Is this the same parish as Kill/Kilsherdeny
If this is the same parish. I am looking for details about James Hall/Ann Reily. According to the Scottish records - Ann was born in 1821 and died in Scotland in 1891. She came from Kill in Cavan - her father was Philip Reilly, a crofter.
According to details of the family history written by her granddaughter in the 1950s - she and her husband James Hall came to Scotland in a small boat around the early 1840s. They settled in the Linlithgow area and she was a farm labourer. Her granddaughter described James Hall as an "English soldier". We have come across a record for Clements Estate 1820 - for Kilsherdeny - which has both Philip Reilly and James Hall listed as tenants. Hall in Barragh/Reilly in Kilicreenay - relatively close together. The owner of the land is a Colonel John Henry Clement - so it is possible if Hall was a soldier he had some connection to him. However, we are trying to find out if James Hall was a real English soldier or considered English because he was of the Anglican religion. The Halls appear to be a mixed family religiously. They did adopt the East coast of Scotland practice of having the daughters follow their mother's religion and the sons the father's - James Hall's son seems to have been brought up protestant and his sister catholic. We haven't been able to find any records of their marriage or their children's baptisms in either the catholic or church of Scotland records in Scotland - and their children sometimes appear in the records as being born in Scotland and sometimes in Ireland. It was common practice for irish agricultural labourers working in that part of Scotland before the famine to go back and forward - so it is possible they did that before settling in Scotland. I would be interested in finding out anything about the Halls in Kill, Col Clement, Ann and her parents - and whether there is a marriage record for them in Ireland.