• General Notes

  THOMAS BOLTON, born probably about 1645, is mentioned in the Hearth Money  Roll for County Antrim in 1666 as of Toome, and in 1669 as of Slievenagh.  Upper Toome adjoins Lough Beg on the east. Lower Toome, containing the  village of Slievenagh in the Parish of Portglenone, is just north, on the  right bank of the River Bann. The Boltons have continued to live here and  across the river at Lismoyle in Tamlaght O'Crilly parish to this day. At  Lismoyle or a few miles further north at Dullaghy in Desertoghill Parish  (Barony of Coleraine) this Thomas probably acquired lands and settled.  The tradition that lands were granted here to "Captain Robert Bolton"  cannot as yet be proved true, but there are no Boltons recorded in or  near Londonderry, nor in the Bann valley on the "Muster Roll of Ulster in  1630" - in the British Museum, additional MSS. 4770. Five brothers here and a sister are supposed to be Thomas's children (by a wife probably  Scotch, judging from these names): John; Samuel; William; Hugh; Thomas; Agnes.

Details of Thomas' family with Agnes