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Wb12 The Family and Descendants of Richard Titterington and Mary Morrow

Richard Titterington and Mary Morrow's family comprised the following children:-

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John, who married Elizabeth McClure

Robert who married Margaret

Richard 

And Burrows

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Find out more about some of the descendants of Richard and Mary in the following pages.

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The Family of John Titterington and Elizabeth McClure

John and Elizabeth's family comprised the following children:-

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Richard who married Isabella Mathieson

Trevor who married Sarah Catney

John who married Jane Palmer

William who married Eliza Gilligan

David who married Elizabeth Gibson

and their daughters, Isabella and Eliza.

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Richard and Isabella Mathieson are the common ancestors for two of our researchers - Lee and Lesley - see Wb12 (i) and Wb12 (iii).

 

Read on to find out a little more about their lives and also the lives and families of some of the other children in John and Elizabeth's family.

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Wb12 (i) John Titterington b.c. 1780 and Elizabeth McClure of Ballykeel-Artifinny

Researcher:  This tree has been compiled by Lee who lives in the USA.  This is to where his ancestors immigrated, from Scotland, but they originated in Northern Ireland.  

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The head of this tree is John Titterington and Elizabeth McClure, and Lee's line descends from their son Richard and his wife, Isabella Mathieson. John and Elizabeth's youngest son, David leaves us a will in 1894 which helps to confirm some of his siblings and wider family.

 

 

 

 

The tree has over 250  people in 7 generations and  comprises a number of Fleshers/butchers.  It seems that John’s first born son was called Richard.  It is likely that they used the naming pattern, and thereby we might assume that John born say abt 1776 was the son of Richard. 

 

Lee’s great grandfather, John Titterington, was born in Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland.   Lee’s grandfather, David Titterington, was born in Glasgow, and did come to the United States  to stay in 1909.  Before that, he had lived in Glasgow, and in Belfast, and had made at least one other trip to the U.S. before 1909.  He was particularly close to a cousin, John (better known as Jack) Titterington, who had emigrated to the United States before him.  

 

Cousin Jack had married, and had a family in Ireland, before emigrating, but he left that family behind, and once in the United States, he married again, and established a new family.  

 

Lee’s grandfather David, who was a grandson of Richard Titterington and Isabella Mathieson,,, and cousin Jack lived in various places in New England, but almost always very close to each other.  Their families lived on the same street in Bradford, Rhode Island, and worked at the same mill in Bradford, in 1926, when cousin Jack died.  David and John Titterington were even arrested in Boston for wearing Orange sashes.  As a result, this branch of the Titterington clan includes members living in the United States, and also in Northern Ireland.  

 

Just a few years ago, Lee attended a reunion of Titteringtons in Westerly, Rhode Island, which included Tracey B of Westerly and John  of Bangor, Northern Ireland.  Both Tracey and John are great grandchildren of the wandering cousin Jack, even though they grew up on opposite sides of the Atlantic.

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Names that appear include David Titterington, Susan Freeburn, Catney, Eardley, Gilligan, Hunter,   McClure,  Wilson  and Megaw.

 

Locations in Ireland mentioned in this tree include Ballykeel-Artifinny, Belfast, , Hillsborough, Lisadian, Reilly’s Trench,  Glasgow and Rhode Island, US.

 

 

 

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David Titterington and Frances Mitchell

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Cousin Jack had a brother David.  David was married to Frances Mitchell and they were the grandparents to Albert.  In 1911, David had been married to Frances for 6 years.

 

On 29th  April, 1906 David travelled to the US as a non immigrant alien.  He was a Traveller and was visiting his brother John Titterington.

 

Lee says: "Albert’s grandfather David married Frances Mitchell in 1904. The 1911 Irish census lists David Titterington living with Frances and two children at 13 Calvin Street, Belfast.  The two children are William, 5, and David, 4.

 

From the cemetery at Dundonald we learn that Frances Titterington, daughter of Margaret Houston Mitchell, died 5 January 1951. Margaret Houston Titterington died 19 October 1913.

 

David Titterington, husband of Frances, died 30 October 1953. Also Stanley Houston,son of David and Frances, died 1 October 2000, aged 79 years. 

 

Titterington David of 418 Woodstock Road Belfast, a retired linen finisher died 30 October 1953 at Musgrave Park Hospital Belfast.  Administration Belfast 23 November to Stanley Houston Titterington head storekeeper. Effects £436 19s. 7d.  David served as a Major in WW1 and Frances was a nurse.

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Wb12 (iii) Richard Titterington and Isabella Mathieson

Researcher:  Lesley

 

Lesley’s research shows that her branch of the Titterington tree descends from John Titterington and Elizabeth McClure.  Elizabeth McClure died in 1850 at Reilly's Trench, the home of their son, Trevor.  Records from Hillsborough show that she was aged 73 at her death in 1850 and John is recorded as being 62 years of age, a labourer when he died.

 

Their son, Richard was married in 1825 to Isabella Mathieson (1804-1974) in Annahilt.  Isabella’s death is recorded by their son David in 1874, as she was living with him and his family.

 

Richard had a daughter, Sarah.  She was born in 1846 and died in 1926.  Her mother was Elizabeth Boreland, but a record of her ever being married to Richard has not been found.  Sarah married Robert Porter (1847 - 1913) in Banbridge 1867, and went to Scotland along with all her half brothers and one half sister, Isabella, after she married with two children Robert and Eliza.   Lesley’s research has found them living in Denistoun at 174 Millburn Street, (1881 - 1901) where she is listed as a grocer in 1915 in the Valuation Rolls.

 

The brothers Richard, John and David, sons of Richard and Isabella, went to Glasgow to work at the Garngad Works, which was a chemical factory. Their Uncle William (b. 1817) also worked in Glasgow.

 

Richard (b. 1836) was living at 39 Rosemount Street - very near to Millburn Street from 1881 to 1901.  He was a widower by 1901.  Lesley believes that Mary Mulholland (1852) may have been his second wife, as by 1881 Mary Jane (born in Ireland) had two children, Samuel J and Eliza J who were 14 and 10.  

 

David Titterington (b. 1841) went to Scotland accompanied by his wife Susan Freeborne,  Thomas Titterington (b. 1853) also went at the same time, (before 1871), and they were living with brother John (b. 1838) at 79 Millburn Street in the census of 1871.  David and Susan must have returned to Ireland shortly after as all their children are recorded as being born in Ireland. 

 

Thomas's Wife Agnes Johnston came to Glasgow with two elder sisters whose husbands worked also at the Garngad, and they lived in the Tenements on Millburn Street. Agnes met and then married Thomas in Glasgow although we do not know if she knew him from Hillsborough.  She was born in Clogher, near to Hillsborough, and her older brother Henry was one of the wardens at Hillsborough Fort.

 

Richard and Isabella’s daughter, Isabella (15/2/1844 – 1915), died in the poorhouse. She was married to Samuel Baillie/Bailey (1845 - 1893) and they are also living at 176 Millburn Street in 1871,  until 1901 when they are living at  262 Garngad Road.

 

Both Samuel Bailey (1845-1893) and Thomas Titterington (1853-1895) died grisly deaths, believed to be due to the bad conditions at the chemical works.  Further reading on the working and employment conditions is available in “The Garngad: Heaven and Hell” by Ian R. Mitchell.

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