McConnell & Todd Surnames

[kingsgate]

Thanks for this - do you have any idea where it actually is?

[jwaugh]

hi

Was the place near Ballyeaston??

What was your gt gt grandmothers married name. I might be able to help you.

John

[kingskerswell]

Hi,
   According to Google and my maps it is immeditely to the east of the town of Ballycastle in Co. Antrim. There is a well known Friary there.

Regards

[kingsgate]

Thanks so much for this.

[dawghowsca]

Kingsgate, so I can get it straight ... re the James - Magt marr 1830:    Is that James Todd m Magt Magee?  Or are you speaking of McConnell's?

[kingsgate]

Hi

I was referring to the McConnells.

By the way I seem to have missed one of the message so sorry for not responding to one message but that is the reason. My gt gt grandmothers married name was Hilditch, but I do have the details of her marriage - just a few months later and I would have had the name of their parents, but they married just before the start of civil registration - and its not mentioned in the marriage entry.

I will keep looking for you though and if anything turns up will let you know.

[rmcmurtry]

I am new to rootschat but I believe the Todds of Coggrey near Ballyclare are related to the Todd family of Mary Todd who married a US President by the name of Abraham Lincoln.

I'm searching for modern descendants of the Todds of Coggrey.

Richard McMurtry
Los GAtos CA

[rollcaster]

My grandmothers maiden name was Todd she was born in Belfast on 17 August 1899 her father was Nathaniel Todd born in Cogry Co.Antrim  and died in Belfast on 22nd April 1913. Nathaniel was married to Sarah McCurley  died 18th March 1942.They married in 1st Ballyeaston pres. church on the 16th June  1884.
They had seven children.
Susana Todd born 22 April 1886. Cogry,Ballyclare
Jeannette Todd born 13th June 1888 Cogry, Ballyclare
Thomas Todd born 29th April 1890. Ligoniel, Belfast.
William Todd born 7th April 1892. Ligoniel, Belfast
Robert Todd born 1st February 1894 Ligoniel, Belfast
Alice Todd born 17th August 1899 Ligoniel, Belfast. (my grandmother)
James Todd born14th June 1901. Ligoniel Belfast.

[rmcmurtry]

Hi Rollcaster,
If you go to my website, you will see the census of 1813 that included all the Todds of Cogry area. 
Todd Families in America Website:  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcmurtriecfr/todd.htm
or just google:
Toddentrancefinal

Also is the just completed Irish and Scottish Todd DNA study which showed matching DNA for the Coggry Todds in Bonhill, Dumbarton (south of Loch Lomond), Haghill of Glasgow,and Livingston/Bathgate West Lothian.  So this may be the area of Scotland where your family lived before coming to Ireland.

It would be great if you would consider doing a DNA study just to confirm that your branch shares a common ancestor with the other Todds of this area.

By any chance, do uyou have a a cop of the marriage record of Nathaniel in 1884?  That would tell us his father's name.  The census shows his birth as 1859 - just a few years before the Civil Registration of Births.  So the marriage record would be the only clue to his parentage.

Richard McMurtry