here<\/a><\/b><\/p>\nAgain, many thanks for sharing this Jerry.<\/strong><\/p>\nDecember 5th 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/h5>\nThis document is <\/em>based on 1827 Tithe Applotment, Completed 1861 Valuation Survey, Drumully Parish Baptismal Records, 1901 Irish census Clogher Record<\/u> 2000 and lots of guessing.<\/em><\/i><\/span><\/h5>\n <\/p>\n
<\/i>This document has been created in a further attempt to answer these questions:<\/span><\/h5>\n\n- How is Patrick Rudden b1830, my gr great grandfather, connected to the Ruddens of Knox, Killynenagh, Co Monaghan, Ireland?<\/li>\n
- How can knowledge of all family groups in Knox East and Knox West be helpful in understanding Patrick Rudden 1830 origin?<\/li>\n
- Who did John Rodden b 1865 in Scotland, son of Patrick Rudden 1830 of Co Monaghan, Ireland visit when he went to Ireland in 1892 and married Annie Connolly of Aghnaskew?<\/li>\n
- I share DNA with a descendant of Rose Rudden born about 1840 who married Patrick McDonald (see table 4).\u00c2\u00a0 Who else was in Rose Rudden\u00e2\u20ac™s family and how might I be connected?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
What is Known:<\/p>\n
\n- Patrick Rudden born abt 1830 went to Scotland abt 1847 and declared he was from Co Monaghan in 1871 Scot census.<\/li>\n
- Patrick\u00e2\u20ac™s son, John b 1865, went to Ireland in 1892 where he worked in Aghnaskew (most likely on the Connolly farm), there he met and married Annie Connolly in the same year.\u00c2\u00a0 Alice Rudden of Coolnacarte, Monaghan reported to me in 2013 that her mother knew of the Rudden boy from Scotland. John, the Rudden from Scotland, visited his cousin in Knox, who was named either John or James Rudden.<\/li>\n
- Patrick clearly did not inherit land or lease of 5 acres.\u00c2\u00a0 Patrick\u00e2\u20ac™s father, thought to be Charles, also did not inherit the lease to 5 acres land.\u00c2\u00a0 These two facts make tracing Patrick back in Ireland a significant challenge, as neither will be recorded in 1827 or 1856.<\/li>\n
- A descendant of a Rose Rudden, believed sister of Hugh Rudden, married to Rose Smyth, and I share some DNA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
What is Assumed:<\/p>\n
\n- Patrick Rudden b 1830 had a brother John abt 1832.\u00c2\u00a0 Support for this idea includes the fact that this Patrick and John Rodden lived almost beside each other most of their adult lives in Scotland.\u00c2\u00a0 They used the traditional naming patterns for their children. \u00c2\u00a0Both used the names Charles and Margaret for children.\u00c2\u00a0 John\u00e2\u20ac™s parents are known from death record of his mother, Margaret Rudden, \u00c2\u00a0the record show that his mother was Margaret Harper\/Harpur and father was Charles Rudden\/Rodden. However while Patrick declared his origin as Co Monaghan, no record of John or his mother, Margaret, describes their origins as Ireland and unfortunately Patrick\u00e2\u20ac™s death record does not list his parents.<\/li>\n
- Ruddens in Co Monaghan were clustered in the south west corner of the county.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Hypothesis:<\/strong>
\nThis Patrick Rudden born 1830 in Co Monaghan and died in December 1885 in Lanarkshire, Scotland was a cousin or brother of one of the two Hugh Ruddens who were present in the 1861 completed Valuation in Knox East, Killynenagh, Monaghan, Ireland. The case will be made that it was Hugh Rudden and Mary McPhillip\u00e2\u20ac™s son, John 1863, who he visited.<\/p>\nSorting it all out using all gathered information <\/strong>
\nFor this inquiry the following documents were used to establish connections, possible connections, and probable connections: 1827 Tithe Applotment, Baptism Registry for Drumully parish RC, 1901 Irish Census.\u00c2\u00a0 Those connections are based on several realities and customs of the times.<\/p>\n\n- Most, if not all, of the residents of Knox, in the first half of the nineteenth century, were poor and illiterate.\u00c2\u00a0 The range of field for searching for spouse was small, usually as far as one could walk with in a day.\u00c2\u00a0 So people married people of the same faith who were close by. People stayed in place.\u00c2\u00a0 So the geography of where people lived very much influenced spouse selection.<\/li>\n
- While many from Knox East left during the famine, those remaining continued on the land of their families.\u00c2\u00a0 As population declined, choices for a spouse also declined.\u00c2\u00a0 Thus records indicate the intermarriage of the few remaining families in this area.<\/li>\n
- \u00c2\u00a0It is assumed that siblings often asked other siblings to be Godparents.\u00c2\u00a0 Based on that assumption, family groups emerge, See Table 6.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
So, who did John Rodden from Scotland visit in 1892 in Knox East?<\/strong>
\nFirst, a look at the trail of Ruddens during the nineteenth century.\u00c2\u00a0 Information is provided through Tithe Applotment, Griffith\u00e2\u20ac™s Valuation, the 1901 Irish Census.<\/p>\n\n- In 1827<\/strong> there were five Rudden lease holders in Knox Eas; Hugh and Pat Rudden, a second Hugh , also James, Owen, John, and Pat .\u00c2\u00a0 Each lease had a number of lots which could have other family members on them.\u00c2\u00a0 When my gr great grandfather, Patrick, was born in 1830, his family was possibly living on one of these lots with other siblings.\u00c2\u00a0 Charles, assumed to be his father, was a laborer, so did not own the land but a cousin or sibling would have.\u00c2\u00a0 After the famine leases were only inherited by the eldest son, which mean all others had to leave, thus the population significantly declined due to deaths and emigration.\u00c2\u00a0 Records indicate that the number of houses in Knox East in 1841 was 22 and by 1851 were 6.\u00c2\u00a0 The population decreased from 149 in 1841 to 30 in 1851.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- In 1856<\/strong> the Griffith\u00e2\u20ac™s Valuation gives yet another view into the residents of the area.\u00c2\u00a0 Knox East was primarily a Rudden townland with 3 of 5 lease holders being Ruddens, Hugh, John, Philip.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0There were the only occupants on each plot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Between 1827 and 1856 was the devastation of the crop failures of 1845, 1846, 1847.\u00c2\u00a0 Subsequently, during the decade from 1841 to 1851 Currin Parish declined from 6,502 to 1,122.\u00c2\u00a0 Knox East population declined from 149 to 30 (Source: Clogher Record 2000 p138) and the number of homes from 22 to 6 on 78 acres.\u00c2\u00a0 This suggests that a significant number of the residents in 1827 where gone by 1856.\u00c2\u00a0 Those six remaining homes had the following core family member.<\/p>\n