Would you happen to have any Johnston bdm's from ca. 1800-1820? More
specifically I'm looking for:
Francis "Frank" Johnston, b. ca. 1805
Robert "Red Robin Johnston, b. ca. 1808
Archibald "Archie" Johnston, b. 1815
Also, Catherine, Jane, and Thomas but no dates for them - all thought to
be
siblings who went to Upper Canada in two trips, one in 1822 and the other
in
1832, plus George Johnston who may have been an uncle..
Cliff. Johnston
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from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay
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Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:47 PM
Subject: [Bann Valley] Church records and cemeteries--Castledawson,
Bellaghy, Ballymena
> Hello All,
>
> My ancestors are from the townlands of Ballymacombs and Ballynease,
> right
> near
> where the Bann connects with Lough Beg and next to Bellaghy.
>
> Before the Presbyterian Church was formed in Bellaghy (late 1820s), the
> families
> recorded births and marriages at the Castledawson Presbyterian Church,
> just
> southwest of Bellaghy (maybe three miles away).
>
> I was fortunate enough about two years ago to be able to purchase the
> entire
> microfilm of Castledawson's church records from about 1800 to 1845. I
> found the
> birth records of my g-g-grandfather and his siblings, which I had never
> imagined
> I would find. To get the records I had to ask the current minister of
> the
> church to write a letter of permission to PRONI. I then paid PRONI to
> make and
> send me a copy. I have also tried to buy the records for the Bellaghy
> church--which records do not start I believe until about 1840 or 1850,
> but
> I
> have had no luck reaching the current minister, who also serves the
> Magherafelt
> church. Magherafelt has records from before 1800 and I would like to
> buy
> that
> film as well, but again, no luck.
>
> I will be doing research in Belfast in October this year and have
> decided
> to try
> to access the church records either at PRONI or the Presbyterian
> Historical
> Society which I read somewhere has an index for church records in
> Northern
> Ireland. I'm trying to confirm the information about the indexes but
> have
> yet
> to hear from them.
>
> I know that one can pay to have the genealogical society in Derry City
> look up
> records but it's a bit pricey for those of us in the U.S.
>
> I have a few questions for this list:
>
> ---Boyd listed the church records at the Coleraine library on
> microfilm:
> do you
> know if they have the Bellaghy or Magherafelt church records there
> also?
>
> ---Does anyone know if Castledawson's Presbyterian church has a
> cemetery
> with
> old headstones (ca. 1800-1850)? The Bellaghy CI has my people from the
> Presbyterian church as
> it was a common graveyard for protestants, but I haven't been able to
> find
> some
> lines and wondered if the cemetery in Castledawson might have them.
>
> --Finally, for my McCullough ancestors from the area, I have one clue
> that
> a
> relation, one Nathaniel McCullough, was resident in Ballymena in the
> late
> 1700s.
> He's listed in a deed from a family that married into mine, and was a
> witness at my g-g-g-grandmother's marriage in 1812 in the Castledawson
> church. What would be the Presbyterian churches from that era for
> Ballymena?
>
> Thanks for any help you can give.
>
> ~Linda Sewright
>
>
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