Drumballyroney

[pharmaT]

1844 is before any marriages were recorded in the statutory registers. So to trace the marriage, we need to know what denomination it was. (Tradition was to marry in the bride's church, so what was her denomination, if you know?).

The McCombes were Protestant on Scotland, I guess they were the same in Ireland.

[oldohiohome]

Then there is a good chance some of them are on the baptism registers in Ireland.

Findmypast.ie has indexed the RC Baptism Registers, I don't know about the other denominations. You can 1) subscribe to them, 2) wait for a free weekend offer, or 3)use the indexes to narrow down the search since you have the parents' names. Then go to nli.ie and look at the register, if Catholic.
I think Ancestry.something has indexed them also, but I'm not sure. Maybe not ancestry.com, since that is the US version.

If you want to put the information you know on the board here, I'm sure people will help you find them, unless you'd rather do the research yourself.

Full names, estimated dates of birth, etc., and importantly the religion.

Edited: I just read the preceding post, that the religion was Protestant. Presbyterian or Church of ___ ?

[oldohiohome]

Did they marry in Ireland?

if so, this might help:
https://www.johngrenham.com/records/church.php?civilparishid=822&civilparish=Drumballyroney&search_type=full

If I have this link right, then the Presbyterian records for 1844 and following are on findmypast.ie, and the C of I records are only at Public Records Office of Northern Ireland.

[oldohiohome]

McCombs on the Tithe Applotment Books for Drumballyroney:

http://www.irishgenealogyhub.com/down/tithe-applotment-books/drumballyroney-parish.php

and on Griffith's
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&Submit.x=47&Submit.y=10&familyname=mccomb&firstname=First+Name&baronyname=&countyname=DOWN&unionname=&parishname=DRUMBALLYRONEY

[Elwyn Soutter]

This probate abstract for McCombe in Lisnisk:

Administration (with the Will) of the personal estate of John M'Combe late of Lisnisk County Down Farmer who died 27 October 1897 granted at Belfast to William M'Combe of Ballygorrian said County Farmer a Residuary Legatee.

He was aged 82 when he died. The will itself is on-line on the PRONI wills site


https://apps.proni.gov.uk


I suspect this is his widow.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Down/Tierkelly/Lisnisk/1201314/

His widow was Presbyterian. John’s will mentions leaving £10 to the Rector of Drumballyroney for a protective rail around his grave. So he might have been Church of Ireland or he may have been a Presbyterian who was buried in a Church of Ireland graveyard (as many were).  I’d check both the Church of Ireland and Presbyterian records for the family.

Eliza died in 1908:

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1908/05489/4537364.pdf

The informant was her brother William McNeilly of Lisnisk. See:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Down/Tierkelly/Lisnisk/1201309/

According to a pay to view site, John McComb married Eliza McNeill on 26.5.1857 at Drumballyroney Church of Ireland. His father was William McComb, farmer. The family lived in Lisnisk.

Drumballyroney Churhc of Ireland has baptism records from 1838 onwards. It’s records are on rootsireland. Ballyroney Presbyterian has records from 1819 and they reportedly are on FindMyPast.

[June Stoops]

Just stumbled across this post.  Eliza McNeilly who married John McComb was my great grandfather's sister (William McNeilly).  As I live near the area I'm just wondering what information you need about this couple?