Trying to Find records for an EZEKIEL LEE - co. Antrim

[AlexB12]

Many thanks for that!
I think I have the correct thread with Catherine.
If you're on ancestry I'll give you the link to the family!

Alex

Images removed , copyright.

[aghadowey]

Welcome to Rootschat, AlexB12 
DonnaMarie1982 who started this thread hasn't been online for a few years but hopefully will return soon.

Meanwhile, did you know the registrations you posted are now online (free) on Irish Genealogy?

There's an extracted marriage record (869) which gives Ezekiel's father as John Lee and Mary's father as Arthur Mcgee.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGYQ-4R38

Although Ezekiel is listed as Roman Catholic in 1901 census, Ezekiel isn't a name commonly found in Catholic baptisms so perhaps his family weren't Catholic? Have you searched the R.C. parish registers online?

Several children for Ezekiel Lee & Mary/Molly McGee also on Family Search-
Levina Elizabeth (1869) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FPND-4HM
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1869/03388/2242342.pdf (born Ballymultrea, Ballinderry civil parish)
She died 1897 at Bellagherty-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1898/05843/4655413.pdf
Catherine (1870) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FP5H-T58
Sarah (1873) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FR32-7BQ

[aghadowey]

Here's the 1868 marriage from the Parish register (Ballinderry)- 1st marriage in 1868- civil record will show more information-
https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000632478#page/187/mode/1up
Witnesses Jacob Logan & Joanne Lee (Latinised Christian names) so perhaps the Lees were Catholic.

[Kiltaglassan]

Welcome 

Hello,
  I don't know if you're still searching, but if you are, Ezekiel was my Maternal Grandfather's uncle (or possibly great uncle) - I have a few lines of his ancestry I think.
I think he may have married a widow who already had children then went onto have children of his own with her - Catherine being one - she seems to have had at least two children with no father listed.
Let me know if you want to make contact as it seems we are distant cousins!

Alex

Catherine and three of her other siblings:

Levina Elizabeth 1869
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1869/03388/2242342.pdf

Catherine 1870
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1870/03327/2219717.pdf

Sarah 1873
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1873/03202/2174114.pdf

Jane 1877
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1877/02991/2096299.pdf

Catherine died in 1916 in Magherafelt R.D.
D/1916/183/1022/15/175   Catherine   Lee   14th November 1916       45   Female     Magherafelt
See: https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk/

KG

[aghadowey]

Catherine died in 1916 in Magherafelt R.D.
D/1916/183/1022/15/175   Catherine   Lee   14th November 1916       45   Female     Magherafelt
See: https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk/

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1916/05233/4449280.pdf

[M_ONeill]

Giving this thread a quick bump as I'm researching the Mackles of the area. I thought I'd add my info just in case it was relevant to your search.

My 2x great grandfather Henry Mackle is linked to a couple of the same areas as your search.

He married a Sarah Tomlinson of Ballymultrea in 1871 (wed at Ballinderry chapel). He was living in Bellagherty at the time. Both are places that I note are linked to the Lees. In fact, a number of Ezekiel's children were born in Ballymultrea right around the time Henry and Sarah wed, while she was still living there - so I think it's likely the couples would have crossed paths.

Henry and Sarah's children, along with places of birth:

John Mackle - (b. 1872, d. same) Bellagherty
Henry Mackle - (b. 1873) Bellagherty - married a Mary Jane Mooney in Glasgow, 1902
Joseph Mackle - (b. 1875) Ballymulderg - twin of Margaret Jane
Margaret Jane Mackle (b. 1875) Ballymulderg - twin of Joseph, married Hugh Conway 1903.
Catherine Mackle (b. 1877) Ballymulderg
Sarah Ann Mackle (b. 1881) Ballyrogully - married William Mooney, brother of Mary Jane in the Loup, Magherafelt district, 1905.
Bridget Mackle (b. 1883) Ballyrogully
Mary Mackle (b. 1886) Ballyrogully - married Patrick O'Neill in the Loup, Magherafelt district. (<- My ancestors)
Andrew Thomas Mackle (b. 1889) Ballyrogully - apparently intellectually disabled in some way, according to censuses.

Now despite living in the Loup, the family did still have some links with Bellagherty come the time of the censuses - Henry and Sarah's daughter Margaret Jane, listed as Maggie J, is working as a servant in the house of a John McKee in Bellagherty in 1901 (was he anything to Mary McGee?).

My thoughts immediately stray to the possibility that one of the Mackle sons may have been the father of the two Lee girls - though I suppose it would be impossible for us to confirm it. As John died in infancy and Andrew Thomas was too young it would only leave Henry and Joseph as potential candidates. Henry obviously left for Scotland and married there. I think Joseph may also have emigrated, but I haven't had the chance to look into it.

There's also a bit of a mystery as to where Henry Mackle the elder and Sarah Mackle (née Tomlinson) are in 1901. They are both alive at the time of the census, but not present in their house in Ballymilligan, Loup. Only two of the daughters plus Andrew Thomas are there.

I hope the above might help you dig up the elusive link to the Mackles! 

[Kiltaglassan]

Margaret Jane Mackle (b. 1875) Ballymulderg - twin of Joseph, married Hugh Conway 1903.

Link- https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1903/10235/5724837.pdf

Children Henry 1906, Daniel 1910, Patrick 1913.
https://www.rootschat.com/links/01qgg/
Also Sarah 1904
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1904/01809/1708894.pdf

KG

[M_ONeill]

Thanks for the look-up KG! So Margaret Jane continued to live in Bellagherty after her marriage. Here's the family on the 1911 census.

It seems that Mary Lee married a Thomas James Clements in 1921. Her father was listed as 'unknown' implying she was never told of her parentage. Witnesses at the wedding were an Aloysius McKee and an Ann Collins.

Aloysius is, I think, actually Hugh Aloysius McKee. Son of John McKee and Mary McCosker, born 1905 (He may be a bit young to be a witness in 1921, but I've yet to see a better candidate). Here's the family in Bellagherty in 1911.

John and Mary married in 1902. I'm fairly certain that he's the same John McKee that Margaret Jane Mackle was working for as a domestic servant in 1901. John's father is listed as James McKee.

I think Anne Collins might be the daughter of Charles Collins and Eliza McKee, both living in Bellagherty in 1911, previously of Ballyneal. On Mary Lee's marriage record, you can even see where the officiant has begun to write her surname as 'McK-' before crossing it out and writing Collins.

So I think it's a bit of a 'connect-the-dots' style situation, but I'd argue the above shows links (social if not familial) between the Lees, the McKees and the Mackles of Bellagherty. I think there's a strong possibility that the father of the two girls came from the Mackle family linked to my tree.

[M_ONeill]

Though I've just seen this old Rootschat thread that implies the father was a Patrick Mackle. Also implies that the couple had more than the two children listed here. Henry and Sarah had no child named Patrick, so it can't be one of their sons - however, I'm beginning to think it may have been a relative of theirs.

This is a curious little mystery for sure!