Ballymoney Graveyard

Splendid work. It is difficult for me, being in Australia, to judge how valuable the book would be for my purposes. I am particularly interested in identifying No. 353, and in the conjunctions of Stewart and Patton in No. 7 and Stuart and Patton in No. 148.

I am interested in # 404. Do you ever plan to put pictures of headstones on the internet? There is a site: findagrave.com (non-profit) that would probably love to share this information with the world community of researchers.

Thanks for all your work.

To Stephen Stuart-
Most of the Patton families in the area came from Drumaheglis, but several moved to the Roseyards area.
I have in my records a Thomas Patton who married Fanny Stewart of Roseyards. Does this ring any bells?
Dorothy

My great-great grand-father was JOHN QUIN who is said to have been born in 1828 in Ballymoney, County Down, Ireland. He died on 30 September 1872 in Wanganui, New Zealand. He married JANE NEWPORT in New Zealand, and they had three sons and two daughters. I had hoped your book may have referred to his family, but it appears not. Do you have any other references to the QUIN family?
Regards Jack Morgan

Dear Dorothy
Just having found your site and noting the Camac name burials can you tell me how much it would cost to buy a copy of your book please
Regards June (Lincolnshire)

i would be interested in plots of the tweed names im looking for baby twins (tweed)which would be my mothers brothers or sisters im from this area of the town but i dont know where there buried but now i think it could be here how do i find out

I am looking for any information on a grave in st.james church yard, the headstone is slate, I have saw it but the reading on the headstone is very hard to make out, the grave is of John Kinnard and of liza kinnard and there may be more , I would love to find out all about it, also a place called Tullaghor, I used to live in the lane many years ago and my auntie Telly Parkhill used to have a farm just down the road from us, I was a child of 4 so I did not know any history of the place, but I would love to find out all about it now, If you can direct me in the right place to find this out, this would solve a lot off problems for me.
thankyou.
Patrica Kirkpatrick (Cordle)

I am interested in finding the burial plot of my great granny jane stevenson. when my grandad passed away 13 years ago he was certain that the plot he was to be buried in in kilraughts free presbeterian church was also were my great granny was buried but since his death the minister of the church thinks that jane was buried elsewere.Any help would be greatly appreaciated. many thanks danielle

Hi Pat,
The Woodsides mentioned are my direct relations and are from the Strone, near Dervock and Gortconny, near Ballycastle.
Where does your Woodside interest lie?
Dorothy

To Pamela Lavery re Wylie query
One Wylie family in the churchyard are my direct ancestors and I have information on the other.
Buck is not a name which I have ever come across in the area. What else do you know about your Wylie family as there were more in the Ballymena area?
Dorothy

Hello Dorothy
Regarding my WOODSIDE’s I have just found out that DANIEL and his parents JAMES & SARAH were from CARNDUFF. At least they were there in 1884 when Daniel was born.
Would there be any connection to your WOODSIDE’s?
Regards
Pat Berry

Hello Dorothy
Thank you very much for all that information. I had been looking around 1850 for the Births of James and Sarah. I had found a Sarah Kirkpatrick born in 1851 in Ballycastle on the Family Search (LDS) site and thought that may be her. If James was born in 1808 he was 31 years older than her and 76 was Daniel was born.
In the last few days I have found more information and it all seems to be coming together now.
I have now found the Death of James on the Emerald Ancestors site (Wills & Probate) and the LDS site. Sarah’s death is on the LDS site as well.
It was Rev David Palmer who found the Baptism of Daniel Woodside for me last week.
Daniel was living with a Robert & Ellen Woodside in Renfrew Scotland in 1901. I found Robert had married Ellen Rennie from Antrim in 1899 and Marriage Record from “ScotlandsPeople” told me that his father was James Woodside (deceased) and Sarah Kirkpatrick (deceased). Then I knew Robert was Daniel’s brother.
It looks like Robert & Ellen Woodside went back to Ireland 1901/1902 as on the 1911 Irish Census I have found a Robert Woodside aged 9 living with a McGrath family (Robert & Mary) together with a Maggie Rennie aged 11. Robert Woodside & Maggie Rennie are stated as Nephew & Niece of the McGrath’s of 7 Bellisle, DERVOCK.
Ellen Woodside (widow) was living at another address as a servant to the Craig’s (Arthur B & Jane) of 7 Moyair Upper Ballycregagh.
I then found Robert Woodside (Ellen’s husband) had died in Philadelphia USA on 17 Feb 1906. The record on LDS stated his father was James Woodside and mother was Sarah Fitzpatrick of Ireland. His Date of Birth was stated as 24 June 1878. Don’t know if this is correct as I had 26 January 1876 from a previous LDS record.
I have also found a ROBERT WOODSIDE born 1902 on a voyage to Philadelphia USA in 1926 and he gave his contact as his mother ELLEN WOODSIDE of 50 Lake Street Lurgan Antrim.
We have discovered from Emerald Ancestors site that SARAH WOODSIDE was born on 16 June 1870
and she married JOHN MOONEY on 26 November 1910 at Ballycastle Roman Catholic Church.
They may have gone to USA afterwards but I have not found them yet. I have only found Sarah when she was single going to visit a cousin MARY CLARK at Norristown Philadelphia in 1900 and a couple of other visits to USA up to 1910.
I have also found the Civil Marriage of JAMES WOODSIDE & SARAH KIRKPATRICK which was on 1 July 1873 at Ramoan Parish Church. The record does not have the names of James & Sarah’s fathers. I’m not sure if the original entry will have more details. This was on Emerald Ancestors site.
I would like to know who JAMES WOODSIDE’s father was as it looks like he may be the brother of my GG Grandfather ISAAC WOODSIDE who was born about 1814.
I hadn’t come across SAMUEL born 1873 and haven’t found him anywhere yet.
Did you find JAMES & SARAH in Ballymoney Graveyard?. I had asked Rev Palmer where would the most likely Burial place be and he was going to get back to me after this weekend.
Look forward to hearing anything else you may find.
Thanks again for all your help.
Regards
Pat

