Our story begins in the townlands of Aughtermoy, Ballinamallagh near Dunnamanagh, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland. A rural, mainly bog or marshy land, with pockets of grazing pastures for both dairy and beef cattle. Farmsteads were mostly small with a few acres attached and on the whole were owned by Roman Catholic farmers.
1876.
James Carlin marries Margaret Bridget Rodgers, both full age and residing in Aughtermoy. The marriage took place in the Roman Catholic Church at Killena, Dunnamanagh, by the R
