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This is interesting.  According to Ancestry DNA the Killowen one would be my match but I believe it must be very far back.  It links me to two users managed by one person, and in addition a lady from Giant's Causeway originally whose paternal ancestors were Logans of Olphert St, Long Commons,  Coleraine presumably by a Charles who was in the army and married a Letitia Lee from Buncrana in the 1860s.  Charles and Letitia went to Scotland circa 1875.  Do you find anything familiar in this?  We are still trying to make the connection from Coleraine, to Scotland to the Causeway to Limavady. And then there's those matches at Damhead/Knockintern......

I know that it has been some time since you were using this thread, but I recently got my DNA match through ancestry and two other users match to me and assure me that they link to me through John Darragh of Coleraine and/or his wife.  This has been a great surprise as I thought our family origins were Limavady and Ballymoney.  Two other DNA links from Family Finder give me cause to believe I have ancestry at Loughan/Damhead, and I see there were quite a few Darragh surnames there in the 19th century and more recently - does anyone know if John of Killowen was their relative, or if there are links to Campbell or Spallen/Spalling of Damhead in that era? Or perhaps Logan, Olphert St, Coleraine town?  And finally do any of these names link to Limavady rural area McDonald, McGuinness, Loughhry, Neill, White or Morrison in late 1900s?

Hi
I know that the McAfee family Roman Catholic side buried in St Mary's, Cullycapple Road, Aghadowey.  I believe that a couple of generations down and this branch of the family would have been Protestants - the last McAfees buried in the Chapel graveyard would have been the local grocer and his wife who died circa 1960.  The nearest Church of Ireland churches would be St Guaires Aghadowey and Camus Juxta Bann in Macosquin Village where there have been McAfee residents over the years.
Unlikely for Presbyterian burials, but Englishtown and Crossgar possibilities.
I see you are also researching McFadden and Grissam in this area - I did a bit of research in that area on these names for a friend and collected quite a bit of stuff.

It's been a good six months and I have made great inroads on the McFaddens.  They changed their name to McFadden unofficially from M'Aldridge or Alexander, having been descended from McCaldridge of Glengad, the Vow, Ballymoney.   

The ancestor is William McCaldridge who was born around 1850 and married Mary Ann McFadden daughter of John (son of Andrew McFadden) and Rose McFadden of Knockanavery having changed his name to William Alexander.  They had a son William Alexander in 1874 who married Ann Eliza Taggart in 1896.Tthey  registered his children as McAldridge, and later took his mother's maiden name of McFadden .

A William McCambridge in 1871 married Nancy Jane McFadden of Moycraig, daughter of Malcolm McFadden, he changed their name to Denham/Denholm, and they lived between Moycraig and Dennistoun, Glasgow, having children at both locations leaving one, Jane at Moycraig premanently  She had been born to Nancy Jane and William McCaldridge (same as McCambridge?).  Their grandson was Malcolm McFadden of Drumtullagh commemorated as having disappeared at the Somme (Mosside Presbyterian Church).

 DNA evidence has connected our two families, but we don't know if it was through the McFadden brides who might have been related, or if the same William married both girls bigamously.  Mary Ann Alexander last known name has disappeared from history after giving birth to her son William in 1874.  She had a sister who married into Walker of this area.  Bushvale is one of the McFadden churches but they have no formal burial records.  In short I am trying to find out how many William McCaldridges lived in this area in the 1870s and if Andrew and Malcolm McFadden of Knockanavery and Moycraig were relatives.  Any info leading to either link being established appreciated.  Sorry it is rather complicated.

A second query from a new found McFadden relative.  She is trying to trace her great grandfather James McFadden born 1877 who married a Nellie McLean of Laurel Hill Coleraine, and this lady died in 1916, whereupon he married Robina Greer.  His birth and death places are unknown.

Robina and James had a daughter Catherine Robina McFadden who married James McFadden, born 1917, a brother to McFadden of Drumtullagh, born after his death at the Somme.  We are trying to trace this James' burial place in Antrim too.  Any help on either to these two above appreciated.

My several times great grandfather had a sister Anne McCaldridge of Glengad, Vow, Ballymoney who married John Boyd, son of Alexander Boyd of Mulladuff/Mulladoo, Vow, Ballymoney in Finvoy Church of Ireland in 1852.  Some years later they emigrated to New York where he died, circ 1870s.  She remarried and also died in New York having had a number of other children.

At least one Boyd child accompanied the parents to America, but some remained.  We are interested in tracing these, and any descendants.  Tradition has it that there were 13 children born to Anne, but we don't know how many by each husband.

 Irish Geneaology.ie has the marriage of Anne and John, but doesn't have birth images for Boyds of their era.  FamilySearch has the marriage, but no leads on births or baptisms.  I cannot find Alexander John's father on death records.

 There is an Alexander Boyd of the correct townland in 1901 census who died early 1900s in his seventies, who could be John's brother named after the father, and there was a David Boyd of same era.  Alexander possibly the brother of John also a daughter who married a David Tweed.  There was a Mary Boyd who may have been a sister of John who married Smyrell.  The problem is that there were just so many Boyds with repetitive Christian names in the townlands of the Vow.

We think they were Finvoy Presbyterians from the census reports.  Any info on John's parentage, siblings, or children who remained at the Vow would be appreciated.