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Antrim / Althaman/Allyhamen
« on: Thursday 28 March 19 12:31 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

I'm looking at a record in the Registry of Deeds index and it references someone's residence a [Althaman Allyhamen]  co Antrim.   I cant find any reference to this and wondered if anyone with better local knowledge than I could come up with some suggestions.

This could be around Ballymena as the record is for the lease of a house and mills there.

https://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=67396


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Scotland / Statutory register for marriage entry years after wedding
« on: Friday 15 December 17 13:28 GMT (UK)  »
I've just been reviewing some BMD documents to see if I've missed something and have come across something I've never seen before and wondered if anyone could shed a light on it.

I have a record for an ancestor which records a marriage for Glasgow in 1878 but it appears in the 1911 registry.

The wife died on 17 January 1911 and the death was registered the same day by the step daughter - the 1878 marriage was between a widow and a widower.   The husband had previously died in 1905.

I suspect that what's happened is that a check of the marriage register couldn't find any entry of the marriage.   The other entry on the same page in the marriage register is dated 24 January 1911, so I can only assume that the marriage was entered into the register at that point.   Other than the "191_" being crossed out and "1878" added by hand and initialled, there is no indication of what has happened - I would have expected an RCE, although I suppose technically its not a correction to the register if the register was never updated.  Other than the entry being 33 years "late" it all looks pretty standard.

I wondered if anyone had come across anything like this before.   

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Tyrone / Married in COI church then RC chapel, is this the same couple?
« on: Monday 14 March 16 13:00 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

I've just come across something I think is odd but wondered anyone could shed any light on this.

I have Madden ancestors from Lower Mullan, Ballinderry in Tyrone.   Madden seems a relatively uncommon name in Tyrone - at least compared to other parts of Ireland - and as there are only four families listed in Griffiths for Lower Mullan, I'm making an assumption they are all related.   I've been going through the BMD records - via rootsireland - to see if I can piece together how this wider family fits together.

I've come across a couple who married in 1855 Charles Madden and Jane Madden, presumably they are cousins, nothing particularly unusual in that.

A civil marriage record that shows that they were married on 12 April 1855 at Magherafelt COI parish church.   This civil record has more detail which shows that Jane is one of "my" Maddens.

However, there is also church record that shows that in Ballinderry a Charles and Jane Madden were married on 15 June 1855.   
There is less data on the church record - no address is given and the father's given names are not recorded.   The witnesses to the two weddings are different.   The name of the church is not given but it is recorded as assisted by J McGeough and a search on him suggests its in the RC chapel in Ballinderry.

I find two different couples of the same name getting married with three months of each other in the same place - especially given they share a surname - to be too much of a coincidence.

However why would they have two marriages under two different traditions?

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Antrim / McDowells of Ballymena/Connor/Kells
« on: Tuesday 04 August 15 11:36 BST (UK)  »
Looking for any information on a Smith McDowell who was born around 1795-1800 probably in or around Ballymena.  He was married to twice, first to a Jane McCartney and then to an Esther Nesbitt.  He appears to have had six children.  Esther b 1819, John b. 1825., William b. 1832., Helen b. 1836 Elizabeth b. 1840 and Smith b 1850.   Esther, William and Helen moved to Glasgow in the 1850s.  He is listed as an Army Pensioner on William's Death Certificate and was apparently wounded at Quatre Bras in the Waterloo campaign.   It's likely that the family lived in Connor or Kells.

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