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AntrimRacavan (Antrim)

Hello, I am about to make my bucket list trip (June 3-5) to the birth place of my Grandfather Thomas Cahoon/Calhoun/Colquhoun, just to name a few variations.  I have many historical records (and have reached a lot of dead ends) What I am currently wondering is the whereabouts of graves for my

GG Grandfather Hugh Cahoon, register says died Aug 18, 1890, Buckna, Racavan, Glenwhirry, Ballymena, and his wife Jane Robinson Cahoon, died Jan 4, 1881 also in Buckna.

 Also my great grandmother Margaret (Allen) Cahoon, died 1891, Tamybrack, Racavan, Glenwhirry, Ballymena.

As I understand it, shortly after Margaret’s death, they made their was to Glasgow and then to Canada, my Grandfather in 1910.

marriage, baptismal certificates indicate mostly Broughshane Presbyterian.  They seem to have been in different spaces of that same area in different places in time.

Hope you can help. Thank you 

janice cahoon gares

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I see from Hugh’s death certificate that he was a labourer. In the 1800s most labourers couldn't afford a gravestone and so a strong possibility is that he is in an unmarked grave. That was very common.

Possible graveyards for the family are Buckna Old Presbyterian, Glenwhirry or Broughshane 1st. Their gravestone transcriptions are on-line on the Braid website, but I don’t see your family listed. So either their gravestone is no longer legible or, more likely, they haven’t got one.

http://www.thebraid.com/explore-your-roots.aspx

There are unlikely to be any burial records for those graveyards in the 1800s.

I see Hugh’s death was reported by his son-in law Charles Boyle who also lived in Buckna. He was  a farmer. This looks to be him in the 1901 census:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Slemish/Buckna/939534/

He farmed plot 38 in the townland (in common with a group of other farmers)  so that property should not be too difficult to locate today. Hugh isn’t listed in the Valuation Revision records and so was possibly living on the Boyle farm when he died.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Slemish/Buckna/939534/

The Boyle family look to have used Buckna Old graveyard. This gravestone there:

Erected by Charles Boyle of Buckna in memory of his grandmother Fanny Boyle who died 1st March 1844 aged 62 years Also his grandfather Charles Boyle who died 25th August 1863 aged 82 years And his loving mother Mary Boyle who died 8th March 1871, aged 60 years Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord

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