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Thank you all so much!! This is a massive improvement - much appreciate your help, Ann 

The David Tweedy born December 1865 is definitely mine. His parents were John and Margaret Campbell and he was baptised in Lurgan at Shankill COI This couple went on to have several more children. My great grandmother was Martha Tweedie (married David Hall) I have a theory that John was married previously to Margaret Kelly and that Martha was baptised in Magheralin COI (near Lurgan) born Edenballycoghill near Donaghcloney, Down. I suspect John Tweedies first wife died as there are no further baptisms recorded locally and he re-married prior to 1865 Margaret Campbell. The couple had the following children David 1865 John 1870, Mary 1872 Sarah Jane 1874 and Margaret Anne 1876. I currently live in this area and am happy to chase local records. Ann

Thanks but this man according to the census was born in county down and the many variants of Neil Neale Neile Nail McNeill ONeill is frying my brain. My grandmother and her father were definetly Neill but I fully expect to run into an ONeill or Mc Neill in previous generations.

Alexander Hart is not the confirmed father but the only other Hart in Maralin COI at that time so I threw him out their provisionally to see if I got a hit. John Hart seems to have inherited the farm at Derrylisnahavel as his father died in 1829 ?? and a John Hart is in the freeholder records for 1832. David Harte 1799 was a Stone Mason (my understanding) so maybe he got cash instead or married money. I have no evidence for either assumptions. All we know for certain is that David and John are in Griffiths Valuation in Turmoyra prior to their deaths. Davids daughters all married men in the 1850s from Brownlows Derry (John Green and James Doyle Silverwood, Henry Mc Corry Boconnell and Thomas Furphy Kinnego). Davids son David bought a farm of John Murray in Ballynamoney in the 1880s. I don't think the Donegal crowd are connected but only time and a bit more digging will tell. I would like to find out more about Isabella who may have been married by a local priest (as St Peters records only start 1822). It is unlikely that any records exist of that or other RC marriages because of the criminalisation of that religion at that time?? They were definetly not married in Magheralin COI or Shankill Lurgan COI who records do exist back to 1600's. David was definetly baptised in Shankill but I have not found his marriage to Elizabeth (on his headstone)