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The Glens of Antrim Historical Society
Old School House
Mill St
Cushendall
County Antrim
Northern Ireland (UK)
BT44 0RR

Telephone: +44 (0) 28217 71180

Email: antrimhistory@gmail.com

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Unfortunately, The Glens of Antrim Historical Society does not carry out personal family history searches. Please therefore do not submit these enquires to our email address.We recommend that you post your enquiry in our forum where perhaps other members may be able to help you, or contact the Ulster Historical Foundation, who will provide you with comprehensive genealogical services.

3 thoughts on “Contact us”

  1. We, the James Kennedy family, are planning a trip to your town as our ancestors were from there. We don’t have any information of their history in Ballymena but we do know that a James Kennedy left in 1839 landing in Rochester, New York, U.S.A. He had a brother Thomas who lived on Mill Street that died in 1902. Do you have information that would lead us to a cemetery or land site from this family? We have gone through Ancestry but only get information in Canada where James ended up in British Columbia. We are thankful for any information you can give us.

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  2. Hello, Is Bridget McSparron still alive?? if so, pls ask if she still has the marriage records for St. Patrick parish in Cushendun. I would like to have a copy of the records and I am willing to pay for the copying.

    Thank you
    Mary McKillop
    Kirkland, WA – we have been to Cushendun many times and have met
    Malachy who was so generous and he should me a few marriage records for the McKillop clan

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  3. Could someone from GOAHS please contact me by email? My Wilkinson paternal line has understood itself to have come from County Antrim in the mid 1700s to colonial North Carolina, though we have never found any documentary evidence of this yet. I cannot yet prove it, but for reasons of genetic matching (see below) I am fairly certain we are probably of a McQuilkin line out of either the Hebrides or Argyllshire (though YDNA testing seems to have eliminated at least one line of Rathlin and another of Knapdale as possible origins)

    I have deep Y-DNA matching (FTDNA BigY700) matching to a man named Blair, a man named Black and a man named McDonough. Black traces to an ancestor in Omagh, County Tyrone around 1810. McDonough’s line came to colonial Delaware in 1720s from County Kildare, but may have come from Connacht prior to that (though I think that his line always may have been from Leixlip, but its not possible to say definitively). Blair traces to colonial Virginia, but is not sure from where his line came prior to that. Blair is of course a very common Argyllshire name, and I found several Blairs in Antrim in the early 1700s on the Ulster Historical Foundation site.

    I also have a deep Y-DNA match (FTDNA BigY700) named Hinson. He is not sure but believes his line came out of Ulster to colonial America.

    I also have solid McNeill Y-DNA matching (FTDNA Y67) to two men who trace to a McNeill ancestor out of Hebridean Tiree.

    Hinson aside, Black, Blair, McNeill and McQuilkin/Wilkinson are all names associated with Argyll, Ulster and Antrim. I’m guessing that we all migrated out of Argyllshire to Antrim sometime between 1500 and 1700, before heading to the American colonies between 1700 and 1850.

    I would like to talk with someone from GOAHS about trying to see how to search for connections in Antrim to these families.

    I can be reached at jcmaxwilkinson@gmail.com.

    Thank you,
    J.C. Wilkinson
    Charleston, WV
    https://www.wilkinalandwolves.com/

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