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Posted: 2 Apr 2009 4:37PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi, Cheryl

Thank you, good luck with your studies.

Regards

Michelle

Re: ptolomey

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 8:40PM GMT
Classification: Query
HI Janine
Have only just picked this up. the Andrew Ardagh I have was a prison warder. His son was born in Dublin. I'm not sure when he emigrated to England. I don't know about any Australian connection
Cherryll

Re: ptolomey

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 10:48AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Cheryll, Thanks for replying. It is such a coincidence as I was only recently looking at this ptolomey thread the other week.
I haven't had much luck with research in Ireland. My Andrew Ptolomey was in the army and when pensioned off seems to have married? Ann Ardagh. Ann was formerly Mooney (I believe) and the family moved to Western Australia in 1865 when Andrew Ptolomey was an army pensioner enrolled to guard the convicts. Ann had a son with her named George Ardagh. I do not know his father's name.
What years relate to your Andrew Ardagh? And where does the name Ptolomey come into your family's picture?
Kind regards,
Janine

Re: ptolomey

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 7:19PM GMT
Classification: Query
Janine,

Just thought I'd pop into your conversation with a thought about not having much luck in Ireland. I don't know your tree specifically, but know that one branch of the Tolmie family in Scotland had their names switch from Tolmie (Tolmey, Tolmy,etc..) to Ptolmey/Ptolomey/etc..(Tolmie was derived from Gaelic Tolmach) around 1800s. Your family may come from that branch and you may have more luck looking in the Scottish records.

Re: ptolomey

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 9:58PM GMT
Classification: Query
hello,
thanks for your reply re Tolmie in Scotland. I have tried this variation in my research of Ptolomey and whilst my Andrew Ptolomey did marry in Scotland during one of his postings with the army he was however born in Ireland (which I have several sources confirming). Still researching sources and documents in Ireland is difficult. All my sources relating to this ancestor are from England and Australia. Many thanks for your input.
Kind regards
Janine

Re: ptolomey

Posted: 17 May 2011 2:45AM GMT
Classification: Query
If you'd be interested in sharing, I'd like to know more about you lineage starting mid to late 1800s. I'm sort of doing a one name (Tolmie) family study. A book called MacKenzies of Ballone suggests, and the scottish records seem to support, a common ancestor (a MacLeod from the western islands of scotland)for the vast majority and I am curious to see if I can't put together a (relatively) complete tree.

Ptolemy, Ptolomey, etc.. was how the gaelic Tolmach (Tolmie) was written out outside of the highlands, especially anglicized areas. I would be curious to see if your Irish ancestor could eventually be linked into my tree. He may have been born Irish, but maybe he had a grandfather who came from Scotland. Many different Tolmies were known to go England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, USA, etc... and as early as 1700s (possibly even earlier). The name Tolmie was formally adopted in the late 1500s.

I think it would be great if I could link these altogether. So I've scoured BMD and census. I know a lot about Tolmie families and may be of some help. Do you know his parents names?

By the way, MacKenzies of Ballone is available on Ancestry.com.

Re: ptolomey

Posted: 26 Feb 2012 8:33AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Ptolomey
We are Tolmies in NZ and have researched our tree back to 1510 to a MacLeod of Gairloch, Western Scotland. We also have the book MacKenzies of Ballone. The Ptolomeys branch off from the Tolmies.
We also have a Ptolomey tree sent to us here in NZ from the USA in the 1960s with a letter telling us about the Canadian Ptolomeys.
Contact me.

Re: ptolomey

Posted: 26 Feb 2012 8:57AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi dckersh16,
I only just found your posting so sorry for such a delay in replying! My Andrew Joseph Ptolomey was born in Dublin, Ireland c1824 and christened in St Catherines Catholic Church in Dublin. He joined the army there and after serving 20 years in the army in India etc with a sojourn at Fort George in Scotland where he married Ann Petts in 1855 he was then pensioned back to Dublin Ireland. I don't know what happened to this wife. He had a daughter Annie Ptolomey who was born in Dublin in Dec 1864 and then he was enrolled to guard convicts to Perth Western Australia. It would seem that his wife? the mother of his daughter Annie came on the boat with her son George Ardagh as soon after arriving in Perth the family continued to grow with the birth of 4 more children. His wife's name was Ann Mooney. When Andrew Joseph Ptolomey married in Scotland the information he gave re his parents were that they were Andrew and Ann Ptolomey nee Murphy who were weavers something that confirmed family stories. At the time of the Scotland marriage he was a widower with 2 deceased children. Joining the English army was a way out of starvation at that time in Ireland I believe!
Hope this information helps you.
Kind regards,
Janine

Re: ptolomey

Posted: 16 Mar 2015 6:15PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am part of the Ptolemy's in Canada and we have branched to the US as well from our descendants. I have traced back to Alexander Ptolemy (Tolmie) born in Scotland so far as I have first been working on the North America side of the family tree.
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