Watters-Lowry family, Antrim Co.

[erined]

Thank you!!  Could the term 'daughter of the manse' have another connotation other than the daughter of the pastor?

[Elwyn Soutter]

To me, the literal meaning would normally imply she was a Minister’s daughter.

There is sometimes a wider meaning when someone is described as a “son of the manse” it can just indicate a hardworking individual usually of Presbyterian background.

[aghadowey]

Other denominations also have manses but no Methodist Church in Bushmills as far as I know. There was a Reformed Presbyterian one there but it may not have started until 1830s.
https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/Guide-to-Church-Records-October-2019.pdf

Agree with Elwyn that 'daughter of the manse' would indicate a minister's daughter but since this seems to have been a family story handed down several generations in a new country it may have gotten distorted a bit.

[erined]

That's what I'm beginning to think also.