John, son of John Sproule of Ardvarney West

Written by Larry McKay, descendant of John Sproule of Ardvarney West

In the previous post on the family of John Sproule of Ardvarney West, Chateauguay Valley Protestant Church records showed John of Ardvarney West and Mary Toner were parents to a set of twins. They were John and Mary born March 21/1824 in Hemmingford, Quebec and baptised March 23/1824. I found this unusual because it was a very quick baptism, which sometimes indicates the infants didn’t have a long life expectancy. And since there wasn’t anymore records to be found for them I assumed they were deceased.

As genealogists and family history enthusiasts we rely on the research of those that have gone before. Much of that research is based on personal knowledge because they never had internet or access to documents we take for granted today. For example the trees compiled by John Inch and later Jack Elder, who probably referenced John Inch’s tree in his research of the Sproule family.

So I checked Jack Elder’s tree to see if he had anything on the family of John Sproule of Ardvarney West and the twins. John Sr. did appear on the tree with first wife Ann Edwards and an indication of a second wife but no name. It also shows he emigrated to Ormstown, Quebec.  The Elder tree shows only one child of John of Ardvarney West. It names son John Sproule, his wife Phoebe Porter and their children Ann, Phoebe and William J. of Montreal.

 It stands to reason that John Sr. would name his first born son John, after his grandfather John “Jack Roe” Sproule. I had John Sproule and Phoebe Porter in my tree as the son of John Sproule of Ardvarney West for years just because it seemed the only place they fit. I didn’t include them in the last post because there is very little documentation on John and Phoebe Sproule and certainly none connecting them to John Sproule of Ardvarney West. There is no documented evidence of when he was born or died, at least that I can find. John Sr.’s next son is Edward born 1805, so one could guess John Jr. was born about 1803. I have found a death date of May 18/1848 on more than one online tree, no documentation, no sources. We all know about online trees, most have John Sproule of Ardvarney West as the husband of Phoebe Porter, which we know is certainly not true. Now let’s bear in mind, if this John was born in 1803, or thereabouts, and John Inch ( his supposed cousin ) was born in 1795, it’s a very good chance they were known to each other. And if Jack Elder got this information from John Inch it would be very credible.

So lets try to match this John as the son of John Sproule of Ardvarney West with the little we know about him. Lets start with his marriage to Phoebe Porter. They were married in 1829 in Armagh ( 1 ). You will notice no reference to parents. So John did not move to Canada with the rest of his family in 1823.

From Indexes to Wills, Probate Administration, Marriage Bonds and Licences

The next known record is the 1842 Canada East Census ( Quebec ) ( 2 ). He is living in the city of Montreal listed as John Sproll, non proprietaire de biens-fonds ( renter ) and his occupation is journalier ( day labourer ). The family consists of four members which would include his wife Phoebe, daughter Ann and son James Alexander. This appears to be the only census that John or any of his descendants ever participated in making them very hard to track.

From 1842 Canada East Census

James Alexander Sproule, their son, was born November 4/1836 in Montreal, Quebec and baptized August 20/1837 ( 3 ) at the Anglican Christchurch Cathedral in Montreal, Quebec.

The baptism record of James,
son of John Sproul and Phoebe Porter

John and Phoebe’s daughter Ann may be the person that may connect her father to John of Ardvarney West. Ann was born January 20/1834 and baptized July 24/1834 in the Drummondville Anglican Church in Drummondville, Quebec. ( 4 )

The baptism record of Ann,
daughter of John Sproul and Phoebe Porter

Ann was married May 2/1850 to John Convery ( 5 ) at the Congregational Church of Zion in Montreal, Quebec. You will notice that the names of the parents are not on this document, but there are some clues as to Ann’s parents. Firstly, she is obviously a minor at 16, and required her parents consent, which is noted. And it appears her mother is her only surviving parent, which coincides with the undocumented death date of her father John in 1848.

