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Yes, that entry in Lennon Wylie Directory states Colonel Gilmore was nobility and gentry but apparently this just means it was a well off family and so not in Burke's Peerage.
I cannot afford to pay 19 pounds an hr for research and PRONI charges 48 pounds an hr. I am afraid converting the Australian dollar makes those charges even more horrendous. Death Registrations were after 1863 in Ireland weren't they?   It is a shame I can't get back further by finding his parents names. He had such a fascinating career starting with The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 1805 West Indies Regiment, received medals for fighting in  wars in all the Peninsular Wars and then finally was one of six colonels that 1817/18 took regiments to fight in Venezuela against the Spanish. It has proved to be such interesting research with him mentioned in many books. He spent his last 28 years as Barrack Master in various towns in UK and Scotland before retiring  to Boghead. I presume he came from there because a John Gilmore lived there prior to him.

Google tells me that Greenisland is a village 7 miles from Belfast and 3 miles south west from Carrickfergus.

Hello, I am new to Rootschat.  I would like to ask if anyone can help me access my Gilmore/Gillmore family who were gentry in Co. Antrim, n. Ireland. They are not listed in Burkes Peerage for Ireland but are in Irish directories as gentry. They lived at Boghead House, Boghead which is near Muckamore.  Ireland reaching out has suggested I search Antrim parish records, Connor diocese mic583/11-12, mic 1/328, cr/1/77; d1200/4 mic1/328 or Muckamore mic 583/5 t679/55-56 for the family but they are only on microfilm at the public records office in Belfast and I live in Australia.  They are not on line. My 3 x gt grandfather was Colonel Joseph Albert Gillmore, born c 1785 a professional soldier in the British army and I can find a lot on him re his career but he returned to Boghead House when he retired in 1849 and died there in 1863 & buried Green Island, Carnmoney. His wife returned to her home in UK. I suspect his father may have been John Gilmore, a lawyer who also lived at Boghead House. John had a daughter Wilfreda Gilmore who married John Dunbar of Dungannon, their family were gentry too.  Does anyone have copies of these microfish please or can suggest my next step.  Many thanks, Vicki

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