Gleanings from a Family BibleAuthor(s): Stuart KellySource: North Irish Roots, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1995), p. 18Published by: North of Ireland Family History Society (NIFHS)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27697002 .

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GLEANINGS FROM A FAMILY BIBLE

Stuart Kelly, Member number A 1131

The following information was gleaned from a family Bible. There is no clue anywhere in

the book to the location of any of the people named but Hugh Bowman lived in County

Antrim, probably in Carrickfergus. The Bible is a large hide covered book printed In

1762. The flyleaf inscription is:

O 77i/s book was given as a present to Hugh Bowman by his friend (since ...) James Robinson AD 1922.

Between the Old and New Testaments the following is written:

O Page 1

Lancelot & Ann Harris married May 31st 1767

Jane their daughter born June 8th 1768

G Esther their daughter born Aug 20th 1769

Ed... & Jane Dawson married July 20th 1794

Q Jane their daughter born July 23rd 1795

G Ann their daughter born July 17th 1799

G Thomas their son born May 3rd 1798 died 15th Oct 1818

G Henry born 11th June died eighteen months old

G Edward born 13th May 1804 died 10th May 1819

G Edward Dawson died 6th March 1816 aged 54 years

G Jane his wife died December 30th 1899 aged 71 years (SIC)

G Jane Ann daughter of John & Ann Whiteside bom May 1st 1835

G Edward Thomas their son bom March 29th 1840

O Page 2

G Harkness McKee bom October 8th 1879

G Annie Paul bom 1882

G Harkness & Annie married August 23rd 1904

G Annie Jane McKee bom Aug 24th 1905

G James McKee bom Aug 4th 1906

G John Sloan McKee bom April 14th 1908

G Mary Rachel McKee bom April 13th 1913

G Maggie Sevinna McKee bom Jury 9th 1914

G Sarah Matilda McKee bom Oct 8th 1915

G Uzzie Rebecca McKee bom Feb 2nd 1916

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