I know you were really looking to find where St. Patrick's baptismal register is kept (glad jon_ni found contact details for you) but I had another reason for searching for more details.
However, you did not have all the information that I posted- I know there's a lot so perhaps you need to reread it all a few times.
He was born in Ballymoney ( castle st) his parents were born in Coleraine area ..
I've already posted details about Susan's family in Ballymoney (not Coleraine area).
Ellen Graham 1896 ( who is not on any census and died before 1901 )
I posted link to Ellen's death registration and the cause of death may fit in with the story you had been told about a fire.
My grandfather was definetely baptised as my gran said to him one day that's a Catholic church and wondered why Susan would have baptised him at a Catholic church which never made sense at all ! ( wish I remember what church was mentioned .I think my gran may have thought St Patrick's was a Catholic church for some odd reason when it's not.
Our Lady & St. Patrick's is the Catholic church in Ballymoney or perhaps your grandmother was thinking of another Catholic church called St. Patrick's.
Since the family moved around so much it's probably not too surprising that they didn't register all the children's births. My parents somehow didn't realise she hadn't been baptised until she was 7 years old.
If St. Patrick's don't have a record of James' baptism then either it didn't get recorded (this unfortunately did happen) or he was baptised elsewhere- St. Paul's COI in Garvagh most likely if the family were in Garvagh as late as that.
Valuation Revision Book VAL/12/B/30/2E (1896-1910) page 139/151 Main St. Garvagh- #115 Nixon Graham 1906-1908
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That could be Ellen's death thank you! I have looked for a death who was born later than that. As she is on one of his army records pages as being 2 years old , John 7 years old on same record ( who was 100% born in 1890) - they've totally messed up their ages of the children on some of the records.
It is hard to tell if it is her , but probably most likely as there is no one else as a young child death around the years. And it would explain the fire story quite a bit.
Yes I know my Boyd's come from there.
But even though Nixon and his brothers were not born there , they were born in Gavargh ( I got confused saying they were born in Coleraine area) it wasn't just Nixon who lived for a time in Ballymoney in castle st, his brother George did too, George settled there into castle st , married twice, and was living at Castle st to at least 1918.
His brother George was born abt 1860 ( married Margret Ann Alexander in 1880 and lived there in Gate end Ballymoney ( before Nixon and susan boyd married ) and had a few kids born in Gate end , then married Annie lamont in 1899 and lived at castle st Ballymoney .
They also had another older brother before civil reg too . He was born abt 1859 ( William) , but he moved to Ballyclare too, and John 1870 moved down too and married in Ballyclare.
It.s really hard to say if that is Nixon junior or Nixon senior in 1906 to 1908 ( because Nixon's senior , ie Ellen Townsley and Nixon)., disappear off the planet after 1970 - no death at all for Nixon , Nixon's brother( James )married Ellen Townsley sister ( Ester Townsley) so have even traced those too , Ive been searching for years for a death for Nixon senior , not only in Ireland , just I case they emigrated or hopped over to Scotland ( he is not the one in 1898 , he is impossible to be mine ) . And if still alive in 1901 , may be so badly mistranscribed.
if it is Nixon junior it would probably mean that my grandfather was baptised somewhere around there. But I think I'll check out st Patricks in Ballymoney first - as that as where my grandfather said that he was born . He would have no reason to think Ballymoney ( he didn't just think it . He " knew it" totally 100% thought he was born in Ballymoney ) if he was born somewhere else. He could have picked anywhere as two of his brothers are born in Ballymoney , his other brother Ballyclare and his other brother in Gavargh.
I wouldn't like to say for sure where his other subling was born , Susan ( my grandfather's sister) her birth could be anywhere, but I think there's a great possibility she may have been born in Bushmills as she was born in 1903 and she has 6 and half months next to her at the time of recording the bushmills address on the army records. And like my grandfather her birth hasn't been registered.
They lived there in 1903 and 1904 that I know of . He was there until 16th Jan at least, as I have a record of him in the paper in the Bushmills petty sessions in Jan 1904 too besides the address on one of his army records pages .He said he was leaving town - so moved on from there early 1904 . A dog bit him on Christmas eve . He said he didn't want to prosecute and have the dog destroyed because he said he was leaving town anyway, and didn't want to leave an ill- feeling behind.
it can get quite confusing sometimes to say the least with them moving so much!
Please excuse any typos I am using my phone.
Thanks again
Very Kind regards
