Obituary Notice for John Bellingham of Kilrea
Published June 1908
Paper not identified but probably Coleraine Chronicle or Ballymoney  Free Press.
Last week, on the 12th inst., one of our oldest residents, Mr. John Bellingham, passed over to the great majority after a long illness. He was buried in Kilrea churchyard, the rector, the Rev. A. E. Sixsmith, B.A., officiating. The Bellinghams have been connected with Kilrea through five generations, at least, and some of them are known to have held responsible offices in the parish in the eighteenth century. William Bellingham was one of the churchwardens for the year 1733. Again, in 1789, we find that another of the family was parish clerk of Kilrea. The Parochial Vestry “ordered that the sum of five pounds sterling be applotted and levied for the maintenance of Clotworthy Bellingham, clerk of said parish.” In the reign of George the Second, when there arose a panic in Ulster on the invasion of Scotland by the young Pretender, many associations were formed by determined men who were loyal to the House of Hanover. “William Bellingham” was among 135 names registered at Kilrea by the Rev. Michael Sampson, rector. As might be expected, our deceased friend, John, was a good churchman, and a Conservative in politics. He was an expert angler; no man knew the Bann more thoroughly – its pools and shoals and silvery reaches. He loves the white river, and when his sons in America repeatedly invited him to cross the Atlantic, he invariably replied that he couldn’t leave the Bann. He did not long survive Mrs. Bellingham, who was called away rather suddenly last autumn. Both these old neighbors had always a cheerful greeting when one met them. Their friends will continue to bear them in kindly remembrance. They have left a large family of sons and daughters, who, with one exception, are living in the United States of America, and are going forward steadily in their several paths of life. Their widowed daughter, Mrs. Emily Mulholland, remained at home faithfully, taking care of her ailing parents to the end of their days. The funeral on Monday was largely attended, the chief mourners being Messrs. Thos. Bellingham (brother), Thos. Bellingham, junr., Joseph Bellingham, James Coultr, and Thomas M’Ray (cousins).  (This last statement is not entirely correct - BG.)

Death certificate in General Registry Office, Belfast says she died of influenza - bronchitis after 14 days.

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