Help please. Becket and Simpson Ballymoney Antrim

[scotmum]

Name   STUART BECKETT
Date of Death   1883
SR District/Reg Area   Ballymoney
Deceased Age at Death   60

James' father 'Stewart' perhaps?

.   District Intelligence.
 DEATH—Tuesday one of the milesmen employed on the Northern Counties Railway, named Stewart Beckett, suddenly expired while at work on the line near Ballymoney station. It appears that during the last fortnight he was unwell, but feeling somewhat better...

14 April 1883

Northern Constitution

Coleraine, Londonderry
   

[softly softly]

Interesting birth record of a Charles Hamilton, father James Hamilton, mother Sarah Hamilton nee' SIMPSON. Wonder if James Hamilton and Charlotte were brother and sister and took in Rachel after her mothers death

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1881/02819/2034126.pdf

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added, marriage of James Hamilton and Sarah Simpson

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1868/11464/8213331.pdf

[gaffy]

Incidentally, what looks like the same James Beckett born in 1893 above (reply #1) was baptised in October 1894 in Ballymoney & Derrykeighan RC parish, a transcript of that baptismal record says that he went on to marry a protestant named Agnes Nelson on 3 March 1920 in St. Saviour's, Govan, Scotland. Does that ring any bells?

A 25 year old James Beckett married Agnes 'Neilson' on 18 July 1919 at a Registry Office in Glasgow, his parents were recorded as James Beckett, a labourer and Rachel m.s. Simpson.

[Bodach]

Thank you for all the replies. Its a lot to take in.  I'll have to sift through them later.

One or two jump out straight away, this being one for sure. The Agnes Neilson was my Great Aunt so we're on the right track.

She married the son of the James and Rachael Simpson I'm looking for. 

Thank you all.
Thank you


That's a bit more information than I had this morning.

Incidentally, what looks like the same James Beckett born in 1893 above (reply #1) was baptised in October 1894 in Ballymoney & Derrykeighan RC parish, a transcript of that baptismal record says that he went on to marry a protestant named Agnes Nelson on 3 March 1920 in St. Saviour's, Govan, Scotland. Does that ring any bells?

[Bodach]

Thanks Gaffy

"25 year old James Beckett married Agnes 'Neilson' on 18 July 1919 at a Registry Office in Glasgow, his parents were recorded as James Beckett, a labourer and Rachel m.s. Simpson.:

I have a copy of this certificate which is where I got the Simpson name from.

Fantastic so many people are keen to help out with great results when all I could find were blanks.

[gaffy]

HAMILTON
RACHEL
81
F
1949
644 / 16 / 57
TRADESTON

Apart from age, above could possibly tie with the Beckett/Hamilton marriage you have posted, gaffy.

She was recorded as the widow of James Beckett, a dock labourer, her son James Beckett of 30 Carmichael Street, Glasgow, was the informant and he gave her parents as John Hamilton, labourer and Elizabeth Hamilton, m.s. Simpson, both deceased.

[Kiltaglassan]

Name   STUART BECKETT
Date of Death   1883
SR District/Reg Area   Ballymoney
Deceased Age at Death   60

James' father 'Stewart' perhaps?

.   District Intelligence.
 DEATH—Tuesday one of the milesmen employed on the Northern Counties Railway, named Stewart Beckett, suddenly expired while at work on the line near Ballymoney station. It appears that during the last fortnight he was unwell, but feeling somewhat better...

14 April 1883

Northern Constitution

Coleraine, Londonderry
   

The coroner's verdict, a day after Stuart Beckett's death, was 'natural causes, 3 years'. Stuart died on the railway line at Ballybrake(s) and was living at Carnaney [sic].

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1883/06366/4826716.pdf
https://www.townlands.ie/antrim/dunluce-upper/ballymoney/ballymoney/ballybrakes/
https://www.townlands.ie/antrim/dunluce-upper/ballymoney/enagh/carnany-lower/

Both townlands lie on the current railway line.

[gaffy]

Just to recap, in case my thinking has gone out of whack... records indicate that this is one and the same woman who:

- married as Rachel Hamilton, son of John, in Ballymoney in 1890;
- had the first two Beckett children in Ireland as Rachel Downey in 1891 and 1893;
- was Rachel Simpson for the Scottish Beckett births;
- was Rachel Beckett m.s. Simpson according to her son James Beckett at his 1919 marriage;
- was Rachel Hamilton, daughter of John Hamilton and Elizabeth Simpson, according to the same son James in 1949.

[softly softly]

Believe when James Beckett/Rachel  came to Scotland c 1894/5, James Hamilton and Sarah Hamilton nee Simpson had also arrived previously. 1891 census

James Hamilton   48
Sarah Hamilton   48
William Hamilton   20
Sarah Hamilton   17
Annie Hamilton   14
James Hamilton   11
Charles Hamilton   9
Thomas Hamilton   7
Joseph Hamilton   3

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1888/02530/1937154.pdf

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