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Ann (Corkey) Sleeth (abt. 1832 - 1902)

Ann Sleeth formerly Corkey
Born about in Irelandmap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married 9 Nov 1855 in Mountnorris, Loughgilly, Newry, County Armagh, Irelandmap
Descendants descendants
Mother of
Died at about age 70 in Mountnorris, Loughgilly, Newry, County Armagh, Irelandmap
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Profile last modified | Created 10 Oct 2020
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Biography

Ireland Native
Ann (Corkey) Sleeth was born in Ireland.

Ann (Anne) was born about 1832 (based on her age at death of 70)[1] probably in County Armagh, Ireland. She was the daughter of John Corkey and his unknown wife.

She married Thomas Sleeth on 9 November 1855 at Mountnorris, Loughgilly, Armagh[2]. They had at least nine children.

  1. Agnes Jane (1856 - )
  2. Mary Martha (1858 - )
  3. Maria Elizabeth (1861 - 1896[3])
  4. Anne (1865[4][5] - )
  5. Rachil (1867[6][7] - )
  6. Maud Margaret (1869[8][9] - )
  7. Susanna (Susan) (1871[10][11] - )
  8. Thomas Henry (1874[12][13] - )
  9. William John (1881[14] - )

In 1901 she was living on her husband's farm at Tullyherron, Mountnorris with three children - Agnes (44)J, Thomas H (26) and William J (19) - and a labourer, Patrick Meann[15]. She was a farmer's wife aged 68 who could read and write and was a Presbyterian. Her husband was aged 80.

Anne died on 24 May 1902 at Tullyherron, Mountnorris, Loughgilly, Newry[1], and her death was registered at Newry[16]. She was aged 70 years old. She had been suffering from a malignant disease of the cervical glands for one year. Her son Thomas was the informant.

Research Notes

The name is spelt either Sleith or Sleeth.

Civil registration birth records are available from 1865, hence why there are no records for the first children. Mary Martha is the informant on the birth record for William John, so I suspect that she may have been his mother. Not all details have been found for the children.

