McMILLEN/McMILLAN/

Dear Patsy:

Many thanks for your query to Ireland Reaching Out and welcome!

Your message will stay on the board and hopefully someone will see it who may be connected to this family.

I will alert some of our local volunteers in the area to this post to see if they can shed further light about these families for you.

Please keep in touch and check back on the message board.

All the best,

Jane

Patsy,

I found John McIvor and Mary McMillen in the 1901 census. The townland is Islandbawn (mistranscribed on the census). That’s just next to Muckamore.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Antrim_Rural/Island_bane/915210/

On 20.5.1903 they had daughter Agnes born in Islandreagh (which is a mile or two away in Donegore).

1911 census:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Antrim_Rural/Shaneoguestown/106780/

7 children to the marriage but 3 had died by 1911. So the only daughter alive in 1911 was Susan. I found a marriage for a Susan McIvor to William Stevenson on 24.2.1922 in Newtownabbey.  So that looks to be one of your nieces in the 1943 probate file.  You can view the original certificate on-line on the GRONI website, using the “search registrations” option:

https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk

You will need to open an account and buy some credits. It costs £2.50 (sterling) to a view a certificate.

So there may not be any connection to the Stephens family in Shanoguestown. That may just be a coincidence.

Tracing the Stevenson family forward from 1922 will be hard to do on-line. It’s possible to search for children for them, but births less than 100 years old are not on-line and so you would need to get a researcher to look the records up using one of the terminals in GRONI or PRONI in Belfast (which do not have that time restriction). The family had presumably moved into Belfast by the 1940s. The street directories are in PRONI (in paper format) and so it might be possible to locate them using that resource. But either way you are probably looking at hiring a researcher to tie this up.

I couldn’t see Thomas & Fanny in the 1901 census but if you know where they were, let me know, and I’ll see if one of their daughters married a Jackson.

I did a bit more research on Thomas & Fanny. This looks to be Thomas in 1901 by which time he is a widower:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Antrim_Rural/Shanoguestown/915325/

And then in 1911:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Antrim_Rural/Town_Parks__part_of__Rural/106590/

So that tells us Margaret Ann married John Scott.  So she’s not Mrs J. Jackson, so far as I can see. Fanny/Francis looks to have died in 1888 (aged 39), and as far as I can tell they only had 3 children, James, (8.9.1879) Margaret Ann (28.10.1882) & John  (25.11.1885). So Margaret was apparently the only daughter who might have married a Mr Jackson.

So don’t know who Mrs J. Jackson was, unless Margaret Ann was widowed post 1911 and then  remarried a Jackson. (I checked up to 1942 but did not see such a marriage).

Elwyn you have done so much thanks heaps.  Certainly looks like Susan McIvor could be the one I am looking for now just a case of doing the search.  Will keep digging you never know?

I appreciate very much the help. 

cheers from here

Hi Everyone,

I am researching Stewart McMullen/McMullan, who according to his enlistment papers in 1820 came from Grange of Muckamore.  He came out to Australia in 1822 as a convict guard with the 3rd Regiment of Foot and after his service ended he went to New Zealand in 1832 and built flour mills and sawmills in Northland and Waikato areas.

Stewart had one son in Australia and more than likely some illegitimate children in NZ up until 1852 when he died in Auckland.

I have been researching Stewart for 6 years now and have not found any information (including names) of his parents or siblings. 

I have done DNA testing with Ancestry and FTDNA and would be super interested to know if by any chance any of the McMullen relatives linked to John and Nancy have been tested.  If so, please let me know the details as I would dearly love to trace the McMullen family back to Ireland. 

Looking forward to reaching out.

Robyn McMullen