Marriage record of Ann Sproul and John Convery

This record also has as witnesses Mary and Margaret Sproul. Some online trees have mistakenly, I believe, added them as sisters of Ann, with parents John and Phoebe. Just a misleading assumption based on this document. There are two Marys and two Margarets that are age appropriate, living in the area that seem to fit. And they all are connected to John of Ardvarney West. Daughter Margaret born 1826 wasn’t married to Alexander Brown until 1856, so she was still a Sproule. The second is Margaret Dundas married to John Sr.’s son Edward. One Mary is Mary Whelon married to John Sr.’s son William. The other Mary could be John and Mary Toner’s twin daughter, if she survived to adulthood. But the most convincing evidence of this Ann being the daughter of John Sproule and Phoebe Porter, is another church record of a marriage. The marriage of William Sutcliffe to Phoebe Ann Convery February 7/1872 in the Congregational Church of Zion in Montreal, Quebec ( 6 ). Clearly Ann Sproule Convery named her daughter after her mother Phoebe Porter.

Marriage of Phoebe Ann Convery
 and William Sutcliffe

So we now know that the Ann Sproule that married John Convery is most likely the daughter of John Sproule and Phoebe Porter. Which raises the question, are the witnesses, Mary and Margaret Sproule, connected to John of Ardvarney and stepsisters or sister-in-laws of John Sproule of Montreal or a combination of the four? It is possible. Since it had been proven John Sproule of Montreal died before his daughter’s marriage in 1850, he certainly wasn’t the John that inherited land from John of Ardvarney West in 1853:  

No 695 June 22, 1853 Will John Sproull snr leaves to John Sproull his son W2 lot 21 3rd concession Ormstown.

So the only John it could be is the twin born in 1824. If the one twin survived, it is possible that the other twin survived as well to be a witness at a wedding. There are two many matching names in Jack Elder’s tree. It had to be correct.

But why two sons named John? Well,  If John Jr. of Montreal was born in 1803, by the time his father married Mary Toner he was a grown man. Perhaps he had a strong view on the religious difference and he and his father had a huge blowout. And basically disowned each other. That’s why he stayed behind in Ireland. Even after he moved to Canada he didn’t seem involved with the rest of the seemingly close knit family. He didn’t live in the Chateauguay Valley with the rest of them, he lived in the city. Even William who was left in Ireland was accepted with open arms.  John and eldest son John got revenge on each other. John Sr. named Mary Toner’s first son John and John Jr. didn’t name his first and only son John, he named him James. I don’t see John Sr. or his family holding any animosity towards the family of John Jr. I can still see Mary and Margaret being witnesses at the marriage of their niece Ann. It was probably just bad blood between father and son, who was no longer around.

 Sources / Illustrations

( 1 ) Ireland,Indexes to Wills, Probate Administration, Marriage Bonds and Licences,1591-1866,  Ancestry.com

( 2 ) 1842 Canada East Census for John Sproll, Ancestry.com

( 3 ) Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968 : Institut Généalogique Drouin; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Drouin Collection; Author: Gabriel Drouin, comp., Ancestry.com

( 4 ) Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968 : Institut Généalogique Drouin; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Drouin Collection; Author: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Ancstry.com

( 5 ) Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records(Drouin Collection), 1621-1968 : Institut Généalogique Drouin; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Drouin Collection; Author: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Ancestry.com

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Part 3 - John ‘Jack Roe’ Sproule of Curraghamulkin, the Record of his Death

 I have to explain before going any further that the name John Sproule of Curraghamulkin is not in the deeds. Well actually, it is in one deed that I found in PRONI, only there it is mis-transcribed as ‘Cornamulkin’.

As we know, people long ago here in Donegal and Tyrone were named for the place that they lived. This could be a townland, or an area within a townland or a house name. So John Sproule lived in Curraghamulkin at one time, and he was then called John Sproule of Curraghamulkin. Then he moved to Glenvale, where Edward Sproule his son later lived, this is also in Curraghamulkin. So he was known at some point as John Sproule of Glenvale.

