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