Scotsmum. Thinking outside the box often can bring down a brickwall. Thanks for your suggestion that Christopher could have been a stepdad. I hadn’t thought of that possibility so researched the idea.
Hannah married widowed Christopher Redmond in 1847.
Hannah was 83yrs when she died in 1901, so would have been born c1817. If Elizabeth Redmond, later Cupples, was born c1839 (based on her age at death) Hannah would have been c22yrs old and at Jemima’s 1843-1845 birth she’d have been c26yrs, so your tip is a probability.
Two of Hannah’s children had died before Hannah: William in 1868 and a married daughter, Annie Adams in 1890. Also, a possible married daughter or step daughter the above Elizabeth in 1887.
Headstone:
See also Reply 10.
Hannah erected a Redmond/McMullan headstone at the First Broughshane Presbyterian Church in memory of her parents and her children, William and Annie (Adams). I’m unsure if the Thomas Redmond mentioned in his father Christopher Redmond’s 1858 will was from the first family or is a child of Hannah’s. He remains a mystery son. Perhaps he emigrated as I have not found him in any Antrim search. Maybe he died between 1958 and civil registration in 1865. No Thomas on the headstone.
At the same church was a Cupples headstone that included Elizabeth (Redmond) Cupples d 1887 erected by Elizabeth’s husband, Joseph.
Will:
I also checked out Hannah’s Redmond’s (nee McMullan) will, dated 12 Sept 1891. She only mentions her daughter Harriet Knox and a widowed ‘niece’ Mrs Christopher Redmond (Hannah Jane nee Hamill). She requested Harriet to pay a Mary Eliza Morton? the sum of €10.
Hannah’s will must have caused a family dispute as there is a case reported in the Ballymena Weekly Telegraph of Nov 9th 1901 involving her executors, Harriet Knox and Robert Montgomery against Thomas Adams who was Hannah’s son in law. I could only view a snippet.
Harriet Knox, Hannah’s only proven surviving child, and family seem to have emigrated to NSW, Australia around 1911.
Names:
None of Elizabeth (Redmond) Cupples or Jemima’s (Redmond) McNeill’s daughters had the name Hannah.
Unfortunately, after researching the idea that Hannah was Elizabeth and Jemima’s mother it now seems less likely.
As not many Presbyterian churches have their pre-registration surviving birth, baptism, and marriage records online then, other than helpful online wills, researching outside civil registration in Ireland to verify relationships is not easy. I ‘m so grateful that irishgenealogy.ie has all the earliest civil marriage records free on line. The information contained in the marriage records has proven to be very valuable, especially with my common Co. Antrim surnames. I can’t wait for them to make available the 1864 – 1870 death records. Maybe I’ll spot a clue in one of these death records when available.
Kind regards,
KiwiRose.
