Life History

Notes

• James and his family are mentioned on the official website of County Tyrone, Ireland.  There are probably three more generations before this James back to the Laurie ancestor who moved from Dumfries, Scotland.  They would have been part of the migration originally sponsored by King James VI of Scotland and I of England to move Scots to Northern Ireland.  The descendants of these settlers became the Scots-Irish (called Scotch-Irish in the New World after their later mass migration there).
  
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  James Lowry of Ballynagorry, County Tyrone, Ulster, (Northern) Ireland
  
  The History of the Two Ulster Manors of Finagh, Co. Tyrone and Coole, otherwise Manor Atkinson, Co. Fermanagh, and of their owners.
  Author - Lord Belmore, pub. Longmans, Green & Co London 1881
  Transcribed by Robyn Paterson
  
  CHAPTER II. - James, John & Robert Lowry, Sen., 1665-1729
  
  Having traced the history of Fynagh from the Plantation of Ulster to the year 1705-6, when it came into possession of my family, this will be a convenient point for stating the previous history of the family. The first member of it concerning whom I have any authentic record, or indeed anything beyond mere tradition, was James Lowry who died intestate. In the year 1665 letters of administration were granted to his eldest son and heir John Lowry. James is described as of Ballynagorry co. Tyrone. I have heard that there is a Townland of that name in the neighbourhood of Strabane.
  
  This is all that I positively know about him. The tradition is that he was a younger son of the family of Laurie of Maxwelton, Dumfries in Scotland. His son John had two wives; the first was Mary Buchanan, by whom he had two sons, viz.- Robert the purchaser of Fynagh; and John who appears at one time to have lived in the county Louth, to have married Mary daughter of Henry Townley, esq., of Aclare, co. Louth, widow of a Mr Foulkes, and to have died about 1698 without issue. His widow married thirdly James Somerville, esq.
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  He bequeathed in trust to his son-in-law Daniel Eccles, and to Alexander M´Clintock as executors, the town and lands of (Aghenis) Ballyboy, and about eight acres in the Townland of Loughmacnab, Killygivin, Tullyancolgan, Lissaaggan, Kiladerry, Legacorry, Beagh, Letterfearne, Arvallee, Edenderry, the truck mill and corn mill, Garvaghlees, Aghagallon, Mullagh, Cranny, Drumgrane, Taltymulmoney, Benefargan, Hallaghan, Hillinana, Cormackellagher, Lisneadin, Backarrenbeg, Tullyenangh and Cornebrecken, to his second surviving son Galbraith Lowry for his life, with remainder to his heirs male.
  
  Failing them to his third surviving son James Lowry and his heirs male, and failing James to Robert, failing male issue of the three sons to the eldest daughter of Galbraith and her heirs male, failing her to her sisters in succession, and their heirs male. Their husbands to take the surname and arms of Lowry. Failing Galbraith´s daughters to James´s daughters under like conditions. To James Lowry his third son for life, and his heir´s male, the manor townlands and ballyboes in Altadesart otherwise Chichester, lying and being in the Barony of Dungannon. Failing James to Galbraith and his heir´s male, failing him to Robert and his heir´s male.
  --  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cotyroneireland/estates/manor2.html
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Sources

• 1. The Two Ulster Manors
  • Name: Longmans, Green & Co; Location: London, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cotyroneireland/estates/manor2.html; Date: 1881;
• 2. Fayette County, Pennsylvania Vital Records, 1750-1890