Mike, This message shown as #1 goes with following #2. Rev. McGregor would have been contemporary of my Rev. Hugh CONN and knew the other. Have you seen records of original burying ground Tamlaghtard Cemetery outside of Magilligan? Perhaps Rev. McGregor has relatives in same cemetery. My 'cousin', living only about 3 miles from Magilligan, took me to the cemetery showing me his ancestor's grave. This was Thomas CONN b.1745 d.17 Apr 1823. Wife of Thomas was Jane McIntyre. The old church ruin and cemetery now belong to the Catholic church. This church location is not same as Presbyterian Church in Magilligan of today. While my 'cousin' in Magilligan, now deceased, is positive we are of same family, but have been unable to document our relationship because he only knew his lineage to 1745. What he knows is his CONN family has always lived there and he has original land on Magilligan Point that was owned by his ancestors. We do have some of the same given names in our early ancestry. Fasti records - I remember looking at those records in the library, but don't remember if my Rev. Hugh CONN was listed. My early records came from the Presbyterian Church records in North Carolina, USA. Plaque at cemetery where Rev. Hugh Conn's widow and daughter are buried. See Re: . . . . . #2 Jean

Jean I am very sorry that I can't help you with your Conn family of Magilligan. If as your cousin said that he is only able to go back to 1745, you may need to look at some of the Books on the Siege of Londonderry in 1689. I am not sure if the Local Studies section of the Library at Londonderry City could help you in that regard. Another source for earlier plantation record could be:- An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the Seventeenth Century, 1608-1620, George Hill, (no date), pp 288-291; 526-533 I found this at the Library in Strabane in 2005, but you may find it in a Library in the USA. The third area, I would suggest is the Local Studies Library of Ballymena. This covers the North East region of Ulster and the northern part of County Antrim. They may have some family history on the Conn in some of their publication. When I was there in 2005, I was only looking for Boyd families. Hopefully these contact will be of assistance to you. Mike Boyd Brisbane ----- Original Message ----- From: BGW3133@aol.com To: mikejboyd@bigpond.com ; NIR-DERRY@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 8:54 AM Subject: Re: [NIR-DERRY] Presbyterian Church, Aghadowey #1 Mike, This message shown as #1 goes with following #2. Rev. McGregor would have been contemporary of my Rev. Hugh CONN and knew the other. Have you seen records of original burying ground Tamlaghtard Cemetery outside of Magilligan? Perhaps Rev. McGregor has relatives in same cemetery. My 'cousin', living only about 3 miles from Magilligan, took me to the cemetery showing me his ancestor's grave. This was Thomas CONN b.1745 d.17 Apr 1823. Wife of Thomas was Jane McIntyre. The old church ruin and cemetery now belong to the Catholic church. This church location is not same as Presbyterian Church in Magilligan of today. While my 'cousin' in Magilligan, now deceased, is positive we are of same family, but have been unable to document our relationship because he only knew his lineage to 1745. What he knows is his CONN family has always lived there and he has original land on Magilligan Point that was owned by his ancestors. We do have some of the same given names in our early ancestry. Fasti records - I remember looking at those records in the library, but don't remember if my Rev. Hugh CONN was listed. My early records came from the Presbyterian Church records in North Carolina, USA. Plaque at cemetery where Rev. Hugh Conn's widow and daughter are buried. See Re: . . . . . #2 Jean