 Then he moved to a place called Cornear, or Corrynear or Coranear. It was in this place that John Sproule died. So John Sproule of Curraghamulkin ended his life with the name John Sproule of Cornear. This is the name he goes by in the deeds.

So in a deed dated 25 Aug 1812 concerning the land of Ardnvarny in Fermanagh, we find him named as John Sproule of Cornear. The Ardvarny land gave rise to many deeds, and I will go in to these later. For now we know that John Sproule of Cornear is the man we know as John ‘Jack Roe’ Sproule of Curraghamulkin. The witness on this deed is, by the way, Henry Sproule of Cornear, who had the Cornear land after his father, John, died.  Henry is listed as a freeholder in Cornear.

Cornear, I have discovered, is an area in the townland of Cornavarrow, deep in Curraghamulkin Sproule country. We now know that John Sproule lived there, and  and this also gives us his date of death. There is a record of a will for  John Sproule of Cornear who died in 1814. This is our John Sproule of Curraghamulkin and Cornear. 

There is a listing for this will but the will itself does not exist.

 

Deed with John Sproule of ‘Cornamulkin’ is - Repository :  Public Record Office for Northern Ireland PRONI Reference :     D674/19. This deed concerns the Ardvarny land in Fermanagh.

Deed with John Sproule of Cornear - 654 131 449901 Nehmiah Edwards, Edward Sproule of Glenvale and John Sproule of Cornear, Registry of Deeds, Familysearch.org. This deed also concerns Ardvarny.

Death of John Sproule of Cornear 1814 - Ireland, Diocesan and Prerogative Wills & Administrations Indexes, 1595-1858 https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/3460908

Cornavarrow townland - https://www.townlands.ie/tyrone/west-omagh/longfield-east/drumquin/cornavarrow/

Part 1 John ‘Jack Roe’ Sproule of Curraghamulkin - The Context

Part 2 - John ‘Jack Roe’ Sproule of Curraghamulkin, Pieces of the Jigsaw.

Part 4 - John ‘Jack Roe’ Sproule of Curraghamulkin – and the Second Wife

The Golan Sproules

This is the family tree of the Golan Spoules of County Tyrone, Ireland.This tree was originally named 'the Nabob Spoules' by Jack Elder. The tree is now updated, with verified information from Deeds and Wills. I have managed to get further back than Elder, so I have changed the family name to reflect the first Sproules of this line in  County Tyrone, Ireland - the Golan Sproules. For more information on this see The Ancestors of The Nabob – the Golan Sproules.

1.       THOMAS SPREULL OF GOLAN was born about 1680 in Golan, south-east of Castlederg in County Tyrone, the son of Samuel Sproule of Golan. Thomas of Golan first appears on a deed in 1718 witnessing a deed for Cornet Andrew Spreull.  He is called a distiller in some documents and as owner of a bleachgreen in others. Thomas Spreull died in 1761 in Golan and left a will naming  his wife MARY and his three sons, James, Samuel and John the Apocethary. The land in Golan and Drumnabeigh had already passed to Oliver, the son of Thomas'  oldest son Robert. The name is spelt ‘Spreull’ on most of the early documents. It is worth noting that the name is spelt 'Sproull' on most of the documents from the 1800s.

Thomas Sproule of Golan and Mary had the following children:

1.1   ROBERT SPREULL OF GOLAN was born about 1700 in Golan, Ardstraw, Tyrone, Ireland. He died in 1734. He married MARTHA EDWARDS, born about 1707, the daughter of Robert Edwards of Kilcroagh and Martha La Vie  and they had at least two children:

1.1.1  OLIVER SPROULE OF GOLAN was born in 1723 in Ardstraw, Tyrone, Northern Ireland. In a deed dated 1764 Oliver is confirmed as owning all of the land owned by his grandfather, Thomas of Golan. Oliver’s son Andrew Sproule moved to Spamount and he is the father of all the Spamount Sproules.

