Derriaghy L.O.L. 135 - 1934

[Magheragall]

In respect of May family, the inscription below on 1st War Memorial in Derriaghy Parish Church, he survived the war

L/C N. May   M.M.   11th RIR

magheragall

[Mykin]

FAO mykin & stiubhard

I am sure you maybe have this information but I am currently transcribing alot of Derriaghy Parish registers, not in full but near enough....  I came across this marriage entry

8th Sept 1838 David Boomer of Lambeg and Dorothy Partridge Derriaghy.

Maggie

Hi Maggie, I haven't been on here for quite some time, my brain needed a rest. The above is strange because that is my name. I am copying this down until I can put all of my clues together. My goal is to find where a Partridge first married a Boomer that is connected to me.

[Magheragall]

with your interest I thought you might be interested in this note as well,

Royal Orange Association County Antrim District
The Right Worshipful Doctor William Atkinson of Belfast Grand Master
The Revd Philip Johnston Grand Chaplain
Brother William Hart of Lisburn Grand Secretary

General Committee

The Right Worshipful Doctor William Atkinson Grand Master Chairman

Edward Hogg Esq 354 Lisburn
The Revd Philip Johnston 317 Ballymacash
Thomas McCully 224 Soliderstown
Michael Boomer 137 Derriaghy
Stephen Daniel 238 Belfast
James Innes 152 Lisburn
John Johnston 244 Lisburn
Thomas Briggs 121 Maze
William Johnston 143 Ballinderry
Thomas Shillington 403 Aghagallon
William Murphy 146 Magheragall*
William Hart Grand Secretary

This was the First County Grand Lodge formed April 1798

From a Lecture given by Brother James Verner Hart at the request of the Brethen of the Eldon Orange Lodge No 7 in their rooms in the Orange Hall College Street Belfast March 8th 1875.

* GG Father of James Murphy of Thornhedge
* James Murphy believes that one masonic lodge met in Thornhedge

the writing looks like thornhedge but i know of no such place

I said that I was unaware of were Thornhedge was, I have discovered it is actually a farm very close to the hall were LOL 187  meet. See headstone below from nearby grave yard

Erected
By
Joseph Thomson
Thornhedge in memory of his daughter
Isabella Thomson who departed this
Life 28th October A.D. 1829. Aged 22 years
Mary Thompson departed this life March
31st 1839 aged 79 years
Joseph Thompson departed this life August
3rd 1845 aged 84 years.
Margaret Thompson departed this life
December 25th 1859 aged 55 years

yours magheragall

[Mykin]

Thank you very much Magheragall, every little bit helps. I notice that Michael Boomer comes up an awful lot, I think I should see what I can find on him and his family. This is very frustrating for me and find I am taking more rests from it that I should.

[zorknapp]

Hello!

It's great to see this thread, as my great-great-great-grandparents were John Partridge and Jane Alderdice of Derriaghy.  Their marriage record continues to be missing, no matter what leads I follow up...

I am hoping as more records are digitized and organized, that perhaps their marriage record was simply mis-filed.  I am also willing to at least entertain the idea that they were never formally  married, but I think that's fairly unlikely.

John and Jane's second son, William, immigrated to the US in 1888 with his wife and family, among whom was my great-grandfather, Robert.  They settled in Kearny, New Jersey, actually quite close to where I presently live in Jersey City.   

William's brother John came over to the US, and lived in Kearny also.  His sister Ellen came over in 1907 and stayed with William briefly, but then moved up to Toronto where she married a guy named Hugh Houston. 

Still tracking down other Partridge descendants.  It's great to see all this talk on here about Derriaghy!

Mike Lord

[Stiubhard]

Mykin and Maggieblue...just fyi I have just this week got my dna results from Ancestry and have linked them to my tree.  Zorknapp is showing as a dna match.  There are Boomers, Alderdices and McWatters scattered through the matches as well as the Partridges.  You can check it out if you  like. My profile on there is stiubhard and my tree is called Stewart/Lyons/McKenna/Young/Smith

[zorknapp]

Hi stiubhard!

Glad we're showing as a DNA match, so we can confirm that there is some sort of Partridge connection!

I've added in the Thomas Partridge/Mary Jane Scales line to my tree.  It's great to see some of this old history get filled in...

More soon!
Mike Lord