Welcome, and if We are Related, All the Better!

We welcome you to add information or pictures that you may have.  What you find on this site is the result of inquiries over the past 60 years.  A special thanks goes to Louise J. Montague for all her efforts in collecting information that has led to this compendium, and to Alice Lamb Davies for her efforts in providing pictures and information on immigrant Joseph Montague and his descendants.  We have hopes someday of finding descendants of all five immigrants to the USA.

We also want to thank Paul Crilley who was absolutely pivotal in finding relatives in Ireland.  In 1968 we wrote a letter addressed to the Catholic Diocese in Ireland looking for Hugh Montague (1840) and the letter circulated from diocese to parish and eventually to Paul Crilly who took the time to write to us and confirm that he knew Hugh and we did indeed have relatives in Ireland.  Amazingly, he was in contact with the Bradley's in Beacon, New York and Annie Bradley in Ireland who knew quite a bit about how we were related.  Annie was kind enough to provide information as well.   It is a small world!

Lastly, thanks go to our relatives in Scotland and Traci Montague for her efforts in this research.  Through the miracle of the internet we found Traci and her sister Jaqui-a great story.  Someday, we shall meet!  Traci is compiling information on our relatives in Scotland. 

If you notice any errors or would like something added or corrected please send a copy of the corrected page to Jack Montague 17 Periwinkle Way Webster, NY 14580 or Molly Fisher at  fisher.molly47@gmail.com.  Please include your contact information (name, phone number, and email address) in case there are questions as well as to confirm the information.  To add your own family and keep up the information, we will be happy to provide the book on a DVD format.  Once you have the DVD, you can keep the information up as you like.  If you would like to forward that information I will be happy to put into the book for a future issue. Although, we are not sure if there will be a third revision.  Frankly, it depends on the amount of new information that we can find.  To add your own family simply add the following information:    

Site Organization

You will notice the site is divided up to reflect portions of the book.  This organization will slowly go away as the site grows and we add more information.  We always encourage you to contact us if you have new information !  We  especially loves pictures!

Explanation of Numbering Scheme Throughout our Site

Please note the letters and numbers associated with the names of our ancestors.  This numbering scheme identifies a specific person in a specific generation. If you read these numbers from right to left you will eventually get back to James and Sarah Kelly McTeague-SKM.  They are the oldest generation we know of in Ireland.  Their son Hugh is the second born child-SKM2.  And Hugh’s son Hugh is his 10th born child-SKM2.j.  The good news is the branches of this family are long and many and the bad news is it is easy to get lost in those branches.  Using this numbering scheme will hopefully help you identify where you are in those long branches. 

Note:  Due to privacy concerns all living relatives born after 1940 have had their exact birth date omitted. 

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1820 Cunningham Land Survey!

posted Nov. 10. 2024 ,10:53 am by Molly Fisher  

Attention Cunningham descendants!!

Due to the wonders of the internet we met James McGarrigle who lives in Northern Ireland.  James obtained a rare survey map of Multins and Tullinteane Townlands in County Donegal circa 1820.  “All this material came from my great grandfather's home which was originally the Montgomery residence...the items which I discovered in the old attic.”  From James-a great and rare find!

James further states: “there is a boundary in the Multins townland region and the following names are inside this....there is no townland written in but this adjoining area is the townland of Tullinteane and it is the area containing the Cunningham farmstead and not Multins!!! If you put up Multins and enlarge it you'll identify Tullinteane... The names in this Tullinteane townland portion are( DARBY, P.KEENEY, CRAWFORD),...,(THOMAS CASSIDY, EDWARD CASSIDY, JOHN CASSIDY)....(THOMAS KEENEY, WIDOW KEENEY),  (JAMES KEENEY, MANUS MOLLOY,) (NEIL KEENEY, MICHAEL CASSIDY,) ......(JAMES CUNNINGHAM, CHARLES CUNNINGHAM, D.CUNNINGHAM AND JOHN TOY)......   The OILY RIVER flows from Tullinteane into Multins...and the Cunningham farmstead is near the tributary!!

We are working with James to glean more information but it is clear that we now know where in County Donegal the Cunningham’s lived—Tullinteane Townland!! This is huge for research! The name O Donnell occurs on my Killybegs survey of 1811.......The name Charles Cunningham on the map ---he could  be the father of our Charles.    

This is fabulous information.  Thank You, James!!! Learn more about the Cunningham family here:  https://www.montaguesofderry.com/cunningham-family

1831 Tithe Applotment Book and Irish Census 

posted March 30,  2023, 10:53 am by Molly Fisher  

We are always interested in Irish documentation from the early 1800's and earlier if possible.  Irish records dating that far back are hard to come by.  Jack Montague found this 1831 Tithe Applotment Record showing Montagues/McTeagues in Disert. We also have 1831 census fragments of them as well (pic 2).

Important to note that Donna Sadoski's family is living at 53 Ballyronan St. (Robert McTeague).  Here is excerpt from our chapter, page 6:

"James located at house 19 we think is James (1797); also living with James are 3 females one of which is certainly his wife Sally Kelly and the other two are most probably his daughters that we did not know about earlier.  Of great interest are Thomas and Bernard living very close to James.  This presents a possibility that these are James’s brothers, or, at least first cousins. " 

Learn more here:  https://www.montaguesofderry.com/ireland/irish-census-1800-s