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Looking for additional information on William Anderson as the dates for his daughters' marriages do not
make sense unless he was married more than once.
Thanks to Aghadowey, I will redo some of the following:


1.William Anderson, Esq., merchant of Glasgow; m. Miss Eglinton, dau of James Eglinton, Esq.
2.Dr. Sir James Eglinton Anderson; m. 1819 Jane/Jean Learmont dau of the Rev. William Learmont of Luce Abbey and Sarah Adair;  No issue.  Knighted in 1829 by King William IV;  educated Edinburgh University and TCD.
2.William Anderson of Bushmills, Co. Antrim m. ?;  owned foundry; m. ?  and had issue, sons and daughters;  this may be the same William who died in 1852, aged 80.
3.Agnes Anderson m.1823 John Gwynne
3.Margery Anderson m. ? Crawford
?3.William Anderson, Jr. of Rossnashane/Rosnashane, died 1873; m. Isabella Ann, d. 1871, aged 55.
4. Wilhelmina Mary Jane Learmont Anderson, d. 1904, aged 53; m. 1885 to Francis Adam Macaulay of Crumlin and Larne.
2.Henry Anderson, cotton merchant of Liverpool
2.? Anderson, cotton merchant of New Orleans
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The family of Gwynne is well documented.  I will also add their line:
1.James/ John Gwynne, engineer, 1804-1850/56?, journeyman spade make form Londonderry;  developed first centrifugal pump for land drainage; m. 1823,
married Agnes Anderson, dau of William Anderson of Bushmills, the owner of a spade mill.  Some research has his first name as James, other research has it as John.  I am not certain which research is correct.
2.James Eglinton Anderson Gwynne, 2nd son,1832-1915;  m. 1862 Mary Earle Purvis, dau of William Purvis of Edinburgh; purchased Folkington Manor.
3.Brig. Gen Reginald John Gwynne, DSO,  DL,  1863-1942; m. Mary Myall Taylor, dau of S. Taylor of Canada.
4.Betty Gwyn Gwynne, 1899-1906
4.Evelyn violet Gwynne, 1895-1992
3.Evelyn Mary Gwynne, 1865-1935; m. Charles Isaacson
3.Nevile Gwyn Gwynne, 1868-1951; m. 1894 Isabel Violet Wake, dau of Admiral Charles Wake
4.John Nevile Wake Gwynne, 1905-1981; m. Patricia Louisa Morrison-Bell
4.Mary Eglinton Gwynne, 1899-1984​; m. Maj. Mark Winterbotham Tait
4.Veronia Gwynne, 1898-1987; m. Archibald Eaton de Burgh Jennings
4.Katharine Violet Earle Gwynne, 1897-1984; m. Alan Frederick Graham Ayling
3.Violet Kate Eglinton Gwynne, 1871-1948, musician; m. J. G. Gordon-Woodhouse.
3.Rupert Sackville Gwynne b. 1873-1924 barrister, MP; of Wootton Manor; m. 1905 Stella Ridley, b. 1884, dau of Sir Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount, and the Hon.Mary Georgiana Marjoribanks; Stella m. 2. in 1933 to Capt. John Hamilton, son of John Hamilton, Sr.; Rupert served as the executor of the estate of Mrs Macaulay Anderson c. 1910.
4.Elizabeth Gwynne, 1913-1992;  mistress of Charles Gibson-Cowan; m. Lt. Col. Ivor Anthony David, divorced soon after; lived Chelsea. Authoress of cookbooks.
4.Diana Marjorie, 1915-1971; m. Dr. Arthur Christopher Grey
4.Felicite Gwynne, 1917-1986
4.Sackville Gwynne
4.Mary Priscilla m. Richard Barnes-Longland
3.Dorothy Blanche Gwynne , 1877-1958.
3.Sir Roland Vaughan Gwynne, DSO, DL, 1882-1971, d.unm.
2.John Gwynne
2.Henry Gwynne

Please refer to Aghadowey's excellent notes below:






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Re: William Anderson, spade maker, Bay Head, Rosnashane, Ballymoney and Bushmills
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 03 September 24 10:37 BST (UK) »
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Looking for additional information on William Anderson as the dates for his daughters' marriages do not make sense unless he was married more than once.
2.William Anderson of Bushmills, Co. Antrim m. ?;  owned foundry; m. ?  and had issue, sons and daughters;  this may be the same William who died in 1852, aged 80.
3.Agnes Anderson m.1823 John Gwynne
3 Wilhelmina Mary Jane Learmont Anderson  m. 1885 to Francis Adam Macaulay of Crumlin and Larne

Wilhelmina Mary Jane Learmont Anderson  m.(23 July 1885 Kilrea COI) Francis Adam Macaulay
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1885/10872/5970537.pdf (bride's residence Rossnashane and father William Anderson, gentleman farmer)
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1885/10872/5970559.pdf

1901 Census (under Anderson)- married (husband not in household) and age 46 [born c1855]-
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/The_Vow/Rosnashane/931767/

Death of Wilhelmina Mary Jane Learmont Anderson Macaulay (indexed as Anderson), lady farmer, married, died 3 Dec.1903 aged 53 Rossnashane [born c1850]-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1904/05640/4587041.pdf

Northern Constitution, 12 Dec.1903: LEARMONT ANDERSON- At her residence, Rossnashane, on the 3rd inst., Wilhelmina Learmont Anderson.

