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Down / Re: Beckett of Moira Co Down
« on: Saturday 04 August 18 18:40 BST (UK) »
Thank you. I've seen this and used the info in the family tree -I need to get back further than this now!
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Antrim / Re: becketts from portrush
« on: Saturday 04 August 18 10:39 BST (UK) »
Have just noticed that James' wife Sarah Jane Lester was born in Co Down. That maybe explains why the son got a job in Donacloney
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Antrim / Re: becketts from portrush
« on: Saturday 04 August 18 10:36 BST (UK) »
Have seen on a Bill McAfee list that the Ballymoney CoI baptisms are held in the PRONI so that might yield the info you need - I can't find the info on any free source I have tried.
Kate/Cathleen/Kathleen Elizabeth born in Bushmills 21/11/1889 married Christopher Co(a)dy, a clerk in the Northern Counties Hotel in Oct 1914 in both Coleraine registrars and Holy Trinity P'rush - why I don't know. Sheila was born 29/9/1915 but is the only child I have found although birth records fade out at the end of the decade.
I knew about the tragedy of James but not the location. That was a very substantial house they had.
I cannot find his son James in the 1901 census - James occurs in my Becketts too and there are one or 2 I can't place! I was rather pleased he had called his son James Lester in Donacloney to disentangle them!
Kate/Cathleen/Kathleen Elizabeth born in Bushmills 21/11/1889 married Christopher Co(a)dy, a clerk in the Northern Counties Hotel in Oct 1914 in both Coleraine registrars and Holy Trinity P'rush - why I don't know. Sheila was born 29/9/1915 but is the only child I have found although birth records fade out at the end of the decade.
I knew about the tragedy of James but not the location. That was a very substantial house they had.
I cannot find his son James in the 1901 census - James occurs in my Becketts too and there are one or 2 I can't place! I was rather pleased he had called his son James Lester in Donacloney to disentangle them!
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Down / Re: Beckett of Moira Co Down
« on: Saturday 04 August 18 00:09 BST (UK) »
I suspect that Mary died and Mathew remarried. Mathew is a very unusual name in NI and is distinctive in the Beckett family
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Down / Re: Beckett of Moira Co Down
« on: Saturday 04 August 18 00:07 BST (UK) »
Hello
I have been researching the Beckett family of Ballinderry which is an area north of Moira. I believe the families are very closely related (Beckett is not a common surname). Robert's father was Mathew and mother Mary Porter
Anne
I have been researching the Beckett family of Ballinderry which is an area north of Moira. I believe the families are very closely related (Beckett is not a common surname). Robert's father was Mathew and mother Mary Porter
Anne
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Antrim / Re: becketts from portrush
« on: Saturday 04 August 18 00:02 BST (UK) »
PPS I think Bazaar St doesn't exist any longer
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Antrim / Re: becketts from portrush
« on: Saturday 04 August 18 00:00 BST (UK) »
PS I think 73 Causeway St is up for sale!!
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Antrim / Re: becketts from portrush
« on: Friday 03 August 18 23:58 BST (UK) »
Yes I've had contact with Ralph. He didn't seem to know of our connection but we definitely are about 8th cousins I reckon! There seem to be 4 or 5 main lines. The modern Becketts in the area generally don't know each other incredibly!!
Re your family, I knew re the death of your James Lester in Co. Durham but know nothing about his cousin James Lester other than his father was a coachman in Donacloney etc in 1911. Only have the d.o.b. of him and 3 siblings and the Portrush cousins including Cathleen Elizabeth's Sheila. It's incredible what you can find free online these days!
Delores Bickett Overskei of Dakota has written a book re your family - originally from Scotland it is thought. She may have passed away. I am not sure how much of the book is about the NI family rather than the US descendants. It is called Bicket-Bickett family - 1756-1989:Adam and William....
I found your posts re Ballycormick. I don't think that that is your closest relations as your James' father John is referred to as a labourer (although it might have been an elastic term!) whereas I think that the Ballycormick John's son James died c1885. I could most certainly be wrong! I have found the Ballymony lines as cofusing as the Ballinderry ones - and our family seems to have sttayed over the county borders to Down and Armagh to make things even worse! There are at least 2 other John Becketts about Ballymoney! Have you seen the Griffiths Valuation entries?
Have you any knowledge of the William born 1831, son of Joseph, who married Mary Getty 22/6/1853?
Do you want me to make a fair copy of the Portrush crowd and post it to you or do you know about Sheila for example and Daniel Craig born 18/11/1880 and his sister who died 1890? If you know all this then maybe I know little more than you!
Anne
Re your family, I knew re the death of your James Lester in Co. Durham but know nothing about his cousin James Lester other than his father was a coachman in Donacloney etc in 1911. Only have the d.o.b. of him and 3 siblings and the Portrush cousins including Cathleen Elizabeth's Sheila. It's incredible what you can find free online these days!
Delores Bickett Overskei of Dakota has written a book re your family - originally from Scotland it is thought. She may have passed away. I am not sure how much of the book is about the NI family rather than the US descendants. It is called Bicket-Bickett family - 1756-1989:Adam and William....
I found your posts re Ballycormick. I don't think that that is your closest relations as your James' father John is referred to as a labourer (although it might have been an elastic term!) whereas I think that the Ballycormick John's son James died c1885. I could most certainly be wrong! I have found the Ballymony lines as cofusing as the Ballinderry ones - and our family seems to have sttayed over the county borders to Down and Armagh to make things even worse! There are at least 2 other John Becketts about Ballymoney! Have you seen the Griffiths Valuation entries?
Have you any knowledge of the William born 1831, son of Joseph, who married Mary Getty 22/6/1853?
Do you want me to make a fair copy of the Portrush crowd and post it to you or do you know about Sheila for example and Daniel Craig born 18/11/1880 and his sister who died 1890? If you know all this then maybe I know little more than you!
Anne
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Antrim / Re: becketts from portrush
« on: Friday 03 August 18 20:19 BST (UK) »
Will have to dig stuff out - did huge amounts of family tree for a year and then put it aside and have just gone back to it now but it is not so fresh in my mind now.
Have got son James a coachman in Donacloney, his brother Daniel Craig (original DC a Ballymoney man) in Portrush but children in Durham (buried P'rush!) and dying in India, and Ralph Lester in Port Glasgow.
My husband is a Portrush man in fact and I was surprised to find Becketts there! There are a number of strands of the family I couldn't tie up but was not needing to for my research. We live in the Midlands now.
Anne
Have got son James a coachman in Donacloney, his brother Daniel Craig (original DC a Ballymoney man) in Portrush but children in Durham (buried P'rush!) and dying in India, and Ralph Lester in Port Glasgow.
My husband is a Portrush man in fact and I was surprised to find Becketts there! There are a number of strands of the family I couldn't tie up but was not needing to for my research. We live in the Midlands now.
Anne
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