Fergus(s)on DNA Project

Ferguson of Banbridge, county Down, Ireland

The Company bears the name of the founder, Thomas Ferguson (1820-1900), who was born at Clare, near the village of Waringstown in Co. Down, where his father John farmed. At that time the locality was a centre of Irish Linen hand weaving and this activity was commonly combined with farming.
[Thomas Ferguson Irish Linen]

John FERGUSON of Clare

John FERGUSON of Clare b.~1782; m. Sarah (d. 17 Feb 1826 aged 40); d. 29 Jul 1831; bur. Tullylish Presbyterian Graveyard
- Adam FERGUSON b.~1814; d. Sep 6 1831
- Eliza Ann FERGUSON b.~1816; d. Sep 11 1833
- Martha Jane FERGUSON d. infancy
- John FERGUSON
- Thomas FERGUSON b.1820 Clare, Waringstown; m. Sally DICKSON (b. 10 Apr 1830, d. 27 Sep 1908); d. 24 Feb 1900
  - Helen FERGUSON m. George SMYTH (b. 07 Sep 1841; d: 18 Dec 1895)
  - Sarah FERGUSON b. 1853; d. 27 Jun 1895; m. Clotworthy Warren MURLAND
  - William Robinson FERGUSON 1856 d. in infancy.
  - Florence FERGUSON b. 5 Jan 1859, d. 10th Aug 1887
  - Howard FERGUSON b. 26 Jan 1861 d. 26 Mar 1941; m. Jeannie B. (d. 19 Feb 1948 aged 83 years)
  - Stanley FERGUSON b. 12 Jan 1863 d. 4 May 1943; m. Frances CARR (d. 28 Feb 1950)
    - Thomas James "Joe" FERGUSON
    - Stanley Carr FERGUSON b. 1902; d. 1984; m. Elizabeth Maud SINTON
      - Edith Frances FERGUSON
      - Stanley Maynard FERGUSON m. Frieda W. WILSON
    - Frances Edith FERGUSON
    - Sally FERGUSON
    - Howard FERGUSON b. 1908; d. 2000; occ. Pianist and Composer
  - Norman Dickson FERGUSON b. 24 Nov 1866 d. 21 Jul 1960; m. Jessie Mary DICKSON (d. 1953)
    - Emma FERGUSON
    - Sharon FERGUSON
    - Thomas Dickson FERGUSON b. 9 May 1896; d. 4 Mar 1980; m. Annie Dorothy Sinton 31 Aug 1922 - Tullylish Parish Church, Co. Down
      - Dorothy Anne Dickson FERGUSON m. Mahlon Christoper SANDS
        
        Norman Gerald Dickson FERGUSON m. Margaret Ranney ADAMS
      - Mary Edith Dickson FERGUSON m. Thomas Frederick POPPER
    - James Dickson FERGUSON; d. Mar 1979; of Loughbrickland; Lt. Colonel; m. Jean GORDON
      - James Gordon FERGUSON m. Nicola STEWART
  - Thomas Spence FERGUSON b. 11 Jan 1869 d. 10 Jul 1952; m. Eva SMYTH
    - Florence FERGUSON d. Nov 1938
    - Janie B. FERGUSON
    - Geraldine FERGUSON d. 1983

References

All-in-One Tree of Jeremy David Murland
The Linen Houses of the Bann Valley by Kathleen Rankin, Ulster Historical Foundation, 2007
Sinton Family Trees
FERGUSON family Banbridge / Dow Gen. notes c 1800 - 1958 PRONI T 1570
An extraction of Fergusons from Clarke, R.S.J., Gravestone Inscriptions, County Down, Ulster-Scot Historical Society, Belfast

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