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This deed is significant as it indicates where to look next for connections to Susannah OLIVER née WALKER, wife of David OLIVER. |
1778 Nov 20 DEED: 336-478-225906 OLIVER, David & wife - WALKER 1777-1785
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Indented Deed of Release between David OLIVER[1]
and Susannah OLIVER[2] otherwise
WALKER his wife of Ballyrea[3]
in the County of Armagh farmer of the one part and Thomas WALKER[4]
of Ballydonagh[5] in the
County of Antrim farmer of the other part. Whereby after reciting as is herin
related the said David and Susannah OLIVER in obedience of the last will and
testament of Leonard WALKER[6]
deceased and in consideration of the sum [of the sum - sic] of one hundred and
ten pounds sterling assigned released confirmed and made over unto the said
Thomas WALKER his heirs exons admons and assigns all that and these the farm
tenement and parcel of land called part of Ballydonaghy containing by
estimation twenty eight acres and one rood English measure be the same more or
less late in the possession of Thomas WALKER deceased situate lying and being
in Parish of Glenavy[7],
Manor of Killuta and County of Antrim aforesaid To hold unto the said Thomas
WALKER his heirs, exons and assigns for and during the lives of Francis WHILLA[8]
Elinor WHILLA[9] son and
daughter of George WHILLA[10]
and Francis STEEL[11]
son of William STEEL[12]
and the survivor of them and for so much of the term of forty one years
commencing first November 1740 as should remain unexpired being the lives and
years in the grant lease of said premises made by Lord Baron CONWAY[13]
to Isabella Leonard WALKER[14]
deceased as by same may appear [etc] Witness Edward IRWIN[15]
of the City of Dublin and John SHEPHERD[16]
of the same, Gent & Thomas LLOYD[17]
of the said City. Thomas WALKER [SEAL]
[1] David OLIVER (1725-Feb 1806), husband of Susannah WALKER. Curiously in spite of all the leases involving Ballyrea, he does not show up in the PRONI Freeholders Records with that particular holding. In fact the only David OLIVER to show up there is one at Bangor, Co. Down in 1813-1821.
[2] Susanna OLIVER née WALKER. There is an internment record at St.
Marks for a Susanna OLIVER of Ballyrea dated March 24, 1808. This matches with
the newspaper account: Belfast Newsletter March 29, 1808: At Ballyrea, near
Armagh. During the course of a long life, she fulfilled the duties of a
daughter, wife and parent with undeviating propriety: as she lived beloved and
esteemed so will her death be long regretted not only by her family and friends
but by the neighbouring poor, to relieve whose distress her heart was always alive
and hand open.
[3] Ballyrea is a townland in the Parish of Armagh, County Armagh.
[4] Thomas WALKER of Ballydonagh in the County of Antrim farmer
[5] Ballydonagh AKA Ballydonaghy, Parish of Camlin, Co. Antrim
[6] Leonard WALKER He is listed in the Antrim Deputy Check Book of 1776 as the freeholder of Ballydonaghy as well as resident there. SOURCE: PRONI D/1364/L/1. It would seem that he had recently died and going by the context, he is a good candidate to be the father of Susanna WALKER. There is no record in the Index of Irish Wills by Enneclann. There is a graveyard at Ballydonaghy
[7] Parish of Glenavy, Manor of Killuta. I don't know where this is.
[8] Francis WHILLA. I could not find WHILLA in either the Enneclann Will indeces nor in PRONI Freeholders lists. Son of of George WHILLA and probably Frances STEEL
[9] Elinor WHILLA Daughter of George WHILLA and probably Frances STEEL
[10] George WHILLA Father of son Francis & daughter Elinor WHILLA
[11] Francis STEEL
[12] William STEEL. The name occurs often in PRONI Freeholders Lists, but not in relation to Ballydonaghy.
[13] Lord Baron CONWAY
[14] Isabella Leonard WALKER No record in Enneclann Will indeces.
[15] Edward IRWIN of the City of Dublin
[16] John SHEPHERD of the City of Dublin Gent
[17] Thomas LLOYD of the City of Dublin