location of Woods Churchyard - near Magherafelt ?

[familysleuth]

Dear fellow researchers - I am having difficulty in finding information about my WHITE family. They (sons and daughters of James White (1791 - 1875) and Hannah Galley 1796 - 1881) are in Donegal, but there are many other placenames such as Magherfelt and Ballymultrea and Calhane. A son, James White was buried at "Woods Churchyard" - can anyone tell me where that is?
The White Family were farmers.

[Kiltaglassan]

........but there are many other placenames such as Magherfelt and Ballymultrea and Calhane. A son, James White was buried at "Woods Churchyard" - can anyone tell me where that is?

Firstly it's Magherafelt and no place name comes up for Calhane - where did you find it?

Ballymultrea townland is south of the village of Ballyronan.
https://www.townlands.ie/londonderry/loughinsholin/ballinderry/salterstown/ballymultrea/
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4797285#map=14/54.6935/-6.5278

This might be the "Woods Churchyard" that you are asking about. Have a look at this map.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4797285#map=15/54.7158/-6.5461
The green square area on the right of the Ballyronan Road (top of map) NW of Ballyronan. Click in a couple of times and pan down to see its exact location.

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2544249/woods-chapel-church-of-ireland-graveyard

KG

[aghadowey]

Dear fellow researchers - I am having difficulty in finding information about my WHITE family. They (sons and daughters of James White (1791 - 1875) and Hannah Galley 1796 - 1881) are in Donegal, but there are many other placenames such as Magherfelt and Ballymultrea and Calhane. A son, James White was buried at "Woods Churchyard" - can anyone tell me where that is?
The White Family were farmers.

"Woods Churchyard" might be Woods Chapel
http://www.woodschapel.armagh.anglican.org/en/home
http://www.woodschapel.armagh.anglican.org/en/History-Of-Woodschapel-St-John-s-/History-Of-Woodschapel-St-John-s
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2544249/woods-chapel-church-of-ireland-graveyard
https://www.emeraldancestors.com/church-census-1829-woods-chapel-artrea-county-londonderry (no Whites listed)

Where are you finding these place names?

Calhane might be Calhame?

[aghadowey]

A James White of Ballymultrea died in 1908- born c1839-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1908/05508/4543681.pdf
In 1901 census his birthplace listed as Co. Derry-
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Londonderry/Salterstown/Ballymultrea/1533472/

added- https://www.townlands.ie/londonderry/loughinsholin/ballinderry/salterstown/ballymultrea/

[gaffy]

The following isn't the family in question, but simply as confirmation on where Woods Churchyard is, note the following from the Mid-Ulster Mail of 8 May 1915:

ARMSTRONG - May 1, at her residence, 47 Donegal Avenue, Belfast, Mary, widow of the late John Armstrong, Ballyronan, Co. Derry. Interred in the family burying ground, Woods Churchyard, on Tuesday.

The grave:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/233328843/mary-armstrong