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Be aware I have found Co Down Shilladays also using the surname Sheridan!

Although not as grand as the current house, this was the only 2-storey house in the whole parish of Desertoghill when the Ordnance Survey wrote their memoir in 1837. John Church (1755-1818) inherited the property when his father George ( a great grandson of the original George Church) died in 1777. He was a barrister and created the family trust which owned the property until it was split up under the land acts around 1900. His brother Stephen married John's sister in law, Alicia Orr, and the murder victim was their grandson. When Stephen Jr was agent, the family trust was vested in James Church, the first cousin of Stephen's father. John had built a new main house on other property owned by the family at Myroe outside Limavady. This house was built in 1786, after which Grove House was occupied by other family members rather than the "owner".  When Stephen lived there he was actually the "owner" of a neighbouring farm called Tullycreggan where his grandfather had lived. Alicia Hartley Bloxham was the name of James's wife.

Stephen's wife was apparently Elizabeth Morrow but I have no documentary proof of this.

AK2

Aghadowey has it correct - Annie Blakes married Wilson Gray in 1911 and had four children : Robert Alexander, Annie Elizabeth, Walter and Letitia. After Wilson died in 1920, Annie married Joseph Crothers/Crithers (also a widower since his first wife Elizabeth Grissam died in 1914) and had a son Samuel in 1924. Corporal Robert Alexander Gray of 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers died 25 Jan 1943 and is buried in Chittagong (now Bangladesh)

Hi Ringading

There is no townland of Moneymore in the Mercers estate, but the tenant list does include 10 Campbells in Fallahogy, Lislea, Lisnagrot, Moynock & Tirnageeragh townlands. Moneymore is a townland covering part of the nearby town of Maghera which was owned by the Bishop of Derry and rented to the Clark family at that time.  Moneymore would be better known as the name of a town south of Maghera on the estates of the Drapers Company. There were Campbells in both these towns in 1859 in Griffith Valuation (search online at http://askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=nameSearch ) so I would check to see which is your family before proceeding. You can also check for them in 1831 in the census (online at http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/ ) as there were Campbells in both Maghera and Moneymore then too.