I am interested in two HAMILTON families who had farms beside each other in Lisagore townland, Co. Monaghan. (Parish of Donaghmoyne). This is them in 1901:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Monaghan/Broomfield/Lisagore/1628976/
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Monaghan/Broomfield/Lisagore/1628977/
One family was Presbyterian and attended Broomfield Presbyterian Church. The other was “Christian Brethren”. I suspect they too were Presbyterian at one time before becoming Brethren, but there’s no sign of them in Broomfield Presbyterian church records (which go back to 1841). Anyone got any ideas where they would have attended church? Also do Christian Brethren practice infant baptism?
Also interested in these families. Samuel Robert Hamilton, eldest son of Scott and Sarah Hamilton, was a grocer in Main Street, Boyle, Roscommon in 1901. He also was brethren. In 1902 he married Annie Jane Taylor, the sister of James Taylor. James Taylor was a linen merchant, born in Coolaney, Sligo, he moved to New York in 1898. In 1905 he became the world wide leader of the Exclusive Brethren, later called Taylorites after him. Samuel and Annie Hamilton and their descendants were also part of this group. Exclusive brethren, unlike open brethren do practise infant baptism.
Samuel and his family 1911
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Roscommon/Boyle_Urban/Main_Street/779195/