Help finding family records

Kia ora. My name is Peter Morrow and I live in Wellington, New Zealand. I look after our Family Tree and I am trying to find more information about our ancestors. My great-great uncle David Morrow was born in Dungloe in or about 1844. He married Ellen Quinn in Belfast in 1869 and they emigrated to New Zealand in 1875 on the Broderick Castle. David's older brother, my great-grandfather William Morrow, was born about 1837 (actual year uncertain). We don't have a place of birth for him but it is likely to have been Dungloe or thereabouts as well. William married Margaret Ann Davis in Mahegradrool, Co. Down in 1860 and they emigated to New Zealand in 1864 on the Ganges. William and David's parents were Ephraim and Elizabeth (nee Hamilton). All we know is that they came from Co. Donegal and that Ephraim was a farmer. Given that their son David was born in Dungloe and that there was Ephraim Morrow lived in Lettermacaward at the time, we wonder if this Ephraim was William's and David's father, but have been unable to find any evidence to show this, or any record at all of their mother Elizabeth (nee Hamilton). Any information about the history of the Lettermacaward Morrow family, or about any other Morrows living in Dungloe and the area around it, would be very welcome. 

With thanks and kind regards

Peter Morrow

Hello Peter,

I live in Abingdon, Oxfordshire (U.K.) and I am descended from the Lettermacaward Morrow family. If you take a look at the following webpage: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Edonegal/1901Meenagow..., you'll see the Ephraim and Anne Morrow household in the 1901 Meenagowan census. My great-grandfather was Ephraim (aged 39), as yet unmarried in 1901 and living with his brother's family and widowed father. His father, also Ephraim, was 78 in 1901, giving us a birth year of 1823. That seems too late for him to have been your great-uncle's father (born ~1837, you said). My great-grandfather, Ephraim, married soon after this census, to Jane Hanan of Co Wicklow and they settled in Fintragh, Killybegs. There are, however, many more Morrows in Donegal (also a cluster around Farrigans at that time, if I recall), so there must be some connection. If I find out any more or figure out a viable connection, I shall contact you again. We may well be related, but I'm not sure how yet!

With best wishes,

Julie Scott

I am also called Peter Morrow. My father Jack Joseph Morrow, his two brothers Jim and Tom, and thier parents, crossed from Northern Ireland to Maryport in the UK, I think sometime in 1920/30's. I have no idea what part of Northern Ireland my grand parents came from, but on the off chance it was Dungloe, I thought I'd post!

Hi Peter. I don't know anything about any brothers of my great grandfather William Morrow who may have stayed in Ireland, so have no idea whether you are related or not. But thanks for the post.