Patrick McLaughlin Ballycastle

[macbun]

Thanks Gaffy
after the wording on the entry for the Baptisms, William B Black, there is a word in brackets, it looks like Acatholicus. would you know what that means and on the same line there is a ladys name, Margaret McMahon. Would you have any idea why her name is there, witness etc?

Thanks so much , its an interesting angle!

[aghadowey]

It means non-Catholic-
https://latin-dictionary.net/definition/338/acatholicus-acatholica-acatholicum

[Kiltaglassan]

.......and on the same line there is a ladys name, Margaret McMahon.

She is the sponsor (sp^r) - see two lines above.

KG

[gaffy]

Thanks Gaffy
after the wording on the entry for the Baptisms, William B Black, there is a word in brackets, it looks like Acatholicus. would you know what that means and on the same line there is a ladys name, Margaret McMahon. Would you have any idea why her name is there, witness etc?

Thanks so much , its an interesting angle!

As others have posted, it means that William B Black was reputed to be the father, in this context it means that he was protestant, Margaret McMahon was the godmother, this birth took place 2 years before William Black, son of merchant tailor Denis Black, got married in Belfast to the youngest daughter of the deceased Edward King of Bray, County Wicklow: 

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1880/11046/8040608.pdf

Denis Black's will (died and probate granted 1875) is available to read online via the PRONI Will Calendars, the following links are: his marriage in 1846; his widow and daughter's family in 1901:

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1846/09301/5367601.pdf (groom's father Robert Black, a shoemaker)

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Ballycastle/Ann_Street/921241/