VALLELY, John ^{4 5}

   Other names for John were VALALY, John,⁷ VALELLY, John ⁷ and VALELY, John.⁷

  General Notes:

The 1855 birth certificate of his daughter Mary Valaly recorded John Valaly as a collier of 20 years of age. He had been born in Dungannon in County Tyrone Ireland and married in Hamilton Scotland in 1854. John registered the details of Mary's birth before the registrar, William Richard, at Holytown Lanarkshire on 16 January 1855.

John's baby son died in 1862 aged 7 months. John was recorded in the death certificate as a coal miner. It was he who notified the registrar at Holytown, William Richard, of the child's death. He made his X mark.

John was a labourer at a colliery, according to his son John's death certificate in 1875. ^{4 6 8}

  Research Notes:

This John Vallely may be related to Helen Vallely who married John Rocks in 1853.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Witness at marriage: of John Rocks & Ellen Vallely, 8 Oct 1853, St Mary's RC Chapel, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland. ²

John married Agnes DEVLIN, daughter of Bernard DEVLIN and Mary DOLACHAN, on 27 Feb 1854 in St Mary's RC Chapel, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland.^{1 2} (Agnes DEVLIN was born about 1832-1836 in Banbridge, County Down, Ireland ^{6 9} and died on 18 Nov 1868 in Carfin, Bothwell Parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland ⁹.). The cause of her death was bronchitis over some years.

  Marriage Notes:

An extract from the records of marriages at St Mary's RC Chapel in Hamilton Lanarkshire in the hand of Father Michael Condon reads:
'27 February 1854
John Vallely and Agnes Devlin both of Carfin were married by me in the presence of John Vallely and Ellen Braidon
(signed) Michael Condon' ²

John next married John VALLELY, son of John VALLELY and Agnes DEVLIN.³ (John VALLELY was born on 30 Mar 1857 in Bothwell Parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland ⁵, christened on 30 Mar 1857 in St Mary's RC Parish, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland ⁵ and died 10 June 1875 at 9.00 am in No 1 Pit Simpson's, Carfin, Lanarkshire, Scotland ¹⁰.). The cause of his death was an accident at his place of work.

  Marriage Notes:

"348. Fordyce (George), the first of the family, chiefly referred to in this Record, of whom any account has reached us, was buried in the churchyard of Turriff, Aberdeenshire. The tombstone over his remains bears the inscription : ' Here lyes an honest man called George Fordyce in Haughes of Ashogle, who departed this life May 6, anno 1681. As also Barbara Thomson his spouse, who died 9th January, 1695.' .....

..... From 1681, when the subject of this notice died, till the death of his widow in 1695, the farm may have been carried on by his younger son, afterwards Provost George Fordyce of Aberdeen, who is known at all events, to have been there in 1690. John Ogilvy was the tenant in 1696 when the Poll Tax Book was prepared. Besides Provost George Fordyce and his elder brother John Fordyce of Gask, Isobell Fordyce, wife of William Blachrie, merchant in Aberdeen, was probably also a child of George Fordyce and Barbara Thomson. There is ground for believing that the subject of this notice was related to the family which afterwards owned the estate of Ayton in Berwickshire"

from Family Record ³