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Antrim / Re: Erskine family - Ballyeaston. East Antrim
« on: Thursday 29 January 09 08:57 GMT (UK)  »
Guys,

Thanks for your help. Another little chink of information in the jigsaw that will help me when I visit Ballyeaston this summer.

I only have the christianing of Isabella in 1925 to John and Betty - but that would fit as the 7 year old Elizabeth would have been 19 by then.

Regards...
Maurice

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Antrim / Re: Erskine family - Ballyeaston. East Antrim
« on: Monday 26 January 09 16:31 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks very much !!

I have another reference to John McQuitty and Elizabeth (nee Saunderson) and the Christening of Isabella McQuitty in 1925 in Ballyeaston - so I presume Jane was an earlier child and this is the same family.

Regards...
Maurice

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Antrim / Re: Erskine family - Ballyeaston. East Antrim
« on: Monday 26 January 09 13:08 GMT (UK)  »
Guys,

I realise this may not be a link - but I am looking for my McQuitty ancestors and I'm getting close to proving that they originated at Ballyeaston / Rashee. One of them appears to have married a Betty Thomspon. His name was Robert.

Any chance of the earlier person looking up any links in that book on Ballyeaston to find any McQuittys living in the area ?

Thanks...
Maurice

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Antrim / Re: McQuitty lookup
« on: Wednesday 21 January 09 19:39 GMT (UK)  »
Where can you lookup census information from 1901 - I only seem to be able to find 1911 ?

Thanks...
Maurice

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Antrim / Re: McQuitty lookup
« on: Wednesday 21 January 09 19:33 GMT (UK)  »
The record is pretty rubbish to be honest. There is not even a name for the priest. The witnesses were ANTHONY MCONAGHY and MARGARET MCONAGHY.

Yes I think that is probably their marriage - not too far over the river.

I looked up the Church but they appear to be not doing searches until sometime in the new year due to renovations - although it does say the records are with Ancestry Ireland. I bet that record is not complete there must be more - even if it is only the name of the priest. Maybe the record was not very readable.

In the comments it has "ce 1 0 0" - thats it !!

I suppose if I found the local graveyard then they both might just be buried there and that might have more information. I'm guessing that Robert was probably born around 1840.

A few loose ends to tie up there...

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Antrim / Re: McQuitty lookup
« on: Wednesday 21 January 09 16:32 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks - I'm not sure that it really gives me anything more in my search - but I appreciate you taking the effort to look it up for me.

Cheers...
Maurice

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Antrim / Re: McQuitty lookup
« on: Wednesday 21 January 09 16:09 GMT (UK)  »
Rosemary,

You have mentioned Emerald Ancestors in previous posts - I am assuming you have membership access ?

Are you able to look up the death of Robert McQuitty in 1908. It's shown as Antrim / Down.

Just a hunch.

Thanks...
Maurice

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Antrim / Re: McQuitty lookup
« on: Wednesday 21 January 09 15:58 GMT (UK)  »
Bingo.

I looked up the one for Susan McKeown in Co Down in 1861 and yes she married a Robert McQuitty on 9th April at St Matthew's Roman Catholic Church in Knockbreda, Holywood - Co Down.

However it does not seem to help much - apart from naming the Church - no Mother and Father given for either of the two of them............aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhh - this is so frustrating !!!

So if I hope to go any further then I think I may be stumped. Although it occurs to me that if he changed religon then surely he would have been baptised before they married him ???

Here we go again.....Can anyone offer any suggestion on where to go next to continue my search?

The other thing that is bothering me is - They had four kids - all apart from their son Patrick - whom I am desendant from - seem to have disappeared without trace apart from their birth registrations ??? What happed to William Joseph, Mary and Arthur - no marriage, no death certificate - can find no trace of emmigrating or going off to the Boer War ??? - I can't think of anything else.

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Antrim / Re: McQuitty lookup
« on: Tuesday 20 January 09 22:37 GMT (UK)  »
Ah well - I blew it on Robert McQuitty 1861 - but it wasn't the one.

However after I'd done that I found another Robert McQuitty in 1861 with a matching Susan McKeown in 1861 (not susanna but just perhaps). The only thing is it was in County Down not Antrim ???

What the chance then.

1. Incorrect or shortened name
2. Different County.

Your supposed to marry in the home town of the lady aren't you ? Maybe he married there and then moved back to Belfast having a first child in 1868 - baptised in St Patricks. If the story is true and he ran away with the maid maybe he ran away initially from where the main family lived - particularily if he changed religon. Then again maybe he started somewhere else and ran away to Belfast after he got married ???

If anyone else has any good ideas please feel free to let me know.

Thanks...
Maurice

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