McAvoy / Macken Kilkeel

[dermotb]

I see a Catholic baptism record (and scan) for the 1845 marriage, which I presume you have

I also saw the baptisms of Patrick in 1846 and Edward in 1863, in Ballynahatten, both in Kilkeel

In the 1864 Griffith valuation, Nicholas is living in Ballynahatten, on 2.6 Irish acreas and a house woth 10s rent pa, a relatively modest cottage, I suggest. This is the property he leased, a most peculiar oval shape (in the left hand image, toward lower left), right in the middle of a river, from the look of it. There is no house marked, but these maps weren't drawn up at the same time as the Griffith valuation, so he may have built a house himself.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjooUIUtx9j5ha4XeaxZ65eXK03HoQ

The property records show he had died by 1874, but I don't see a death record for him.

[aghadowey]

The property records show he had died by 1874, but I don't see a death record for him.

Does it actually say that he died then or is it just that the name of the tenant for the property has been changed at that date? Sometimes it takes a while for changes to be noted in the Revision Books whilst other times it's impossible to tell if a change has been made from one person to another with the same name (for example, if a Nicholas McAvoy took over the holding from another Nicholas McAvoy).

[dermotb]

It says "Reps" next to his name, which means representatives were acting for him.This means either that he died (the most common option) or had become mentally incompetent.

[aghadowey]

It says "Reps" next to his name, which means representatives were acting for him.This means either that he died (the most common option) or had become mentally incompetent.

… or that he went away somewhere out of the area 

[dermotb]

Well, I've seen a lot of "reps" in the Kilkeel records, and they have all been deaths to this point..

He may well have been somewhere else, but I'll bet he was still dead

Anyway, that will have to wait for a definitive death record

[dermotb]

by the way, his name was spelt McEvoy in these records (quite a common variant of McAvoy)