Drumholm parish graveyard - lookup wanted please

[rathmore]

The donegal site might beable to help you;

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~donegal
come down the page and click on: Drumholm

then come down the page to Familes and click on Freeborn,
Freeborn, Mowbary, Morrow listed on this site

you will beable to e-mail them

a Robert Mowbray died at Ballintra in 1848 8Jan aged 71

[Carol Mack]

Hi Kerry,

I have had a look for you, and there are a total of 39 entries for McKee, 14 for Mackie and 26 for Mackay/Mackey. There are no entries for McKie. I'm afraid far too many to transcribe here! Also I'm not sure what this will tell you, apart from the fact that someone of that name died and was buried in Drumholm parish. Ages are not given so you couldn't even get a birth date.

That said, I looked for a burial for a Jane after 1842 and there is a Jane McKee died 17th November 1881 and James McKee died 18th March 1869. The other Janes are Jane (Graham) McKee 1st July 1797 and Jane (White) McKee 5th April 1805. There is also Jane McKee 18th Jan 1820.The other James died 5th Jan 1828.

In all the other spellings there are no James. A Jane Mackey died 11th October 1857 and a Jane Mackie died 7th November 1789.

The Presbyterian Church in Rossnowlagh wasn't built until 1906 so if they worshipped there they might have been buried in St. Ann's Ballyshannon. Rossnowlagh C.of Ireland was built in 1831 but I'm not sure if it had its own graveyard. Methodists attending Ballintra Methodist church were buried in Drumholm.

Sorry I cant be of more help!
Regards,
Carol

[Carol Mack]

Hi Kerry,

I have discovered a James Kee baptised 15th December 1841 Address: Drumavish, Donaghmore, Co Donegal, father James Kee. unfortunately mother's name not given as this is a Church baptism record. They are, however, Presbyterian.

Donaghmore is nowhere near Drumholm! Its up close to the border with Co Tyrone. Easy to find if you do a search.

It might be worth keeping on file just in case!

Regards,
Carol

[KerrieJ]

Hi Carol,
Thanks so much for checking the records for me. I only just found your reply. I think I may be looking for a needle in ahaystack, although a couple of the entries you found look promising. Thanks again. Regards, Kerrie

[tomstrong]

I'm just coming across this now, I was searching for the handbook that was mentioned previously which I only learned about today.  I'm not sure if anyone is still following this, but I was in Donegal in late 2023 and photographed all of the CofI graveyards I could find in the area, the results were uploaded to FindAGrave and have been mostly transcribed.  The links to them are:

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2332850/drumholm-old-church-of-ireland-graveyard
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2728045/church-of-ireland-parish-of-templecarne-churchyard
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1666191/saint-anne's-cemetery
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2791729/st.-john's-parish-church-graveyard

If anyone is still following this I'd love to chat about both the graveyard handbook, as well as McKee relatives as I am also related to McKees from Rossnowlagh.