The Titteringtons of Northern Ireland

My family branch originates from Belfast, Ireland. In 2009, I began searching for direct Irish lineage toward an Irish Residency Application for my mother, with just a few photos and limited first-hand information, derived from personal contact with my great grandmother, or from my mother who spent many summers with Margaret Fowler and her siblings. Thankfully, with the help of other dedicated researchers, collaboratively we expanded our Titterington family history, as well as found living members.

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Margaret Fowler Titterington, my great grandmother, was born in 1891 and died in 1984, under the care of my grandmother. Margaret Fowler was one of 13 children of John Titterington and Margaret Rose McCutcheon of Belfast. Her siblings included twins and some who did not survive into early childhood, and other family members who died in Protestant/Catholic bombings. My great grandmother was present throughout my life, and I had a close relationship with her, as did her siblings and extended family.

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She, being the first to immigrate to the United States and obtain citizenship, sponsored other family members in her home while they obtained their residency.  Some family never immigrated and stayed in Ireland.  Although separated by an ocean, the family remained close and frequently visited one another via ship using the port of Detroit/Windsor or port of St. Albans, VT.  

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In 1913, Margaret married a silversmith named Heinrich Robert Schram(m), from Rippin, Russia, whose father Eduard was a Fabergé egg maker.  Together Margaret and Henry held homes in MI and Canada, where the rest of the family also settled and gathered for family reunions.  Margaret and Henry, had only one child named Marguerite, born in 1917. Later after Heinrich’s death, Margaret was remarried to a childhood sweetheart from Belfast named Hugh Quee.