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Copy of a death record downloaded from Irishgenealogy.ie Irish Genealogy.ie. Civil Records Death registration. Accessed 24 Feb 2022
    Name: ANNE SLEETH; Date of Death: 1902; Group Registration ID: 4580603; SR District/Reg Area: Newry; Deceased Age at Death: 70
  2. ↑ "Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGVD-YSTS : 4 February 2020), Thomas Sleith and Ann Corky, Marriage 09 Nov 1855, Mountnorris, Loughgilly, Newry, County Armagh, Ireland; citing General Register Office, Dublin; FHL microfilm 101,369. Accessed 10 Oct 2020
  3. ↑ Copy of a death record downloaded from IrishGenealogy Civil Records. Death registration. Accessed 10 Oct 2020
    Name: MARIA LOCKHART; Date of Death: 1896; Group Registration ID: 4100362; SR District/Reg Area: Armagh; Deceased Age at Death: 35
  4. ↑ "Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP5N-F1MR : 17 October 2019), Anne Corkey Sleeth in entry for Anne Sleeth, 6 Feb 1865; Birth; Newry, County Armagh, Ireland; citing General Register Office, Southern Ireland; FHL microfilm. Accessed 10 Oct 2020
  5. ↑ "Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FR92-3QN : 15 February 2020), Anne Corkey in entry for Anne Sleeth, 1865. Accessed 10 Oct 2020
  6. ↑ "Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP8X-869L : 30 January 2020), Anne Corkey in entry for Rachil Heeth, 8 Mar 1867; Birth; Newry, County Armagh, Ireland; citing General Register Office, Southern Ireland; FHL microfilm. Accessed 10 Oct 2020
  7. ↑ "Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F55V-225 : 15 February 2020), Anne Corkey in entry for Rachil Sleeth, 1867. Accessed 10 Oct 2020
  8. ↑ "Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGVQ-57JK : 30 January 2020), Anne Corkey Sleeth in entry for Maud Margaret Sleeth, 21 Jun 1869; Birth; Tullyheran, County Londonderry, Ireland; citing General Register Office, Southern Ireland; FHL microfilm 101,190. Accessed 10 Oct 2020
  9. ↑ "Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F5KD-2FG : 15 February 2020), Anne Corkey in entry for Maud Margaret Sleeth, 1869. Accessed 10 Oct 2020
  10. ↑ "Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGY4-5L2Y : 30 January 2020), Anne Corkey Sleeth in entry for Susanna Sleeth, 12 Nov 1871; Birth; Newry, County Armagh, Ireland; citing General Register Office, Southern Ireland; FHL microfilm 255,832. Accessed 10 Oct 2020
  11. ↑ "Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F5M9-S5F : 15 February 2020), Anne Corkey in entry for Susanna Sleeth, 1871. Accessed 10 Oct 2020
  12. ↑ "Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGY4-Z2SX : 30 January 2020), Anne Corhey [Corkey] Sleeth in entry for Thomas Henry Sleeth, 19 Sep 1874; Birth; Newry, County Armagh, Ireland; citing General Register Office, Southern Ireland; FHL microfilm 255,914. Accessed 10 Oct 2020
  13. ↑ "Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FPMB-WPR : 15 February 2020), Anne C...ehy [Corkey] in entry for Thomas Henry Sleeth, 1874. Accessed 10 Oct 2020
  14. ↑ Copy of a birth record downloaded from Irishgenealogy.ie Irish Genealogy.ie. Civil Records Birth registration. Accessed 24 Feb 2022
    Name: WILLIAM SLEETH; Date of Birth: 1880; Group Registration ID: 9009788; SR District/Reg Area: Newry
  15. ↑ "Ireland Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPBR-XGHH : 30 January 2019), Thomas Sleeth, Mount Norris, County Armagh, Ireland; citing Census, Mount Norris, County Armagh, Ireland, 0000507663, Public Record Office of Ireland, Belfast.
  16. ↑ "Ireland Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FTXV-MYM : 10 March 2018), DEATHS entry for Anne Sleeth; citing Newry, Jul - Sep 1902, vol. 1, p. 505, General Registry, Custom House, Dublin; FHL microfilm 101,601. Accessed 24 Feb 2022




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Stephen Corkey
I've been entering the Ballylane Corkeys basically following David Robinson's research in "Always Turn The Page: The Corkey Story 1600-2000." John Corkey is a candidate to be the father of Ann, but might be a generation too early. I can say the following with absolute certainty: a) he knew her and would have seen her every Sunday at Mountnorris Presbyterian Church (only a mile or so from the farms), and b) he was related to her by no more than 3 or 4 degrees.

Unfortunately we can't say exactly when he was born, we don't know the name of his wife, and we don't know how many children he had. Robinson mentions in passing two daughters who married people in Warrenpoint (one called Lyster), where a second line of Corkeys thought to have split 4 or 5 generations earlier than John are clustered, but I haven't found their details. John also had a son Isaac but we don't know when he was born, just that he was farming his own land by 1864. The best attested child is Martha who emigrated in the 1830s and married Johannes Sloat in 1839, before dying young, she's on Findagrave with a birthdate of 1814. If she was the first child of John's bride, and John's bride was young enough, say 20, she could have still born children in 1832 aged 38. It's worth noting John's three younger brothers married in 1817 and 1818 and Joseph in particular was having children right up to 1847 (although in fairness he switched to a younger wife midway). We don't know anything about John's wife, or wives, maybe he also had two, or more!

So that's the argument for, but the argument against (apart from most of that being speculation) is that there were other Corkeys around Ballylane, Mountnorris and Markethill. There's a family on the 1901 census in Markethill I can't connect to any of my 6 brothers' branches. If they were there in 1901 their daddies and granddaddies would be around in the 1830s. Maybe (John's father) Samuel had brothers, maybe his father had brothers, and there was another John descending from them without any birth or marriage records, who died before the 1901 census, and whose grave is unmarked.

But in terms of known, documented John Corkeys living in that particular corner of Armagh at that particular time period - yer man here is all there is.

posted by Stephen Corkey

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