The Elder Brother
But what became of their elder brother? . He must have approved of his brothers’ venture and may have helped finance it; but he elected to stay in Ireland rather than go to the Delaware. By 1687 Thomas was a married man of about 40 years of age, with a large and growing young family as shown by these data. Existing records show that he, Thomas Harland, had married Katherine Bullock on 7 February 1680 in the Quaker manner at the “house of Francis Robinson in the Parish of Sego County Armagh”. “They were the parents of one son, Ananias, and four daughters Rebecca, Patience, Christian and Katherine. There is uncertainty concerning his date of death, but Quaker records at the Public Record Office in Northern Ireland [PRONI] list the burial of a Thomas Harland at Moyraverty Quaker Burial Ground (near Lurgan) in 1683. His wife died in March 1690.
Alpheus Harlan claims that after being a widower for over 12 years, Thomas Harland married his second wife, Alice Foster, of Lisnegarvy at Richard Boyes house, Ballinderry Meeting, County of Armagh, on 11 August 1702. They were the parents of two sons, James and Thomas, and of one daughter, Abigail.” There is also a 1723 reference to a Thomas Harland being given assistance by the Friends following a fire “he being too old to recoup alone” This could be our Thomas at 76 years of age.
The Quaker records also show that Thomas (c.1648, m.1680) Harland’s daughter, Patience Harland of Lurgan, married James Alderdice of Lurgan in 1707; and that Patience Allerdyce, daughter of George Allerdyce married a James Harland. Could this be Patience Alderdice’s young stepbrother? This marriage did not meet with the approval of the Meeting, because James Harland was not a Quaker, and as a consequence Patience was 'disowned'. The date of the wedding is uncertain, but that they had eight children between 1757 and 1775. Could either of their sons, George Harland, born 24 April 1761 or his brother Michael born 1 January 1765, be the missing link in a chain about to be revealed?
Although it might be assumed that there is bound to be such a link between one or all of these Harlands and those mentioned in later sections, it is certain that no such link has been proven. Indeed, because of the disastrous loss by fire of many of the Church of Ireland records in Dublin in 1922 the chance of proof seems likely to have gone forever.
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But what became of their elder brother? . He must have approved of his brothers’ venture and may have helped finance it; but he elected to stay in Ireland rather than go to the Delaware. By 1687 Thomas was a married man of about 40 years of age, with a large and growing young family as shown by these data. Existing records show that he, Thomas Harland, had married Katherine Bullock on 7 February 1680 in the Quaker manner at the “house of Francis Robinson in the Parish of Sego County Armagh”. “They were the parents of one son, Ananias, and four daughters Rebecca, Patience, Christian and Katherine. There is uncertainty concerning his date of death, but Quaker records at the Public Record Office in Northern Ireland [PRONI] list the burial of a Thomas Harland at Moyraverty Quaker Burial Ground (near Lurgan) in 1683. His wife died in March 1690.
Alpheus Harlan claims that after being a widower for over 12 years, Thomas Harland married his second wife, Alice Foster, of Lisnegarvy at Richard Boyes house, Ballinderry Meeting, County of Armagh, on 11 August 1702. They were the parents of two sons, James and Thomas, and of one daughter, Abigail.” There is also a 1723 reference to a Thomas Harland being given assistance by the Friends following a fire “he being too old to recoup alone” This could be our Thomas at 76 years of age.
The Quaker records also show that Thomas (c.1648, m.1680) Harland’s daughter, Patience Harland of Lurgan, married James Alderdice of Lurgan in 1707; and that Patience Allerdyce, daughter of George Allerdyce married a James Harland. Could this be Patience Alderdice’s young stepbrother? This marriage did not meet with the approval of the Meeting, because James Harland was not a Quaker, and as a consequence Patience was 'disowned'. The date of the wedding is uncertain, but that they had eight children between 1757 and 1775. Could either of their sons, George Harland, born 24 April 1761 or his brother Michael born 1 January 1765, be the missing link in a chain about to be revealed?
Although it might be assumed that there is bound to be such a link between one or all of these Harlands and those mentioned in later sections, it is certain that no such link has been proven. Indeed, because of the disastrous loss by fire of many of the Church of Ireland records in Dublin in 1922 the chance of proof seems likely to have gone forever.
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