Re: [Bann Valley] Boveedy Baptisms

[Lunney Family <family@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Many thanks to those who are putting new information up on Richard's  
site. New info is always welcome, and even if sometimes it isn't  
entirely new to you, it can re-focus your attention. This is what has  
happened for me since you posted the Boveedy baptisms. I was aware of  
my great great great uncle James Gilmour, who was minister of  
Boveedy; I knew about some of his family details, but the information  
about the second names of some of the children as baptized was new.  
And seeing their  names and his wife's name made me wonder where she  
came from; Dorothea Fuller; not a Boveedy name. It turned out when I  
checked that she was from Bandon, co. Cork; they must have met when  
he was a minister there. But oddly they married, it appears from  
FamilySearch, in co. Armagh, in 1849. I suppose roughly halfway  
between Bandon and Boveedy; or possibly he was a minister there at  
that date; I'll have to check his career.But anyway, how did she get  
to Armagh? Who escorted her; did they correspond before marriage? All  
kinds of interesting questions. And then when I checked on Fullers in  
Bandon, they were of English origin, one of the first families to  
settle there, in the 1650s and there is or was a Fullers Lane in  
Bandon. I see I will have to have a look at the Historic Towns Atlas  
volume on the history of Bandon, or some other history of the town. I  
never would have thought that I had any connection with Bandon. Just  
goes to show!

Linde Lunney

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