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steery1
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Townland of "Ballymurty"......?
« on: Tuesday 03 November 09 18:40 UTC (UK) »
Anybody heard of a townland called "Ballymurty"?
I'm tracking a great granda and I think I've got him in ithis register of marriage from St Annes Cathedral Belfast from 1868.

Heres a crop of the register. I think its Ballymurty


I've fount mention of a Ballymurty on Rootsweb - http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NIR-DOWN/2007-10/1192596940
Heres a quote...
The Montgomery Manuscripts: (1605-1706), Rev George Hill, 1869, p 41, says
"Colonel David Boyd, [M10], was a cadet of the Kilmarnock family. On the 2d
of August 1609, Conn O'Neil, with the consent of Sir Hugh Montgomery,
granted to colonel David Boyd the townland of Ballymacharret, with one
parcel of land without the woods, called Stranmore, in the parish of
Knockcolomchille, in Upper Claneboy, bounded between the River of Belfast,
and the water of Stracharean, and the townland called Ballymurty - To hold
of the said Conn O'Neale, and his heirs male of his body, in free and common
soccage, yielding the rent of 2 Pound yearly, together with the rent
reserved to the king, as it is due out of other townlands, reserving to the
said Conn the right of patronage of the kirk of Glencolumechille, within the
parish whereof the said lands lie. These lands came afterwards into the
possession of James Cathcart, and passed from the latter to James Hamilton,
lord Clanaboy, before the year 1623 - Inquisition of 1623; Ulster
Inquisition, Down, No. 4, Car. I"

In the above register he's down as marrying a "Martha McGann"
I've also found her as Marcella McGahan, Marcella McGann, Martha McGahan, Miscilla McGann, Sally McGann on various birth registers and census's.  I beleive her name is Marcella McGahan Its soooo frustrating.....

Any advice will hopefully help me get past this obsticle  Smiley
TIA
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Re: Townland of "Ballymurty"......?
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 03 November 09 18:56 UTC (UK) »
Probably Ballymurphy in Shankill Parish.
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steery1
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Re: Townland of "Ballymurty"......?
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 03 November 09 21:02 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: aghadowey on Tuesday 03 November 09 18:56 UTC (UK)
Probably Ballymurphy in Shankill Parish.

I have a couple of addresses from 1869 to about 1884.....

1869 - McTier Street
1870 - 1875 - Foreman Street
1879- Conlon Street
1884 - Foreman Street

Would McTier Street (Court Ward) be Ballymurphy in Shankill Parish?
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