Re: [Bann Valley] 1911 Census

[Lunney Family <family@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I was glad to see the Co. Londonderry info online at last. Census  
information is always thought provoking. I don't know much about my  
Kirkpatrick family; I had found a marriage between William K. )
and a Margaret Patterson in 1855; could be my great great great  
grandparents., but no proof, because it was in Coleraine Registry  
Office, rather than in the expected Presbyterian church; I filed that  
piece of  info for further checking. Today I found in the 1911 census  
a Mary Kirkpatrick who is almost certainly my great great aunt,  
(right age, right place) and living with her an 80 year old "lodger"  
Mary Patterson. Mary Patterson COULD very well be her aunt, Margaret  
Patterson's sister; why the dickens does the census not say "aunt"?

And why are they listed as Reformed Presbyterian? Mary's brother and  
all other known relatives are ordinary Presbyterian. Not really  
crucial, just curious why she went off on her own. The nearest church  
was probably the RP at Ballylagan; likely enough that she would go to  
the nearest. However, she was an unmarried mother; were the RPs more  
accepting? That seems a bit unlikely.
More questions than answers!
Linde

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