John Owens & Elizabeth Elder, 1811

John Owens married Elizabeth Elder in 1811 at the Parish Church in Ballymoney, Antrim, Ireland.

Source: Microfilm for Northern Ireland Marriages. I’ll track down a complete source.

12 Responses to “John Owens & Elizabeth Elder, 1811”

  1. Nancy Elder Petersen Says:

    LDS Familysearch.org
    ELIZABETH ELDER
    Female
    Marriages:
    Spouse: JOHN OWENS
    Marriage:
    21 MAR 1811 Ballymoney Parish, Antrim, Ireland
    Messages:
    Extracted marriage record for locality listed in the record. The source records are usually arranged chronologically by the marriage date.
    Source Information:
    Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type:
    M700001 1805 - 1845 0908674 IT 2 Film 0883747 Film
    Sheet: 00

  2. Nancy Elder Petersen Says:

    RE: HENRY ELDER of BELLURY, DESERTOGHILL,
    Co. LONDONDERRY.
    Relative also has some early BALLYMONEY entries,
    at:
    WorldConnect
    by Craig ELDER (ELDER DNA kit #15134)
    http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1697853&id=I77236695
    # ID: I77236695
    # Name: John (III) ELDER
    # Given Name: John (III)
    # Surname: Elder
    # Sex: M
    # Birth: 1720 in Balleymoney, Antrim, Ireland
    # Death: in Balleymoney, Antrim, Ireland

    Father: John (II) ELDER b: 1690 in Antrim County, Ireland

    Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown
    Children
    1. ? ELDER
    2. John W (IV) ELDER b: 1752 in Balleymoney, Antrim, Ireland
    3. James ELDER b: 25 Dec 1757 in Antrim County, Ireland
    4. Thomas ELDER b: 1797 in Ballymoney, Antrim, Ireland

  3. Nancy Elder Petersen Says:

    ELDER query on NIR-ANTRIM -list
    http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/NIR-ANTRIM/2001-01/0979229691
    From: jessie
    Subject: Re: Finvoy, Ballymoney - or elsewhere
    Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:14:51 -0600

    thomas.moffatt@bull.net wrote:
    >Whenever I’m looking for a place that could be a town, I use :
    >http://maps.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll
    >I sent a map from this site with Finvoy in the middle directly to >Jessie.
    > Cheers,
    > Tom

    Jessie writes:
    ….
    my ELDER family, according to lore, lived 2 miles from the little
    town, which i now conclude must have been Ballymoney, not Ballymena.
    if they were active in the Finvoy church, i conclude they probably
    lived between Ballymoney and Finvoy, which are only about 5 miles
    apart. hurrah! i can now point to a map and say where they were!

    now i’m off to search for info on their landlord, Lord Cavenaugh!
    ….
    thank you again!

    Jessie
    ***
    LDS: BALLYMONEY search:

    865. SUSANNA ELDER - International Genealogical Index
    Gender: Female Christening: 29 JUN 1856 Ballymoney Parish, Antrim, Ireland
    866. ROBERT ELDER - International Genealogical Index
    Gender: Male Christening: 31 MAY 1829 Ballymoney Parish, Antrim, Ireland
    867. NANCY RACHEL ELDAR OR ELDER - International Genealogical Index
    Gender: Female Christening: 28 AUG 1857 Ballymoney Parish, Antrim, Ireland
    868. JANE ELDER - International Genealogical Index
    Gender: Female Christening: 23 JAN 1831 Ballymoney Parish, Antrim, Ireland

  4. Nancy Elder Petersen Says:

    Searching same family as CRAIG ELDER:
    for
    ELDER in FINVOY, ANTRIM
    found:
    http://westwood.fortunecity.com/farhi/469/elder.htm
    Email me at:
    jessie@dakota2k.net
    “NOTE: this is information extracted from “Our Family History” by
    William E. Elder, a manuscript written (I think) in 1909….

    “At the very end, I include family information written down by my uncle, James Lanphere Elder, to show my connection to the Antrim County,
    Coshocton County and Monroe County lineage.

    ELDER Family in Antrim County, Ireland
    “The earliest record is of a John Elder (1) who emigrated from near Edinborough, Scotland in 1680 to Antrim County, Northern Ireland. He rented land from a Lord Cavenaugh two miles east of a small village named Bellamona. His descendents in Ireland would hold this lease for the next 150 years, until 1830.

    There is no mention of dates of birth, death or marriage or name of wife. But there is a son, John Elder (2), born ca. 1690.

