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Hi Ab196

No I cannot hep with your William Henry but I was wondering if you are looking at Belfast Henry families. I have this entry from the Cyclopaedia of NZ about John Henry, the oldest son of my 3xgt grandfather Bryce Henry b c1802,  of Dunsilly Antrim. I have no records of Bryce Henry pre 1850 in Dunsilly so am trying to tie him to any Belfast Henry families who might fit the profile.

Mr Henry was born in County Antrim , Ireland in 1842 and was brought up in a mercantile life in Belfast. He came to New Zealand by the ship “Himalaya” in 1866 and opened a shop in Cashel St, Christchurch on account of Messrs Grant and McLean and remained in charge six months. Mr Henry afterwards opened a business for Messrs Watt & Co., Storekeepers and Provision Dealers, and owing to its extension after five years, took over the Firm’s Ellesmeres branch with headquarters at Dunsandel and successfully carried on the business for fifteen years.

So far the Henry families that contain the names Bryce are all Co Down. One Bryce Henry b c1850, son of Nelson Henry, is described as a "dealer", address 65 Belgrave St in 1872 at birth of his son Isaac Nelson Henry.

Isaac is another name seen in the family of Bryce Henry of Dunsilly. I have details of the family of my Bryce Henry and his wife Eliza Ewing.

Cheers

Linda (NZ)

In my Wiley family from Antrim, the name is recorded as Wiley pre 1900 but recorded as Wylie in many records from around 1900 or a little before. So look under both names in the early 1800s records.

My Wiley family were marrying around 1820, in Templepatrick. I do not have any Annes and none of these names seem to belong to my family, so you can probably ignore the family of my 4x gt grandparents Hugh (1748-1828) & Mary Wiley of Ballycushion, Templepatrick. Prior to Ballycushion the family appear to have been in the Ballyrobert, Ballylinney area. 4xgts buried Ballylinney.

Cheers

Linda

I have been looking through my notes from Revaluations etc for Dunsilly but I don't actually have a complete list of the farmers, just the names that interested me.

My 4x gt grandfather Thomas Gawn appears to have moved to Dunsilly from Donegore upon his  marriage c1795 to 2nd wife Martha Maxwell. The inference is that the farm belonged to her family.  Thomas' daughter from his first marriage, Elizabeth (Betty) Gawn born c1794 married another Dunsilly farmer, William Millar. Their son Thomas Millar married another local, Ann Jane Sterrit.

Martha nee Maxwell may have married another local farmer Andrew Fletcher, after Thomas died in 1822.  The marriage was at Mill Row (?) Presbyterian Church in Antrim.

Other names I have noted in the revaluations are Ferguson , Whiteside and Greene.

Cheers

Linda

I see that Elizabeth's brother James Ballagh of Ballyvoy notes that he had 7 sisters and a brother John. From Elizabeth's will at least two sisters married Wilsons and from James will it appears that one of John's  daughters ? Sarah or Hannah, married a Bryson.

Hi Steve,

You may have noticed the Donegore Bryson post recently reactivated. The name Wilson is listed with this post as the first wife of  a John Bryson.

I mention this because the Bryson family of Ballybacken could be connected to the John Wilson of Kilbride.