« Reply #4 on: Sunday 31 July 11 18:42 BST (UK) »
Thanks Kingskerswell, I had seen Williams dad listed in ancestry ireland as Robert and it made me laugh. His mum was called Sarah Boyd and unmarried, not uncommon in my line as my granda - William's 2nd cousin listed a dad that didn't exist also. William's mum died when he was quite young and my gg grandparents Robert and Mary ann McClinton reared him and my ggranny. Was it quite common then to invent fathers to make a marriage certificate look better

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McClinton, Boyd, McCreight (Belfast, Templepatrick , Carmoney and Killead/Ballyhill Townlands),
McMullan, McGurk, McLeister, Taylor, Glass, McKillop, McCaughern (Rasharkin, Dunloy and Portglenone - Tamlaght)
Harrison, Stafford, Plunkett (Tyrone and Armagh)
Coulter/Coalter, Foster (Fermanagh)
Lougheed, Gibson (Co.Cavan)
McVeigh, Edgar (Belfast and Co.Down)
Shannon (Co.Monaghan)