Hi,
Thank you all.
But I have all that and more so really need for all of your kind work on that.
It's just the baptism for my grandfather I am trying to track down - I believe it could be very likely St Patrick's for many reasons. And wondered who held them for those years and if they were still with the church , as the archives didn't seem to hold them.
I have the above full newspaper articles, army records, and birth certs of the children who were registered, Nixon's, and Susan's ( and George) burial and gravestone photos, death certs and heaps more. Ive been tracing the family for years, and the above generation Nixon( Nixon and Ellen).
Nixon ( and susan) lived at rock cottage doagh, kilbride in their later lives . In the 40s they lived in foundry lane. They continued to live around the area in Ballyclare until they both died ( they died in hospital )
My great grandfather and grandmother moved about a lot, due to being Tinsmiths as too his father . My great grandfather Nixon used to sell his wares at the farms - he actually carried on with it into the 1940s until he died in 48 ( where My mum can remember him making stuff when she was a wee child and selling them to local farms )
That article in the paper about him is quite a big piece in 1939 ( I acquired the article from the Irish paper archives site a few years ago, I have unlimited access via our library ) . Where he says he and his family have been tinsmiths plying their trade around the whole of North of Ireland in so many words, So they moved around a lot. They did a large piece on him due to his decades and decades of being a tinsmith and how time has changed the trade, which by that time ( in 1939). was then becoming a dying trade . The youngest son he mentions in that article right at the end , being injured in Palestine is my grandfather ( my grandfather ran over a land mine , where my grandfather escaped with minor injuries, his army matewas not so lucky, it killed him ).
My grandfather himself always used to say to me , and everyone else when he was alive ( he was adamant. Ie he was pretty 100% sure he was born there ) that he was born in Ballymoney. Whether he was mistaken where he was born, I'll never know without a baptism.
My grandfather even wrote it as his place of birth on all of his army records. It's on all official documents that my grandfather filled out.
I also know what Nixon's army records say and later when he joined the " RAF" ( royal flying air corps/ start of the Raf) records says - but he also got one of the children's date's incorrect too( Nixon jnr who he has put down as 25 april - he was born 2nd may and not named Gavargh of course) - besides his own birth date incorrect too lol ( he lied about his age in the RAf said he was born in 1872 to join as he was old, but wanted to help the war effort ,he even touches on this in his interview in the newspapers too about trying to act younger to join up.
John 1890 the eldest is born in castle st Ballymoney on birth cert
George 1895 was born in Ballyclare on cert
Ellen Graham 1896 ( who is not on any census and died before 1901 )
William 1900 Castle st too
Susan 1903 ( like my grandfather's is an unregistered birth , but is recorded being as born in Gavargh on some of Nixon's various records
Nixon jnr 1905 was born in Garvargh on cert.
Someone who lives in the area checked the carrickfergus churches for me ( on foot) and my grandfather wasn't baptised there .
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.
I've been trying to track down his baptism for years. Just for a record of his birth. It will be in one of the COI churches.
He didn't need a birth cert throughout his life. He spent his whole working life in the army, so never needed one for ID purposes.
My great grandmother ( and great grandfther) didn't register all of her children , she probably thought it non important, or forgot.
He was 100% definetely not registered . I had Groni searching for me for years for it - They were extremely helpful and couldn't find anything at all - they searched years outside my grandfather's birth date looking for it, they even gave me me John's birth , his oldest sibling by almost 17 years , thinking perhaps that may be him . And of course in recent years I can check and search myself - which I have done of course. 100% not registered. ( he was 100% not adopted by them either , DNA 100% proves this )
I put it aside a few years ago, after many years of trying to find his baptism - I am now having another go at trying to find it.
I'll have a go at trying to message them through their Facebook page for who to write to in the church , their site will not load for me at all , non secure. Its been this way for months on end that I know of. My phone is the same. So something is up with their site that my servers here don't like the look of.
Thank you
Very Kind regards
