Wayne, According to my book 'researching scots-irish ancestors' by William Roulston, Ballynahinch Presbyterian Church Records do exist for that period, Baptisms 1696-1735, marriages,1696-1733, collections and disbursements, 1704-24, testimonials and certificates, 1715-34. Unfortunately there is no reference number for PRONI, so perhaps they are kept in the church??? RosemaryJoan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Shannon" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:31 PM Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] FW: Boyd family of Ireland Dia Dhaoibh go leor, Hello all Wayne Shannon here. As long as we are on the subject of Ballynahinch, I would like to jump in with my problem. I believe that my Shannon's came from Ballynahinch Presbyterian Church, however, my time frame is before most of your's. They probably left for the colonies in the area of 1714-1720. How far back do the records at the Presbyterian church go? I have been to PRONI twice with no success. We were also closely related to the Reid's and lived and died along side them in Lancaster County Pa. It seems the only records available are post 1820 with just a handfull of general census' that don't include "regular" folks. An féidir libh cabhrú liom? (Can you help me?) Wayne Shannon here in the heartland of US (Iowa) Tír gan teanga Tír gan anam A country without a language A country without a soul > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:32:53 +0000 > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] FW: Boyd family of Ireland > > Gael, I have had a look at your Boyd problem. In Ancestry Ireland > www.ancestryireland.com there are two entries which just MIGHT be yours. > We > have a Mary Fagan married in 1875 in Co. Down - no father's names given > and > this indicates that it is a Roman Catholic marriage (from my experience) > and > there are several marriages for John Boyd. It might be worth spending the > £4 to look at Mary Fagan's marriage record. > The reason I say this is, In Ballymacarret there was a Vitriol Works owned > by William Boyd and Sons. Their addresses in 1861 were : William Boyd, > Sydenham, Daniel L. Boyd, Sydenham and John C. Boyd, 22 Lonsdale Street, > Belfast. > In the Belfast Street Directory for 1877 we have 56,58,60 Lonsdale Street > Charles Boyd, contractor, yard ,workshop and office. Same in 1880. > Do you think John C. was Charles's father, and indeed was Charles called > John Charles?? and did he use the name John when he married?? > The births of the following children are listed in Ancestry Ireland Hugh, > father Charles born 1876, Charles Louis, father Charles born 1879, Edward, > father Charles born 1880. These are all listed in Family Search.org as > well > as a female born 1877. They are all entered twice in Ancestry Ireland, > which also indicates that one entry is possibly a Catholic Baptism Record. > The building works in Ballymacarret were owned by a different name in > 1901. > I used to pass them in the bus on my way to school. RosemaryJoan > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gael Herring" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 5:13 PM > Subject: [NIR-DOWN] FW: Boyd family of Ireland > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Want to do more with Windows Live? Learn “10 hidden secrets” from Jamie. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008 --------------------------------- 476 list members as of 1 Feb 2009 - how many are related to you? --------------------------------- Searchable list archive at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/NIR-DOWN ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message