Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Hi, I am Heather from West Virginia, USA. I am working on my family project, and I am not sure who and where can I start.

My great grandfather Charles Galloway's father John Malhon Galloway immigrated to the US from Ireland or England on Aug 5, 1847 from Liverpool, England. We have a missing lines to fill out who is John Malhon Galloway's parents. We think the parents were raised and buried in Scotland, Ireland or England. John's mother put 10 years old on the ship with his sister Martha to America. I am wondering why and who did they stayed with. I am hoping you can tell me where and who should I look into... John Galloway was born in 2 Apr 1840 and his sister Martha J Galloway was born in ?? Jul 1842 in England. I tried to look up for records, I can't find anything.

On the paper said they were the only Galloway with the group of Irish immigrans embarked from Liverpool England and landed in the port of New York on 5 Aug 1847. I tried to look up, nothing familiar to what am I looking for. I am hoping to find little more about the Galloway and where they were coming from and the names of the families.

I hope you can help me out with this case.

Hi and welcome to the forum.

To talk about the family having lived in Scotland, Ireland or England is a huge area, they are actually three different countries.

With a name like Galloway I suspect some Irish heritage, there is a lack of census information at the date you are looking at so your recourse would be Parish Registers. I wonder if there is the possibility that they stayed a while in Liverpool before leaving, possibly a census entry could be found there.

Can I ask a couple of other questions, and other forum members may also pop in later and ask more.

How do you have the exact birth dates of John and Martha? and the birthplace of Martha but not of John?

You mention John's mother - but not her name, and which ship did they travel on? Did they go to meet her husband and were they travelling alone ?

As you have a middle name and slightly unusual, have you considered this baptism? https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N2QQ-PFK

Just in case you consider this entry, I believe the birth entry would be John Galloway, Q4 1840 Bradford 23 159
but possibly by the 1841 census they have relocated, perhaps because of Thomas's work to Dawson Street, Deansgate, Manchester, census Ref HO107; Piece: 569; Book: 9; Civil Parish: Manchester; County: Lancashire; Enumeration District: 20; Folio: 26; Page: 5;
Everybody except John were NOT born in County
Thomas Galloway 40 Army
Isabella 35
Stewart 15
Mary 10
Jane 3
John 1
/and in part of the dwelling but may not be with the family
Eliza Hinds 25 Female Servant
Mary Whittle 15 Female Servant

A snippet from Ancestry


http://records.ancestry.com/John_M_Gall ... d=14808408

Castle Garden website has the following for the Galloway family who arrived in the USA from Liverpool on the ship "Louisiana" on 5 Aug 1847:-

P. Galloway, 35
Mgt. Galloway, 35
Mary Galloway, 17
Patrk. Galloway, 16
John Galloway, 11
Peter Galloway, 9


Blue

I am leaning towards Galloway being of Scots origin from Scotland or Ulster in Northern Ireland where a huge influx of 'transplanters' from Scotland were given land. However, a search on Scotland's People http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk gave this hit which I downloaded with a spare credit:

Birth: 05/02/1839 - GALLOWAY, JOHN MEFFAN - Parents: JOHN GALLOWAY/MARY MEFFAN - Parish/town of ALYTH - PERTH - SGRO Ref: 328/00 0060 0086

Hi Heather,

Can you give us the US census details for this family so we can work backwards. We need to be sure we have the right family.


Blue

John Malhon Galloway

Can you tell us where that middle name first appears and are you 100% sure of the spelling. If it is on an old document can you scan the name and post it here?

Blue70 wrote:Castle Garden website has the following for the Galloway family who arrived in the USA from Liverpool on the ship "Louisiana" on 5 Aug 1847:-

P. Galloway, 35
Mgt. Galloway, 35
Mary Galloway, 17
Patrk. Galloway, 16
John Galloway, 11
Peter Galloway, 9


Blue

This info sound familiar... did they live in England or other countries? How can I find more info about this one???

Bertieone wrote:A snippet from Ancestry


http://records.ancestry.com/John_M_Gall ... d=14808408

This is him, this is related to me.. I don't know how he ended up in Preston County, WV. But you see, his parents name shown unavailable... All I found out that John M Galloway was shipped to US from Liverpool, England..

I am trying to look back and try to find out WHO were the parents of John M. Galloway.

His wife was Lydia Laub. I have the info about her family. But we were wondering about the Galloway.

Alyth-Perth looks beautiful town.. I wonder if Galloway headstones might be there somewhere..

If this census record is your John then he was born in the USA and so were his parents:-

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M6TQ-JZH


Blue

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John Malhon Galloway

Can you tell us where that middle name first appears and are you 100% sure of the spelling. If it is on an old document can you scan the name and post it here?

Hi Heather,

You seem to have information for two different families. The passenger arrival record you mentioned is not your family they arrived much later than your family. There are a lot of trees for your family on the Ancestry website and they all say John was born in the USA.

Most of these trees say John's parents were William D. Galloway and Elizabeth Choice who were also born in the USA. One or two trees say John's mother was Margaret but don't have a name for the father. One tree says John Mahlon Galloway.

Mahlon is a biblical name it appears in the Book of Ruth. In "The History of Preston County, West Virginia" there is a Mahlon Hartley who was born in 1749 and married Hannah Moon in 1773. Mahlon was therefore an old first name or middle name.

There are photos on Ancestry including photos of John and Lydia's gravestone and a photo of Charles Galloway. Have you got access to Ancestry? It would be a good idea to view these trees and contact the tree holders.

Your ancestors probably came to America in the 1700s a lot of people from Scotland came over then and a lot of people of Scottish ancestry (the Scots-Irish) who had settled in the north of Ireland also came over in large numbers.


Blue