Brick Wall - James BELL & Eliza LAMONT

[aghadowey]

Children of James Bell & Eliza Lamont/Lamond:
Thomas (17 June 1867) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FR9P-KMT
Robert (5 May 1870) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FP1S-YDM
Hugh (1 Feb.1873) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F5FP-CP5
Matilda (13 June 1875) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FRSM-HRW
Joseph (24 Feb.1878) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F5YT-95L (mother Lamount)
Eliza (4 May 1881) Coagh district (GRONI)

[hallmark]

Frederick Hugh LARMOUR son of Hugh Larmour/Isabella Harper, Dungonnell, Killead, Antrim applied for a Pension 1917

James Larmour  s/o John/Elizabeth Larmour Derrykillultagh Ballinderry, Antrim applied for a Pension 1917
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Sarah Larmour, d/o Samuel Larmour/Ann Jane Seaton Derrykillultagh Ballinderry, Antrim in 1920.

Sarah Jane d/o Samuel and Ann Jane Larmour,  Lurganteneil Ballinderry, Antrim applied for a Pension 1916 quoting siblings as: Margaret, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Esther, Samuel

[aghadowey]

I think that the surname should be Lamont (or variations of it) and that Larmour was merely a case of the handwriting difficult to read- the actual marriage certificate might clarify this.

However, the Larmours in the pension records are in the wrong area for Coagh.

[M_ONeill]

So rootsireland only has Coagh baptisms back to 1865 transcribed online - that likely explains why I can't find any record of Eliza's baptism on there. That's assuming, of course, that she was actually born in Coagh herself.

[hallmark]

Fair enough, can't find any Lamont/Lamond.

[aghadowey]

So rootsireland only has Coagh baptisms back to 1865 transcribed online - that likely explains why I can't find any record of Eliza's baptism on there. That's assuming, of course, that she was actually born in Coagh herself.

What religion were the family?

[M_ONeill]

The family were Roman Catholic, at least of the time of James/Eliza's marriage.

[aghadowey]

My gut feeling is that the Bells might not have been Catholic before James' marriage. In the 1911 census there is only one R.C. Bell family in Coagh district- that of Hugh Bell-
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Tyrone/Coagh/Drumconway/857215/
same Hugh in 1901-
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tyrone/Coagh/Aghaveagh/1727420/

Others are widow Eliza Bell, daughter & niece*-
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tyrone/Coagh/Drumad/1727452/

* Tillie is daughter of Hugh Bell in 1911.

[M_ONeill]

I've always suspected that if you went back far enough they'd be a protestant family. I'd never been able to find if or when they converted, though. I know that Bell is a surname of Scottish origin, as is Lamont.