McGOVERN, Helen ⁵

   Other names for Helen were FEEHLY, Helen,⁵ FEELEY, Ellen, McGAVIN, Helen and McGOVERN, Ellen.⁶

  General Notes:

Ellen Feeley was recorded by the 1871 census living at the Toll House Hamilton with her family. She was recorded as 36 years old and born in Strathaven.

Helen married about 1386.^{1 2}

  Marriage Notes:

"This agreement was made in June 1427, and Sir John appears to have died within a year thereafter. His wife, Isabel Erskine, had predeceased him, dying between 1419 and 1427, and towards the close of his life he appears to have married Christian Ogilvy, daughter of Sir Patrick Ogilvy of Auchterhouse, sheriff of Forfar. In 1463 she renounced in favour of Sir John's grandson all claim she might have for terce or restitution of tocher. Isabel Erskine and Christian Ogilvy are the only wives on record of Sir John Wemyss of Peres, but there is reason to believe that he was married and had issue before his union with Isabel Erskine, who was not the mother of all his children. There is also a tradition to this effect preserved in the family."

from Family of Wemyss




"Margaret (Wemyss) married to Sir John Inchmartin of that Ilk. She had a daughter Isabel married to Sir Alan Erskine, who had two daughters, first, Margaret, married to Sir John Glen, and second, Isabel, married, about 1386, to Sir John Wemyss of Kincaldrum and Reres, by whom she became the ancestress of the present families of Wemyss."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1) ^{1 2}

Helen next married William FEELY, son of William FEEHELY and Mary BRENNAN, on 16 Feb 1863 in Kirkyard St, Strathaven, Lanarkshire, Scotland.^{3 4} (William FEELY was born in Ireland and was christened on 18 Dec 1835 in Boyle RC Parish, County Roscommon, Ireland ⁷.)

  Marriage Notes:

The marriage was celebrated according to the rites and forms of the Roman Catholic Church by Edmund Sheedy, RC Clergyman. The witnesses werer Hugh Doyle and Agnes Stapleton.

William Feely, who made his X mark, was a bachelor of 24 years, and lived in Kirkyard Street, Strathaven. He was an ironstone miner.

Ellen McGovern also made her X mark. She was a domestic servant aged 24 years and lived in Kirkyard Street too. Her mother was deceased.

The marriage was registered at Strathaven on 17 February 1863, Andrew Cameron being the signing registrar. ⁴