WILSON of Ballycor / GLASGOW of Kilwaughter

[glasgowbliss]

Looking for Archibald WILSON of Ballyeaston, Ballycor Parish, who also owned land in Ballykeel, Kilwaughter Parish.

Archibald WILSON (WILLSON) died "in Ireland" on an unknown date in 1792*.  Presumably he lived in Ballyeaston but also owned land in Ballykeel townland in Kilwaughter Parish. 

Archibald WILSON left no descendants;  he had six sisters:  Jane, Margarett, Rachel, Anne, Elizabeth, and Susanna, his only heirs and next of kin.

One of the sisters, Rachel WILSON, married Robert GLASGOW, who leased Ballykeel lands, 1738, in Kilwaughter Parish.

Robert and Rachel had known children, a son and a daughter, James GLASGOW and Ann GLASGOW.  James GLASGOW was born in 1734.  He married his first cousin, Mary Crozier? (good evidence for Crozier, no proof), niece of his mother, Rachel WILSON.

Ann GLASGOW intermarried with HUGH SHANNON of Ballykeel in Kilwaughter Parish.  There is a will for him dated 1776.  Their children were:  Robert SHANNON, Glasgow SHANNON, Archibald SHANNON, James SHANNON, and Rachel SHANNON.

Robert SHANNON and Glasgow SHANNON emigrated to Canada during the potato famine years in the mid-19th century.  I have found them in Ballytober, Carncastle prior to that.

Since originally posting this message, I have located a will abstract for an Archibald Wilson of County Antrim, whose will was granted in Prerogative Court on 31 August 1795.  Address of Archibald Wilson was Tildarg.  Tildarg is located very near Ballyeaston and Ballykeel, the other addresses we have of record in connection with Archibald Wilson.

[AlanMC]

Do you know of any other Wilson family in Ballyeaston Ballycor, I have Sophie Wilson born about 1812. She married David Surginor.
I know of 4 sons

David Surgenor (spelling change in Scotland) born about 1831 Ballyeaston.
William 1832 Ballyeaston.
James 1833 Ballyeaston.
Jackson 1838 Ballyeaston.

Be good to find news of Sophie.

Alan

[unapmcs]

RE Robert Shannon, Ballytober,  which location is this,.??

[glasgowbliss]

Ballytober is a townland in Cairncastle (or Carncastle) Parish, which is about 3 miles up the coast from Larne.  It is east of Kilwaughter Parish, with Killyglen in between Kilwaughter and Cairncastle.

If you know the topography, the Sallagh Braes are in Cairncastle Parish, near Ballytober.

Here is a web site about the area:  http://mountainviews.ie/mv/index.php?walk=60

[glasgowbliss]

Alan,

I have not followed the Wilsons in Ballyeaston after Archibald Wilson died in 1795.  He had only sisters, and I was told by Jim Wilson, who wrote a book about the Ballyeaston First Presbyterian Church, that there is a preponderance of the name Wilson there!  Even if I found female Wilsons, which is extraordinarily difficult, I think (unless I found a treasure-trove of marriage records), I wouldn't know how to know for sure which ones were mine.   

[unapmcs]

Thank You for that, in Ireland we too have some of the villages with the same names, of which our  family lived in, not the same connection , good luck in your research.