Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 5th Sep 1807:
BESSBANK
To be sold by auction, at the Exchange Coffee-Room, on FRIDAY the 25th September nect,
THE LEASE (of which 44 years will be unexpired the first of November next) of that much admired place, on the Shore, near White Abbey, containing 2A. 2R. 13P. of a Bank finely planted, with an Orchard of 119 Apple Trees in full bearing, and an elegant Brick House thereon in the Cottage style, built by the late JAMES LENDRICK, Esq. deceased, highly finished, with Brass Locks, Grates, and Marble Chimney Pieces, and in the improvement of which several Hundred Pounds have been laid out in the last two years, in Planting, and Erecting a House near the Sea, fitted for a Hot Bath, with Iron Boiler and Metal Stoves.
The Lease includes alse two Grazing Fields of 5A. 2R. 23P. contiguous thereto, with a good Stone and Lime House for the accommodation of a Gardener, or Porter’s Lodge.
Possession to be given on or before the first of November.
August, 1807.
Royal Belfast Academical Institution – 1821 Entries
Edward Hill … Trevor Hill, Esq., Bessbank, Carrickfergus Road
Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 4th May 1825
RBAI Premiums awarded – Mathematics:
Senior Division … Edward Hill, Bessbank, Belfast
Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 26th Jun 1826
Mr. EDWARD HILL, of Bessbank, late a pupil of the Belfast Institution, obtained a science premium at the examinations just closed in Trinity College, Dublin.
Alumni Dublinenses (Trinity College Dublin):
HILL, EDWARD THOMAS MULLINS,
Pen. (Mr Hincks), Jan. 2, 1826, aged 16; s. of Trevor, e Scribus in Æde Officii Epistolaris; b. Antrim. B.A. Vern. 1831.
His middle names confirms, I think, that his father was the Trevor Hill married to Theodora Brice (granddaughter of Lord Ventry – Thomas Mullins). Does anyone know what “e Scribus in Æde Officii Epistolaris” means?
Weekly Vindicator, 22nd Apr 1848:
DIED
At 6, Adelaide Place, on the 13th inst., Jane, daughter of the late Trevor Hill, Esq., of Bessbank.
Belfast Newsletter, 14th Oct 1853:
August 28, at New Orleans, of yellow fever, Edward Thomas Mullins Hill, Esq., eldest son of the late Trevor Hill, Esq., of Bessbrook, aged forty-six years.
Belfast Newsletter, 25th Sep 1877:
HILL – September 24, at 1, Dawson Street, Antrim Road, Belfast, Emily, relict of the late Edward T De Maulins Hill, Esq., formerly of Bessbank, County Antrim, and daughter of the late George A. Kirwan, Esq., of Claremont, County Galway, aged 64 years. Her remains will be removed from the above address for interment in the New Burying0ground, Clifton Street, on Thursday morning, the 27th inst., at nine o’clock. Friends will please accept this intimation.
