Ballymoney Lookup Request

[blockislandjudith]

Looking for contents of Ballymoney Vol 2 Page 279.  Marriage William J. Atkinson and Elizabeth Chestnut.  Interested in date, Church, Residence and Parents of either. 

If not too much trouble, need children of these parents confirmed:  Robert James Atkinson and Ellen Atkinson.  Born before civil registration, so I can't find them.  Need birth years, townland, church. 

Thank you for any help you can provide.  Visiting in September, and would like to know that these really are my great-grandparents.  I have their names confirmed from my own research.  Just need places and links to earlier ancestry.  Thank you very much. 

[aghadowey]

The marriage took place on 9 Nov.1846 at Ballymoney Registry Office- the actual marriage record should list names and occupations of both fathers but mothers are never listed.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FGFP-74N

If you are visiting the area it would be worth taking a look at the microfilmed church records in Coleraine Library- many of the Ballymoney churches are covered (too many to list here). PRONI in Belfast will also have the same films.

[blockislandjudith]

Thank you for this. I am having trouble finding the children Robert James and Ellen. Believe born in mid 1860s and it seems late for this couple. But these are the names they gave as their parents.  Really need a church. Thanks again.