Mackey/Harbison of Terrydoo, Limavady

[aghadowey]

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

Complete marriage-
Second Garvagh (Main St.) Presbyterian Church, 7 Jan.1847, Jas Harbison, full age, bachelor, weaver, Cah, to Martha Cunningham, full age, spinster, Liscal, father Robert Cunningham, farmer. Witnesses: Mathew McNabb, John McFaul. [groom's father not listed]
No other Herbison records for that church.

Kingkerswell has already answered your queries about the land but £470 would have been considered a large amount for someone in those circumstances.

James Harbison's Will is interesting in that he left large legacies to several daughters but Eliza was to be looked after if she came home and Catherine given only £1. Usually a token legacy means that the person has either already received their share or was left a pittace so they couldn't contest the Will on the grounds of being excluded.

[Bellarosa70]

Thank you for your help in this.
Can you tell me though, did James Harbison buy Lot 80 consisting
of 76 acres 1 Rod 6 perches on the portion of land sold.
Would you know this, or is there any way of finding out.
some portions of this land I read was not of the best quality.
I was told that he kept horses on this land, but it doesn't sound like it.

[kingskerswell]

Hi,
   In which townland was this 76 acres of land. It wasn't in Drumramer. The Marquis of Waterford was selling his Londonderry estate from the late 1850s. He usually sold it in large blocks, eg townland by townland.

Regards

[aghadowey]

Sale catalogue for The Estate of John H. De La Poer, Marquis of Waterford
LOT 80- Part of the Townland of Ballycrum
James Harbison 76 acres 1 rod 9 perches

Freeman's Journal, 13 Dec.1871 lists those portions of the Estate sold-
LOT 80- Part of the lands of Ballycrum, containing 244a 2r 35p statute measure, held in fee-simple; net rent, 249l 12s 6d; Ordnance valuation, 2£3l 5s. Sold to Mr. Scott at 7,000l, in trust.

Terrydoo Clyde is LOT 76 and includes a James Mullan (64a 1r 27p)

What I posted is from the catalogue for the sale of the Marquis of Waterford's Estate so it does not list purchasers. However you can check the Valuation Revision Books under that townland to follow through a particular piece of property-
http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/search_the_archives/val12b.htm

[Bellarosa70]

Hi.
 James Harbison lot 80.
Londonderry.
Barony Keenaght
Union Newtown Limavady
Parish Drunmachose
townland Ballycrum.
It also says on Griffiths valuation that he was a herdsman. What was a herdsman in those days?
Thank you for your help.

[kingskerswell]

Hi,
   The Griffiths Valuation (1858) does not say that James was a herdsman. He rented a piece of mountain land for grazing sheep or cattle and this land had a herdsman's house attached. It was common for farmers to rent this sort of land and to employ a man or boy to live in the herdsman's "hut" and tend the cattle and sheep. At this time James probably lived on his farm in Drumramer although he later bought several plots of land in Ballycrum.

Regards

[Bellarosa70]

I have read the will of my great great grandfather James Harbison of Drumramnur Co. Londonderry, who died 11th July 1889. He had the following children. Thomas, Martha, Nancy, Jane, James, Mary, Matthew, eliza and Catherine (my Great Grandmother).
I also have the will of a James Harbison who died in 1900 in Bishop street Londonderry and I wonder if this was the son of James Senior. He himself died in 1900- not that long after James senior, which makes me wonder if I have made a mistake. He was listed as a Draper. There is also a Mary Harbison who lived at 12 Bishop street.
She is listed as a spinster and a draper on the 1901 census, and I wondered if this was James Junior's sister. There is no record of her on the 1911 census.
James senior's daughter ,My great Grandmother Catherine married and went to live in Drung Donegal, and her daughter Martha (my Grandmother) resided at number 12 Bishop Street as a dressmaker for a while until she married my Grandfather, also in the drapery business and went to live at number 11 Bishop street.
 But Mary does not list Martha as a relative on the 1901 census (niece) at number 12- only as a boarder.
So again maybe this puts me on the wrong track somewhat.
But it does seem that the connection between numbers 11 and 12 Bishop street is very co-incidental.
Is there any way I can find out if James Harbison Junior of Bishop street was in fact James senior's son?
If so, then the link between numbers 11 and 12 Bishop street do fit together very well.