Coleraine execution

[Elwyn Soutter]

Both PRONI in Belfast and the National Archives in Dublin have extensive holdings of Government documents relating to the uprising. They are not on-line and you have to go in person to access them, but if you are especially interested in events, you might want to study them. For example, the “Black Book of the Rebellion” (MIC 575/1 at PRONI) lists 200 or more involved in the uprising.

[Lily52]

That sounds about right, Rathmore. And indeed I do feel proud of him - wanting fairness and equality for everyone, no matter what their religion.

Currysisken was the McAfee family farm out at Macfin from the 1650's, KG. I think it only left the family around the 1930s, when my grandfather sold it. 

[Lily52]

Thanks for that, Elwyn. I'll be on the train to PRONI this week! 

[Elwyn Soutter]

Thanks for that, Elwyn. I'll be on the train to PRONI this week! 

The Caldwell story contains a fairly detailed account of that family’s involvement in the 1798 uprising (and their lives later in the USA). T3541/5/2 at PRONI. Written towards the end of John Caldwell's life, around 1848, it’s a couple of hundred pages and mentions many Ballymoney area folk. Keith Beattie is an expert on the subject and has a book on the 1798 uprising in that area. He told me that some of the Caldwell account is probably exaggerated (in Caldwell’s favour) and so may not be 100% reliable but for all that, it's contemporaneous and names a lot of people in and around Ballymoney in 1798. Your ancestor may be mentioned. I don’t know.