PRONI : Look up of 3 wills Please

[draarcy]

Still hoping to get a look at what these wills have in them.  Still no response out of PRONI.

[Elwyn Soutter]

You asked whether it was possible to find where the McGookin houses were. If you go to Griffiths Valuation, you’ll find that in 1862 John McGookin had a house (plot no 34a) and Martha McGookin had a house, offices (outbuildings) and 26 acres of land in Ballyboley (plot 11a).

You can use the Griffiths map to locate them. There is a slider in the top rh corner which allows you to overlay a modern map onto the 1860s map. John McGookin’s house was on the modern Braepark Rd, between the Upper & Lower Ballyboley roads, near the school house. Plot 11 was a mile or so east, straddling the modern Lower Ballyboley Rd.

www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=nameSearch

[TheWhuttle]

Draarcy,

For summary details extracted pre-1922 from Wills (i.e. before so many were "wisped" away for ever) it is always worth having a look through the "Microfilm of original handwritten and typed records in the Public Record Office, Belfast" of the work of Tenison GROVES - a record agent who was active through the turn of the 19thC - all snapped on to 54 reels by the LDS in 1959.

For the McGOOKIN surname the relevant items from the collection look like being:

Genealogical collection of muster rolls, householders, wills, deeds, parish registers

Families Ledley-Maxwell p. 9186-9921 FHL BRITISH Film 258488
Families Montgomery-Mahoney p. 10460-11121 FHL BRITISH Film 258490
Families Mahoney-M'Ternan p. 11122-11609 FHL BRITISH Film 258491 

N.B. The going can be a tad turgid, particularly thru' the handwritten pages.

Ref: https://familysearch.org/#form=catalog
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Not aware that any surname index of these records has ever been created.
[Quite a task!]

Capt. Jock