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Research Assistance!

After 60+ years of research, we are are at a point where helping others with their research may help us! We have access to Ancestry, Newspapers,  and are very good at analyzing the Census.

If your name is Montague, Nicholson, or Cunningham and you need help with your genealogy, please contact us: 

 Jack Montague: johnmont@rochester.rr.com

Molly Montague Fisher: Fisher.molly47@gmail.com

Or, fill out the Google Document below! We would love to help! We also welcome any and all information you have about our family!

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:    

Important Places and Faces!

     1. Your name and date of birth

     2. The specific immigrant you are a descendant of

     3. Your parents and their date of birth, and their    

           parents.

     4.  Date and place of your marriage, if applicable.

     5.  Your spouse and date of birth.

    6.  Children's name, date of birth, place of birth.

    7.  Where you live and if you want people to get in 

         touch with you, your email, phone number etc.

    8. Your siblings, date of birth and current location.

Important Faces and Places!

History of this Site

The information you see has been gathered since 1968! It all began with a letter written by Jack Montague and many hours of research by our mother, Louise Montague.  It was decided that after we published the hard copy of the 2nd edition of the Montague/McTeague Family history in 2016 we would try to take the information and create a website. The website was created in 2017. We did this for 2 reasons:


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. 

Recent Announcements from Facebook

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

1831 Tithe Applotment 





1831 Irish Census Fragment

NEW DNA!

posted Feb. 24,  2024, 11:33 am by Molly Fisher  

Exciting DNA News here!  I (Molly Montague Fisher) finally got my DNA test done!  We now have three DNA results! I am 99% Irish, and 1% Finnish! Our DNA section has been updated and the good news is that my DNA says I come from Ulster and Donegal.  Our research concurs! The Nicholsons come from Donegal and the McTeagues come for Ulster! 

We now have two Gedmatch numbers:

Jack Montague: A403529

Molly Montague Fisher: WE3782584


Our Ancestry family tree number is 7330861 Learn more here:  https://www.montaguesofderry.com/dna

 


Montagues of Scotland 

posted August 20,  2022, 11:33 pm by Molly Fisher  

Hugh and Ellen Toal Montague of Scotland had nine children. Shown here are five of their children.  Rosie is the oldest sitting in the chair. We are estimating her to be about 10+ years old.  

Ellen, born 1910, would be about 8 years old and is sitting on the bench, the three boys who are standing are Eddie, John, and Francis. Eddie is the  youngest. Thank you, Traci Montague and Frank Toal, for sharing this picture!  Learn more here: 

https://www.montaguesofderry.com/immigration/scotland-relatives


McTeagues!

posted Novemeber 11,  2021, 10:43 AM by Molly Fisher  

Super excited to share this photo taken in 1932-1933 that has 4 McTeagues in it.  James McTeague born May 4, 1868 is shown holding the large shovel, his three sons Patrick (Paddy), Jim, and Anthony are also shown! 

James is the son of Patrick (1837) and Catherine Kelly; he married Rosie McKeown on May 29, 1913 in St. Columba's Straw. They had five children:  

                        1. Patrick born May 14, 1914 and had 8 children

                        2. Mary McGill born Feb. 24, 1916 and had 10

                            children and lives in Belfast.

                        3. James born April 10, 1918 married Bridget

                             McGillian and had eight children.

                        4. Kitty O’Sullivan born Nov. 16, 1920 and had ten

                            children and lives in Cork.

                        5. Anthony born July 31, 1923, lived in Draperstown

                            and died Dec. 18, 2007.

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