Marriage gives her father as William Anderson but is there any chance her father William was a son of William?

A William Anderson, widower, age 75, gentleman, died at Rossnashane on 7 July 1873-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1873/020690/7259585.pdf
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Re: William Anderson, spade maker, Bay Head, Rosnashane, Ballymoney and Bushmills
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 03 September 24 10:52 BST (UK) »
Note: Jan./Feb.1899 newspaper notices for Mrs. Learmont Anderson selling thoroughbred stock “owing to ill health.”

Northern Constitution, 19 Dec.1903: On Monday the remains of Mrs. Learmont Anerson, Rossnashane, were interred in the family burying-ground in Kilrea churchyard. [service in Finvoy Church?]

1904 notice to creditors: Mary Jane Learmont Macaulay Anderson, deceased, wife of Francis Adam Macaulay.
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Re: William Anderson, spade maker, Bay Head, Rosnashane, Ballymoney and Bushmills
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 03 September 24 11:10 BST (UK) »
In case you haven't seen these already-

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/James_Eglinton_Anderson_Gwynne
1861 [James] Living at 19 Hanover Terrace, London with his widowed mother Agnes (age 54 and born in Scotland) ... Plus two servants and a visitor Margery Crawford, sister of Agnes

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/49f8775b-de0b-4e4c-ae0c-49f4434fa783
The Gwynne family settled in Sussex in 1876 when James Eglinton Anderson Gwynne (1832-1915), a London engineer, purchased the Folkington Place estate. He was the son of James Gwynne (1804-1850), who invented the centrifugal pump, and his wife Agnes Anderson, and was born on 8 June 1832
Note: this gives father as James Gwynne not John.
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Re: William Anderson, spade maker, Bay Head, Rosnashane, Ballymoney and Bushmills
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 03 September 24 11:41 BST (UK) »
1832- William Anderson & John Gwynne, Bushmills
1845- William Anderson, Bayhead Bushmills
Coleraine Chronicle, 17 Jan.1852: DIED. At his residence, Bushmills, on Saturday, the _ inst., William Anderson, Esq., aged 86 years.

1855- William Anderson, Rosnashane
1861- a William Anderson & family, Rossnashane
Coleraine Chronicle, 12 July 1873: ANDERSON- At his residence, Rosnashane, Ballymoney, on the 7th inst., William Anderson, Esq. [His remains will be removed for interment in Kilrea Church-yard, on Monday morning, at twelve o’clock. Friends will kindly accept this intimation.
Note: death registration posted earlier.
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Re: William Anderson, spade maker, Bay Head, Rosnashane, Ballymoney and Bushmills
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 03 September 24 11:47 BST (UK) »
The answer may lie in Scotland-

Banner of Ulster (Belfast),5 July 1853: Model Farming at Ballymoney. .. Mr. Anderson, a Scotch gentleman, who resides at Rosnashane, near Ballymoney ...

Added- Will of William Anderson proved in Dublin at Principal Registry-
https://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/reels/cwa/005014890/005014890_00378.pdf

Will of Mary Jane also Dublin-
https://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/reels/cwa/005014913/005014913_00276.pdf
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Re: William Anderson, spade maker, Bay Head, Rosnashane, Ballymoney and Bushmills
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 03 September 24 13:17 BST (UK) »
Many thanks, Aghadowey.  It makes much more sense now that her father was the William who passed away in 1873.  I was confused as some research material had her listed as being the niece of Dr. Sir James Anderson when your informations shows that she would have been his grand niece which makes complete sense date wise.

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Re: William Anderson, spade maker, Bay Head, Rosnashane, Ballymoney and Bushmills
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 03 September 24 13:39 BST (UK) »
Luckily William Anderson of Rossnashane was fairly easy to follow with online resources. One thing that still puzzles me is the family plot in Kilrea. Did that William live in that area for a time or perhaps his wife was the connection? Didn't find a likely marriage for William in Ireland from 1845-1855 but he could have married here earlier (or married in Scotland) and while we know the wife died before 1873 it could have been before registration of deaths started in 1864.
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Re: William Anderson, spade maker, Bay Head, Rosnashane, Ballymoney and Bushmills
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 03 September 24 13:45 BST (UK) »
I spoke, or rather typed, too soon. Death of Isabella Ann Anderson of Rossnashane, wife of a gentleman, age 55, died 1871- so born c1816-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1871/020767/7285388.pdf (morbus cordis means her heart just stopped)
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