SAMUEL SMYRL MCCURRY, 1855-1946. Steven C. ffeary-Smyrl, M.A.G.I., F.I.G.R.S. The photograph shows my relative Samuel Smyrl McCurry. He was born in Belfast in 1855 and was the first cousin of my third great grandfather, William Smyrl, 1839-1909. He was named after his maternal grandfather, Samuel Smyrl, born 1764, and who had died just two years earlier in 1853 and was the eldest son of Isaac McCurry, the owner of a building business, and his wife, Margaret Smyrl, from Coagh, Co. Tyrone. They married in Belfast in 1853. Samuel secured a good job with the Post Office, initially in Belfast, but which … Read More