Hi there,
I’m afraid my notes are nowhere to be found – typical! However, I definitely recall that one of the family was, during the 1830s/40s, listed as the gamekeeper to Lord O’Neill. I’m starting to think that it was the Broughshane Church of Ireland records in which I found the family’s various baptismal entries – I’m about 90% sure it was.
They’re a confusing family to untangle as there seem to have been a few Christophers and a few Hannahs!
Christopher Redmond Snr. of Tamneybrack townland wrote a will in 1855 which gives a vast amount of info about his family. Christopher’s will mentions: his ‘late father’, John Redmond, who had previously left Christopher some property situated in the townland of Ballymoney in Seapatrick, Co. Down, which is just outside the town of Banbridge (so I would tentatively suggest that the Redmonds were perhaps originally from that area, not Co. Antrim); Christopher’s sons Christopher, Thomas and William; his unmarried daughters Nancy and Harriet; his married daughter Mary Carpenter; and his wife Hannah. Usefully, Christopher also mentioned his brother-in-law ‘Surgeon Edward Patman’ (whose wife was Harriet - a possible sister of Christopher’s?).
Edward Patman, a surgeon ‘late of Broughshane’, died a widower on 22 September 1869 in Nottingham, England, and his son was the Reverend Edward Patman of Nottingham (he later became the Rector of Ahoghill, Co. Antrim). Surgeon Edward Patman died whilst on a visit to see his son (as mentioned in his obituary which appears in the Nottinghamshire Guardian of 24 Sep 1869).
Christopher Redmond Snr. was supposedly 52 when he died in 1858.
Christopher Redmond Snr., son of John Redmond, seems to have married Hannah McMillan at Buckna Presbyterian Church in 1847 and I would suggest that he must surely have been a widower at the time, as most of his children were born long before 1847 so this must have been a second marriage.
Christopher Redmond Jnr., like his father, also seems to have married a woman called Hannah (Hannah Hamill) and he died in Aghafatten townland on 2 December 1879 aged just 43. However, I can find no trace of Christopher Redmond and Hannah Hamill’s marriage in Ireland, so they may perhaps have married elsewhere in the British Isles. Hannah Redmond, nee Hamill, died in Co. Antrim in 1920 aged 78.
Mary Redmond, daughter of Christopher Redmond Snr., married Richard Carpenter in Co. Antrim on 24 April 1854.
Hannah Redmond, nee McMillan, died at Tamneybrack in early 1901 aged 84 and left a will which only mentions her married daughter Harriet Knox and her niece ‘Mrs Christopher Redmond’. Hannah’s will mentions property which she owned jointly with her niece in Banbridge, Co. Down.
Harriet Redmond married Alexander Knox at Buckna Presbyterian in 1886.
Hope this helps.
Best wishes
