Birth of Daughter: 31 OCT 1836
Name: Jane McRoberts
Place: Rathfriland, County Down, Ireland
Note: According to ship passenger lists she was born about 1834. According to her tombstone she was born in 1836. According to her death record, she was born in 1837.
Birth of Son: 22 FEB 1839
Name: Charles McRoberts
Place: Rathfriland, County Down, Ireland
Note: According to ship passenger lists he was born about 1835.
Birth of Daughter: 22 MAY 1841
Name: Mary Ann McRoberts
Place: Rathfriland, County Down, Ireland
Note: According to ship passenger lists she was born about 1839.
Birth of Daughter: 11 AUG 1841
Name: Sarah McRoberts
Place: Rathfriland, County Down, Ireland
Birth of Son: 02 JUL 1846
Name: William McRoberts
Place: Rathfriland, County Down, Ireland
Note: According to ship passenger lists he was born about 1843
Birth of Son: ABT 1846
Name: Samuel McRoberts
Place: Rathfriland, County Down, Ireland
Note: According to ship passenger lists he was born about 1849
Picture: Two of three pasture areas owned by the Aughnavallog McRoberts in County Down, Ireland. The Pasture where the sheep graze was where William McRoberts and Mary Ann McKinney lived.
Immigration: 26 JUN 1849
Place: From Belfast, Ireland
Note: Ship Passenger Lists of the “Shelton”.
Immigration Note: Rathfriland, County Down, Northern Ireland
Details: Samuel and William McRoberts, born in 1940’s in Ballynamagna found this bible in the attic of the home in which they were raised and farmed. The family continues to live in this house and operates the farm, on Grallagh Road.
Note: William came from Ireland to Canada and then to the Troy area. They settled on John R. Rd near 15 Mile Rd, Oakland Co, Michigan. It is said that several brothers came over with William and that some of them settled in Pennsylvania. During those first years they lost contact with each other.
Birth of Daughter: 08 JUL 1847
Name: Elizabeth “Nancy” McRoberts
1850 Census: 19 SEP 1850
Place: Royal Oak Twp, Oakland Co, Michigan
Note: Wife, Mary, and seven children were living in household.
Birth of Son: 05 JUL 1856
Name: Alexander McRoberts
Death: 10 AUG 1855 Michigan
Burial: Royal Oak Cemetery, Oakland Co, Michigan
parents are unknown (Possibly Charles McRoberts – see note below)
Note: (from Lauralee McRoberts on Ancestry.com)
Details: Note the “Other Teoures”: The McComb’s owned land on about 12 and 14 Grallagh Road according to 1776 map of Rathfriland Estate. Boyds owned land across the road, about 13 Grallagh Road. I found a marriage of Samuel McKinny to Jean Boyd. They likely had a daughter Mary Ann McKinney, perhaps a son previously who also relocated to Michigan. Charles McRoberts son was likely William. William McRoberts and Mary Ann McKinney’s first child was born in 1834 and baptized in the Ballyroney Presbyterian Church. the first child was named Jane (Jean and Jane are interchangeable when spoken locally. The next child born was a boy named Charles McRoberts, following Scottish tradition of naming children after family members. In lieu of paperwork, many records destroyed by fire. My extrapolations of the facts are…working possibilities. I’ll find a way to include the map of 1776, 1863 and something more current because our common ancestors still farm much of the land in this wee valley. LML
Mary Ann McKinney
Birth: 1817 County Down, Ireland
Last Name Var: Some in the family think that her last name was Ringling. On daughter’s death record, her name was given as Jane McKinney.
Religion: Was baptized and admitted into the United Presbyterian Church in her youth.
1860 Census: Oakland Co, Michigan
Note: Has two children living in her household.
1870 Census: 23 AUG 1870
Place: Troy, Oakland Co, Michigan
Note: Two sons were also living in household.
1880 Census: 01 JUN 1880
Place: Troy, Oakland Co, Michigan
Note: Son, Alexander, was also living in household
Death: 29 APR 1888 at her son’s house, Troy, Michigan
Burial: Royal Oak Cemetery, Detroit, MI
Obituary: Have
parents are unknown
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