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I emailed Crumlin NSP a few years back to see if they had any old baptismal registers.  I didn't get a response.  Proni has a note in their files to say nothing received from the church.  Has anyone on the forum ever had any contact with the Crumlin NSP church?

Marriage of Matthew Snoddy and Fanny Lynn was on 29th October 1836. 

The recording of the marriage details in the register is somewhat unusual.  All the other marriages have the parents names stated.  For Fanny Lynn it has John Agnew but there is a letter or a symbol between John and Agnew.  Also the name of the second witness is not clear, it looks like Nathaniel William but both names are abbreviated in the old style.  I am not convinced that Fanny Lynn had been married before.  She used the name Lynn on subsequent registrations in Templepatrick and in Scotland.  Would a widow who may only have been married for a short time continue to use the surname of her deceased husband?  Could it be she acutally is a Lynn? Perhaps her mother never married John Agnew.  I have no further information regarding the Lemon family  I will have to see if I can trace them.

You mentioned a Dan Peden.  Do you have any information about him?  I have been working on the Peden families around Parkgate/Templepatrick area.  In the Templepatrick registers the Pedens are very strongly associated with Mallusk. 

I suspect your original tree was correct.  Remember there were 9 baptisms in Templepatrick - 8 gave the mothers maiden name as Lynn.  When her husband registered the children's births in Scotland he used Lynn as her maiden name.  It is only when the children come to register births/deaths/marriages that Wylie starts to appear as the maiden name.  I would also be skeptical about the details on the death registration.  It was completed by the clerk in the poor house most likely from details provided by one of the children.  I can only reiterate in my experience the information contained on the Scottish death registrations for those born in Ireland is often wrong.

Is it not more likely Frances Lynn is the granddaughter of Hugh Wylie?  Is it possible William Lynn's wife was a Wylie?

Sorry forgot to say, the only other trace of Thomas Snoddy and Jane Agnew I have uncovered so far is the baptism of their son Thomas on 4th April 1824 in Carnmoney Church of Ireland.

Another point of interest, images of  transcriptions of the Ballylinny Presbyterian registers are also available on the family search website.  Images of transcriptions for Carnmoney Church of Ireland registers for births/marriages are also available, although I am unsure who made the Carnmoney transcriptions.  There are a number of Lynn marriages and baptisms in the Carnmoney COI records.

All of the Snoddy children baptisms are in the Templepatrick Presbyterian church registers with the exception of the two children born in Scotland.  All of the baptisms give the mothers name as Fanny/Francis Lynn, with the exception of one baptism which lists the mother as Fanny Scott rather than Lynn.  I am aware of a Frances Scott Wylie in some trees on Ancestry which would suggest Fanny Lynn is indeed from the Wylie line.  I have taken the information regarding the baptisms from the Family Search website where you can now view scans of what I think are McKinney's transcriptions of the birth and marriage registers for Templepatrick Presbyterian.  To find the images search under Catalog on the website, then under Templepatrick as a location and it will bring up the links to the images.  They can be found in two separate documents - duplicates of each other.  The same scans also include Donegore and Carnmoney records.  The marriage of Matthew Snoddy and Frances Lynn is also to be found in the same registers and again has been transcribed by McKinney and the images can be viewed online.  Your Barron's and Lynn's also appear in the registers online.

I got the Templepatrick Presbyterian census from the Emerald Ancestors website.  It lists Jane Agnew as the husband of Thomas Snoddy.  I hope to view the microfilm of the census at some point in the future.

Wylie was used as Fanny Lynn's maiden name by her son James when registering the deaths of his two siblings in Scotland.  My take is James simply used the wrong maiden name for his mother when registering the deaths.  From my own research into McMurray's who moved to Scotland I know just how badly inaccurate the death registration and even sometimes the marriage registration information can be.  One of my McMurray's stated her mother's name was Jane Peden at her marriage registration rather than Jane Snoddy.