1.1.1.1  ANDREW SPROULE OF SPAMOUNT was born on 26 Apr 1741 in Golan, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland.  He married twice, first to REBECCA who was born about 1741 and she died on 06 Jan 1776. He then married ISABELLA on 07 Jan 1781. Isabella was born in 1742 and she died on 17 Jul 1812 in Spamount, Ardstraw, County Tyrone (Aged 70).  Andrew of Spamount died on 21 Feb 1798 in Dublin. 

1.1.1.2    ROBERT SPROULE OF GOLAN was born in 1747.

1.1.1.3    SARAH SPROULE OF SPAMOUNT was born in 1747. She married a man named WETHERALL.

1.1.1.4    JAMES SPROULE was born in 1752.

1.1.1.5    UNKNOWN SPROULE She married HUGH KELSO. He was born in Ardstraw, Tyrone, Ireland. He died in 1797 in Ardstraw, Tyrone, Ireland.

1.1.2  MARTHA SPROULE OF GOLAN was born about 1730 in Golan. She married JOHN "JACK ROE" SPROULE of Curraghamulkin, son of  of Joseph Sproule and grandson of Cornet Andrew Spreull.

1.1.2.1    JOSEPH SPROULE OF CLOVER HILL, Kirlish, County Tyrone was born about 1750 and he married REBECCA PORTER, born in 1756 in Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland. Joseph was the father of the Kirlish Sproules. His wife Rebecca died in Kirlish 1850 in, County Tryone, Ireland (Aged 94).

1.1.2.2    MARTHA SPROULE OF CURRAGHAMULKIN was born about 15 May 1766. She married George Sproule, son of Charles Sproule of Upper Grennan and Ann Wallace, on 28 Jan 1787. George was born on 17 Nov 1755. They moved to Crillan, County Fermanagh, and they are the ancestors of this line of the family. George  died on 03 May 1838 in Crillan and Martha Sproule died on 22 Apr 1844 in Crillan.

1.1.2.3    ANNE SPROULE OF CURRAGHAMULKIN was born in 1771 and she married three husbands. First she married LEONARD INCH in 1792. He was born in 1770 and died in 1798 in Ederney Bridge, Fermanagh, Irleland. (Buried at Drumquin). She next married WILLIAM JOHNSTON in 1800 and he died in 1801. Anne married JOHN HOLMES on 15 Oct 1802 in St. Marys Church, Ardess, Magheraculmoney. Both John Holmes and his wife Anne Sproule died in 1813.

1.1.2.4    ELIZABETH "BETTY" SPROULE OF CURRAGHAMULKIN was born in 1775 and she married her first cousin, NEHEMIAH EDWARDS of Kilcroagh House, Castlederg, Co. Tyrone who was born in 1761.  Nehemiah died on 05 Apr 1846 in Kilcroagh House (Aged 85). Betty Sproule died on 24 Nov 1859 in Kilcroagh House, Castlederg, Co. Tyrone  aged 84.

1.1.2.5    ROBERT SPROULE OF CURRAGHAMULKIN  married PEGGY WALLACE

1.1.2.6    THOMAS SPROULE OF CURRAGHMULKIN married MARY MCCOLGAN.

1.1.2.7    CAPTAIN EDWARD SPROULE OF GLENVALE DROMORE married ANN HARPER OF AGHADULLA.

1.1.2.8    HENRY SPROULE OF CURRAGHAMULKIN.

1.1.2.9    JOHN SPROULE OF ADVARNEY WEST died between 1851-1855 in Ormstown, Quebec, Canada. He married   a woman called Ann.

1.1.2.10 ANDREW SPROULE OF CURRAGHAMULKIN owned the lands of Curraghmulkin, Screen and Cooel. He died in 1799 and his wife’s name was Ann.  His son Andrew Sproule bought the Magheracrigan land and he became Andrew of Magheracrigan that is on the Elder Tree.

