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Re: Antrim / Rasharkin / BallyDonelly researching CHARLES CONNOLLY
« Reply #18 on: Thursday 02 January 25 15:53 GMT (UK) »
(I don't yet know when he arrived in UK).
In the 1800s, Ireland was part of the UK, so no records were kept of people travelling from Ireland to Scotland, England and Wales.

Already mentioned on this thread twice before including you in reply #1.
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Re: Antrim / Rasharkin / BallyDonelly researching CHARLES CONNOLLY
« Reply #19 on: Thursday 02 January 25 16:10 GMT (UK) »
I doubt Stuart Boyd is Charles. Stuart may be after mother Mary Stewart.
You are trying to trace people across the famine and even if Charles survived eg Canada didn't really keep immigration records until 1865 and US census would just have him as Charles from Ireland.

The 1846 entry #257 with no forname could be WJC or anyone, no indication even of gender. No entries for 1840 or 1841 and a gap in 1844, may be more omissions on microfilm images not so obvious. It would be unusual for there not to be 6-10 children so some may have been baptised before or after the Presbyterian transcript or elsewhere.
My own tree has initial children late 1820's baptised 1st Lurgan Presby then seem to swap to Lurgan C of I 1830's with re-marriage there 1853. He left a 2 page will naming most children including married daughters so know not two different Hectors & families. Charles had only 4 acres on Griffiths and may have moved a few miles locally for work & church at times.

No records were kept of people travelling from Ireland to or from G.B. would be equally accurate both then and now.
I was about to say he doesn't seem to be on the 1871 census from trees and married 1875 but he was, as Stewart B, aged 26 (1845) lodging 4 Dover Street, Chorlton upon Medlock, Lancashire (Manchester) same area as 1881. Found on Findmypast - Ancestry had him transcribed as Hewitt https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/7619/records/5045499 FindMyPast's census image is better.

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Re: Antrim / Rasharkin / BallyDonelly researching CHARLES CONNOLLY
« Reply #20 on: Thursday 02 January 25 16:29 GMT (UK) »
Note sure if this is important or not but may have found a new lead. Marriages traditionally take place in the bride's church and Mary Stewart may have come from outside Rasharkin Congregation so I started looking at 1st Kilrea records that have been transcribed online ( there are some errors in those records but I don't have the original ones to consult at the moment).

2 Jan.1832 Jas Stewart "of Kilrea Congr" son of Jas S[t?]ewart & Martha M'Connell of Moyknock was married to Mary Starratt of Kilrea Congr daughter of Chas Starratt & Jane M'Reynolds of Killygullib. Witnesses were Chas Connally, Henry Kirkwood & Wm Torrens.
http://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/KilreaP1/Marriages/1832.html
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Re: Antrim / Rasharkin / BallyDonelly researching CHARLES CONNOLLY
« Reply #21 on: Thursday 02 January 25 18:24 GMT (UK) »
Following on from my last post, James Stewart and Mary Starratt had 6 children in the baptisms for 1st Kilrea (Moyknock listed as residece)-
Mary Jane bpt. 1834
Martha bpt. 1837
Henry Charles bpt. 1840
William bpt. 1841
Nancy born 1844
Richard born 1844

Henry Charles Stewart of Drumard married 1866 to an Isabella Wiley.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1866/11531/8240963.pdf
https://www.townlands.ie/londonderry/loughinsholin/tamlaght-ocrilly/tamlaght/drumard/ (I used to live in one of the adjoining townlands and it's not far from Kilrea)
Moyknock townland isn't that far away-
https://www.townlands.ie/londonderry/loughinsholin/kilrea/kilrea/moyknock/

Their son Charles Wiley Stewart born at Drumard 1873-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1873/03213/2178212.pdf
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Re: Antrim / Rasharkin / BallyDonelly researching CHARLES CONNOLLY
« Reply #22 on: Wednesday 12 February 25 15:58 GMT (UK) »
Hi, I am a descendant of the Connolly's from Rasharkin (Drumack). The Charles from Ballydonnelly that you reference isn't directly in my line (going back to 1785), however the name Charles is common in later generations which makes me think there is likely to be an earlier connection.

It is highly likely that Charles from Ballydonnelly was a Presbyterian and would have attended Rasharkin Presbyterian Church. However having researched the graves at this location I don't believe that there is a grave there for this individual.

 

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Re: Antrim / Rasharkin / BallyDonelly researching CHARLES CONNOLLY
« Reply #23 on: Wednesday 12 February 25 22:11 GMT (UK) »
Have you looked for a gravestone in the Church of Ireland? Many Presbyterian buried in COI churchyards but might not be a stone.
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Re: Antrim / Rasharkin / BallyDonelly researching CHARLES CONNOLLY
« Reply #24 on: Sunday 16 February 25 17:16 GMT (UK) »
Yes, I've been around the St Andrews graveyard and couldn't see any Connolly graves. I was looking for the graves of two children that died in the 1930s but couldn't find them.

The only Connolly graves in the Presbyterian church are linked to the Connollys from church tamlaght and drumack.