    John (2) had two sons, John (3), born ca. 1720, and Henry, born ca. 1735. Henry is noted as the founder of the Henry Elder lineage of Monroe County, Iowa. Henry’s son Mathew was born ca. 1775. Mathew lived long and passed his last years living with his son Henry (grandson of previous Henry) in Monroe County, where he is buried.

    It was noted that most of “his” (Henry’s?) family went to Canada from Ireland and settled near Quebec. So I suppose it is possible that the older Henry from Ireland may have had more children than just Mathew.

    Getting back to John (3), he had four children, three sons and a daughter. They were:

    John (4), usually called “Jack,” born 1752, active in the Presbyterian church of Finvoy.

    James, born 1755, who became the preacher at the Finvoy church and stayed in that position for 60 years. James had two sons who emigrated to South Carolina in 1805. The author states nothing more is known of that line….”

  5. Nancy Elder Petersen Says:

    SEARCHING “JAMES ELDER” FINVOY CHURCH
    found:
    Finvoy Presbyterian Church Marriages, Bann Valley Genealogy
    http://www.4qd.org/virtual/www.4qd.org/bann/church/Finvoy/Marriages.html
    4 Aug 1879, Eliza Torrens, Maddikeel, dau of John Torrens, Farmer, to Daniel Elder, farmer, Ballinagarvey, son of James Elder, Farmer.

    ***
    Short History of the Presbyterian Church
    in Ireland
    Prof. John M. Barkley
    M.A., Ph.D, D.D.,F. R. Hist.S.

    CHAPTER III
    THE CHURCH (1800-19
    http://www.lisburn.com/books/history-presbyterian/history-presbyterian-2.html
    ….
    …. The moderators of the two Synods, the Rev. James Elder, of Finvoy, and the Rev. John Rodgers, of Glascar, headed the procession. Having reached the place of destination, accompanied by an immense multitude, these two venerable ministers then proceeded to the pulpit, and conducted devotional exercises….”

  6. Nancy Elder Petersen Says:

    SEARCH “JAMES ELDER” and FINVOY
    http://www.gospelmagazine.org.uk/may1966.pdf
    Gospel Magazine, May 1966
    Page 200
    …1845
    “About this time the congregation of Brigh near Coonstown in
    the Tyrone Presbytery was vacant through the sudden death of
    their minister Rev. Samuel Hamilton Elder, son of Rev. S. H. Elder
    of Ballyeaston and grandson of Rev. James Elder of Finvoy who
    in his day was known as the Gun of the Gospel. …”

  7. Nancy Elder Petersen Says:

    SEARCH “JAMES ELDER” and FINVOY
    http://www.gospelmagazine.org.uk/may1966.pdf
    Gospel Magazine, 69 Fleet St, London, #1364 New Series, May 1966
    Page 200 (or 9)
    …1845
    “About this time the congregation of Brigh near Coonstown in
    the Tyrone Presbytery was vacant through the sudden death of
    their minister Rev. Samuel Hamilton Elder, son of Rev. S. H. Elder
    of Ballyeaston and grandson of Rev. James Elder of Finvoy who
    in his day was known as the Gun of the Gospel. …”

  8. Nancy Elder Petersen Says:

    SEARCH:
    FINVOY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH:
    found:
    http://www.biblioireland.com/1919/the-story-of-finvoy-presbyterian-church/
    “The Story of Finvoy Presbyterian Church.”
    Author: THOMPSON, Joseph.
    Ballymoney, 1990. vi, 225 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

  9. Nancy Elder Petersen Says:

    From BALLYMONEYANCESTRY
    http://www.ballymoneyancestry.com
    Finvoy Presbyterian Headstone Survey
    Firstname : Rev. James
    Surname : Elder
    Age : 86
    Date died : 04/11/1843

  10. Nancy Elder Petersen Says:

    FROM BALLYMONEYANCESTRY
    http://www.ballymoneyancestry.com
    Connor wills
    Firstname : Rev. James
    Surname : Elder
    Residence : Finvoy
    Date of probate: 1844

    Ballymoney Tithe Valuation
    Firstname : Rev. Jas.
    Surname : Elder
    Year : 1834
    Parish : Rasharkin
    County : Antrim
    Townland : Maheraboy

  11. Nancy Elder Petersen Says:

    Mapquest directions from Londonderry to BALLYMONEY:
    Total Est. Time: 55 minutes
    Total Est. Distance: 37.70 miles
    http://tinyurl.com/yxpbwj

  12. Nancy Elder Petersen Says:

    Today I collected all 109 alphabetical ELDER entries
    found on BALLYMONEY Ancestry’s “Family Database”
    –and posted on my webpage
    at
    http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nancyelder/ed/BallymoneyData.htm

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