1.2   JAMES SPROULE OF NEWTONSTEWART was born in Golan. I know very little of James as yet. He is mentioned in leases of 1733, also in the Will of Thomas of Golan of 1761, and later when the inherritance was divided up between the three brothers Samuel, John and James. He had a son Edward who is mentioned in a 1733 deed, and is later identified in a deed as having died in America. 

1.3   JOHN SPROULE THE APOTHECARY was born on 11 Oct 1713 in Golan, Ardstraw, County Tyrone. He studied as an Apocethary in Strabane and then went into the Army. He came back to Strabane to his own Apocethary practice. He also was a Provost in Strabane. He died on 21 May 1787. He married REBECCA CUNNINGHAM. She was born on 21 Mar 1720 and died on 06 Nov 1772 in Strabane.

1.3.1   JOHN  SPROULE was born on 09 Jul 1747. He was also a doctor and went to live in Beresford Street, and then Marlborough Street in Dublin where he died in Nov 1814. He married ELIZABETH BOSQUET in 1773 who came from Enniskillen.

1.3.2    JANE SPROULE was born in 1748. She died on 22 Jul 1828 in Castletown, Tyrone (Aged 80). She married her first cousin Robert Sproule the Nabob, son of Samuel Sproule of Coolnacruniagh on 27 Sep 1785.  They had one child, Rebecca Jane born on the 16 December 1790  in India, who died in 1810 in Exeter, England.

1.3.3    MARY SPROULE was born on 16 Oct 1749. Mary did not marry. She lived in Exeter with her sister Jane and Robert the Nabob  when they came home from India.

1.3.4    REBECCA SPROULE was born in 1750 in Strabane, Tyrone, Ireland. She married John Barclay, son of Robert Barclay of Strabane, on 18 Jan 1774. He was born about 1750 in Strabane, Tyrone.

1.3.5    JAMES SPROULE MD was doctor in Omagh. He was born on 28 Aug 1754 in Strabane and he died in 1791. His wife was Ann and she died on 15 Mar 1858 in Omagh (Aged 76).  Based on information on deeds, I believe that they had no children.

1.3.6    CATHERINE SPROULE was born in 1756 in Strabane, Tyrone, Ireland. She married Frederick Porter of Strabane on 16 May 1785. He was born about 1750 .

1.4   SAMUEL SPROULE OF COOLNACRUNIAGH was born about 1711 in Golan, south-east of Castlederg, County Tyrone. He died about 1779 in Coolnacrunaght.

1.4.1   THOMAS SPROULE OF BRIDGEHILL was born about 1730 in Coolnacrunaght, he lived in the nearby Bridgehill farm.

1.4.1.1. SARAH SPROULE (SALLY) was born about 1762 in Bridgehill, Ardstraw, Tyrone. She lived at Bridgehill in her later years.

1.4.1.2.  SAMUEL SPROULE OF BRIDGEHILL was born in 1759 in Bridgehill, Ardstraw, Tyrone and he married FRANCIS LEITCH (Fanny). They  raised 9 children at Bridgehill . Samuel of Bridgehill died on 05 Nov 1845.

1.4.1.3.  JAMES SPROULE OF INCHANEY was born in Bridgehill. He married Sarah in 1800 (From 1802 Robert of Ohio Letter). They had 11 children including Robert Sproule who built the Kildevin House in County Meath. Sarah died on 08 Feb 1840. James of Inchaney died in 1827 in Inchaney, Tyrone, Ireland.

