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Some Goodfellas

Today, I am googling my 5th great grandfather Moore Goodfellow (ancestor of my great-grandmother Alice Burwell) from Ballygawley, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, progenitor of the Goodfellow line from Clark County, Ohio.  
 
So here goes…

Will of John Nicholson, father-in-law of Moore Goodfellow

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohclark/Probate/John_Nicholson.txt


An 1839 marriage announcement for the widow of Moore Goodfellow and daughter of John Beggs in Ballygawley.  Could they be Moore’s parents?

http://www.cotyroneireland.com/marriages/aughnacloy.html
 

1840 U.S. Census for Harmony Township, Clark County, Ohio

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohclark/1840Census/Clark67.htm


A biographical sketch of Roy A Goodfellow whose great-grandfather was Moore Goodfellow.

http://archive.org/stream/astandardhistor00socigoog#page/n300/mode/2up


Moore Goodfellow’s headstone at Wraggs Cemetery, Clark County, Ohio
 
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=33836172
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Location: Clark County, Ohio, USA

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