Ballycopeland Presbyterian Church: Millisle, Co. DownAuthor(s): Sandra GordonSource: North Irish Roots, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2002), pp. 16-18Published by: North of Ireland Family History Society (NIFHS)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27697453 .

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several months of the year, but this requirement, If met at all, was met very unevenly, especially in rural parishes (emphasis mine)... The inability of the parish watch to suppress public disorder in the 1780s was one of the principal reasons for its replacement, in 1786, with a novel form of police: a centralised, uniformed, permanent watch with jurisdiction throughout the city of Dublin" (pi, my emphasis). Griffin also notes: "In the mid to late 18th

century, the term 'police', in Britain and Ireland, ... had connotations of keeping order in civic polity: not just in the sense of combating crime, but also in the sense of regulating various municipal services such as water and paving"(p9).

Talking of crime, I regret to announce that there seems to have been a major crime-wave in Maralin Parish in 1752, for in May of that year the Minutes record: "It is Agreed that forty Shillings Sterl. be Levy'd & raised of Said Inhabitants And paid to Charles Dowglass Esqr. to Erect a pair of Stocks in the Town of Maralin." It is some consolation that Moira must have been a much more wicked place, for the Minutes of 1721 note that there were stocks

already there.

I I am grateful to Dr. Raymond Refusse Librarian and Archivist of the Representative Church Body for his permission to publish these Minutes. I am grateful also to the Rector of Magheralin Parish, the Rev. Dr. C. Easton, for giving permission for the original records to be photocopied and to Mrs. Ann King for doing the hard work and for so cheerfully answer

ing all my queries.

9 It is referred to again in March 1733

10 Which Act of Parliament?

II Griffin, Brian, The Bulkies, Police and Crime in Belfast 1800-1865, Irish Academic Press,

1997, ISBN 0-7165-2670-0. A very readable insight into the seamy side of "the Athens of the North." The following could be written to-day: "(In 1865) almost two weeks after the bill passed the committee staged a petition against the abolition of the municipal police was

begun in Belfast... The Newsletter stated that the successful passage of the bill was 'viewed by the Roman Catholics factionists here as an unqualified triumph' while 'among

Protestants it is regarded as an attempt to humiliate them'. The disbandment of the 'Bulkies' was certainly a bitter pill for many of the Protestants of Belfast to swallow"

(pp137f.).

BALLYCOPELAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Millisle, Co. Down

Offered by Sandra Gordon, Member A 2281

Extract from "A Short History" by Rev. T Kilpatrick, MA. (1934)

List of the Ballycopeland Presbyterian Congregation in the year 1843:

1. Letitia Adams, Jane Adams, John Adams, Patrick Adams, Mary Adams, James

Adams, Andrew Adams, William Adams, Letitia Adams.

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2. William Armstrong, Isabella Armstong, James Armstrong, Jane Armstrong, Martha

Armstrong. 3. James Allen, Sarah Allen 4. James Barclay, Eliza Barclay, John Barclay, Mary Barclay, James Barclay, Eliza

Barclay, Henry Barclay.

5. Henry Barclay 6. Jane Barclay, Esther Barclay. 7. Jane Bennett

8. William Boyd, Susanna Boyd, Isabella Boyd, Hugh Boyd, Alexander Boyd. 9. William Boyd, Isabella Boyd. 10. Jenny Boyd, Jane Boyd, John Boyd, Robert Boyd, Margaret Boyd. 11. David Carmichael, Anne Carmichael, Mary Carmichael, Robert Carmichael, David

Carmichael, William Carmichael, Anne Carmichael. 12. William Carmichael, Jane Carmichael.

13. Henry Carmichael, Mary Carmichael, John Carmichael, Lydia Carmichael.

14. John Caughey, Jane Caughey 15. Samuel Clarke, Joseph Clarke, John Clarke, Eliza Clarke. 16. John Conelly, Anne Conelly, Francis Conelly, Mrs. F. Conelly. 17. John Conelly, Robert Conelly, James Conelly, Margaret Conelly. 18. Isabella Cree, David Cree, John Cree, William Cree, Jane Cree, Eliza Cree. 19. John Davidson, Samuel Davidson, Mary Davidson, William Davison, Mrs. Wm.

Davidson, John Davidson.

20. William Dunn, Mary Dunn, Jane Dunn, John Dunn, Samuel Dunn, Eliza Dunn. 21. John Dill, Margaret Dill, Moore Dill. 22. Jane Edgar 23. Margaret Ferris 24. Daniel Gaw, Nancy Gaw, Henry Gaw, Mary Anne Gaw. 25. Jane Gordon, Mary Gordon, Hugh Gordon. 26. John Hutton, James Hutton, Catherine Hutton. 27. Widow Irwin, Eliza Irwin, John Irwin, David Irwin. 28. John Jamieson, Mrs. D. Jamieson, William Jamieson.