1.4.1.4.  FRANCIS SPROULE was born in 1755 in Bridgehill, Ardstraw, Tyrone.. She married  a man named JAMES HAYS. He was born in 1746 in Tyrone and he had a child called Isabella by his first marriage. They emigrated to America, to  South Carolina.  Here James Hays  died in 1799 in Newberry, South Carolina, USA leaving Francis Sproule with three children, Isabella, James Jn and Sara Hays. Isabella Hays married Robert Sproule, brother of her step-mother Francis. Francis Sproule died in 1811 in Union Township, Ohio, USA.

1.4.1.5.  ROBERT SPROULE OF OHIO was born on 13 Feb 1775 in Bridgehill, Tyrone, Ireland. He married Isabella Hays, daughter of James Hays, on 04 Apr 1801 in Newberry County, South Carolina. Isabella Hays was born on 25 Nov 1782 in Tyrone, Ireland. Robert and Isabella had 12 children and I believe they have the most descendants of all of the Sproules. Isabella died on 02 Apr 1868 in Miami County, Ohio (Age: 76). Robert of Ohio died on 14 Jun 1858 in Elizabeth, Miami, Ohio, United States (Age at Death: 83).

1.4.1.6.  ANN (NANCY)  KERR was born about 1760 in Bridgehill, County Tyrone. She married  JAMES KERR who was born about 1755 in Tyrone. They went to live in Pitsburg, Pennsylvania where he died on 14 Jul 1845 (Age: 90). Nancy Sproule died in May 1850 in Pitsburg.

1.4.2     ROBERT SPROULE THE NABOB was born in 1746 in Coolnacrunaght, Ardstraw, Tyrone, Ireland. He married his first cousin Jane Sproule, daughter of his uncle John Sproule the Apothecary  on 27 Sep 1785.  Robert was a surgeon in India and he came back in 1785 to marry Jane. They then travelled back to India. Eventually they retired to a mansion in Exeter in England, but Robert the Nabob died shortly afterwards in 1807. They had one daughter, Rebecca Jane, who was born in India. Rebecca died in 1810 in Exeter. Jane Sproule sold up and came back to Ireland where she lived in Castletown, County Tyrone. She died there on 22 Jul 1828, aged 80.

1.4.3   ELIZABETH SPROULE was born in Coolnacrunaght, Ardstraw, Tyrone, Ireland. She married a  MISTER RANKIN.

1.4.4     MARTHA SPROULE OF COOLNACRUNIAGH was born about 1750 in Coolnacrunaght, Ardstraw, Tyrone, Ireland. She married ANDREW SPROULE OF TULLYMOAN, son of William Sproule. He was born about 1740 in Tullymoan, Urney, County Tyrone. Martha died in 1820 in Tullymoan, Urney, County Tyrone, Ireland. They had five sons.

1.4.4.1.  ROBERT SPROULE OF STRABANE was born about 1773 in Tullymoan, Urney, County Tyrone. He died in Jun 1834 in Strabane. He married ANN LECKY who was born in Altamullen, Tyrone, Ireland. They had two children, Robert of Jamaica and Mulvin, and Matila who married William Gwynne of Strabane.

1.4.4.2.  SAMUEL SPROULE MD was born in 1774 in Tullymoan, Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He was a surgeon in the East India Company and was based in Bombay, India. He married Eliza Walker, daughter of William Walker, on 10 Nov 1818 in Bowland (Samuel 42 , Eliza 22).  Eliza  was born in 1796 and she died on 06 Nov 1827 in Cheltenham.  (Aged 31). Samuel died on 30 May 1829 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (Aged 53). They had one daughter Ann Jane Sproule who married Sir John Rivett-Carnac.

1.4.4.3.  WILLIAM SPROULE was born about 1785 in Tullymoan, Urney, County Tyrone, Ireland. He died about 1827 in Glentimon,  County Tyrone. He married  ANN KNOX who was born in Glentimon, Tyrone, Ireland. She died on 12 Jun 1847 in Glentimon, Tyrone. They had one son Samuel Sproule who became a surgeon in the East India Company. Samuel married his first cousin Margaret Madden Sproule, daughter of James Sproule of Mellmount..

