    The article can be viewed at History Armagh 2022.