Hill family of Larne, Hillmount and Ballymena

[aghadowey]

Only problem is reading my handwriting- should be age 81 on 4 Aug.1887- under William Killin
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1887/06207/4775589.pdf

[Gilby]

Aha, thanks!

I wonder if he could be the 8-yo William Killen in Ballyclare in 1813?  (Ballyeaston Church census)

[pablo1]

Stepping back to the Martin family

1.John Martin of Air Hill, Rathgar, Dublin m.
2.Maria Martin m. 1848 Alexander Macaulay, gent., son of Capt. George Macaulay
2.Emily Martin, died 1885, aged 59, m. 1848 Thomas Donnelly, solicitor, son of Mathew Donnelly, merchant.
3.Mary Donnolly (sp of name changed) died 1917, aged 63; m. 1881 to Hugh Pollock, barrister and Registrar of Irish Land Commission, died 1923;  witness at his death was his sister, Penelope Pollock.
4.Mary Noel Pollock, 1884-1886, buried Jerome Cemetery
4.Elizabeth Pollock, b. abt 1885
4.Hugh Roger Pollock, c.1882-1921, d. aged 41;  civil servant; unmarried; buried Jerome Cemetery.
4.Dr. John Hackett Pollock, 1887-1964, medical doctor, author, poet;  buried Dean's Grange Cemetery;  see Dictionary of Irish Biography concerning his life.

[Kiltaglassan]

Just adding some links to verify your statements-

4.Elizabeth Pollock, b. abt 1885
4.Hugh Roger Pollock, c.1882-1921, d. aged 41;  civil servant; unmarried; ….
4.Dr. John Hackett Pollock, 1887-1964, medical doctor, author, poet; ….

Elizabeth Emily Martin Pollock born 27 February 1885.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1885/02659/1980547.pdf

Hugh Rogers Pollock born 24 April 1882.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1882/02784/2021942.pdf

John Pollock born 20 April 1887
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1887/02561/1947450.pdf

[hillrm22]

It is some years since you first posted the first message here, but i am so excited to find it! My second great grandfather, James Hill, married my 2nd great grandmother, Jane Laurimer in Ballymena. I have since been looking in those environs for information on the Hill family. I believe his father's name was John Hill (because Ancestry shows a DNA connection to this man). He was married to an Ann or Anne or Anna. I put Anne Berry's name in as his wife and it immediately showed a DNA connection to me!

I believe James Hill was a son of John and Anne Berry Hill. He was born in 1810. My ancestry shows an Alexander Hill also born in 1810. James Hill is the only one of their children who did not show a death date. Probably because he and Jane emmigrated to the US and he died here in 1875.

I am really hoping I have found a connection here and am very excited about it. I plan to Visit Northern Ireland next year and am interested in connecting with other Hill family members.

[pablo1]

McGarel Cemetery
Alexander Williams, JP, b. 1827 and died 1899 at Larne.  Grave erected by his son, W.W. Williams;
also, his mother, Annie, died 1924.

From Irish genealogy
1.Alexander Williams, bank manager, son of John Williams, gent;  Alexander m. 1860 to Annie McNeill, dau of William Walsh McNeill, gent.;  one witness to their marriage was Henry FitzGibbon.
2.John Alexander Williams, solicitor, died 1898; m. in 1895 to Letitia Isabel Newett, dau of ?Brereton? Newett, stockbroker.  John's address was at Hillmount, Larne.
2.William Walsh McNeill Williams, b. 1871.  He also became a solicitor.

[rittrock]

There seems no limit to the number and intermarriages of these Walsh / McNeill / Newett / Williams etc. solicitors, but for light relief I am pleased that Francis Brereton ("Ned") Newett, Letitia's brother, was a "fine opener" according to A History of Senior Cricket in Ulster (2003), and 1902 winner of the Irish golf championship.
Brereton Newett's death - Belfast News-Letter, 25 Dec 1899 [sometimes Brereton John, Brereton J]
Ned's will - BNL 21 May 1913
Further evidence about the Drains lands and the Fitzgibbon / Hill / Lepper / Macaulay / Martin / McNeill / Williams links - BNL 2 Oct 1936.

But was John Hill of Ballyboley a close relation of the other Hillmount Hills: George Hill (died 1828) and his wife and cousin Mary Hill (died 1859)? That was my starting point.