Denight?

[chinakay]

Greetyngs alle, I have been att ye Inne and feare mine spellyng shalle suffer greatlye 

Looking through burials at the Clifton Street cemetery in Belfast I came across one Robert Campbell who was buried there in 1857. According to the record he was born in "Denight", County Down, and I can find no such place. I'm thinking it may have been written as it sounds. Some of the Gaelic names are difficult to an untrained ear...any suggestions? Donaghadee perhaps? All suggestions welcome 

Cheers,
China

[aghadowey]

Duneight, Blaris civil parish (Lisburn district)?
https://www.townlands.ie/down/castlereagh-upper/blaris-castlereagh-upper-portion/duneight/

[chinakay]

Aha, yes, that does look like it. Aghadowey to the rescue again 

Thank you, my dear 

Cheers,
China

[BallyaltikilliganG]

 did Clifton st have a suggestion of age rom Ros Davies Co down see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies
Joseph   CAMPBELL   .   Blaris   family burying ground in Maze Presbyterian graveyard c. 1900   MIs

however Griffiths valuation offers
Griffiths Valuation of Ireland 1863 see http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/i
Campbell   Thomas   Duneight   Blaris   Down
has a house no land, paying a rent £1pa map ref 13b
find the famous todd’s Grove  at the northern end of Lisnoe road where it joins the Ballynahinch road which must be close to Deneight hall and 300 yards south is where the house was or is . you can get a rough idea using modern google  then satellite enlargement then street scene

a Thomas Campbell had a son Thomas b 1853  see https://www.ancestryireland.com/
a Thomas Campbell had a son  Robert b 1843  see https://www.ancestryireland.com/
that’s all I could quickly find

[chinakay]

Ooh hello Bally, wouldn't you know it but I can't find the reference again. But my Robert would have to have been born around 1800, maybe a bit earlier, because his son John was born 1827.

There does seem to be a Lisburn connection, Derryaghy Parish actually, but it's from the side of the family that married the Campbell. A Dargan (Dargen), and oddly for an Irish name like that one the family seems to have been Protestant.

Thank you for your help, it's much appreciated.

Cheers,
China

[BallyaltikilliganG]

another source, but which gives land acreage abut no family connections and is incomplete is from
Tithes Applotment Books  1823-1837 based upon the work of theIrish Genealogy Hub
The relevant original books are in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) Belfast
Campbell, John-Townland: Largymore Year: 1834-Blaris-Antrim
Campbell, John-Townland: Largymore Year: 1834-Blaris-Down & Antrim-----
Campbell, Robert-Townland: Largymore Year: 1834-Blaris-Antrim
Campbell, Robert-Townland: Largymore Year: 1834-Blaris-Down & Antrim-----
Campbell, Robert-Townland: Lisnatrunk Year: 1828-Lambeg-Down
Campbell, Robert-Townland: Tonagh Year: 1834-Blaris-Antrim
Campbell, Robert-Townland: Tonagh Year: 1834-Blaris-Down & Antrim-----
Dargan /Dargen/Dargin/Dorgon etc found but not in Blaris

Campbell, Joseph-Townland: Strouds Park Year: 1827-Derryaghy-Antrim
Campbell, William-Townland: Ballymacash Year: 1827-Derryaghy-Antrim
Dargan /Dargen/Dargin/Dorgon etc found but not in Derryaghy-Antrim

[chinakay]

Well now, how interesting...the Campbells, I think, would be from the Belfast area. John Campbell, whose father is Robert, was born at Peter's Hill in 1827 and may have spent some time near Castlereagh.

But the Dargans were definitely in the Lisburn area at one time because their son Chester was christened in Derriaghy parish in 1822. IGI. Can't find their other two children, or any other children. So...if I can't find the others, and they aren't in the tithe records that you cite, they must have migrated to Belfast shortly after Chester was born. Interesting!

Chester, an unusual name for the times I think. I have a thousand Johns, but just the one Chester 

Many thanks, Bally 

Cheers,
China