Hi all...
Thanks very much again for the replies. Have sent an email to the parish. Will update the thread if they reply.
'Cavan' might be part of the townland of Tamlaghtduff
Thanks for the Cavan info. I thought a townland was the smallest division of land in Ireland so does that mean Cavan is a streetname or farm name or something similar.
here are some pictures of Bellaghy at the turn of the 19th/20th century here
Love the photos thanks. Could spend all day looking at old photos and wondering about the lives of the people in them.
I have the Scullions in my tree.........from Bellaghy
Am helping a friend of a friend of a descendant of the publican Daniel WALSH :-) but the SCULLION connection is through Daniel's older sister Mary WALSH aged 22 years marrying a Hugh SCULLION aged 40 years on 25 Nov 1870. Their marriage certificate says that they are both from Cavan. Their fathers are Bernard WALSH and Patrick SCULLION respectively. Hugh and Mary migrated to New York.
In the Valuation Revision book covering 1884 the soon-to-be publican Daniel WALSH moves out of his family property at 37 Tamlaghtduff and takes over the pub at 16 Castledawson Street. A Henry SCULLION takes over at 37 Tamlaghtduff and, after Daniel migrates to NZ in 1910, an Edward SCULLION ultimately takes over the pub. So the SCULLIONs and WALSHs would obviously have known each other well.
For the record, this publican Daniel WALSH b.1849 in Bellaghy is the brother of the Mary WALSH who married Hugh SCULLION. They have an older brother John WALSH born c.1846 in ? Their parents are Bernard WALSH and Margaret m.s KEALY. Am fairly sure that Bernard is the Bernard WALSH who died at Tamlaghtduff on 15 Dec 1868 aged 70 years and that Margaret is the 94 year old farmer's widow Margaret WALSH who died in Bellaghy on 5 Sep 1893. I say "fairly sure" because I 've been unable to find a marriage record for Bernard and Margaret to match ages and, more worryingly, the ages given by the death certificates mean they had children in their late forties which seems unusual.
Ideally I'd love to know more about this Bernard and Margaret. Is Bernard the Bernard mentioned in the 1831 census. Was he a Tithe Defaulter. Did he and/or his wife have siblings. And, of course, is there anyway of finding their parents. (I'm guessing the answers will be 1) who knows 2) who knows 3) who knows and 4) I doubt it)
All the best
Beg