Hi Barbara,
Samuel Woodside (1761-1824) was married to a Margaret ?
There were a lot of Woodside families about in the early 1800s but the records are poor. I have this William with 3 possible sons – your Samuel, a James who married a Mary Hunter and a Robert.
Dorothy

The index lists the names found in the gravestones and the text written about the individual families.
There is a photograph of each gravestone and the writing in the gravestone. Some of the gravestones are unreadable to the naked eye but I have managed to transcribe many by using different light, local family knowledge and all the old records available in the area.
Also I have produced 300+ family trees showing many of the inter relationships with other families in the churchyard and the area.
You can purchase the book via this web site – check at the top in the section “buy book”.
If people buy my book I am happy to send them a much fuller tree than the outline which is presented in the book. The book is over a kilo in weight and I had added all my local knowledge of families it would be double the size!
Dorothy

Hi Dorothy,
I was very excited when I found out about your book and was delighted to find at least three names I am researching in the index.
However, I am a bit nervous as one of the names I am researching is Smith/Symth. I have been trying to trace them in Australia, and feel I aged about 20 years trying to find them. Thomas Smith/Smyth married Sarah Clements in 1887 in Antrim. Thomas the son of Henry and Jean was (according to his Australian death certificate born in Scotland. Sarah daughter of James and mother unknown was born in Ireland. Their daughter (Mary Ann Smith) married a Joseph Donagh(e)y in Antrim before coming to Australia to join her family. All their surnames appear in the Burial Index. I am in a dilemma, do I purchase your book and hope they are the branch of the family I seek, or, not purchase your book and wonder if I they are the people I seek. There is a coincidence.
Can you give me a hint that these might be the families I am looking for.
Regards

Kerrie

I am amazed with all the great information you have put together. Would you be able to tell me the first name of the McElvery you have a record of? I am looking for the family of Daniel McElvery who came here to America in 1851. Thanks so much for your wonderful work!

hi dorothy i am from ballymoney co.antrim i have been living in dublin for over 40 years i am intersted in the mc.caw 246 and 267 my dad was william mc.caw died 18 august 1980 he is from armoy he was married to barbara neill would you know if my dad is buried in the grave yards you researched i am going to the north this coming saturday can i buy your book up there i will be in ballymoney and portrush many thanks keep up the good work

Dorothy,

I am contacting you from the States; was born and reared in North Antrim.

My grandmother (nee Ellen Rennie) from the Strone was married to a Robert Woodside, in the early 1900s. They had a son, also Robert.

Ellen was left widowed when Robert died a few years later in Philadelphia. She had her tickets ready for the family unit to sail to join him when she was advised of his death. She remained in Ireland.

Ellen later married a widower, James Morgan, from the Strone, in 1913 and had a daughter Jean (my mother) and a son Hugh. James had returned to Ireland from Canada to where he had earlier traveled with his six sons by his first marriage. All the sons remained (in Winnipeg).

We know nothing of Robert Woodside’s lineage, cause of death in Philadelphia etc. and I am wondering if perhaps he may possibly be part of your family, and whether you might then have any information about him that you could possibly share.

I understand that Robert emigrated to America possibly along with an uncle of Ellen Rennie, who would also have been from the Dervock area.

If you are aware of any possible connection/information regarding same Robert Woodside, I would be most interested to hear about it.

Many thanks.

