Theories, Studies & Researches

Assumptions & Random information to ponder

Theory X. Theory Y.Theory Z.

So are these lendrums our first ancestors?

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Putting together information from other Lendrum family connections, gathering names, places, dates: reading books from libraries, government departments (Archway Records) family web-pages online and joining the New Zealand Society of Genealogists - has helped to reach this understanding.

Okay: If you search the name Lendrum on the web, you will come across lots of sites telling you the possible origins of the name and where the first Lendrum's could have come from and where some went to. (One of many webpages)

How the name had various spellings - it was a Gaelic name, Leathan drum etc.

You will read about a farm call The Lendrum Farm and The Hill of Lendrum, which are near Turritt, Aberdeenshire in Scotland.

In the eleventh (11th) century, there was a 3 day battle - The Battle of Lendrum. It was between The Earl of Bucham and the army of Donald Bane. Buchan won.

(Which side were the Lendrum's on?)

Later The Comyns and their English allies were defeated by Robert Bruce (Battle of Bannarkburn) Robert Bruce won.

(The Lendrums could have bee on the side of the Comyns?)

Bruce confiscated the lands of the Comyns and band the use of name. Many changed their names.

A young son of The Earl of Buchan took the name Lendrum (Because Lendrum was the name of the place he lived - northeastern, Abberdeenshire.

Circa 1690:

James II took refuge in Ireland and sought to regain the throne with the aid of an Irish army. On June 14, 1690 William landed in Ireland and led an army that defeated James II at the Battle of Boyne.

Captain James Lendrum fought with William's forces in Ireland in 1690 and received a grant of land confiscated from Irish nobility that had supported James II.

This gave rise to the Lendrums of Ireland.

The tie between the Lendrums of Scotland and Ireland is confirmed in The Surnames of Ireland, which states that the Lendrum name in Ireland is "a Scottish (Aberdeenshire) toponymic associated with Counties Tyrone and Fermanagh since mid-seventeenth century.

The more you find and read only confuses the research, but you have to start and finish somewhere and one day others will correct or add to this theory.

Time will tell if I can find any connection between the above Lendrum's and theparents of Lendrums who came to New Zealand?

as I see it at the moment

Family research [info] tells us, a Mrs. Lendrum (Senior), mother to Andrew and maybe a brother John were living near Fivemiletown (No mention of husband) could be living with uncles and aunties - Fleming, Brown and Wilson.

At sometime later, maybe Andrew married Mary and they moved to a farm in Mullaghmore - only up the road. (See map) - (Maybe where they grew Flax?)[FG]

Andrew [C] and Mary had children: their first son Andrew (Jr)(C1) stayed in Ireland - there other sons Robert [C2] and George [C4] left for New Zealand in 1862 and started our lineage.

A document shows that in 1796 - a James and Andrew Lendrum of Clogher and Dromore parishes in county Tyrone, were Flax growers.

IRISH FLAX GROWERS______(THANKS TO GERALDENE O' REILLY)

From a document ofLandowners in county Tyrone, Ireland as of 1876- shows: LENDRUMS

Owner:_______________Address:_________________Extent:______________Valuation:

Andrew______________Rakeeranbeg, Dromore______86 acres____________68 pounds

Andrew______________as above___________________33_________________19

James_______________Magheracross______________2922_______________1969

John_________________as above__________________32___________________20

James________________as above__________________1067_______________613

Jane_________________Fivemiletown_______________28__________________12

The earliest Lendrums:

( I can find as of this date)

andrew lendrum

other Lendrums living in Town-lands, Parishes.

bordering the counties of Tyrone and Fermanagh.

C1600s- James (1) stayed, married and had a family?

The number of children unknown - but they did have a son George.

A son George Cosby (2) was born circa 1710 in Moorefield, county Tyrone.

He married Mary Story from the parish Colgher, in the county Tyrone.

They had seven children.

James, Thomas, Joseph, John, Mary, Anne, Rebecca.

Their son James (3) possibly born in Jamestown, county Tyrone, circa 1745, married Ann Young of county Donegal in 1770.

Then in 1812 married Margaret Young of county Donegal - could have been her sister?

James with his first wife had two children.

George, Lettia.

Their son George (4) was in born 1776 - possibly in county Tyrone or Fermanagh, married Mary Coddington of Oldbridge, Meath in 1805.

They had two children.

James, Elizabeth.

Their son James(5) was born in 1806 also in county Tyrone, married Ann Vesey of Derrabard, county Tyrone.

They had eleven children.

Joseph, George, James, Thomas, John, Nancy, William, Samuel, Rosabella, Mary & Elizabeth. (Many of these children emigrate to America).

It is possible that Andrew Lendrum - the father of The New Zealand Lendrums,

has come from one of the above Lendrum families?

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Andrew Lendrum (6) was born1797 in Mullaghmore, in the parish Cougher of county Tyrone.

He married Mary - last name unknown.

They had four children, and this is where our New Zealand linage is believed to have started - when two of their sons emigrated to New Zealand in 1862.

Their first son Andrew (Jr)(7) was born in 1828 andstayed in Ireland.

Robert(8) was born in 1836 - at the age of 26 years emigrates to Auckland, New Zealand. He married in 1865 - Mary Elliot from Rosecerea, county Tipperary - who also came to NZ 1862.

They had three children.

Allice Mary 1867 - 1893

Martha 1869 - 1951

Robert John George(9) 1871 - 1918

George(10) was born in 1843 - at the age of 19years emigrates to Auckland, New Zealand. He married in 1874 - Isabella Bassett of Porta Ferry, county Down - who also came to NZ 1862.

They had seven children.

(11)Robert Andrew 1877 - 1969

(12)George 1879 - 1967

(13) Edward Godfred 1882 - 1911 (moved to Canada - before 1907)

(14) Sydney 1885 - 1966

(15) William John 1887 - 1950

(16)Thomas Bassett 1896 - 1971

Maud 1875 - 1953

Early lendrum Family Tree

*John Lendrum[2] (brother of Andrew) married ? Had a son George, and migrated to California, USA. George, stayed in Belfast.

*Sir Henry Tichborne was the founder of an eminent family in Ireland. Having greatly distinguished himself by his military services, in 1642 he was appointed one of the two Lords Justices of that country, and he continued so for two years. Charles the Second constituted him Fieldmarshal of his forces in Ireland, which post he held till his death in 1667, aged 85. His grandson Henry was created a Baronet of England July 29, 1697, and advanced to an Irish Barony by the title of Lord Ferrard, on the accession of George the First; but he died in 1731 without surviving male issue. See more fully of this branch of the family in Wotton's Baronetage, 1741,

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