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Antrim / Re: John Mays/Mayes/Maze in Magheragall and surrounding help please
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Could the farm been handed down as some time?
Try searching for death notices in the local newspapers, they might help you.
John Maze senior was leasing a House and 13 acres of land off the Marquis of Hertford (specifically map location 14) on Griffiths Valuation printed 30 Apr 1862 Island Kelly, Derryaghy, Massereene Upper, Lisburn Poor Law Union, Co. Antrim.
The map with farm 14 labelled can be viewed on AskaboutIreland.
Subsequent changes of Occupier can be tracked using the Valuation Revision Books on PRONI (also now on Ancestry) to c.1930.
Death Notices became more common post WW1, a report of the 1913 might appear in the Lisburn papers rather than the daily Belfast ones. There could be earlier gossip, locals often sued each other in the local courts or were prosecuted for minor offences.
British Newspaper Archive / Findmypast have:
Lisburn Herald, and Antrim and Down Advertiser 1891-1896. Lisburn Standard 1878, 1884-1959.