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I have an Ancestry substantial DNA match with a person originally from Giant's Causeway (Aird) North Antrim, on my paternal side.  Whilst I cannot say this is impossible it is unlikely and my match is adamant that it is wrong!  Paternal side lived in Shuttle Hill Coleraine in the late 1800s and as I think my married great uncle fathered a child to have this size of match possibly with a neighbour, a Mary Kane nee Martin in 1914.  I think she was Scottish, and her husband Alexander, a tailor was from a line of Kane/McKillip from Killowen (though those are Bushmills names I can find no connection).  Mrs Kane had a baby girl Annie Jane in a house at the Aird at the same time as an Aird girl had a daughter Winifred- she was Lizzie known as Stirling or McCollum.  Lizzie had several children which I believe her mother reared as her own, including this 1914 arrival. I think these babies were perhaps mixed up as this could explain the DNA match - Kane's baby stayed with Lizzie's mother?  Six months later we learn of the Kanes living in Belfast (quite a move for Killowen people) and Mary Kane dies at that point of TB. Alexander remarries and has two more children but Annie Jane born at Aird is not listed in their family per Wikitree (all else checks out including his profession as a tailor).   I would appreciate it if anyone can tell what became of Annie Jane or if anyone can help explain why what appears to be a dying, pregnant woman went to a house at the Aird to have her baby.  My DNA match who connects to the child Winifred who remained with McCollums/Purdys has no idea of these distressing twists - lives overseas.

Thank you to all who made valuable contributions to my search for info on this family.    Yes, it would seem that Samuel Boyd Gordon was neither 40 as his gravestone suggests on his death in 1964, or 42 as the press report.  I have found his birth recorded to Nancy and James Gordon 7 May 1919.  I know from past experience that a year or two in either direction seemed to suffice for birthdays back in the day.  He seems to have been their fourth child, not fifth. I had already traced James and Nancy back to him being the son of Wm James of Kirkfields who married Ellen Booth of Kirkhills in 1885, and his father was James.  I also was considering a line from Hugh and Selina Boyd Gordon, because of the Boyd addition to the name but this now is irrelevant, though this line is to my DNA match.  My Great Grandfather John Gordon born 1864 appears to have had an Uncle James born 1834 who married late per my DNA match  on Ancestry, they were from near the Dark Hedges, so I conclude that I am most likely related to Gordons of the coal yard through him.   It was the Telegraph death announcement that provided the info that put it all into place, and this was a paper I never would have delved into for local affairs, usually looking up old Chronicles and Constitutions. I had not wanted to go into the area involving Samuel Boyd Gordon's children's deaths as the person who contacted me seeking the family link shared fairly sensitive info on the sad conditions that prevailed for these young people.  Thank you all who contributed - some useful info on GRONI may help others too.

Thank you.  These  records indeed are my folks.  Now seeking connections elsewhere, starting with possible links to the coal yard.  Have learned from Billion Graves and another correspondent just now that the coal yard Gordons may have included a Samuel Boyd Gordon who had two youngish adult children James Andrew and Odette deceased in recent times.  This does not prove a link to my folks as Andrew and Odette not traditional Gordon names.

Thank KG, great news that we don't have to wait 100 years to see the marriages like the births!

Aghadowey, thank you so much, this has made a seemingly impossible task look easy!