Not much has moved in my brick wall since my first posting in 2013
I am still trying to walk...forward & backwards on my Walkers & Telfords prior to their shift to Scotland
Here is what I know..
Hugh Walker married Ellen (Helen) Keillin(?) at Cullybackey Presbyterian sometime prior to 1845
Between 1845 - 1847, they brought into this world Helen Walker
Helen Walker Married Robert Telford at Cullybackey Presbyterian on 31 October 1864
Based on information gleaned from Robert's death certificate, Robert's parents were Edward Telford & Ann McCoudry(?)... Robert was born in Fenagh, Co Antrim in or about 1837
Hugh witnessed the marriage...yet passed soon after
Robert & Helen had three children whilst in Ballymena: Elspy (28 July 1865), Hannah (11 May 1867) & Martha (26 August 1869)
They then emigrated to Scotland where they settled in Duntocher, Dumbartonshire, Scotland.. And gave birth to three children: Hugh (18 Jun 1873), Helen (1875), & Robert (1876)
John James came along in 1881 in Whiteinch, Lanarkshire, Scotland
My Great Grandmother, Annie, came along 28 SEP 1883 in Milton, Glasgow, Scotland... She would go on to marry William Devine
and her sister, Agnes came along 27 OCT 1886 in Partick, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
There is plenty of documentation once in Scotland...but they all seem to disappear into the mist when we look to the Irish side of things
Friday 19th Feb 2016, 11:08PM
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Cullybackey Presbyterian church records are in PRONI and in the Presbyterian Historical society, both in Belfast. They are not on-line and a personal visit is required to view them at both locations. (Marriage records from 1st April 1845 onward are included in the civil records but evidently your family married before that date. So the church records are the only place the information is likely to be recorded). The records should probably give you the couples townlands, though if the fathers were agricultural labourers, then they may have moved around a bit.
Ellen and Helen are interchangeable in Ireland. Ellen tends to be used more commonly in Ireland. Folk who move to Scotland often favour Helen there as it is the more common on that side of the water.
The only Hugh Walker death regd in Ballymena around 1864 was on 31.1.1865 aged 38. You might want to have a look at that on the GRONI site (costs £2).. The age would just be the informant’s best guess and might be out by quite a bit.
You should be able to find where Robert & Helen were living 1864 – 1869 from the townlands on their marriage cert and then on the 3 birth certs.
I had a look for gravestone inscriptions for Walker and Telford on the BRAID site but did not see any that appear to relate to these families. However if they were labourers/weavers then they probably wouldn’t have had a gravestone so that’s not too surprising.
Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘
Tuesday 23rd Feb 2016, 11:54PM -
I come from Wm. WALKER, born in Antrim, Killead, Northern Ireland about 1796. Wife: Elizabeth (Miller) Walker.
Son, James, was born in the same parish, around 1817 and son, James, was born in South Carolina, in 1820.
The family left Northern Irleand in 1818/1819.
There were many more children.
The family separated, some going to Georgia and then Texas, settling in Brazoria and Brazos counties.
His son, John, beget George G Walker, and my Grandfather, Ernest Wallace Walker, b. 1895 d. 1968, who have me mother, Bonnie Mary (Walker) Beckett b. 1936 d. 2015, and she,had, 4 daughters.
I noticed there's a 'Ploughmann. I have a step great grandma, residing in Traer, Iowa.
Can you give me into in the,Ploughmann?Sunday 18th Feb 2018, 07:56PM