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Found some pages from the Boyce tree of William Boyce and Jane Patton that was published. You asked about daughter Mary b 1861 and I found I could not type.  Mary was listed as Mary Jane b 1851, not 1861 in the tree.  Children I did not find baptisms for are  Beatrice (no date) and perhaps Johnstone b 1844  (was this  the John I found?)  However the book then lists John Herbert Boyce b 1845-6  died 1876 in NZ on Constabulary duty leaving 3 children.  Database not up yet.

I have John Boyce b. bef 1800 with son Alexander of Ballydougan who went to Wisconsin, USA,  Letter mentions first 3 sons of Wm as nephews  Mary? Boyce, Thomas Boyce mentioned in letter as uncle to ?, and Wm Boyce 1817 of Ballydougan. 

Wm had son James Henry b. 1841 who married Jane Joyce dau of Walker Joyce and MJ Pollock.  Have his children.  John Boyce bapt Mar 17, 1844 Have nothing more  Greenaway bapt Nov 28, 1846. Have kids. Walker Boyce bapt June 3, 1849 Have nothing more William Edward Boyce bapt aPR 12, 1854 m. Elizabeth Holland dau of Wm Holland  Have kids Simon Boyce b 1856 Have nothing more  Ann Jane Boyce bapt?  Nov 10 1858 m. David Ward,  Mary Boyce b? Feb 15 1861  Thomas Ritchie Boyce b? Jul 13, 1865  Have nothing moreNot sure right now when bapt dates become birth dates.
Does this agree and do you know more information?

Richard Pentland m. Sarah Hamilton seems to be the parents of Alexander if he married Eva Malcomson in 1919 in Portadown.  Richard is in the 1901 census on line and born a few years before 1860.  He says he is of full age in 1887 in Portadown when he married and says his father is named Richard.  Richard should be in Griffiths, probably in Portadown, but I haven't looked  Father Richard must be born before 1835.  There is a Thomas Honneyford marriage of  Mary jane, a siblingto Alexander, I don't seem to have Portadown records, but I hope the other person can link easily to you.

Thomas and Jane may have also had Ann b 1819, married John Wright April 17, 1849.  Also Mary b abt 1828 m William McKnight in 1850. No parent is listed for Knocknamuckley Elizabeth who married John Nicholson.  Margaret England who married probable son John McCormick probably died 1865 at age 33.  These are all from Seagoe's church records.  I can find no reference to Thomas's death at Seagoe or Knocknamuckley.   I think John died between Nov,1880 and1881   They had Mary Jane bapt at Knocknamuckley 1859, but I see no one else.

A long shot for  more distant relatives are those in Ballygargan. George McCormac or McCormick probably with wife Sarah who had son Thomas b abt 1837 who married Mary Ann Gracey in 1858.  Thomas is in Knocknamuckley by 1862 and widow Mary Ann is still there in the 1901 census.  James and Mary of Ballygargan also have son Thomas b 1832.  So many Thomas names in a small area may indicate something, but I don't have records for pre-1821 McCormicks at Seagoe to say one way or another.

I  found Drumlyn Hill on a map years ago, but the map was very hard to work with. I remember it somewhere in the Tullylish/Donaghcloney area, but see some on-line references to Guilford.  Would you list nearby townlands to make an easier search and list some descendents?  I have several George's in the 1800's and may be able to find earlier ones.