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Nobles Of Fermanagh

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My great grandfather, John Noble, was born in 1817 in Maguiresbridge. He had at least 2 siblings – Ralph, born 1811, and Alexander, born in 1818. Their father’s name is unknown and their mother was Mary Haley. Ralph was married in Ireland circa 1835 to a Rachel ??. They all came to Canada with their mother (not sure if the father was already deceased as there is no record here in Canada) and Ralph’s two daughters, Elizabeth and Ann. They settled in Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada circa 1840. Alexander married Elizabeth Maize and John married a Jane McMann – daughter of Robert McMann and Sarah Gibson.

I have been trying to track this family line back before the 1800’s without any success to date. There is a possibility that they have descended from Major Arthur Noble born in 1654 and who fought in the Battle of Derry in 1689.

John Noble – Sudbury Ontario Canada

On this Day

April 25

1922 Commandant O’Neill, 3rd Cork Brigade IRA, was shot dead at the home of a Protestant family in Bandon, Co. Cork. In a series of unattributed reprisals, thirteen Protestant civilians were shot dead in the surrounding area over the following four days.
1920 RIC Sergeant Cornelius Crean, brother of the explorer Tom Crean, was killed by the IRA in an ambush near Upton, Co. Cork.
1870 Daniel Maclise (64), history and portrait painter who worked for most of his life in London, died.
1719 The life and strange adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe was published.
1819 Vere Foster, philanthropist and educationist, born in Copenhagen, where his Irish-born father was British minister.
1987 Lord Justice Gibson and his wife were killed by an IRA bomb as they crossed the border south of Newry, Co. Down.
1917 Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer, born in Newport News, Virginia.
1922 Commandant O’Neill of the third Cork Brigade IRA was shot dead at the home of a Protestant family in Bandon, Co. Cork. In a series of unattributed reprisals, thirteen Protestant civilians were shot dead in the surrounding area between 26 and 29 April.
1915 During the First World War, Allied troops landed on Turkey’s Gallipoli Peninsula. The disastrous Gallipoli campaign, ending in January 1916, cost 46,000 Allied lives, including over 2,295 Irishmen.

Nobles Of Fermanagh

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April 25