FERGUSON - Newtown Limavady (Bovevagh Parish) - Killyblight address

[burklegs]

Based on a 1879 Scottish death certificate of son John H Ferguson, his parents were William and Letitia (MS also Ferguson) of Newtown Limavady, Derry Ireland.

Another son Andrew was married to Janet Laughrey (Lochrie, McLaughry, Laurie, etc) in Bovevagh Presbyterian near Limavady, Londonderry County about 1827. Andrew and John died in Scotland but the other siblings (Samuel, Malcolm, Margaret, and maybe Joseph & Robert) supposedly stayed in Ireland.

I have found these names for several generations on a farm called Killyblight (also spelled Killyblought, Killybleught, etc.) which is about 2 miles from the existing Bovevagh Presby. church and about a mile from the ancient Bovevagh church ruins overlooking the Roe River.

Any other Killyblight Fergusons out there?

[burklegs]

Regarding the above
*****William Ferguson's 1842 will is listed in the LDS film of 1842 will and deed index. I ordered film #100542 but when I looked at it, I saw it was only an index which listed exactly what I had seen online. (His address was spelled "Killyblought" and parish was spelled "Bavereagh.")

Other films listed also were 100528 and 100558. If I ordered either of these would I see something different? Is there a way to actually see the will (vol 7 p 266) or some abstract of it? It was my first time to order a film so it was very disappointing. I was hoping to see some heir or wife named.

[kingskerswell]

Hi,
    The current spelling of your townland in the parish of Bovevagh is KILLIBLEUGHT. Unfortunately there are many Ferguson families in the parish. In the townland of Gortaclare, parish of Bovevagh there was a family of Malcolm and Mary Ferguson recorded on the 1851 census which was recorded in 1908 for pension purposes. The children were James aged 40, Mary aged 32, Elizabeth aged 30, Matilda aged 23, John aged 20 and Ann aged 18. The ruin of this farmhouse still stands.

Regards

[burklegs]

Thanks. You sound like you are from that area. I was there in May 2014 and drove by the old Killyblight farm buildings and Bovevagh church/graveyards and took some pictures.

I have their names in census records, a few births, marriages, names in tithe lists, flax growers, Griffith's valuation and land owners (Joseph, James, William, Samuel) plus various pieces of the families but can't make some important connections to those persons and records I know for sure (William and Letitia Ferguson who had children right before and after 1800).