William McConnell

I am slightly confused by the information you have given. You start by saying that the family may have come from county Omagh. Omagh is a town in Co. Tyrone. It’s the county town. On the other hand we have a Co. Armagh, which is pronounced much like Omagh. Did you perhaps mean Armagh?

Then you say that you think William McConnell was born in Cork (which is at the other end of Ireland from Omagh and Armagh), and his wife Mary Clendenning was born in Couny Maugh which, to me, might be Connemara, which is a region in Co. Galway in the far west of Ireland. (Which makes me wonder how husband and wife would have met).

Can you clarify this? Also, what denomination were the family?

We have been told our William McConnell Sr. was born in Cork ? in Ireland. He at sometime immigrated to southern Ontario Canada. His wife Mary Clendenning was also born in Ireland, it is said that she came from (I guess then it is probably Armagh, Ireland and at some point she, Mary Clendenning and her parents and siblings immigrated to southern Ontario.  They may have know each other in Ireland, It is not inconceivable.  They were Married at some point in the records. So they could have been married before they left Ireland or married in Ontario. they had 9 children, my great grandfather (Also) William McConnell Jr.

I do appologize , I am from Canada, so I am not really well educated on your counties and such in Ireland. I have never been there, so you must excuse me if, there is some confusion in my post, that is because I have very little information to go on, But one has to start somewhere>