1734 Mar 11

DEED: 82 179 57452

BELLEW, John- SIMPSON[1]  

NOTES from my 2009 diary.

 

Between Rt. Hon John Lord BELLEW[2] of the one part & Patrick SYMPSON[3] of Phillipstown[4], Co. Louth … demised lands of Annaghivacky[5], Barony of Dundalk, Co. Louth. ‘then in his possession” … 223 acres 1 rood 20 perches for natural lives of James COULTER[6] son of Charles COULTER[7] of Carrickstuck[8] & Nathanial COULTER[9] son of Samuel COULTER[10] of Cavananore[11] & of Grizell SYMPSON[12] third daughter of said Patrick SYMPSON… rent £54.13.6 WITNESS George PIPPARD[13] of Drogheda[14] merchant & Cornelius M’LAUGHLIN[15] of the same clerk to the said George PIPPARD. WITNESS Cornelius M’LAUGHLIN & William CONWAY[16] of Ballenfull[17], Co. Louth. Gent.

 



[1] See Also Deed at: http://www.thesilverbowl.com/documents/1768_agreement_COULTER_Andrew&John.htm

[2] Rt. Hon John Lord BELLEW Going by the date, I would assume that this is the 2nd Baronet, Sir John BELLEW b 1660, son of Sir Patrick BELLEW and Elizabeth BARNEWALL. He died a few months after this deed, on 23 July 1734. SOURCE: http://www.thepeerage.com/p13731.htm#i137308

[3] Rev. Patrick SIMPSON (NOTE: I am operating on hunches for this connection) was the second named Presbyterian Minister in the Dundalk Presbyterian Church (which was founded in 1560 and is one of the oldest non-conforming churches Ireland). He was allied to the M'Neill family. It is recorded in local history that two brothers, Archibald and Malcolm M'Neill, officers in the army, landed at Dundalk in 1688, fought in the great battle of Ballymascanlon and succeeded in taking the castle formerly occupied by the Scanlons—a Celtic family, who were afterwards driven into exile. Soon after their settlement they brought over from the Island of Islay two Presbyterian Ministers, the Rev. Patrick  SIMPSON and the Rev. Mr. Drummond, one of them to minister at Dundalk and the other at Scanlon Castle, near which a Presbyterian church had been built on the ancient site of which the present church of the Protestant Episcopal Communion now stands. The Minister's house and farm then occupied the site of the present residence of the MacNeill family, Mountpleasant. Archibald MacNeill gave £100—a large sum in those days—towards the building of the old Presbyterian church in Linenhall Street. Mr.  SIMPSON died in 1760, at the age of 99 years, and was succeeded by the Rev. Mr. Drummond, who also died in Dundalk in 1778, aged 38 years. His remains lie alongside those of his predecessors in the family burial ground of the MacNeills. SOURCE: Tempest’s Jubilee Annual 1909.

[4] Phillipstown, Parish of Phillipstown, Co. Louth

[5] Annaghivacky, a townland of 369 Acres in the Civil Parish of Creggan, Barony of Upper Dundalk, Co. Louth.

[6] James COULTER (b bef 1735), son of Charles COULTER of Carrickstuck & Mary McEVERS.

[7] Charles COULTER of Carrickastuck, husband of Mary McEVERS.

[8] Carrickastuck, a townland of 229 acres in the Parish of Phillipstown, Co. Louth.

[9] Nathanial COULTER son of Samuel COULTER of Cavananore. He married and had a daughter, Mary SOURCE: http://www.thesilverbowl.com/documents/1775_Will_of_Andrew_Coulter.htm

[10] Samuel COULTER (b abt 1690) of Cavananore. Husband of Grizell SIMPSON aka SIMSON aka SYMPSON and father of 7 children. Most likely a brother of Charles, William and John COULTER.

[11] Cavananore – a townland of 219 acres in Upper Dundalk, Co. Louth

[12] Grizell SYMPSON third daughter of Rev. Patrick SYMPSON

[13] George PIPPARD of Drogheda merchant.

[14] Drogheda, a seaport, borough, and market-town, and a county of itself, locally in the county of LOUTH, and province of LEINSTER, 57 miles (S by W.) from Belfast, and 23 (N.) SOURCE: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, Samuel Lewis.http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/d3.php

[15] Cornelius M’LAUGHLIN of Drogheda, clerk to the said George PIPPARD. Just as the PIPPARD-JACKSON connections are interesting, so is the name M’LAUGHLIN since the George JACKSON (1718-1782) who is the earliest known member of our family tree married a Margaret O’LAUGHLIN in 1743.

[16] William CONWAY of Ballenfull, Co. Louth. Gent

[17] Ballenfull, aka Ballinfuil – a townland of 369 acres in the Parish of Roche, Co. Louth