The Big Smoke of Kells & Connor

[Carsie1]

I was hoping there was someone out there who may know something about the McCluney Clan and the Matthew Clan from Kells & Connor just outside Ballymena i know that the McCluney are connected to Connor Presbyterian and are buried in Connor New graveyard and the Matthews are buried in Kirkhill Cemetery and connected to St Saviour's Church of Ireland

[BallyaltikilliganG]

so you probably know about the website http://www.thebraid.com/genealogy.aspx

Griffiths Valuation lists
Mc Clooney   Rose      William Street,Ballymena   Kirkinriola   Antrim
Mc Clooney   Eliza      Artnagullian   Connor   Antrim
Mc Clooney   William   Ballytromery   Camlin   Antrim
Mc Clooney   Arthur      Ballydonaghy   Camlin   Antrim
Mc Clooney   Hamilton   Main Street,Antrim   Antrim   Antrim
Mc Cluney   Edward   Ballyshanaghill   Camlin   Antrim
Mc Cluney   Margaret   Ballyclan   Killead   Antrim
Mc Cluney   Thomas   Lisnalinchy   Ballylinny   Antrim
also spelt MacClooney the Clooneys appear to be focused  in  Kilkenny and Wexford

Matthews   Maria   F   Fenagh   Craigs   Antrim
the rest are Ballymoney or Shankill parish Belfast area

 If you want to look up homesteads on maps use http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/

you are into crests etc so you know https://www.houseofnames.com etc
another thought was in the 1660s Hearth money rolls existed the names Rory and Daniel  Clonnoghy in Lenagh townland in Drummaul civil parish Co antrim. My ear isn’t good on ulster scots see Bill Macafee'Antrim &Derry website

running out of time
from http://www.irishgenealogyhub.com/antrim/tithe-applotments/killead-parish.php#.Vhq2ZUvU4YU
McCluney, W. Townland: Bally McIlhoyle Year: 1827
from http://www.irishgenealogyhub.com/antrim/tithe-applotments/camlin-parish.php#.Vhq2CEvU4YU
McCluney, James    Townland: Crumlin Town
McCluney, William    Townland: Crumlin Town McClure, William    Townland: Ballymacrevan
from tithes ww.irishgenealogyhub.com/antrim/tithe-applotments/kirkinriola-parish.php#.Vhq1k0vU4YU
Mathews, Wm. Townland: Ballymena Dem. and T. P. Year: 1833

[aghadowey]

... you are into crests etc so you know https://www.houseofnames.com etc ...

Carsie1's crest is from the former Coleraine Borough Council 

[BallyaltikilliganG]

aghadowey, you sometimes made me curl up in smoke in the past, nowdays its in a good old fashioned belly laugh, or the sting might be who did they pinch it from!!!

[TheWhuttle]

Surely it can only be a stylised development of the PHILIPS crest.
[Red Welsh dragons, Knight's helmet, Walled town.]

Sir Thomas PHILIPS served with CHICHESTER in the latter few years of the 9 years war (1594-1603) against O'DONNELL, O'NEILL and MAGUIRE.
He captured the castle at Toome in 1602, and was knighted in 1607.
He founded the distillery at Bushmills in 1608.

He was a Servitor in the Plantation, acting as the principal agent for the City of London's Livery Companies in 1609.
He founded Newtown-Limavady and lived there.
He married in to the House of USSHER.

He hailed from Hammersmith, London, but the family's origin's were Tudor.
[Similarly to the McQUILLANs who descend from a Welsh Norman Knight, and who founded the Abbey at Coleraine, whose lands PHILIPS later purchased.]

Coleraine successfully defended itself under his military stewardship during the 1641 rising.

Capt. Jock  [Who is celebrating his recent discovery of having been baptised in Coleraine!]

[aghadowey]

http://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Coleraine

[MickieJE]

To the original question...  I also have family from Conner, Kells who went to the Presbyterian Church there. My Grandmother's maiden name was McCluney - her father was David Brownlee McClunie (c. 1859-1934), who eloped with his sweetie Maggie Porter to Glasgow. David's parents were James (c. 1830-1898) and Jane Shaw (c. 1932-1890) McCluney. I understand there were other children in the family besides my great-grandfather, but I have not yet verified them. If anyone lives near the mentioned cemetery, I would love to know who else is buried with or near James and Jane. My grandmother and her sisters remained in contact with their McCluney cousins most of their lives, and last visited in 1962.