i am posting for an elderly friend who has done a lot of work on his family tree but this branch has always stumped him. As he is now in palliative care, I want to see if I can make a breakthrough for him.
His great-grandmother was Margaret Neill who was born in Glenkeen on January 7, 1857, and baptized at St. James Church in Aughnacloy on February 8, 1857 by Rev. T.G. Stokes. Her parents are noted as Thomas Neill & Bessie Livingston. She marries William John Boyle on 8 September 1882 at St. Anne's Shankill Belfast. She died in 1930.
We believe she had a brother Alexander who was born in the early 1860s (before civil registration) and who appears later in Belfast, where Thomas shows up in the 1911 census before he passes in 1915. Alex marries Alice Starrett on July 7, 1894 at St. Anne's. He died in 1951.
He's never been able to find any other additional information about Thomas and Bessie, although I believe Margaret was born in Glenkeen, Aghaloo Parish where there are a couple of Livingston families (so the wife's parish), but that's about all.
I cannot find Thomas in the 1901 census for a start, and although I can find Alex in the Belfast directories in the 1890s and beyond, no sign of Thomas, and he is not living with Alex in the 1901 census.
I know any tidbit of info about Thomas and Bessie would really bring some joy to my friend.
