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Antrim / Re: currys from lismorrity ballintoy/ballycastle
« on: Wednesday 11 June 14 17:18 BST (UK)  »
Hi there
My great grandfather was the brother of Jane Curry who married the William Creith. The father John Curry my great great grandfather married Elizabeth mc Fall in 1836 according to the 1851 census. Your information is of such interest to me as I have only have a date of death for him of16 Nov 1890 and  her death 21 Feb 1895. It was only last week that I actually found her death date from the GRONI site. This says she died at 84 so that ties in with your birthdate of 1811 for her!
 Have you seen his will which  is on the PRONI site? It sounds as if we have much to share so do contact me and we can compare notes. For example there is a headstone in the old Churchyard at Ramoan which has a Patrick Curry of Lismorrity who died March 1817 aged 84 and his wife Agnes but as yet I have not been able to link them to my John Currys! Where did you obtain the birth date for John as 1807? So excited others are also researching the Currys!

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Antrim / Re: Hugh McCaw and Letitia Adams
« on: Friday 19 October 12 07:37 BST (UK)  »
After having had a very late night because i was having difficulty working out all this information i think i have found out that we are NOT related and am so sad!! Sorry folks!!I had been given some information to start me off by other people with an interest in geneology and who had large data bases of north antrim people. And my mum had confirmed that as a child her father had gone to dirraw to see relatives. BUT i have just been up at PRONI a few days ago and had seen the actual entry of John Curry and Mary Mc Caw's marriage and it states that her father was a Samuel Mc Caw of Craignamaddy which is a different townland. So she was probably not Mary Serah as I thought last night  and later i  found a death of a Mary Eliza Curry in 1902 which may tie in!

It may be of help to anyone who is not living in NI to know that the most recent Ordinance survey maps 1:50,000 Discoverer series on the back have a simpe road layout overlaid with all the townlands. I find it so useful even i come from nearby so if anyone is doing research from a distance i know it would be of help. Ballycastle is Sheet 5 and Ballymoney is sheet 8 and you can buy them online. Hope this makes up for my error and confusing folk!

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Antrim / Re: Hugh McCaw and Letitia Adams
« on: Friday 19 October 12 00:22 BST (UK)  »
Wonderful! Thank you so much! I will copy the photo and take it with me tomorrow! I will now have to process  all this new information out in my brain overnight! Good night from Larne, Jennie

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Antrim / Re: Hugh McCaw and Letitia Adams
« on: Thursday 18 October 12 23:39 BST (UK)  »
How exciting is this! I cannot believe that through this forum I have found relatives! My mother, now 88 will be so pleased when i go to see her tomorrow, as she has had so little information over the years about her grandmother! If you would post up here any little snippet of info that I could pass on to her i would be grateful! That would keep me happy till we are allowed to PM! I would also be so interested to hear where you live! Reply soon third cousin!

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Antrim / Re: Hugh McCaw and Letitia Adams
« on: Thursday 18 October 12 14:09 BST (UK)  »
On 11 Feb 1859 Hugh McCaw, father William, married Letitia Adams, father Robert, in  Finvoy Presbyterian Church, Ballymoney.
Hello there,
Since retiring recently, I have just started to look into family history and am so pleased to have at last found a link to my family tree!
My great grandmother was Mary Serah Mc Caw born to Hugh and Letitia  born on 16th April 1868. She married my great grandfather John Curry 27 Dec 1888 of Lismorrity in Trinity church Ballymoney and they had one son my grandfather John Curry born 10 Dec 1893. The family of 3 are in the 1901 census living there but by the 1911 census she had died though as yet i have not found a date of death or where she is buried! Lismorrity is where my grandfather who married Anna Mary Adams 22nd Aug 1919 lived and where my mum was born. she says that, as a result of the mum Mary Serah dying when he was a young boy, her dad was able to knit and sew , turn the heel of a sock, and had to cook and clean. Certainly his school record is VERY patchy as i have found that in PRONI office recently. Any more information on Hugh Letitia and Mary Serah  would be wonderful!

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