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Sorry but the two marriage entries I found do not have father's names.

I did follow the threads

I also noticed the McMeekin/Beggs tombstone at Rashee mentioned by MFGilbert. That is a William McMeekin who died ?1815 son of Margaret Beggs. If this William was related (?father) to your William who sold land to Thomas Beggs, he was probably keeping it in the family.

MFGilbert and I share ancestors (my 4x gts) who are buried at the Ballylinny graveyard. In my mind I have associated the name Beggs with that graveyard also. I think there are quite a few of them there.

yes  I have a very relevant Robert Gawn! I decided a year or so ago to make a plublic Donegore Gawn tree in Ancestry so I could record all the info Billy Gawn sent in the 1990s (and prior to that from his mother). I knew there were several Robert Gawns but didn't remember the earliest one had married Margaret McMeekin.

That Robert was born 1785 died 1829. Margaret died 1813 presumably in childbirth with their only child William Gawn born 1813. William's son Robert Gawn emigrated to Australia then NZ (goldrush). I happened to be reading his (NZ) obituary from Billy's website just last week when I was showing it to someone at work.

Back to Robert snr he had sprouted a green leaf in my Ancestry tree which is for his marriage to Margaret McMechan in 1811 at Donegore Presbyterian Church.

Cheers

Linda

I do no know if my Livingston family from Sligo connect to John & Catherine of Cavan but I do have members of my family with Cavan links. I have wondered if my Livingstons were in Cavan before they moved to Rathbarron Sligo which I think may have been c1820. John Livingston of Killoran and his wife Mary nee Wallace, who married in 1843, had 3 sons with Cavan connections. John Livingston b c1813 was the son of Thomas Livingston of Rathbarron, Sligo. I have not found any record of Thomas & family in Sligo pre about 1825.

Thomas Livingston b c1846, oldest son of John, was in the RIC and an acting constable in Cavan when he married in 1875 to Isabella Charters of Lisduff. I think Isabella died shortly after the birth of their son Robert John Livingston in 1876. Thomas later married Marie Baumann and she is named as executor of his will when he died in Ballina Co Mayo in 1920.

Jeremiah Livingston b c1847 was also in the RIC and also lived in Cavan where he married Margaret Hislop in 1878. Their son John James Livingston was born in Cavan in 1879 and I understand lived to be in his 90s. This time is was his father Jeremiah who died (1880) shortly after John James was born. Margaret died in 1942.

The third son James Livingston b c1849 was not in the RIC and remained on the Livingston farm in Sligo but married Matilda Charters of Cavan in 1880. Their son John b1884 was also a policeman but he emigrated to New York c1906.

I would like to

I have extracted some of the Skreen Church of Ireland records as my Clarke family is from that parish. In fact one of them Annie Boyd b 1905 married Phillip Goulden. Philip was the son of Daniel Goulden of Ballynacarrow. Annie's mother was my gt grandmother's sister.

The baptismal records from Skreen I have seen only commenced in 1877. I noted a Golden family b1880s in Farnaharpy, parents James & Rebecca Golden.

Also a Robert & Susan Golden of Farnaharpy who were born c1810 are buried at Skreen. A Susan Golden, daughter of Robert of Farnaharpy, married Young Coulter in 1872.

The only Gouldens in the Skreen parish records that I have found are the family of Annie & Phillip.

Cheers

Linda

I should add that my impression was that the Templepatrick records are not included in the McKinney Notebook. Ron only mentions the Carnmoney records in relation to the McKinney notebook as below.

In the case of the Carnmoney records, one of the clerks made a separate record of members  by family group with their births, baptisms , marriage and deaths. This is known as " the McKinney Notebook" and is the PRONI in Belfast. It has proved to be a help in sorting out the early families. I obtained a copy and it has helped me a lot over the years.

In an unrelated aside (or at least on my maternal line rather than my paternal Antrim families) I have several McMaster marriages in my Livingston family of Sligo . These McMasters only appear from the mid 1800 though so could have originated in Antrim. In fact now that I look again at my Ancestry tree, some of the McMasters have hints which might tell me more bout them.

Cheers

Linda