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Thank you, when researching the roles of officers and enlisted men at the time it proved a tad difficult to come across any records of the regular or irregular units in maghera at the time of the troubled year. i was born myself in one of the oldest houses in maghera, Victoria house in hall street and was always told that it bordered the yeomanry barracks at the time. 
as a child i can remember playing around the wall that adjoined the old lookout tower but was never aloud to go into it, as it was to dangerous and was in a state of disrepair. i am starting my research from the sixth century to the start of the nineteenth century and will take me a few years, lol.

Hi Mo

Sorry I can't help with the names of his children, but I have a book called "Famous Maghera Men" by Eoin Walsh which also includes extracts from a poem called "Watty Grimes" in the chapter on Watty Graham.  Assuming it's the same poem, it IS about your relative but Eoin Walsh notes some factual inaccuracies in the version of events in the poem so don't rely too heavily on it.  The book mentions Watty's "wife and family" but unfortunately no names are given.

BTW I also have a personal connection to the case as a distant relative of the man who arrested him