Connor family of Magherafelt

[Gerard 62]

I need to identify my Great grandfather to complete the family tree & hang it on the wall for future generations. DNA leads me to a family in Magherafelt called Connor, later O'Connor.
On 22 Sep 1869, John Connor, a carpenter. married Jane McGuckian.
I'm trying to identify John's siblings. Can anybody help?
The few tenuous only leads I have are:-
1/ On 3 August 1872, David Connor married Alice Stevenson. His marriage cert says his father was John Connor, a carpenter. I guess that David was a brother of John above & that there was a father & son pair of carpenters called John Connor.
2/John, the younger, had a daughter Eliza, born 23 Oct 1871, baptised 24 Oct 1871. Her Godfather was David Connor.
3/ On 5 April 1884, a John Connor, carpenter (married), died aged 73. Present at death was his daughter Margaret O'Connor.

So, can anybody identify brothers or sisters of John Connor, Jane McGuckian's husband?

[aghadowey]

For reference-
On 5 April 1884, a John Connor, carpenter (married), died aged 73. Present at death was his daughter Margaret O'Connor.
The death registration lists daughter as Margaret Connor, not O'Connor.
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1884/06329/4815120.pdf
Wonder if Margaret O'Connor age 60 in 1901 is that daughter?
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Londonderry/Maghera/Maghera/1545294/
Died in 1909- informant niece Sarah O'Connor-
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1909/05464/4529304.pdf

With the information from those records is it enough to confirm your John Connor/O'Connor had an unmarried sister Margaret?

On 22 Sep 1869, John Connor, a carpenter. married Jane McGuckian.
Possibly John?
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Londonderry/Maghera/Maghera/1545333/
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Londonderry/Maghera/Coleraine_Street/611334/

[Gerard 62]

Thanks aghadowey.
I think all of your links are on the money.
For info, as far as I can see, John Connor & Jane McGuckian had kids:
Archibald 7 July 1870 (married Minnie Clerkin 3 Feb 1904);
Eliza(beth) 3 Oct 1871 (married Francis McGlade 4 Nov 1894);
Nancy 3 July 1873;
John 3 Mar 1877;
William 5 Feb 1879;
Charles 22 Jan 1881;
Sarah 23 Jan 1882;
Mary Jane 2 May 1884;
Rosanna 26 May 1886 (married James Connolly 3 Aug 1908); &
David 18 Mar 1890.
I'm looking for a link to Belfast and I know that Rosanna was living in Old Lodge Road, Belfast, when she married James Connolly in 1908.
As John (1877) shows in Magherafelt on the 1901 and 1911 census, he's not the Belfast link. That suggests that my Belfast link is either William or Charles or, more likely, a brother of their father John - hence my question - can we identify the siblings of that John.
I'm not great at searching the church records but do you think that might be an avenue?

[aghadowey]

Death of David Connor, carpenter- indexed as age 49 but registration says age 39 (born c1848)
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1887/06200/4773394.pdf

There aren't as many Connors in the parish as I thought there would be. Suggest going through all the registers and making a note of ALL the Connors as they could all be related. Then, put them roughly into groups and continue searching vital records, etc.
https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633061?locale=en#page/1/mode/1up

[Elwyn Soutter]

If you are going to trawl all the records in that area, it's possibly worth mentioning that around Magherafelt Connor can also appear as Nocher/Nogher. It’s a surname variant. Not an obvious one but you will find Nochers in the 1829 tithe applotment records for Magherafelt who appear as Connor in the 1831 census. Example here of John from Megargy:


https://www.irishgenealogyhub.com/derry/tithe-applotments/magherafelt-parish.php

https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1831/Londonderry/Loughinshollon/Magherafelt/Megargin/22/

MacLysaght (The Surnames of Ireland) explains:

“MacConnor was formerly much used erroneously by officials eg Petty’s census enumerators, for O’Connor; the true MacConnors of Ulster are now usually called MacNaugher, No(c)her etc.”