Fleming

okanemargie:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

Our parish liaison for Ahoghill in on holidays in Australia and New Zealand and will be back around the 12th of November. He would be the best to answer your query so if it is okay with you, I will hold your message for his return.

Roger McDonnell

Hi Roger, Yes I am more than happy to wait until the return of Parish Liaison person. Thank you for your prompt reply.

Margie O'Kane

Margie,

I am curious about your source of the information for the marriage. You say it was at the 1st Presbyterian church in Belfast. However there isn’t actually a church of that exact name in Belfast. Also if Eliza Ann’s father was a farmer, you might expect her to have married in a  rural area, rather than in a city. (Tradition was to marry in the bride's church).

"Meeting House" is a term often used by Presbyterians to describe their church.

I wonder if the marriage might in fact have been at the 1st Presbyterian church in Antrim town? If so, Griffiths Valuation lists a Malcolm Fleming who lived in Townparks townland, in Antrim town in the 1860s. He rented some land and could well have been a nurseryman. (Much of that area was nurseries at that time. It’s a modern housing estate today though).

James Kerr is a more common name and there are several possibilities in Griffiths. However before researching further I’d like to try and nail down the correct location for the marriage. What’s the source of this information?

Hello Elwyn - The source is as follows: -  Schedule G Registrars District of Belfast Certificate 50. 1863 Marriage Solomized at Belfast in the Meeting-House of 1st Presby Congregation in the Northern Presbytery of Antrim. by License J Scott Porter. Marriage was solomized between us = Andrew Fleming and Eliza Anne Kerr. Witnessed by Henry Fox and Maggie S Fleming. August 17th 1863.  I hope this is enough information for you and I am sorry I wasnt as thorough as I should have been. Margie