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The Widney
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Udny
Family of Scotland and
Ireland
Copyright 2014,
2020
Loretta
Lynn
Layman, Author of "Barony of Lynn", The
Scottish Genealogist,
Vol. LVII No. 1, The Scottish Genealogy
Society, Edinburgh (March 2010)
Lynneage
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comcast
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net
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Note: Generations 3-7 lived in Killymurry, County Monaghan,
Ireland, with title to Killymurry belonging to Generations 4-7. is
believed but not absolutely proven to be a direct lineage, but they
are doubtless of the same family. In addition, Generations 4-5 are proven
by original documentation of the period to be a direct paternal
relationship, and Generations 5-7 almost certainly represent a
direct lineage given that the man in Generation 7 sold the property
owned and passed down by Generation 4.
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Generation 6
John Widney of Killymurry
JOHN
WIDNEY
was born between 1725 and 1730 in Killymurry, County Monaghan, Ireland. He was the son of
James Widney
II and his wife, Ann Carlisle. His date of birth
is deduced from his parents' marriage and the known birth date of
his own eldest child. His wife was Mary Wilson of Ballybay,
County Monaghan.1/ She was born
about
1732
and died about 1790. Dr. Linn wrote that his 2nd-great-grandparents
were James Widney and Mary Wilson; but marriage
bonds were registered for John
Widney and Mary Wilson in
the Clogher Diocese, which covers County Monaghan, in 1751.
That marriage took place just two years before the birth
of Dr. Linn's Widney great-grandfather.2/
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1/
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A History of a Fragment of the Clan Linn,
Dr. George Wilds Linns (1905), p. 23
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2/
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Public Record
Office of Northern Ireland : Marriage License
Bonds, Diocese of Clogher
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John
Widney was the father of seven children, the last of
whom was born in 1768. He is believed to have died
about 1770.
The children of John and Mary (Wilson) Widney are :
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JAMES WIDNEY, b.
1753 in
Killymurry,
County Monaghan, Ireland; d. 1835 in Concord,
Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Widney-24&public=1
: WikiTree Profile of James Widney
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SARAH WIDNEY, b. 1757 in
Killymurry,
County Monaghan, Ireland; d. 18 February 1810 in
Concord, Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Widney-16&public=1
: WikiTree Profile of Sarah (Widney) Linn
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MARGARET WIDNEY, b. 1758 in Killymurry, County Monaghan, Ireland; d.
22 December 1813 in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio. In 1779,
Margaret Widney of Emyvale, County Monaghan married William
Williams in Glaslough.
The Groves, Lappan; [Monaghan County, Ireland]. An Account
of a Pilgrimage Thither,
John Fletcher Williams, Saint Paul (1889), pp. 25, 58
Leaves from an Autobiography, Samuel Williams [son
of Margaret (Widney) Williams], The
Ladies Repository (1851)
https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Widney-18&public=1
: WikiTree Profile of Margaret (Widney) Williams
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NICHOLAS WIDNEY, b. 1759-1762 in
Killymurry,
County Monaghan, Ireland; d. bef. 1765
in Killymurry.
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CHARLES WIDNEY, b. 1 January 1763 in
Killymurry,
County Monaghan, Ireland; d.
13 March 1844 in Concord, Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Widney-27&public=1
: WikiTree Profile of Charles Widney
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JOHN WIDNEY, b. 9 February 1766 in
Killymurry,
County Monaghan, Ireland; d. 29 June 1836
in Piqua, Miami County, Ohio.
https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Widney-28&public=1
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WikiTree Profile of John Widney including a page from his family Bible
on which he wrote that he was "born in the County of
Monahan, Ireland".
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MARY ANN WIDNEY, b. 1768 in
Killymurry,
County Monaghan, Ireland; d. 1843; m. Thomas Wright.
https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Widney-29&public=1
: WikiTree Profile of Mary Ann (Widney) Wright
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For a complete record of the Widney family of
Ireland through the end of the 18th century,
the evidence of their Scottish roots, and a
discussion of Widney origins as told by Dr.
George
Wilds
Linn, see :
Widney/Woodney/Udny
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