Hello Dorothy
I have just read the messages from Jim Scott and I would like you to pass on my email address to him as I am very interested in what he has mentioned.
I have found more information on the Woodside’s since my last posting.
Thanks
Pat Berry in Australia

Hello Dorothy,
I was referred to you by Ballygal in reply to a thread I started in The Glens of Antrim Historical Society forum. In short, she said that you were the source most likely to have what I am looking for, which is graves of family/ancestors of Alexander McGowan who was born about 1781 in Ramoan Parish and immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1807. Alexander McGowan is my g-g-g-g-grandfather, and I am looking for his roots back in Antrim. If you have any information, any possibilities, or can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it immensely! (I don’t see the surname McGowan in the index for your book, but have you come across it in your research?) Thank you, Doug McGowan in Tokyo Japan

I am interested in the plot 510 that according to church register would be the burial place of a William John Trainor, death circa 1923. From the map I could not locate this plot, I believe it may not have a marker, but would love to able to locate it, anyhelp would be appreciated. Sean TT

Can you give me more specific information re your ancestors.
Email me at dorothy@ballymoneygraveyard.com

Dorothy

Hello Dorothy from Oregon, USA,

I am interested in the O’Toy, plot 323. Is there any more information available?

I am interested in any available information on the McGarry gravesite # 354. My Great-Great-Great-Great Grandfather David McGarry was from Ballymoney. Thank You

Dorothy,

My grandfather, James Arlow married Fanny Campbell at the Parish Church on 25 December 1883. He died in Ballymoney on 29 August 1897, but I do know where he was buried. I have no record of his birth, which may or may not have been in Ballymoney.

Do you have any records relating to my grandfather or any others from the Arlow family.

reagrds

Len

Hi Dorothy, i am interested in the graves marked Neill. I am trying to locate my grandfathers grave. I think his first name was John but can’t be sure, surname Neill. I can vaguely remember going to his daughter’s house (my aunt)Barbara Neill in Ballymoney when he died approx 1979, so I’m assuming he is buried in Ballymoney. I also am not sure of his religion. He had 6 children who lived in a children’s home in Islandmagee. I believe he may have been born in Ballycastle, his wife died many years before him. If I can find him it may give me the link to finding my aunts and uncles. Many thanks.

Unfortunately as his children were brought up in a home I really don’t have much to go on. I don’t even know what the daughter’s married names are and the whereabouts of most of the sons. The children’s first names where Billy, Phillip, Desmond, Leonard, Sheila and Barbara perhaps some of them may be on the gravestone. His wife I think was called Mary. She died of cancer about 1950 although I haven’t a clue where she is buried. Guesing Larne if that’s where the kids lived. All this is based on memory of when I was 6 years old. John, I believe died between May and end of Summer 1979 but more likely nearer May. I was told he died suddenly with burst appendix. Going by the age of his siblings back then ranging between 24-34 I’m guessing this man must’ve been quite young maybe late 50′s, early 60. I know this isn’t much to go on and is a long shot. Many thanks

Hi Dorothy, I have bought both of your excellent books and I see in the new graveyard one that the Cheatley family is buried there. I am trying to put as much information together on this family and when they arrived in Ballymoney. My mother who is 82 is the last surviving member. The graves in your book relate to my Great Grandfather, William John Cheatley (b.18/1/1871) and his family. What I would like to know is if you have any information on your data base regarding the earlier burials of the Cheatley family? The earlist date I have for a Cheately in Ballymoney is 1755,he was my GGGG Grandfather, he had two sons, Thomas (b.1787) who married a lady called Anne and they had a daughter Nancy (b.11/11/1809). His second son William (b.1792) was my GGG Grandfather. In 1814 he married a lady called Sarah (b.1798) they had seven children, after William’s death in 1855 his wife Sarah emigrated to America taking five of the girls leaving behind their daughter Margaret (b.18/2/1816) and son Samuel (b.1819) he was my GG Grandfather. Samuel married Mary Jane O’Hara in 1860, they had thrre children, William (b.1865 and died of whooping cough in 1869), William John, my GG Grandfather (b.18/1/1871 and died 10/1/1945) and Rosetta who died sometime during the 1950s in Belfast. Any help at all will be appreciated. I live locally and can call at the museum anytime if it suits.

Hi Dorothy, I am interested in trying to find information about the death of Ann Jane Speers, nee Carmichael. Her husband William Speers died as a POW in 1918. She may have died about 1920 but I have been unable to verify this. Her last known address was Castle Street Ballymoney.

Thanks

Robert

My wife’s great great grandfsther is Robert Baird, appartently his son John was born in Ballyweany near Ballymoney. I am assuming Robert dies there. Can you tell me which book I should buy to get information on him? We live in Canada. Thank you.

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Kenny.. Thomas was related to me, my grandfather was Andrew Millar married to Sarah Lee living in the same place. Awaiting your reply .. Avril

Ask me on my email it is Lukewoodside1234567@gmail.com because i am a Woodside