Kilrea & environs news: Subject index, 1735

Kilrea & environs news: Subject index, 1735–1800

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Abduction (rescue)
Advertisements
Books, pamphlets, and other publications
Building and construction
Court and legal
Crime
Deaths
Desertion
Distillers and spirit dealers
Disturbance
Education and schools
Emigration and shipping
Employment
Excise and Revenue
Execution
Fisheries
Freemasonry
Hearts of Steel
Horse races
Hunting and game
Irish Volunteers
Loughs and navigation
Land management and sales
Landlords and tenants
Leases and rentals
Linen and flax
Markets and fairs
Marriages and elopement
Meetings
Military
Miscellany
Police
Probate, Wills, and Estates
Religion
Runaways
Servants
Taxation
Timber
Tithes
United Irishmen
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Note: Text within [square brackets] contains the editor’s remarks.

Abduction (Rescue):

1735-05-15 Derby Mercury – abduction by Charles O Cahan of Miss Thompson
1735-06 The Political State of Britain – ditto.

Advertisements:

1778-04-07 Belfast News-Letter – flaxseed for sale
1783-04-18 Belfast News-Letter – flaxseed expected at Portna [near Kilrea] and Coleraine
1790-12-10 Belfast News-Letter – sale of apothecary’s shop in Kilrea
1791-11-25 Belfast News-Letter – auction of household furniture, &c., of the late Henry Ellis, Esq., of Innisrush
1794-04-25 Belfast News-Letter – coal ready to ship at Portna
1794-04-01 Belfast News-Letter – Scotch herrings, Dantzic ashes, flaxseed, groceries, &c. at Coleraine and Ballymoney
1795-01-30 Belfast News-Letter – post chaise to be sold at Kilrea

Books, pamphlets, and other publications:

1772-12-04 Belfast News-Letter – proposals for printing “The Life of the Rev. Montague Roe O’Lavery,” &c.
1774-08-26 Belfast News-Letter – observations on lowering Lough Neagh by the late Mr Forde
1779-02-16 Belfast News-Letter – letter to editor re: the lowering of Lough Neagh, pamphlet by the late Rev. Arthur Forde

Building and construction:

1767-04-07 Belfast News-Letter – bridge to be built at Portneil near Kilrea
1782-09-06 Belfast News-Letter – advert seeking contractors to submit proposals for building a bridge over the River Bannn at Portneil [Portna] near Kilrea

Court and legal:

1790-08-20 Belfast News-Letter – appointment of the Rev. Robert Graham, clerk, rector of Kilrea, one of H.M.’s Justices of the Peace of the county of Londonderry
1791-12-02 Belfast News-Letter – insertion of penalties imposed by the 13th and 14th Geo. III, at the request of a correspondent from Kilrea
1797-01-02 Belfast News-Letter – appointment of Henry Ellis of Innishrush, Esq., a magistrate for the county of Londonderry

Crime:

Deaths:

1764-07-13 Belfast News-Letter – murder Mrs Arthur Black in the parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly
1788-10-10 Belfast News-Letter – the Rev. John Smyth at Kilrea
1791-09-20 Belfast News-Letter – Henry Ellis of Innisrush, Esq.
1794-07-21 Belfast News-Letter – Mrs Ellis, relict of the late Henry Ellis of Innisrush, Esq.
1795-03-06 Belfast News-Letter – Mr James Mc Carney at Tamlaght [in the parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly]
1796-08-01 Belfast News-Letter – Mrs Nancy Elder at Portna

Desertion:

1756-07-06 Belfast News-Letter – by John Clark of Maghera and Clotworthy Bellingham, tailor, born at Kilrea
1757-05-03 Belfast News-Letter – by James Bolton, born in parish of Tamlaght [whether “Tamlaght” was the parish of T. O’Crilly or the parish of Tamlaght Finlagan was not stated]
1771-04-09 Belfast News-Letter – by Patrick Brown from near Garvagh, and Thomas Quin of Kilrea
1780-04-04 Belfast News-Letter – by Thomas Billingham, Robert Davey, James Young, Robert Henderson, William Wallace, and James Young of the Jamaica Regiment, all of Kilrea
1780-06-13 Belfast News-Letter – by Thomas Billingham, Robert Davey, Thomas Jameson,† and James Young, all of the parish of Kilrea. [The first two names having been indexed on 1780-04-04, only the †new name appears in the surname index for the article dated 1780-06-13.]
1780-09-29 Belfast News-Letter – by David Watson, born at Ballymoney, supposed to be lurking about Kilrea
1793-03-12 Belfast News-Letter – by Alex. Quinn from Captain Hay’s recruiting party at Loughbrickland [county Down]