29. Ellen Kelly, Arthur Kelly, Jane Kelly. 30. Charles Kirk, Mrs. Kirk, William Kirk, Ellen Kirk, John Kirk, Margaret Kirk. 31. Hance Lemmon, Esther Lemmon, John M'Connell.

32. Isabella Martin 33. Thomas M'Bride, Mrs. M'Bride, Henry M'Bride, Mary M'Bride, Anne M'Bride,

Mary Jane M'Bride, Margaret M'Bride, Thomas M'Bride.

34. John M'Bride, Mrs. John M'Bride. 35. John M'Connell, Sarah M'Connell, Margaret M'Connell, Adam M'Connell, Hugh

M'Connell, Eliza Jane M'Connell.

36. John M'Connell, Mrs. M'Connell, Margaret M'Connell, Henry M'Connell, Margaret

M'Connell.

37. Mary M'Cready, Thomas M'Cready, Mrs. M'Cready, Robert M'Cready, Thomas

M'Cready.

38. Samuel M'Cully, Jane M'Cully, Samuel M'Cully, Mary M'Cully, Anne M'Cully, Bessy

M'Cully, James M'Cully, Jane M'Cully, Sarah M'Cully, Rebecca M'Cully.

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39 James M Cullagh, Mrs James M'Cuilagh, Jane M'Cullough, John M'Cullough, Sarah

M'Cullough, Esther M'Cullough, James M'Cullough, William M'Cullough 40 James M'Hinch, Jane M'Hmch, Margaret M'Hinch

41 Thomas M'Keag, Mrs Thomas M'Keag 42 Robert M'Keag, Mrs Robert M'Keag, Jane M'Keag, John M'Keag, Mrs John M'Keag 43 John M'Keag, Thomas M'Keag, Mrs Hugh M'Keag, Margaret M'Kie 44 Ellen Miskelly, Ellen Miskelly, Jane Miskelly 45 George Miskimmins, Mrs George Miskimmins, George Miskimmins, Eliza

Miskimmins, Mary Anne Miskimmins, Margaret Miskimmins, Agnes Miskimmins,

Samuel Miskimmins, Matilda Miskimmins, John Miskimmins 46 Patrick M'Kay, John M'Kay 47 John Mullen 48 Jane Murdoch 49 Margaret M'Quoid

50 Hugh Muckle, Mrs Hugh Muckle, Hugh Muckle, James Muckle 51 Samuel Nicholson, Mrs S Nicholson, William John Nicholson, James Moore

Nicholson, Alexander Nicholson

52 John O'Neill, Mrs John O'Neill, Esther O'Neill 53 James O'Neill, Andrew O'Neill, Widow O'Neill 54 William Punton 55 Margaret Robinson, James Robinson

56 Thomas Shanks, Eliza Shanks, Mary C Shanks, Margaret Shanks, Jane Shanks, Martha Shanks, Eliza Shanks

57 James Simpson, Margaret Simpson, Ellen Simpson, Hugh Simpson, Samuel

Simpson, Rachel Simpson

58 Henry Small, Mrs H Small, Samuel Small, Jane Small 59 Henry Small, Frances Small, Nancy Small, Christian Small, Agnes Small 60 Hugh Stuart, Mrs Stuart, Mary Stuart, Ellen Stuart, Charlotte Stuart 61 David Tweedie, Mrs D Tweedie 62 John Tweedie, Mrs John Tweedie, Eliza Tweedie, Alexander Tweedie, Mary Anne

Tweedie, Ellen Tweedie, David Tweedie, Hugh Tweedie, Andrew Tweedie, Mrs A Tweedie, David Tweedie, James Tweedie

63 Margaret Wilson, Margaret Wilson 64 James Walker, Charles White 65 David Young, Isabella Young, Jane Young, Anne Young 66 Robert Young, Isabella Young, Mary Young, Jane Young, John Young 67 Margaret Armstrong, Jane Armstrong, James Cochran

68 Adam M'Kaig, Mary M'Kaig, Mary M'Kaig, James M'Kaig, Jane M'Kaig, Anne M'Kaig 69 Robert Johnston, Eliza Johnston 70 Margaret M'Kaig 71 Eliza Davidson, James Davidson, Mrs James Davidson, Mary Davidson, James

Davidson, John Davidson, Samuel Davidson

72 Alexander Dill 73 Mary Warnock 74 Hugh Finn 75 Henry M'Gowan, Mrs M'Gowan Rev S J Moore

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