Speaking Yet: Limavady Presbyterians and Balteagh.

[kingskerswell]

Hi again,
             Had a check on the Flax Growers Registerof 1796. This lists those farmers who had Half an acre of land prepared and manured ready to accept a Flax crop between April and July of that year and who could apply for a free spinning wheel or loom, depending on the amount of land. The intention was to encourage the linen industry. I think that the above is fairly accurate. I have selected the names and areas in which you are interested.
BLAIR
Samuel x2 Bannagher (Feeny)
Samuel     Upper Cumber (Claudy)
William      Balteagh
William      Upper Cumber
Anne         Balteagh
Rev. Daniel Tamlaghtfinlagen

MANN
Thomas    Magherafelt

LOUGHREY
Hugh        Upper Cumber
John         Drumachose (Limavady, close to Ballykelly)

I tried several other spellings and got nothing

Regards

PS the name William at the end of my last posting was an error on my part. Either too early in the morning or old age!!

[rhubarb]

I have the book "speaking yet" in front of me  if you need me to look for anything

[Macharskin]

Hello Rhubarb,

Thanks or your interest.

My particular interest in the book, as you may have seen from the above and a previous posting, is trying to locate where my Gt Gt Gt Gt Grandfather Henry Loughery may have originated. Other posters have directed me to a number of locations where the surname is quite common, such as Balteagh.

I am hoping that one or more of the tables might have the surname, or that there is a mention of the name in the earlier part of the book.

Also I am looking for the name Mann.  Henry's daughter Jane married James Mann - and had 6 children and one grandson born in the county between 1834 and 1850, before they all appeared in the 1851 Census in Wigtownshire, Scotland.

Sorry about the gabble but I suppose I am hoping to see the Loughrey and a Mann names together!

Kind Regards, Michael.

[Macharskin]

Hi kingkerswell - or should I call you "not william" ...

My old age got my posts out of sync., so I must thank you for that additional information you supplied earlier.  Hopefully these names will prove in time to have a connection with my family.  'tis early days.

I have spent hours and hours staring at a parish map of the county to get my bearings, this after years of getting to know every nook and cranny of South West Scotland!

Thanks again, Michael.

[rhubarb]

In the 1851 census, How old were they all? was the grandchild living there also?
ages may be able to narrow it down a bit

I will send you a personal message

[Macharskin]

Hi Rhubarb,

Many many thanks for that very informative PM. I am very grateful.

As to the 1851 Census, which was taken at Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire, the occupants of  a cothouse called "Loughries" were:

Henry Loughrie   Hd    ?   80   Pauper Lab Retd   IRE
Agnes Loughrie   Dau   W   48   Visitor & Servant   Wig Portpatrick
Sarah Jane Smith   G Dau   U   17   Gen Lab   IRE
Janet* Loughrie   Dau   W   45   Visitor   Wig Portpatrick
William Mann   G Son   U   25   Visitor’s son   IRE
Elisabeth Mann   G Dau   U   23   Visitor’s dau   IRE
George Mann   G Son   U   10   Visitor’s son   IRE
Martha I. Mann   G Dau   U   7   Visitor’s dau   IRE
Mary Mann   G Dau   U   2   Visitor’s dau   IRE
Robert King   G Son**      10m   Visitor’s son   IRE

*Also Jane/Jean  **Actually son of Elisabeth

Absent from this group – and this census it seems, is another G Dau., Agnes Mann who would have been aged about 16 yrs (born Co. Derry) who joins the siblings by 1861 census. Perhaps she was still living in Ireland in 1851.  Elizabeth named Co. Derry as her birthplace in a later census.

Death and marriage and death registrations of the siblings I have checked so far named their parents as Jane/Janet Loughrie and James Mann, notwithstanding her maiden name appearing in this census.

I have shown all the details in the hope that a fresh eye will see something that deserves closer attention.

Apologies for the squiffy list but I can't work out how to tidy it up, the preview looked nothing like my original composition!!

Kind regards, Michael.

[Agnetta]

For what it's worth - on the marriage cert of Alexander Gibson (of Carrick,parish of Balteagh)and Mary Ann Rosborough on 9-3-1856 in Bovevagh Cof I. One of their witnesses was James Loughery. Agnetta

[Newgent_for_life]

Dear Michael,
I have found a copy of "Speaking Yet" in my library. On page 15 is a list of Protestant Householders in Balteagh Parish-1740.
Do you want me to print the entire list?

Yours etc.,  Newgent

[Macharskin]

Hello Agnetta,

Thank you for that.

The above 1851 Census would suggest that "my" James Mann had died earlier; between 1848 and early 1851. 

Kind regards, Michael.