Distillers and spirit dealers:

1763-03-18 Dublin Courier – seizure of stills in Kilrea
1766-12-09 Belfast News-Letter – distillers in Coleraine District, Kilrea Survey
1768-03-18 Belfast News-Letter – licences to retailers of wine and spritis in Coleraine District
1779-03-09 Belfast News-Letter – licences for the Coleraine District, Kilrea Survey

Disturbance:

1797-01-25 Belfast News-Letter – the barony of Loughinsholin, that part of the parish of Kilrea lying in the half barony of Coleraine, and other districts declared by the Lord Lietuenant and Council to be in a state of disturbance

Education and schools:

1791-01-07 Belfast News-Letter – new academy for young gentlemen at Lisnagrot near Kilrea
1791-02-18 Belfast News-Letter – assistant wanted at the Rev. Arthur Mc Mechan’s academy at Lisnagrot near Kilrea
1795-12-04 Belfast News-Letter – silver medal to Master Hercules Ellis for exemplary conduct and writing

Emigration and shipping:

17 8 9-02-13 Belfast News-Letter – for Newcastle and New York, freight or passage
1790-03-02 Belfast News-Letter – for London and Cadiz [regional agents, only, listed in surname index]
1792-07-10 Belfast News-Letter – for South Carolina [regional agents, only, listed in surname index]

Employment:

1764-11-23 Belfast News-Letter – foreman bleacher [in or near Kilrea?]
1766-05-09 Belfast News-Letter – clerk for flour mills
1770-02-06 Belfast News-Letter – Neale Mc Peake the younger of Kilrea
1788-11-11 Belfast News-Letter – apprentice to apothecary business sought by Alexander Dowglass at Kilrea
1792-02-18 Belfast News-Letter – assistant wanted at the Rev. Arthur Mc Mechan’s academy at Lisnagrot near Kilrea
1792-09-29 The Northern Star – journeyman in the hosiery business in Kilrea
1795-06-29 Belfast News-Letter – man to tend horses and attend table at Innisrush

Excise and Revenue:

1763-03-18 Dublin Courier – assisted Surveyor of Excise in seize of stills at Kilrea
1790-01-29 Belfast News-Letter – clandestine manufacturing of tobacco in the neighbourhood of Rasharkin
1790-02-09 Belfast News-Letter – suppression of private manufacturing of tobacco
1790-03-16 Belfast News-Letter – note of thanks from the manufacturers in the town of Coleraine to Mr Thomas O’Flagherty of Kilrea, excise officer, citing late instance in Rasharkin
1791-01-04 Belfast News-Letter – seizure of tobacco near Rasharkin
1791-01-28 Belfast News-Letter – note of thanks from tobacco manufacturers to Mr Alex Huey, Excise Officer of Kilrea
1792-04-27 Belfast News-Letter – seizure of leaf tobacco at Boyd’s-mountain by the guager of Kilrea

Execution:

1735-05-15 Derby Mercury – of Charles O Cahan at Kilrea
1735-06 The Political State of Britain – ditto.

Fisheries:

1771-08-16 Belfast News-Letter – fisheries of Toome, county Antrim, and Portna near Kilrea
1796-06-20 Belfast News-Letter – meeting of the Bann Fishing Club at Portna [near Kilrea]

Freemasonry:

1793-01-08 Belfast News-Letter – meeting of Lodge No. 634 at Kilrea

Hearts of Steel:

1772-04-14 Belfast News-Letter – surrender of arms by inhabitants of the parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly
1772-04-21 Belfast News-Letter – petition by the inhabitants of the parishes of Tamlaght O’Crilly and Kilrea

Horse races:

1739-07-13 Belfast News-Letter – on the course of Kilrea

Hunting and game:

1774-09-30 Belfast News-Letter – Kiloquin estate, county Antrim

Irish Volunteers:

