Mackey/Harbison of Terrydoo, Limavady

[aghadowey]

The details were posted in reply #5- as I said in my last post, you need to search for bride and groom separately. Reply #6 gave more details of the marriage, including bride's name.

[terrydoo73]

I went to Coleraine Library today and unfortunately Balteagh Parish Church is not contained within their microfilm records.  I was able to look up death notices in the local Northern Constitution and found one member of the family - Stewart who died in 1927 and was the second son of John and Martha who died aged 7.  We know that his grandfather Stewart and grandmother Nancy are all buried in Balteagh Parish while his parents are buried in Balteagh Presbyterian church just up the road.  Would love to know who else is buried in the Parish church as we think it was a family plot Stewart and Nancy are buried in.

[aghadowey]

Earliest records for Balteagh Parish Church are 1870 (earlier records destroyed).

[terrydoo73]

I am looking for details of death for the Park family.  Mary Harbison married John Park in 1909 (between January to March I believe according to familysearch.org web site).  They had 2 children - Stewart Harbison and Sophia.  Stewart was born in the quarter July to September 1909 and died at the age of 3.  Sophia was born in 1910 and died at the age of 7.  I want to trace Mary's death and if possible to know whether John married again and to whom.  John Park was born on 14 October 1866 to William and Sophia Love Park.  I know that Mary was born in 1882 (though do not know the exact quarter).

[kingskerswell]

Hi,
   John Park married Mary Jane Harbison in Balteagh Church of Ireland, Limavady District on 14 Jan 1909.
   On 18 Mar 1915 John Park married Mary Campbell in Limavady Church of Ireland.
   It is not known if they are the same John Park but the church registers may give some enlightenment.

[terrydoo73]

So am I to assume that Mary Harbison died sometime between 1909 and 1915?  I wonder if it would be possible to find out a year when Mary died?  I am assuming that Sophia was still with her father when she died?  Any possible way of finding out when exactly Stewart Harbison and Sophia Park died and what of except by actually getting hold of the death certificate??

[Bellarosa70]

Hi!
I know this posting is a little old now. It's a post from 7th May 2012.
It lists a James Harbison who died 11th July 1889.
This was my great great Grandfather.
There is a posting here that states the 'marquis of Waterfords' land came up for sale -or sections of it.
It also states that James was a tenant farmer on that land.
It lists that lot 80 came up for sale. 76 acres 1 rod 9 perches. Did James buy that land?
That little section was confusing to me, because it also mentions the land wasn't that good.
I don't think James rented the Herdsman cottage and land though. I also noted that his will was 'interesting' I have seen the will online. and it states that his daughter "If she should return from America, should be generally looked after and clothed by my son Thomas. Maybe that was the 'interesting bit'
My Mother (his great grandaughter) told me James was a man of some substance. The sum he left was in the region of £470. That doesn't seem a lot -even for those days.
I needed to complete my family tree here and was also looking for the name of his wife. I couldn't find it anywhere, but now believe it to be Martha.
Some help in deciphering the section on the 76 acres of Land, would be a great help.
thank you.

[kingskerswell]

Hi,
   Closest I can find is the James Harbison who married Martha Cunningham on 6 Jan 1847 in Garvagh Second Presbyterian Church, Co. Londonderry.

Regards

[kingskerswell]

Hi,
   The farm which James rented was owned by the Marquis of Waterford. He owned the whole townland of Drumramer. The Griffith Revision Books, see http://applications.proni.gov.uk/dcal_proni_val12b/RelatedVolume.aspx?6892, show that this townland was bought by Connolly McCausland about 1872. The McCausland family owned a large estate on the outskirts of Limavady until recently. When James died the farm passed to Thomas Harbison and was rented by him up until at least 1930.
       James also rented a share of a local mountain with two other farmers but when James died this share was taken up by a man named Smyth.

Regards