It's probably Balleny, a Townland just south of Dromore town. By the way, where did you find the baptism online?? RosemaryJoan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles O'Neill" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 4:53 PM Subject: [NIR-DOWN] Ballany? Banbridge, Co Down >I recently found my gggrandfather's baptism record online (a wonderful > breakthrough! - records keep getting added on-line). The transcription > of the record (from an 1825 entry) includes the following: > > Parish/District: DROMORE Roman Catholic > Address 1: BELLANY > Address 2: (blank) > Address 3: Banbridge > Address 4: Co Down > > What I don't understand is the "Address 1" - "BELLANY" > > Would this be a street in Banbridge? > > or a village in the townland of Banbridge? > > or ??? > > If I Google "Bellany" "Banbridge" "County Down" I really don't get any > relevant hits. I can't find any street named "Bellany" on current > on-line maps of Banbridge. > > Any ideas would be appreciated. > > Charles O'Neill > --------------------------------- > 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 >

Thanks Rosemary, I came to the same conclusion regarding Balleny/Bellany last night after I had sent the email. I found a map of townlands in the Civil Parish of Dromore at Ros Davies site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/MAPS/DromoreTownlands.htm I found this baptism record on the UHF site at: http://www.ancestryireland.com/ Costs a few pounds to explore - and I sat at my computer wondering if I should part with £4 to gain access to record which appeared in the index - and which contained no dates. The names were right - but the names were common. But I have been looking for so long, I decided to make the jump - and what a find! All I knew about my O'Neills is that we were probably from Co. Down - but had no definite proof and had no info as to where in Co. Down we may have come. And this record solved my long standing puzzle. Now to try to make way even further back. The UHF must be adding more and more records on-line. And.. cheaper than a trip to the PRONI. Love it. Charles O'Neill Virginia Beach, Virginia Rosemary McCormack wrote: > It's probably Balleny, a Townland just south of Dromore town. By the > way, where did you find the baptism online?? RosemaryJoan > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles O'Neill" > <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 4:53 PM > Subject: [NIR-DOWN] Ballany? Banbridge, Co Down > > >> I recently found my gggrandfather's baptism record online (a wonderful >> breakthrough! - records keep getting added on-line). The transcription >> of the record (from an 1825 entry) includes the following: >> >> Parish/District: DROMORE Roman Catholic >> Address 1: BELLANY >> Address 2: (blank) >> Address 3: Banbridge >> Address 4: Co Down >> >> What I don't understand is the "Address 1" - "BELLANY" >> >> Would this be a street in Banbridge? >> >> or a village in the townland of Banbridge? >> >> or ??? >> >> If I Google "Bellany" "Banbridge" "County Down" I really don't get any >> relevant hits. I can't find any street named "Bellany" on current >> on-line maps of Banbridge. >> >> Any ideas would be appreciated. >> >> Charles O'Neill >> --------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > >