Samuel HENDRIE bc 1838 & Mary CAMPBELL bc1829

[MonicaL]

I think I am going cross eyed now and seeing things that my brain wants to see! Def. not Black, nor Henry  Agree with you on the possible last letter being 'y.

Monica

[loobylooayr]

Hi guys,
Been keeping tabs on this thread and have to concur. I don't know what Thomas the witness surname is  but I think last initial is a Y.
Looby

[loobylooayr]

Sorry that should be last letter is a Y!

[Forfarian]

Could it be Thomas Hanery? Another variant of Henry?

[Millmoor]

Agree with Ruskie. It is the first letter which is hard. The rest does look like ..endry to me.

Also note that John and Hannah Black are on 1861 census. Their eldest son is called Samuel age 11. 

William

[Ruskie]

 
Purchased the Ellen Henry Daniel Watton m/c. Her father is Arch^d. So the wrong Henry family.

It is looking like there were a number of Henry families in the area. The father of Samuel in the Samuel Henry/Mary Campbell marriage (21st Jul 1848) was Archibald too.

I think I will have to give up on this branch for the time being.

Thank you to everyone for all of your help.

I have just started working on another poser which is also sending me slowly mad.

[loobylooayr]

Ballywillan Prsebyterian Church is just outside Port Rush (my mum used to go on her hoildays there in the 1950s  ). It now comes under County Antrim.
http://www.ballywillanpci.org/

Looby

[Forfarian]

the Presbyterian Manse (I think the word was Manse)

Yes. The Manse is the home of the minister of a presbyterian church, though originally it could have been the residence of any clergyman.

In Scotland, the normal place for a wedding ceremony was in the bride's home. However if the bride's parents were dead, or she was marrying a long way from her home, she might get married in her employer's house, or in the manse. Weddings in the actual church didn't become the norm until the late 19th or early 20th century. I imagine that something similar applied in presbyterian families in Ireland.

[Ruskie]

Thanks for the clarification Forfarian. In other families I have researched I have seen couples marrying at home or in the Manse. I just found the writing difficult to understand in this example.

I need to do some research into Presbyterians in Ireland. My knowledge on the subject is non existent.