1780-08-08 Belfast News-Letter – meeting of the Innisrush Volunteers
1780-08-22 Belfast News-Letter – review of Donegall, Londonderry, Raphoe, Strabane, and Tyrone battalions and the Kilrea & Magherafelt companies at Londonderry, escorted by the Londonderry troop of light dragoons
1782-09-20 Belfast News-Letter – meeting of Volunteer corps at Ballymoney [lengthy article]
1783-11-04 Belfast news-Letter – meeting of the Protestant inhabitants of the parishes of Tamlagh [Tamlaght O’Crilly], Kilrea, Desarttoghel [Desertoghill], and part of Aughedowey, at the meeting-house of Kilrea, the Rev. John Smyth in the Chair [lengthy article]
1784-08-13 Belfast News-Letter – meeting of the Coleraine, Glorious Memory, and Bill of Rights (Dervock and Kilrea companies) battalions at Ballymoney
1784-08-17 Belfast Mercury – ditto.
1793-02-08 Belfast News-Letter – Barony delegates† for the meeting of the Province of Ulster [“the Dungannon convention”]. †The delegates for the barony of Loughinsholin, only, have been listed in the surname index.

Land management and sales:

1765-03-19 Belfast News-Letter – in the Manor of Vintners including Eden in the parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly, Ballymacpeake townland,† and Drumlamph in the parish of Maghera. [† Whether this was Ballymacpeake lower in the parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly or Ballymacpeake upper in the parish of Maghera was not stated.]
1773-12-31 Belfast News-Letter – Mr James Mc Peak [sic] to reclaim land for pasture or meadow and prepare for tillage, to undertake on reasonable terms
1780-10-20 Belfast News-Letter – H.M. Court of Exchequer in Ireland to sell lands in county Londonderry including the Mansion-house and demesne of Tyanee in the parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly, Edward Brice, plaintiff v. Arthur Church and another defendant
1784-11-05 Belfast News-Letter – house and farm of Grove, on the road from Garvagh to Kilrea, for let
1794-10-31 Belfast News-Letter – lease in farm of Lisnagrot, near Kilrea, for sale
1800-05-27 Belfast News-Letter – sale of Drumagarner townland [in the parish of Kilrea]

Landlords and tenants: — See also Leases and rentals on this page, and the Mercers Company in the surname index.

1773-04-30 Belfast News-Letter– debt of gratitude due to Alexander Stewart of Newtownards, Esq., landlord of the Kilrea estate
1790-10-05 Belfast News-Letter – the proprietor of the Mercers’ Proportion [Alexander Stewart] adjusted the differences on the subject of tithes

Leases and rentals:

1758-09-22 Belfast News-Letter – includes Kilrea, Lisnagrot, Swatragh, farm Mercers Company
1758-11-28 Belfast News-Letter – includes Boveedy in parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly and townlands in parishes of Desertmartin and Ballynascreen; to Protestant tenants
1758-12-15 Belfast News-Letter – includes the corn mills of Kilrea, Lisnagrot, and Swatragh
1758-12-12 Belfast News-Letter – bleaching green and mill at Innishrush
1762-03-23 Belfast News-Letter – in parish of Desertoghill, near several market towns including Kilrea
1764-01-31 Belfast News-Letter – Drumlane, parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly
1764-05-08 Belfast News-Letter – includes Eden, [Gortmacrane?], Inishrush, and Moneystaghan townlands in the parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly
1764-07-06 Belfast News-Letter – Drumlane, parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly
1766-05-09 Belfast News-Letter – proposals to James Mc Alester of Lislea re: house near Portglenone
1768-04-22 Belfast News-Letter – proposals to James Mc Alester of Lislea re: lands and houses in and near Portglenone
1768-09-16 Belfast News-Letter – ditto.
1792-05-22 Belfast News-Letter – mill of Innishrush, in the proportion of the Vintners, for lease
1793-08-09 Belfast News-Letter – for lease, two houses in the Diamond of Kilrea; also, mills of Kilrea and Lisnagrot

Linen and flax:

1772-07-10 Belfast News-Letter – market for brown linens at Kilrea
1773-04-23 Belfast News-Letter – tenants to receive flaxseed from their landlords
1775-03-07 Belfast News-Letter – men who will attend the linen market at Kilrea
1775-04-18 Belfast News-Letter – cloth-market at Kilrea
1778-04-07 Belfast News-Letter – flaxseed for sale
1790-0 4-09 Belfast News-Letter – Kilrea linen market
1794-02-04 Belfast News-Letter – flax claimants for the Barony of Loughinsholin at Maghera

