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Higgins family ballyclare
« on: Tuesday 03 June 25 17:02 BST (UK) »
Hi,  I’m looking for anyone who has knowledge on the Ballyclare area.  I have ancestors who lived in ballyclare/Ballyeaston/Ballynure/Doagh and the surrounding areas.  James Higgins and his wife Lizzie Higgins ( formerly Peters) are listed on the 1911 census in Ballyeaston.  This is my family and I’d love to know more about the area and the Higgins family in general.

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Re: Higgins family ballyclare
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 03 June 25 20:42 BST (UK) »
Welcome to Rootschat.
You don’t say what records you already have so here is the 1911 census for reference.
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Ballyclare_Urban/Ballynure_Road/109693/

Here is the marriage in 1904 - James Higgins and Elizabeth Peters, Belfast
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1904/10187/5706654.pdf

Andrew Higgins, Slater, and family in 1901 but no James
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Ballyclare/Ballyclare_Town/918126/

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Re: Higgins family ballyclare
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 05 June 25 12:44 BST (UK) »
Hello, thank you for getting back to me. Andrew Higgins and Jane Robinson are James’s parents. He was living in Londonderry in 1901 working as a ship riveter.  He moved back to Ballynure Road and is on the 1911 census records with wife Lizzie,  daughters Wilhilmina, Elizabeth Jane and sons Andrew and James.  They go on to have two more children in 1915 Martha and Francis,  then finally Robert in 1931.  I know from what records are available that the Higgins family was pretty big but it’s difficult to find their whereabouts after this time period.  I have found several that immigrated to Canada and others that signed the Ulster covenant and later fought in WW1 but further information is limited with no further census taken.