Hi Elwyn,
thanks for your reply. I had already come across this info on Ros Davies's fantastic Co. Down website and have also come across a record of an indenture between Moses Barnett and others from 1828 at
http://ied.dippam.ac.uk/records/44920These two pieces of info tally with each other as the indenture records his wife as Elizabeth Kearns.
However, also on Ros's site I have come across a reference to a Catherine Press of Ballyculter who married Moses Barnett c 1814 and who is buried in Old Court chapel graveyard. are we therefore talking about two different Moses Barnetts, possibly father and son? If so, which one is which and which is the father of Jane Barnett, my great-great grandmother?
perhaps this could be clarified if there is some kind soul out there who could check out the graves at Old Court graveyard in Strangford where all seem to be buried?
thanks again.