Loughs and navigation:

1774-08-26 Belfast News-Letter – observations on lowering Lough Neagh
1779-02-16 Belfast News-Letter – letter to editor re: the lowering of Lough Neagh
1790-12-03 Belfast News-Letter – subscription to raise £4000 to make a canal from Lough Neagh to Lough Beg

Markets and fairs:

1782-06-07 Belfast News-Letter – new patent for four annual fairs and monthly market at Church-town in the parish of Tamlaught [Tamlaght O’Crilly]
1783-07-11 Belfast News-Letter – linen drapers and weavers invited to quarterly fair at Church-town in the parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly

Marriages and elopement:

Note:—In the 19th century, elopement usually referred to a woman leaving her husband.

1758-07-16 Belfast News-Letter – marriage of Henry Ellis of Inishrush and Mrs Elizabeth Dobbin
1762-05-28 Belfast News-Letter – separation of Martha Adams otherwise Church and Alexander Adams of Kilrea
1765-09-20 Belfast News-Letter – elopement of Catherine Mc Mullan otherwise O’Hara from Henry O’Kenan of Moneysallin, parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly
1769-09-19 Belfast News-Letter – elopement of Anne Mc Peake otherwise Downing from William Mc Peake of Ballymacpeake [Whether this was Ballymacpeake lower townland in the parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly or Ballymacpeake upper townland in the parish of Maghera was not stated.]
1776-03-08 Belfast News-Letter – elopement of Sarah Black otherwise Jameson from Robert Jameson of Movanagher
1776-10-25 Belfast News-Letter – elopement of Mary Clements alias Boyd from David Clements, near Portglenone
1778-05-22 Belfast News-Letter – elopement of Mary Poleek otherwise Hunter from Robert Poleek of Tamlaught [sic] [Whether “Tamlaught” was intended to mean the parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly or or the parish of T. Finlagan, or several villages of that name in the county of Derry, was not stated.]
1789-05-22 Belfast News-Letter – Mr James Wilson of Belfast and Miss Ellis of Innisrush
1789-12-04 Belfast News-Letter – Mr Alexander Douglas and Miss Jane M’Key [spelling variant of M’Kay]

Meetings:

1771-04-09 Belfast News-Letter – at house of James Henry in Kilrea

Military:

1760-02-12 Belfast News-Letter – seeking able-bodied, “good Protestant” men to join the Army
1761-02-10 The Belfast News-Letter – break in of James Mc Alister’s tan-yard in Lislea by Hugh Kaine
1763-03-18 Dublin Courier – assisted Surveyor of Excise in seize of stills at Kilrea
1780-06-13 Belfast News-Letter – recruitment for the Royal Jamaica Volunteers
1790-01-29 Belfast News-Letter – 39th Regiment of Foot assisted Mr O’Flaherty, revenue officer of Kilrea
1798-12-20 Caledonian Mercury – Tay Fencibles were attacked near Ballymena while marching from Carrickfergus to Kilrea
1799-05-17 Belfast News-Letter – court martial following the attack ditto. [Transcript includes only that portion pertaining to Kilrea.]

Miscellany:

1781-04-10 Belfast News-Letter – watch lost between Garvagh and Swatragh
1786-07-04 Belfast News-Letter – farmer killed by lightning at Ballymacpeake† near Portglenone. [† Whether the townland was Ballymacpeake lower in the parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly or Ballymacpeake upper in the parish of Maghera was not stated.]
1788-01-25 Belfast News-Letter – mare stopped and deemed stolen in the parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly
1790-09-10 Belfast News-Letter – letter to the editor from “A.D.” of Kilrea, on the deleterious effects of lead taken into the human stomach
1793-05-07 Belfast News-Letter – spaniel supposed stolen at Kilrea
1800-09-02 Belfast News-Letter – mare stolen or strayed from Lisnagrot, near Kilrea

Police:

1782-04-12 Belfast News-Letter – appointments of Constables, including the barony of Loughinsholin
1791-05-06 Belfast News-Letter – High Constables appointed for the towns and baronies of county L:Derry [Names of appointees for the Barony of Loughinsholin, only, are listed in the surname index.]

