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SPROULE CHRONOLOGY AND DOCUMENT LINKS
Recent ancestors (with portraits) Sproule ancestor chart all bmd links
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Ancestors of Brig Jimmy Sproule and Clare Aldous
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Chart linking four generations of Sproules, Robinsons, Harpurs, and a Mathewson of Ardstraw. Complicated by the repetition of Christian Names and Surnames and a marriage between first cousins. |
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Co Tyrone, NW Ireland c1840 - Fintona is in the bottom left part of the map south of Omagh
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Sproule History |
This document is in the papers of Brig Sproule's son, the late Dr Brian J Sproule (Coldstream), and was copied in 2009 by Adrian Fletcher, who has added a preface linking the history to this page. Also copied was a hand drawn family tree (probably by Brian). We have found some of the information in the paper to be a bit inaccurate, but the family names seem OK and, hey, whoever did it most surely was not internet enabled like us privileged family historians today. At this stage we have not used any stuff from the first half of the paper.
Link to Co Tyrone family research website
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in Fintona, Co Tyrone. |
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30 July 1775 - John Robinson born |
in Fintona, Co Tyrone. |
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20 August 1791 - Sarah Harpur born |
in Coroyneigh (sp?) (Corradinna possibly?) |
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7 July 1812 John Robinson marries |
Sarah Harpur in Aughadulla, Co Tyrone |
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17 December 1814 Alex Harpur Robinson |
UK Medical Register 1863 |
born in Fintona - Matilda Ann's elder brother. He is to become a dispensing doctor and insurance agent and JP but not a father - in fact he bequeaths his farm and palazzo Denamona to A H R Sproule's kids when he dies in November 1880. |
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15 July 1816 - Matilda Ann Robinson |
born in Fintona, Co Tyrone |
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29 April 1817 |
Sarah dies, leaving two very little kids behind. Husband John dies in 1825 when the kids are still under 10. |
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1812 - Thomas Sproule marries a Miss Blake |
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16 April 1815 - Joseph Sproule |
born in Carrickamulkin, Co Tyrone (date from 1901 Canadian Census overrides date in Sproule history) Where oh where is Carrickamulkin? Does John (Jack Roe) Sproule fit in anywhere? |
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Robert Sproule born ? - |
one of Joseph's three or four brothers. |
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1841 - Joseph and Matilda Ann Robinson |
marry in Aughadulla, Co Tyrone - Revd Jas Reid Hill officiates. |
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1848 - Robert and Mary Jane Davis marry |
in Co Tyrone probably. |
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3 April 1846 - Alex Harpur Robinson Sproule |
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born to Joseph and Matilda Ann in Carrickamulkin, Co Tyrone. |
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16 May 1851 - Matilda Sproule born to |
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Robert and his wife Mary Jane in Carrickamulkin, Co Tyrone. |
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Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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May 1860 - Joseph, Matilda and 6 Sproule |
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children including AHR Sproule (14) emigrate from Carrickamulkin to Canada - travelling from Liverpool to New York on the ship "Manhattan" (according to the family history document, but we have yet to find any records of the ship) |
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13 January 1861 - Ontario Census |
The Joseph Sproule (spelled Sproulle here) family has settled (for good as far as mum and dad are concerned in North Monaghan, Peterborough, Ontario. |
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1861 - 1865 US Civil War |
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1863 - 1869 First US Transcontinental |
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Railroad built |
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1867 - Canada becomes a Country |
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2 April 1871 |
Canadian Census captures Joseph & Matilda (now misspelt Sproul) and 5 "children" in North Monaghan. AHR (25) and brother George Buchanan (23) are photographers whilst Robert (21) is a medical student and will become a Royal Navy surgeon later.
The only evidence we have found to date of the Sproule Photographers
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24 February 1874 |
Alex Harpur Robinson Sproule (photographer aged 27) marries his first cousin Matilda Sproule (23) in Peterborough, Ontario. |
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6 October 1876 |
AHR (Harpur) Sproule Jnr born in Peterborough (transcribed as Alice Harper Robinson Frank Sproule). This is the only time we snag Harpur Sproule in official records .. after returning to Denamona with his namesake dad in 1880, he is captured in a family photo c1900 but not (yet) in the 1901 / 1911 Irish censuses. At some stage he emigrated to South Africa where many descendants now live (2010). He appears in ship passenger lists visiting Fintona in 1922 and County Down in 1950 with Elma. He died in 1952.
A H R (Harpur) Sproule Jnr (1876 - 1952 (76)) with wife Elma and their three sons Roy, Pat and Dennis (not necessarily in that order) at their home "Hemlock" near Nelspruit, E Transvaal in the 1940s.
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4 April 1881 Canadian Census |
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Links for Joseph & Matilda, and their children Sarah & John (Haggart), AHR and Matilda, and George Buchanan & Josephine in 1881 Canadian Census - AHR and family must have set sail for Ireland soon afterwards. |
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6 April 1891 Canadian Census |
Joseph and Matilda, both aged 74, in Peterborough. |
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September 1895 |
AHR Sproule and a Miss Sproule (daughter?) travel (back) to Liverpool from Canada on the ship "Vancouver (after a family visit?) |
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31 March 1901 Canadian Census |
Joseph and Matilda, both aged 85, in Peterborough. |
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1 November 1902 |
Joseph Sproule dies. |
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Back in Ireland
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1876 |
Dr A H Robinson MD JP in listing of Tyrone landowners in 1876. |
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1 November 1880 |
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Dr A H Robinson MD JP dies and leaves his estate to AHR's children with AHR as sole trustee with power (which he exercised) to consume lots of the estate on the way. |
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later in 1881 |
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AHR, Matilda and family come back from Canada back to "Denamona", Fintona - not yet located on a passenger list. |
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28 August 1887 Jimmy Sproule born in "Denamona" |
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"Denamona" - the Robinson house at Fintona where Jimmy Sproule grew up and where he took this pic around 1900. |
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"Denamona" near Fintona, Co Tyrone c1900
The Sproule Family at "Denamona" c 1900
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1901 Irish Census |
The Irish census captures most of the AHR Sproule Family (but not AHR jnr) back at Denamona - which got its own house census (it was the biggest in the neighbourhood) as well. |
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1911 Irish Census |
Only Jennie and John (Jack) left at Denamona with parents and Aunt Margaret. |
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1911 Irish Census |
James C Sproule as a medical student at a well servanted establishment with lots of nurses in 16-18 Upper Baggot Street, Dublin |
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Photo Pages |
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WW I and Capt / Lt-Col J C Sproule |
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28 July 1915 Jimmy Sproule and Clare Aldous |
get married at Emmanuel Church, Compton Gifford (Plymouth) |
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Jimmy and Clare Sproule in Somerton |
and elsewhere |
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