I do hope you looked up Ros Davies, I had missed William LEATHAM. Moira son of Joshua Leathem (a weaver of Ballymacateer); aged 22 married Ann Hanna 24 Sep 1852 at Shankill Church of Ireland ; father of Moses b. 8 Jun 1865 & John b. 26 May 1868 & John b. 20 Jul 1873 CR
Loking at familysearch.com Moses Leatham married Mary Connor 26 Dec 1865
Event Place: Maheralin, Down, Ireland Father's Name: Joshua Leatham. Spouse's Father's Name: Joseph Connor . Moses children are on familysearch..
but I cant find Joshua’s birth or marriage I would explore waringstown Church of Ireland, however there is at least another catholic family in the parish by 1911, so keep your options open PRONI has
C.I. Magheralin (Dromore diocese)
Baptisms, 1692-1871; marriages, 1692-1782 and 1785-
1845; burials, 1692-1863; vestry minutes, 1692-1902;
annotated transcript of vestry minutes, 1702-1855.
Extracts from diocesan records relating to Magheralin
parish, 1600-1850.
Extracts from parish registers, 1784-1853.
Subscription list relating to the building of the church,
c.1840; pew register, 1844.
Baptisms, 1872-; marriages, 1845-; burials, 1864-;
churchwardens’ accounts, 1766-94 and 1862-72; cess
applotment, 1834; registers of vestrymen, 1870-;
preachers’ books, 1873-.
MIC583/32-33; MIC1/18;
CR/1/97
MIC35
DIO/1/14/6
T1571
In local custody
R.C. Magheralin and Moira (Dromore diocese)
Baptisms, 1815-81; marriages, 1815-82; deaths, 1815-
80.
MIC1D/26
From
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/ Joshua Leathem has 2 entries in 1864, both are in the townland of Ballymacateer with house offices and a very small amount of land but the house is valued at £1.15 compared to the lowest 10 shillings . it has a map reference 25a which shows a L shaped property. There are a couple of L shaped properties on Google maps 2 kilmetres SWof Magheralin on the Dromore Road, to the west of the junction with Springfield Road, and on the north side of the Dromore road say 300 metres from the junction. I think the reason the property has two entries because of the Landlord being two people Henry and Hugh Mercer. I did not find a second entry in the list for the townland. So it may be your homestead still exists.
You ask about others living in Magheralin , lets say under 1000 in 1864 in the townland of Ballymacateer there are over 70. I extracted these from
http://www.failteromhat.com/griffithsall.php a website that is so useful for many irish records Amerson, Alexander ;Anderson, Robert ; Bane, Thomas ; Bell, Esther ; Berry, Robert ;
Cassidy, Edward ; Coleman, Thomas ; Creany, Hugh ; Dawson, John; Douie, Robert
Farrell, James ; Fegard, Thomas ; Fitzsimons William ;Gardner, Thomas ; Gardner, William ; Graham, Robert ;Greene, Henry ; Greer, William ;Hamilton Edward ;
Hanna, Anne Hanna, William Hannon, Mary Haughey, James Haughy, Charles
Haughy, Luke Henry, James Henry, William Hotscave Richard Hughes, Bernard Hughes, John Hull, James Hull, William Irwin, Thomas Keane, John
Kelly, Edward Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, John Lawther, John Leathem, Joshua Lilburn, William Lindsay, William Lunn, Edward Lunn, John Lunn, Matthew
Magill, William Martin, Samuel Mc Alernan Hannah Mc Alernan Thomas Mc Collum James Mc Crory Catherine Mc Dowell Joseph Mc Gowan Robert Mc Kain, William Meharg, Hamilton Mercer, Henry Mercer, Hugh Mightin, Robert
Miles, Henry Miles, William Mullan, John Murphy, Robert Nicholson Elizabeth O'Hara, Patrick Orr, Margaret Osborne, Robert Pepper, John Richardson Charles Rooney, Rose Ross, Edward Rowan, William Sewell, Alick Sewell, James Shaw, Rep. William Shearin, Catherine Spence, John Stewart, Fanny
Townsley Charles Townsley James Waite, John Watson, Hugh Waugh, Samuel Webb, Jacob Weir, Charles Weir, Edward Weir, William, JrWeir, William, Sr West, John Whiteside Thomas.
Thats allí can manage good luck in the future JimG
