The McMasters of Killyless

[kathy-9]

Does anyone have any information about the Master family who lived in and around Killyless 1820 - 1900?  I believe there was a farm and a shop there.  Thx Kathy

[sandal]

Does anyone have any information about the Master family who lived in and around Killyless 1820 - 1900?  I believe there was a farm and a shop there.  Thx Kathy

I have very little information which would be of help to you, but the McMasters were still at Killyless in the 1960s as my father visited their premises to inspect a new mobile shop which they had recently purchased They are no longer there as an engineering business was established there at a later date.

[kathy-9]

Wow, so the McMasters had a shop?  Have you any idea what they might have sold there?

[aghadowey]

PRONI Will Extracts list 4 McMasters of Killyless who were farmers and labourers- (put in McMaster for surname and Killyless in full abstract box)
http://applications.proni.gov.uk/DCAL_PRONI_WillsCalendar/WillsSearch.aspx

[kathy-9]

That is GREAt Aghadowey, you are a star!  Now I am going to ask you, where IS Killyless?  I cant find it on my maps and Google is not coming up with clear views.  Thx so much you have helped so much in the past with all my questions.

[jimchelsea]

maybe this might be of some help
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Ballyconnelly/Killyless/
regards
jim

[aghadowey]

And here's Malcolm in 1901 census as a farmer and grocer-
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Ballyconnelly/Killyless/924681

I suspect that the mobile shop mentioned earlier in this thread was an extension of the grocery business which delivered goods to customers in the countryside.

Items stocked could range from groceries (flour, sugar, bread, meat, etc.), shoes, fabric, pots and pans, coal, etc.

[kathy-9]

That is great information, thank you both.  These houses at Killyless - would it have been a street of houses, maybe small cottages?  Farm cottages perhaps?  There doesnt seem to be name of road, just Number, `16, Killyless for example.

[aghadowey]

It's only the last 40 years or so that there would have been road names in rural areas. Until then the townland would have been the only address.

You can see the area for yourself. Type 'killyless' into GoogleMaps and enlarge the map until Killyless is shown (south-east of read A marker). Now drag the little orange man on the left side to the Lisnahunsin Road and you're there!