1.4.4.4.  ANDREW SPROULE OF TULLYMOAN was born about 1770 in Tullymoan, Urney, County Tyrone, Ireland. He died after 1840. He married  REBECCA MACKEY who was born in 1774 in Lismontigley, Raphoe, Donegal. She died on 01 Feb 1858 in Tullymoan, Urney, County Tyrone, Ireland (Aged 84).  Andrew and Rebecca had eight children.

1.4.4.5.  JAMES SPROULE OF MELLMOUNT was born in Tullymoan, Urney, County Tyrone, Ireland.  He lived most of his adult live as a planter in Jamaica. He met his lady,  CHARLOTTE E TAYLOR, daughter of Simon Taylor, in Jamaica and they had nine children. Charlotte was born in 1795 in Jamaica and she died on 17 Apr 1849 in their home in Mellmount, Strabane, Tyrone. James died on 01 Aug 1840 in a shipwreck in Jamaica.

1.4.5   ANNE SPROULE was born about 1740  and she married Oliver Lecky of Melmount, Strabane, County Tyrone  who was born about 1740.

1.4.5.1  ISABELLA LECKY was born in Mellmount, Strabane, Co Tyrone. She died in Apr 1837 in Sandy Mills, Donegal, Ireland. She married James Mathewson, son of James Mathewson of Ardstraw and Martha Sproule Curraghamulkin, about 1799. He was born in 1770 in Kirlish, Drumquin, County Tryone, Ireland. He died on 08 Oct 1836 in Donegal.

1.4.5.2  OLIVER LECKY was born about 1771 in Mellmount, Strabane, Co Tyrone. He died on 06 Feb 1840. He married  REBECCA PORTER.

1.4.5.3    NANCY LECKY was born in Mellmount, Strabane, Co Tyrone. She died in 1856. She married a man called KILPATRICK.

1.4.5.4    JANE LECKY was born in Mellmount, Strabane, Co Tyrone. She married  RICHARD HENDERSON. He was born in Laught, Donegal. He died on 22 Apr 1835.

1.4.6    REBECCA SPROULE  was born in 1745. She married  ROBERT SPROULE OF UPPER GRENNAN. He was born about 1735 in Grennan, Dromore, Tyrone. Rebecca died there in 1815.  

1.4.6.1    ROBERT SPROULE OF UPPER GRENNAN was born in Grennan, Dromore, Tyrone, Ireland (Died unmarried).

1.4.6.2    JOHN SPROULE OF UPPER GRENNAN was born in Grennan, Dromore, Tyrone, Ireland (Died unmarried).

1.4.6.3    SAMUEL SPROULE was born in Grennan, Dromore, Tyrone, Ireland.

1.4.6.4    CHARLES SPROULE OF UPPER GRENNAN was born in Grennan, Dromore, Tyrone, Ireland (Died unmarried).

1.4.6.5   JENNIE SPROULE OF UPPER GRENNAN was born in Grennan, Dromore, Tyrone, Ireland. She married  WALLACE BRATTON.

1.4.7    JANE SPROULE was born in Coolnacrunaght, Ardstraw, Tyrone, Ireland. She married a MR LECKY.

1.4.8     MARY SPROULE was born in Coolnacrunaght, Ardstraw, Tyrone, Ireland. She married a  MR JOHNSTON.

1.5   REBECCA SPROULE was born in Golan, Ardstraw, Tyrone, Ireland. She married  ROBERT PORTER the postman of Strabane who died in 1772. Their daughter Rebecca (1756-1850) married Joseph Sproule of Clover Hill.

1.6   DAUGHTER SPROULE  married WILLIAM JOHNSTON OF COOLNACRUNIAGH. This Sproule daughter must have died young as her two sons were in the care of their Grandfather Thomas Spreull of Golan – this is mentioned in the 1733 deed. The sons were named as Arthur Johnston and James Johnston

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