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Antrim / Re: Watsons and Lagmore Dam
« on: Thursday 29 August 19 12:30 BST (UK) »
What a fantastic opportunity for someone to buy pieces of their family history!
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Thanks Maggie. IT was worth a try. I will try Carnmoney. I wonder where people who died inLigoniel
Before 1900 would have been buried?
RosemaryJoan
Thanks Maggie. IT was worth a try. I will try Carnmoney. I wonder where people who died inLigoniel
Before 1900 would have been buried?
RosemaryJoan
I am in New Zealand and am hoping someone can put me in touch with a genealogist of the O'Hara family of Crebilly.
I have been doing my friend's O'Hara family history of the area and to be in touch with a family member would be of help.
I noticed that the O'Hara children have names that resonate with those of Crebilly family including the name of Hugh and Henry and the family comes from the same area.
It would be great to join the dots if possible.
Robin
Robert, Matilda, Elizabeth, Esther
Many thanks for your time.
RosemaryJoan
Hello, Can anyone tell me if there are any McCormick records for this graveyard? My husband's McCormicks lived and died in Ligoniel and I have never been able to find their burial places.
RosemaryJoan
There are a couple of Beckett links with my Gilbert family of Aghagallon (not far from Ballinderry).
In Aghalee on the 3rd Feb 1847, my 1st cousin 4x removed, William Gilbert married Mary Beckett, daughter of Matthew Beckett.
A couple of years earlier, in 1845, William Gilbert's sister Jane married Samuel Turtle, son of John Turtle.
This is from my notes on John Gilbert, father of the above William and Jane:
One of John Gilbert's children married a Turtle and another a Beckett. CEB Brett's book, "Buildings of County Antrim" features Laurel Hill in Aghalee. This house was owned by the Turtle family while the farm next door was owned by the Becketts. On the 14th December 1890, Isaac Cousins Turtle of Laurel Hill, only son of the late William John Turtle died, aged 38. In his will Isaac directed that all his land that he be "possessed of or entitled to whether leasehold [or] freehold and chattles to be sold and the proceeds to be divided equally between [his] two unmarried sisters Mary Letitia and Harriet Turtle." In 1891 Laurel Hill was bought by James Quinn who moved in with his wife (Jane Graham) and children. On the 23rd September 1931 James Quinn's son William married his neighbour Annie Elizabeth Beckett. As a result of this union the two farms were combined. These Turtles and Becketts were presumably related to the spouses of John Gilbert's children.
Other marriages:
On the 18th March 1880, Samuel Beckett of Aghalee married Mary Elizabeth Turtle, eldest daughter of William Turtle of Ballinderry.
There was also a Beckett-Gilbert marriage in 1978, but that's a bit recent to talk about here.