I am looking for Windy Hill, specifically Windy Hill Graveyard, which I believe to be somewhere near Mallusk. Has anyone ever heard of it?
The reason I ask is I’m looking into the Thoburn family who lived around Craigarogan/Mallusk. There is a book called “The Ancestry of the Irish-American Thoburns” which has genealogies mostly put together from two bibles and the Carnmoney church records.
This is the bit I’m interested in:
Joseph Thoburn, (26 Feb 1719 – 19 Nov 1792) m. Eleanor Barron (1735 – 13 Aug 1811):
- John [hypothetical apparently, so I’ll leave him out]
- Mary, b. 5 Feb 1751
- David, (10 Jul 1757 – 3 May 1802/3) m. Janet Barron in Aug 1783.
. 1. Jane (1797 - 1872). She erected a monument in Windy Hill cemetery.
2. John (1799? - 1845?)
3. David (1800 - Aug 1862). (Windy Hill cemetery and Family Bible.)
- Joseph (24 Jan 1759 – ?) m. Janet Bigger.
- William (1765 – 27 Jan 1819) m. Agnes Russell on 11 May 1788.
I’m trying to get to the bottom of the Thoburn-Barron connections.
The will calendar has a David Thoburn of Craigarogan who died on the 23rd October 1862. He leaves everything to his sister Jane, and after she dies to their nephews and nieces. The will calendar also records that Jane died in 1872, and according to GRONI she was 75, so born about 1797.
This all fits with the above, apart from the fact the Thoburn book has David’s death as August 1862, not October. I'd like to be able to assume they just got the date a bit wrong, but there was in fact a David Thoburn who did die in August 1862:
Belfast Newsletter, 16th August 1862
Thoburn - August 15, at 23, High Street, Holywood, Mr. David Thoburn, formerly of Belfast, aged 59 years. His remains will be removed from his late residence, for interment in Mallusk Burying-ground, on to-morrow (Sunday), at one o'clock, passing over the Queen's Bridge about half-past two. Friends will please accept this intimation.
I’m wondering if the Thoburn book has got the two David Thoburns mixed up. Judging by the comments in the genealogy above I ought to try and find the monument erected by Jane Thoburn in “Windy Hill cemetery” hence this post.
~ MFG