Probate, Wills, and Estates:

1765-05-21 Belfast News-Letter – legal notice re: persons indebted to late Rigby Dobbin
1766-06-03 Belfast News-Letter – notice re: probate of will of late John Mc Mullan in the parish of Tamlaght [Whether the parish was Tamlaght O’Cilly or Tamlaght Finlagan was not stated.]
1766-12-23 Belfast News-Letter – legal notice to creditors of late Edward Mc Alester of Portglenone

Religion:

1758-11-28 Belfast News-Letter – includes Boveedy in parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly and townlands in parishes of Desertmartin and Ballynascreen; to Protestant tenants
1760-02-12 Belfast News-Letter – seeking able-bodied, “good Protestant” men to join the Army
1761-10-30 Belfast News-Letter – Rev. John Giffard collated to the parish of Kilrea
1774-11-22 Belfast News-Letter – Rev. Mr. Diamond renounced the “errors of popery” at Kilrea
1775-10-20 Belfast News-Letter – recantation from the “errors of the Church of Rome” in the parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly
1781-03-12 Belfast News-Letter – presentation of the Rev. Charles Colthurst to the living of Kilrea
1783-11-04 Belfast news-Letter – meeting of the Protestant inhabitants of the parishes of Tamlagh [Tamlaght O’Crilly], Kilrea, Desarttoghel [Desertoghill], and part of Aughedowey, at the meeting-house of Kilrea, the Rev. John Smyth in the Chair [lengthy article]
1790-04-09 Belfast News-Letter – Rev. Mr O’Bryan to the parish of Kilcronaghan and the Rev. Mr Jones to the parish of Tamlaght [Whther this was the parish of T. O’Crilly or T. Finlagan was not stated.]
1798-09-04 Belfast News-Letter – Rev. Mr Sandys promoted to the Diocese of Derry, and the Rev. Oliver M’Causland collated to the parish of Kilrea [Church of Ireland]

Runaway:

1752-12-09 Belfast News-Letter – theft of articles and escape of servant, John Fullerton otherwise Mc Cloy or Mc Clusky, from Hugh Carmichael

Servants:

1752-12-09 Belfast News-Letter – theft of articles and escape of servant, John Fullerton otherwise Mc Cloy or Mc Clusky, from Hugh Carmichael
1756-01-13 Belfast News-Letter – Anthony Ferran, former servant of John Sloane, robbed James Henry of Kilrea
1790-08-27 Belfast News-Letter – escape of Henry Henry from service of Robert Graham of Kilrea

Taxation:

1792-08-17 Belfast News-Letter – meeting of gentlemen and landholders in the Barony of Loughinsholin to consider state of roads and sums for making and repairing same

Timber:

1764-07-06 Belfast News-Letter – for sale at Tyanee in the parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly
1765-03-19 Belfast News-Letter – includes Eden in the parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly, Ballymacpeake§ townland, and Drumlamph townland in the parish of Maghera. [§ Whether this was Ballymacpeake lower townland in the parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly or Ballymacpeake upper in the parish of Maghera was not stated.]
1782-01-15 Belfast News-Letter – trees to be sold by John Smyth of Moneystaghan near Portglenone
1794-05-12 Belfast News-Letter – oak trees on Innishrush for sale
1797-06-05 Belfast News-Letter – oak, ash, and birch trees for sale on the lands of Innishrush

Tithes:

1789-03-20 Belfast News-Letter – opposition to the payment of tythes in the parish of Kilrea

United Irishmen:

1796-07-04 Belfast News-Letter – meeting at Maghera of the magistrates and gentlemen of the Barony of Loughinsholin, who passed resolutions to address concern about United Irishmen
1797-01-23 Belfast News-Letter – meeting at Church-Town of the principal inhabitants [unnamed] of twenty-four townlands in the parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly
1797-09-15 Belfast News-Letter – trial of William M’Keever otherwise Campbell on an indictment for high treason

End notes :

Source citation for this page: — Kilpatrick, Alison, compiler. Kilrea & environs news accounts: Index by subject. Published to Arborealis, online at arborealis.ca/records/newspapers/kilrea-news/subject-index/; accessed [insert date.]

Updated 23rd Nov. 2023; edited 26th Dec. 2023.