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Tracing Duneane ancestors

AntrimDuneane (Antrim)

Hello,

I have just recently discovered (on rootsireland) that my great great grandparents Henry Hamill and Susan Scullin were married at Duneane Roman Catholic church in 1835, and their daughter (my great grandmother) Ellen baptised there in Jan 1846. They had three other children there too, Ann 1839,  Margaret 1843 and John 1845. I know that the family were farmers and fishermen, at one time Henry was a shoemaker.

I'd be really grateful for any pointers to the actual church they would have used, and any further records that might be available.  I realise that there are not many records left from that time.

I'd particularly like to find out where the family lived at the time, where Henry and Susan came from, and if its possible to see their passage to England (Ulverston) sometime between 1846-48.

I'd be really grateful for any help or advice,

Many Thanks,  Shelagh

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Shelagh,

I have sent a reply to your other post, covering most of this. The only additional issue is your request for details of passage to England. No records have ever been kept of travellers from Ireland to Britain (a domestic journey in any event) and so you won?t find out precisely when they sailed. At least not from shipping records anyway. There were regular, mostly overnight, sailings from Belfast to Liverpool, Heysham and to Barrow in Furness. I?d assume they travelled on one of those routes.

All you can really do is narrow the date by assessing when they disappear from Irish records and first appear in English ones. Ellen was born in Ireland in 1846 and Felix in Fleetwood in 1848 so it must have been around 1847.

Bear in mind too that it?s a short cheap route and families went back and forth all the time. They may well have gone home to visit family from time to time. The railway from Belfast reached Randalstown in 1848 and Toomebridge in 1856, making it a very easy journey after that.

 

Elwyn

Ahoghill AntrimIrelandXO Volunteer

Hi, there is no actual Duneane RC church but there is a Sacred Heart, Cargin and an Our Lady of Lourdes, Moneyglass which are the Catholic Chapels in Duneane Parish. There is also a Duneane Parish Church (Church of Ireland) but in times past some Catholics were buried there as it was formerly a Catholic Chapel prior to the 1700s. There is also the Duneane Presbyterian Church. There is a small catholic church in the bordering parish of Ballyscullion, on the loughbeg road

Hamills and Scullins more prevalent in the Ballyscullion / Moneyglass / Ahoghill areas so higher chance that it is either Our Lady of Lourdes Moneyglass or Duneane Church of Ireland.

Wee Jim

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