Sarah BINGHAM 1810 - 3.6.1849     m Hugh MARTIN 4.6.1794 - 1825 - [I  think they actually only had 6 cchildren- family sources vary.2009]

1. Mary  MARTIN or  Marey Ann 3.2.1841   m TURTLE  went to Canada
2. Jane MARTIN  19.12.1833  m Mccormick no ch.
3. Marey Ann MARTN 4.6.1835 - 24.12.1835
4. Margaret   MARTIN  5.2.1837  m Joseph MUNTZ  to Vic Australia
5. Sarah   MARTIN  8.3.1839  m JORDAN  went to Canada
6. ............ MARTIN m DONNAN  - son Hugh, grandau.May  wentt to <Canada
7. Elizabeth MARTIN 28.8.1845  m JORDON  Can.   went to Canada

 

(photos and captions by late  W "Norrie"  Muntz 1919)

1919 Mary [nee Martin] TURTLE  [sic] and Dorothy McLean

"Irene" 1919

Hugh Donnan and dau. May Donnan

Hugh Martin Donnan arrived Victoria aged 25  in  MAY 1893 on the ship  GULF OF MARTABAN.
No other Donnans on this ship.
1911 Census for Coney Island Ardglass Co Down
> Hugh Martin Donnan is 44 years old  Farmer Widower born Co Down
> May Donnan is 15 years old born in Australia
> James Donnan is 13 years old born in Australia
> Hugh Martin Donnan is 12 years old born in Australia

Marriage Victoria:
1894 Hugh Martin DONNAN,  Married  Ellen Elizth  CAMPBELL,     reg # 2133

Birth : Victoria
1895 James Campbell DONNAN  father  Hugh Martin  DONNAN, mothers maide name  Ellen Elizth CAMPBELL  reg # 17072
1897 Hugh Martin  DONNAN   father also  Hugh Martin DONNAN, mothers maiden name   Ellen Elizth  CAMPBELL  reg # 32387

 1908 May Margt Rebecca DONNAN,   father  William DONNAN ,  mothers maiden name =NORRIS - Mary Ellen  Reg # 13119

This is most interesting as the photogrpher  who took these  WW1 photographs in  Ireland on these pages, was  one William Norris MUNTZ born  around   1910 and lived Victoria.

 Hugh DONNAN  probate Victoria  death date :24 Feb 1885 granted 19 Apr 1888,Occupation  Farmer, Residence  Watchem- [ Wimmera, Vic. ]
 File number  36/912
 

 Eliza IRWIN  1868 - 1950   born Dimboola [ Wimmera] Vic.    f. William IRWIN  mo.  m. Jane  NORRIS  , Eliza IRWIN m MUNTZ

Aunt Donnan and Bert Furze [grandson of Margaret Martin Muntz, 1919] and Jordans

Cotter family  are connected
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Email from Vancouver Canada March 2004

"My great-grandfather Alexander COTTER
married Elizabeth 'Lily' MORTON; her sister Margaret 'Miggles' MORTON
married Ernest Launcelot TURTLE."
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Clip of irish Surname pages http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rosdavies/SURNAMES/
"Mr &   Mrs.       Hugh       DONNAN
  Saintfieldof Roseburn, Cahard townland; m. 1862;
   celebrated their golden wedding anniversary  attended by 12 children etc. 14 March 1912-DR[source]
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Hugh DONNAN Witterof Ballywhollart; d. 12 Jun 1813 aged 65; son
 of Francis & Margaret; Cloghy Church of   Ireland g/yd [source]  MIs
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Short history and photos of old Ardglass
 

Another Donnan family page - probably from Scotland
Another Donnan from Northern Ireland
Frederick George Donnan was born in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), of Northern Ireland parents (father: William Donnan and mother: Jane Ross Turnley Liggate). He returned to Ireland with the family at the age of 3.

Corrections or better pictures to  Liz R in Melbourne email

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