LARNE AND INVER OLD GRAVEYARD / ST. CEDMA'S               O.S. 40. Grid Re£ D397023

This is in the townland of Town Parks and parish of Larne, and is to be found at the end of Church

Road just to the south of the Inver river and modern bypass to Larne Harbour. It is the only medieval

burying ground in the combined parishes of Larne and Inver to continue in use to modern times. . . .

The oldest stone dates from 1677 and all inscriptions in the graveyard and memorials in the

church building have been copied.

 

Boyd [Set against south wall of church, stone almost smooth]

(page 50)

(He)re lyeth (the body of) Mary McNinch who ...d March ye 2 171 (9) wi... to Alexander Boyd.

 

LARNE, McGAREL CEMETERY

O.S. Antrim 40. Grid Re£ 0402033.

This is in the townland of Town Parks and the parish of Larne and lies on the west side of the

Old Glenarm Road. It was opened in 1867 because the parish graveyard was inadequate for the

increasing population of the town.

 

Hamilton [Polished granite headstone and enclosure]

Rosemary Hamilton died 13th March 1893. Also her sister Margaret Canning died 12th Nov. 1924.

John Holden, beloved husband of Jane Elizabeth Canning (nee McNinch), died 24th November 1967

aged 83 years. Norman died 20th July 1973 aged 84 years.

(page 158)

 

McNinch

In Memoriam James Watt McNinch, born 9th January 1845, died 30th September 1885.

Robert McNinch, born 28th June 1809, died 19th Nov. 1899. ElIen Watt McNinch, born 14th May

1808, died 30th Dec. 1900. Nellie Watt McNinch, born 1st March 1893, died 27th Nov. 1912.

Margaret Watt McNinch, born 19th August 1841, died 24th July 1917. Martha McNinch, born

4th December 1846, died 30th December 1923. Ann Jane McNinch, born 7th December 1848,

died 26th May 1929.

[Administration of the estate of Robert McNinch, late of 14 Bedeque Street, Belfast, salesman, who

died 13 November 1900 [sic], granted at Belfast 15 April 1901 to Thomas Watt McNinch, farmer,

and Ann Jane McNinch, spinster]

(page 176)

 

CONNOR WILLS FOR INVER, KILWAUGHTER AND LARNE

 

McNinch, John, Kilwaughter  1845

[one McNinch, no McA/Ininch]     (page 218)

 

There are no McA/I/Ninch in two earlier books of the series --

2. Gravestone Inscriptions of County Antrim, Volume 2, Parishes of Glynn, Kilroot, Raloo and

    Templecorran, compiled by George Rutherford; Ulster Historical Foundation 1981, and

3. Gravestone Inscriptions of County Antrim, Volume 3, Old Families of Carrickfergus & Ballynure

    from Gravestone Inscriptions, Wills and Biographical Notes, compiled by George Rutherford,

    edited by Richard Clarke, Ulster Historical Foundation 1995

And a big ‘Thank you’ to Muriel Fitzsimmons, leader of the Scotch / Irish SIG at the Orange County,

California, Genealogical Society (OCCGS), told me about this new Old Families of Larne & District

[Volumes 2, 3, and 4 are in the OCCGS collection at the Huntington Beach Public Library (HBPL)]

 

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McAninch Family History NL, v.XIII.n.3 /  July 2005 / Copyright Frank McAninch / page 2005-24

 

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