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Ballyminymore - Glenavy Parish
Freehold Registrations, 1831
The following is an extract from The Belfast Newsletter dated 30th September 1831 and is used with permission of The Belfast Newsletter.
The following names are taken from a list of persons applying to register their Freeholds at a General Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be held in Belfast on the 24th October, 1831.
No. 139
Name and Residence of Applicant: Rev. John S. Brown, Glenavy
Description of Freehold, with the names of Barony and Townland in which situated: House and land, Upper Massereene, town land of Tullynewbane & Ballymineymore
Yearly Value to be registered: £10
No. 161
Name and Residence of Applicant: Daniel McVeigh, Derryclone
Description of Freehold, with the names of Barony and Townland in which situated: House and land, Upper Massereene, town land of Ballyminimore
Yearly Value to be registered: £10
No. 169
Name and Residence of Applicant: James Scott, Ballyminimore
Description of Freehold, with the names of Barony and Townland in which situated: House and land, Upper Massereene, town land of Ballyminimore
Yearly Value to be registered: £10
Return to TopDeath Notice — Oakman
The following extract is from the Belfast Newsletter dated Tuesday 24th March 1835. Thanks to the Belfast Newsletter for granting permission to use the extract.
Died - On the 18th inst. At his father's residence, Darraghmore, near Glenavy, John, son of Mr. Walter Oakman, aged 25 years.
Walter Oakman was a linen draper and farmer who lived at Darraghmore in Townland Ballyminymore. Vicki Strickland of Melbourne, Australia, has a keen interest in Oakman families in Northern Ireland and is developing a website to share the results of her research. Read more about Walter, and other Oakman families, and view photos of Darraghmore by visiting the Oakman of Ireland website.
Extract from Griffith Valuation 1862 - Union of Lisburn (Part of)
County of Antrim — Barony of Massereene — Parish of Glenavy
| Column 1 : | Number and letters of Reference to map |
| Column 2 : | Occupiers |
| Column 3 : | Immediate Lessors |
| Column 4 : | Description of Tenement |
| Column 5 : | Area |
| Not included - | Rateable Annual Valuation of land and buildings and Total Annual Valuation of Rateable property |
| Townland: Ballyminymore Ordnance Survey map number: 59 |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Lorimer | Marquis of Hertford | Land | 02 00 30 |
| 2 | John Johnston | same | House,Offices,Land | 56 03 30 |
| 3 | Margaret McVeigh | same | Herd's Ho.Office,Land | 48 02 20 |
| 4 | Samuel Johnston | same | House,Offices,Land | 43 00 15 |
| 5 | Samuel Bryans | same | House,Office,Land | 22 00 10 |
| 6 | same | same | same | 19 02 06 |
| 7 | same | same | same | 14 03 25 |
| 7a | Michael McCaffrey | Samuel Bryans | House and Garden | 00 00 25 |
| 7b | William Bryans | same | House and Garden | 00 00 35 |
| 8 | Robert Colburn | Marquis of Hertford | Land | 14 02 15 |
| 9 | John Clendinning | same | House,Offices,Land | 21 02 30 |
| 10a | Nicholas Oakman | same | House,Offices,Land | 106 03 27 |
| 10b | Anne Stewart | Nicholas Oakman | House,Office,Garden | 00 01 08 |
| 11 | Alexander Young | Marquis of Hertford | House,Office,Land | 08 02 15 |
| 12 | Eliza Gill | William Anderson | Land | 02 01 00 |
| 13 | Dave Clendinning | Marquis of Hertford | House,Office,Land | 10 02 23 |
| 11 | Claudius Clendinning | same | House and Land | 04 00 00 |
| Total | 376 02 36 | |||
New Role for Hay Rake
Newspaper cutting - source and date unknown.
Newspaper cutting - source and date unknownNew role for hay rake. Mr. John Johnstone, of Hopevale Farm, Glenavy, is a man of invention. He has found a new use for his buck rake. This rake on his tractor is used for lifting haystacks. However, after harvesting time. Mr. Johnstone uses it to carry his milk cans. With the hydraulic fitting on the tractor he can lower the rake to the ground, lift the milk cans and drive off.
Trout at Johnston Weir
The following is an extract from the Lisburn Standard dated Friday August 29th 1948
Events of 25 years ago - extracts from "Standard" File.
Angling - Mr. Wm Armstrong, a signal operator at the G.N.R. station at Glenavy, while fishing at a spot known as "Johnston Weir" on the Glenavy river landed a trout which weighed 9 lbs 2 ozs, was 23¼ inches in length and had a girth of 15¼ inches.