Author Topic: Drumaquaren, village or farm name?  (Read 960 times)

Offline Elwyn Soutter

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Re: Drumaquaren, village or farm name?
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 21 February 23 13:06 GMT (UK) »
The Valuation revision records (on the PRONI website) show that in the 1890s the Knox family had plot 2 in Drumaqueran (just over 18 acres). It was rented until around 1901 when Charles bought the freehold under the Land Act (ie with a Government mortgage).  Prior to that he had rented from J. Leslie Beers.

In those records Charles replaced Mary Knox in 1896, as owner of the farm. VAL/12/B/4/18C at PRONI.

Drumaqueran is 133 acres in size. In the 1911 census there were 4 houses there and a total population of 24. It was just all farmland and all the adults were engaged in farming.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Kilroghts/Drumaqueran/

The family are shown as Reformed Presbyterians in the 1911 census. Sometimes known as Covenanters. They likely attended Kilraghts RP church. This is what the PRONI guide to church records says in respect of surviving records:

[There would appear to have been two meeting houses
in the early 19th century – at Kilraughts and Dervock;
CR/5/32A/1 listed under Ballymoney Parish contains
lists of members by society, baptisms, marriages,
deaths and removals including emigration for
Kilraughts from c.1804 to c.1831]

Baptisms, 1898-1966; marriages, 1864-1914, including
those for Cloughwater Reformed Presbyterian Church;
renewal of the National Covenant of Scotland and the
Solemn League and Covenant by Kilraughts Reformed
Presbyterian Church signed by the elders and others,
1855.
MIC1C/8; CR5/32

1834 tithe applotment records for Kilraghts show 2 Knox farms in the townland. One held by Mrs Knox (probably a widow) and the other by a John Knox.

http://www.irishgenealogyhub.com/antrim/tithe-applotments/kilraghts-parish.php


PRONI holds a document dated 15.1.1819 D2868/C/36:

Surrender of lease from James Knox, of Drumaqueran, Co. Antrim to Peter Gamble, of Dervock, Co. Antrim, of 19 acres of Tobernagola, Co. Antrim.

That won’t be on-line. You would need to visit PRONI to see it or pay them or a researcher to copy it.


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Re: Drumaquaren, village or farm name?
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 21 February 23 13:23 GMT (UK) »
That’s great, Elwyn. :)
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