Dear Donna, Found the following for James McNIGHT. While they are not the ones you are looking for they may be related earlier in the piece. I have included an interesting obit for the Rev Lucas Waring, Rector of the coimbined parishes of Kilkeel and Kilcoo, so the parishes must be very close. Description of the cemetery precedes the inscription. The first one is an obit published in Liv. Auth (whatever that means - it is not mentioned in the abbreviations list). Kind regards Judith Mellifont. Brisbane, Australia Obituary Prior to 1800 (as far as Relates to England, Scotland, and Ireland), Compiled by Sir William Musgrave, 6th Bart., of Hayton Castle, Co. Cumberland, and Entitled by him "A General Nomenclator and Obituary, with Referrence to the Books Where the Persons are Mentioned, and Where some Account of their Character is to be Found." McKnight, James (Rev.), Theol. 1787. (Liv. Auth.) Down: Mourne - Gravestone Inscriptions, Barony of Mourne Kilkeel Old Graveyard O. S. 56 Grid Ref. 307146 This is the old parish graveyard in the townland of the same name. It is situated to the west of Newcastle Street and north of Bridge Street at a double bend in the centre of the town. The church was dedicated to St. Colman and was a celtic foundation situated in an old rath. The ditch of the rath can still be traced to the north and west of the church but within the graveyard. The church was destroyed in 1649 wars but was subsequently restored. The narrow windows at the east end of the N. and S. walls are probably of the 15th or 16th century but the other windows which have brick surrounds date from the rebuilding. The building was abandoned when the new parish church was opened in 1818. The registers of baptism, marriage and burial date from 1816. The graveyard is entered from a gate on Bridge Street and a sunken passage leads from this to the church. The graves surround the church on all sides and the whole is ( 1970 ) a complete wilderness of grass, weeds and rubbish. However it contains several distinctive monuments:-1. A weathered equal-armed granite cross 3 feet high, beside which is a granite socket stone. 2. A mort-cage enclosure (Moore family) with iron bars covering the whole, to prevent the coffin being removed after burial. 3. Coffin-shaped slabs with flat or convex surfaces, most of which have no inscription and are lying down as grave markers. Many of the gravestones are of rough granite and are difficult or impossible to read. There are also a number of thick raised horizontal slabs of slate which have well-preserved inscriptions. All the inscriptions which could be read have been copied. McKnight Here lyeth the body of James McKnight who departed this life 18 Nov 1758 aged 63 years. Waring /Box-tomb in a densely overgrown high-railed enclosure/. Underneath this stone are deposited the remains of the Reverend Lucas Waring, resident Rector of the United parishes of Kilkeel, Kilcoo and Kilmegan for thirty-seven years, who departed this life on 09 Jul 1823 aged sixty-six years. Also the remains of Eleanor his wife who departed this life on 12 Nov 1813 aged fifty-two years. Down: Upper & Lower Castlereagh - Gravestone Inscriptions, Baronies of Upper and Lower Castlereagh d Blaris Graveyard O. S. 14. Grid Ref. 250627 This graveyard is in the townland of Blaris and parish of Blaris (also known as the parish of Lisburn). The site is reputed to have had a church in mediaeval times but only a mound covered with graves exists now. The oldest stone, which has no other legible wording, dates from 1626 and all have been copied with dates of death before 1864. Presumably only some of these burials appear in the Lisburn Parish Register. All the Lisburn Cathedral registers survive from 1661 , Roman Catholic registers from 1840 and Presbyterian baptismal and marriage registers from 1860. Memorials of the Dead (M. D.), Vol. 10, contains a copy of 30 of the headstones, of which 10 have disappeared or are completely . All are included below and those now lost are noted. In 1918 the graveyard was in very wild condition but it is now well kept. Some of the participants in the 1798 rising were executed outside the graveyard and are interred in an unmarked plot just inside the entrance, on the right. McKnight Erected in memory of James McKnight, Trooperfield, died 16 Jan 1853 aged 84 years. His wife Sarah died 13 Oct 1878 aged 81 years. Their son John died 29 Apr 1883. Also their daughter Mary Jane Gray died 06 Aug 1867. Sarah McLorn, daughter, died 13 Oct 1883. Hugh Keys, son-in-law, died 11 Jan 1892. Alice McKnight, daughter, died 26 Jul 1895. William McKnight died 28 Feb 1905. Agnes Keys, daughter, died 20 Feb 1912. jmellifont@acenet.net.au ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Wren" <dwren@rogers.com> To: <IRELAND-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 4:06 AM Subject: [IRL-CEMETERIES] Cemetery lookups > Could someone look up James McKnight d 1814, James McKnight d 1858, > James McKnight d. 1898, John McKnight d. 1900, as well as 3 "unknown" > McKnights. All of the above are buried in Kilcoo Parish, Co. Down. > Many thanks. > Donna Wren > > > ==== IRELAND-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > REMEMBER ~ Never open an attachment until you are absolutely positive it is safe to do so. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >