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Welcome to the Meandering McAteers pages. I established them in the hope
of
finding my own ancestors and to assist Brian McAteer and others
locate theirs
by adding mailings and McAteer information for all to
read.
Below is a photograph of my great grandmother Deborah McAteer (1851 - 1911),
of
whom I
know very little. She is surrounded by children, three
of whom are hers. The
others being related. The names under the
photograph are as given to me.
The photograph was labeled "Grandma Simpson (Deborah McAteer), Aunt
Aggie
(Agnes Simpson), Aunt Maria (Simpson), Deborah Crawford (extreme
right), Harry
James (front row, left), and Aunt
Liza (Elizabeth
Simpson, the youngest girl).
Deborah had two sisters, Agnes McAteer (pictured below with her husband
Thomas
Pelan, a
compositor, in Belfast) and Susannah McAteer,
whose daughter is said to have
emigrated
to the United States of
America where she married a sausage millionaire?
Deborah's husband, John Simpson, is said to have come from the Lurgan area
and
to be related to Lord Lurgan (Brownlow family), and through him to
Scottish
Kings back to the year
1,100ad. This link I cannot find
at this time so would love to hear from anyone
who
might be able
to help in this regard. It is interesting to note, on the
following map,
that Ballymacateer is very close to Lurgan.
