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For what it's worth I found  Antrim  parents' date   of marriage plus wife/mother's maiden name via their Scotland-born son's birth registration ... well worth the price of a search + image view on www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk .especially as there is so little to go on in the country of origin.

Thanks, that's brilliant. There may well be a connection to "my" earlier Ballantines : James (farmer) spouse Margaret Johnston who had a daughter Agnes b. 1819 m. John Hilton (weaver)1842 at Cross Keys.

Thanks for this additional & interesting information. Yes, there seems to have been a cluster of Hiltons in the parishes of Ahoghill, Grange of Ballyscullion & Craigs - but very few outside this area of Antrim.

Thank you for the welcome. The source is the Ulster Historical Foundation's gravestone inscription database. The  inscription reads "In memory of William Hilton, Mount Gawn, died 10th March 1896 aged 82 years" and goes on with other family members. I have tried the Ordnance Survey Memoirs no. VIII  Vol 23 which includes Portglenone but my copy is not indexed so I may have missed a reference to "Mount Gawn".