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Offline Heather Cardwell

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Re: McNeice - Morton - Shaw
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 11 March 17 19:21 GMT (UK) »
I have lots of information on McNeice (or McNeese) as my mother-in-law (maiden name McNeice) has a Conway McNeice in her family tree. He was her great grand father. His son James married twice and Conway is identified as a labourer on the first marriage certificate but as a porter on the second one. Most of the Conways we have identified come from Ballinderry/Glenavey but there is one from Stiles in Antrim and another from Doagh. We think my mother in law is related to the one who married Anne and had five children.

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Re: McNeice - Morton - Shaw
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 11 March 17 19:26 GMT (UK) »
The children were Thomas, Issac, James, Robert and Elizann.

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Re: McNeice - Morton - Shaw
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 12 March 17 23:45 GMT (UK) »
Hi Heather,

Very interesting post.

James WHITTLE concentrated his business (with WALLACE) at the mills at Muckamore.
[SE of Antrim town, on the South side of the river.
 He bought the old manse at Ballycreggy, retiring there ~1800
 Such was flattened many years ago, and now lies under the Ballycreggy Housing Estate.]

He was joined in business there by William CHAINE (who came from Ballymena town).
He married Jane WHITTLE, the only daughter, who had been looking after her aged father.
Their son, James CHAINE ("Father of the port of Larne") built Moylena Cottage.
[... and then lived at Ballycraigy House?]

Ballycraigy townland lies just to the SE of Stiles townland.
https://www.townlands.ie/antrim/antrim-upper/antrim/ballycraigy/
[N.B. Not to be confused with the ones at Ballymena, Carnmoney or Larne.
 Abeit the CHAINEs move to the Larne townland later.
 The townland is sometime referred to as "Balycreggy".]

https://www.townlands.ie/antrim/antrim-upper/antrim/stiles/

So, reckon that that particular Conway McNEICE from there MUST have been connected to the CHAINEs/WHITTLEs by "close-by" association.


Very interested in the "Doagh" connection as well.
Such is the name of townland (encompassing the village of Doagh) just West of Ballyclare.
https://www.townlands.ie/antrim/antrim-upper/grange-of-doagh/doagh/
[We have a long-sought research task to prove/disprove a link between our family and the Glenavy WHITTLEs and our family?!!!]

However, note that "Doagh" is also the designation for a Civil Registration District (CRD).
[Once formal civil registration of BMD was introduced.
 As such it covered parts of 35 townlands.
 See my warning at http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=729718.msg5745160]

Do you have any more information on the Conway McNEICE from there (geography, dates, etc.) ?

Ta,

Capt. Jock
WHITTLEY - Donegore, Ballycraigy, Newtownards, Guernsey, PALI
WHITTLE - Dublin, Glenavy, Muckamore, Belfast; Jamaica; Norfolk (Virginia), Baltimore (Maryland), New York
CHAINE - Ballymena, Muckamore, Larne
EWART, DEWART - Portglenone, Ballyclare
McAFEE, WALKER - Ballyrashane

"You can't give kindness away enough, it keeps coming back to you."
Mark Twain (aka Samuel CLEMENTS) [Family origins from Ballynure, Co. Antrim.]

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Re: McNeice - Morton - Shaw
« Reply #12 on: Monday 13 March 17 15:09 GMT (UK) »
Griffiths Valuation records a Conway McNeice in the townland of Coggrey in the parish of Grange of Doagh, near Ballyclare. He was buried in Rashee Old Cemetery with his wife, Martha, nee Alexandra.