Hello again,
No worries...just reply when you get a bit of time to yourself.
Do check out the church records...
www.firstballymena.orgClick on church records and it will then ask you to send your request by email.
All church records have been update recently and a team of people look after them and someone will reply to you.
In the meantime I'll do my best to find out any info I can for you.
My aunt and I are going to do a family tree too so we will be looking at these records too.As a child I remember hearing stories of Wilnor and "The Crawfords." Aparantely they were all great tradesmen and as i told you earlier they were involved in the building of the Braidwater Mill chimney and my aunt said the Town Hall too.
I have just had a quick look at our family grave papers and i can see Isabella and Hugh O'Neill have been buried in that grave. ..they were the witnesses at John and Lizzy Crawford's wedding. Must try to find out where John n Lizzie are buried. But Wilnor was definately a member of that church when they still read out his name each year in Remembrance Sunday.
Anyway I'm just back home from a lovely but tiring weekend in London so my concentration not great. Will be in touch.
Colleen