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Antrim Completed Look up Requests / Re: Help needed. Ballentine & Ferris Marriage Larne
« on: Tuesday 28 September 10 23:11 BST (UK)  »
Mags

Posted a lengthy reply abot 10.45 but it doesn't seem to have arrived.

Jey

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Antrim Completed Look up Requests / Re: Help needed. Ballentine & Ferris Marriage Larne
« on: Tuesday 28 September 10 22:57 BST (UK)  »
Hi again

Logged out and then logged in again to check something.     You'll have to guide me.

Jey

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Antrim Completed Look up Requests / Re: Help needed. Ballentine & Ferris Marriage Larne
« on: Tuesday 28 September 10 09:12 BST (UK)  »
Hi again Mags!

Small world!

Thanks for you reply and the Census link.   I've checked it out at item 71 and see listed the names of my ancestors.   There's also another mention of 'Ferres' at item 73 - a married son with a baby daughter named Nancy, after her grandmother.   Showed it to mum and all sorts of stories came pouring forth, eg how Daniel met Agnes (a redhead apparently!). 

On the Ballentine side of the house.   Your late father-in-law was indeed my mum's cousin.   She paid him a visit occasionally when he was ill and you may have rubbed shoulders with her at his funeral.  Re my late grandparents, Charles and Mary and their marriage.   Mum believed they had been married in Birkenhead - Tranmere is a suburb of Birkenhead so that's about right. 

Photographs exist of my late great-grandmother Agnes and at least one other of my mum's uncle - this was taken during the 1st World War.   He had sustained serious injuries, was in a wheelchair, in a hospital surrounded by other casualties and nurses.   Mum will have the exact info.    Let's hope you get to see these pics and others.

We'll keep in touch!

Cheers
Jey



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Antrim Completed Look up Requests / Re: Help needed. Ballentine & Ferris Marriage Larne
« on: Sunday 26 September 10 00:27 BST (UK)  »
Hi Maggie

Hope I'm getting through to you - been fiddling about with activations and all sorts for ages now!  Daniel Ballentine and Agnes Ferris, I believe, were my great-grandparents.  My mother, their granddaughter, is still alive and kicking at the ripe old age of 82.  Just happened to mention to her today as we were on our way to put flowers on the family grave that I would be interested in researching the Ferris side of the family.  The grave (Belfast) is eternal home to my grandfather, Charles Ferris Ballentine (joiner), his wife Mary and my very late uncle John Ferris Ballentine.  I have a younger cousin named Ian Ferris xxx!  My mum had a brother who died in infancy - his name was Ferris Ballentine.   As per family folklore, my mum's interpretation of family history is that the Ferris side of the family hailed from France.  Three brothers arrived in Larne in order to escape persecution - they were Huguenots  They set up mills in the area - their offspring went into the building trade.   Ferris Park bears their name.   All sorts of little snippets of family history filter through - my mum remembers her grandmother referring to 'the bastinet' which is French for pram.  The Ballentines did hail from Co Antrim - Bushmills has been mentioned as the homeplace of my great-grandfather.  If, in fact, the French thread of the family is neither myth nor legend, the spelling would have been 'Ferres'.   J'ai etudie la langue francaise a l'ecole.   Je parle assez bien mais j'ai oublie presque tous!   I'm going to hit the button now and hope it works!     

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