Samuel Steen [1865-Ballinrees;1901-LowerBalteagh;1925-Ardvarness/Ballywilliam] Claments

Sam McClements Pic of grave of great grandparents Grave Sam McClements and Annabella McKeown Birth Samuel Steen Clamants 1865 Ballinreese 1901 Census Samuel McClements Balteagh Lower 1911 Census Samuel McClements Ardvarness

Samuel was born on October 4th, 1865 in Ballinreese.

• Birth Notes

  Date of Birth taken from marriage entry in 2nd Dunboe Presbyterian Church records, confirmed by 1901 census.  Barbara Braswell has now also found the birth of a Samuel Steen Claments to Samuel Claments and Jane Finlay in 1865 registered in Articlave in the International Genealogical Index at the Family History Library site which claims to be a Civil Records.
  
  Name Samuel Steen Claments
  Gender Male
  Birth date 04 Oct 1865
  Birth place 0446,ARTICLAVE,LONDONDERRY,IRELAND
  Father name Samuel Claments
  Mother name Jane Finley
  Batch number C70126-7
  Record group Ireland-ODM
  Film number 101115 
  
  Civil Birth Record
  Name:    Samuel Steen Clamants    Date of Birth:    10-Oct-1865
           Registration Date:    1-Jan-0
  Address:    Ballinreese    Parish/District:    ARTICLAVE
  Gender:    Male    County    Co. Derry
  Denomination:    Registrar District
  Father:    Samuel Clamants    Mother:    Jane Finley
  Occupation:    Labourer    
  Sponsor 1 /
  Informant 1:    Samuel Claments
  
  I now have a copy of his birth cert from GRONI online and he is called Samuel Steen, born 4th October 1865, son of Samuel Clamants, labourer, and Jane Clamants fly Finley, born in Ballinrees, Dunboe, father from Ballinreese and the informant.
  
  There is a John Steen living in Ballinrees in the GV but no McClementses.
  

Samuel's father was Samuel [1854-Altibrian;1865-Ballinrees;Dunalis-1868;1885-Ballystrone;] Clements and his mother was Jane [1854-Ballystrone;1897-Ballinteer] Finlay.  His paternal grandparents were James [1828,1831,1850,1871-Altibrian] Clements and ???? ??Moore??; his maternal grandparents were John [1831,1841-Ballystrone] Finlay and Mary Anne McDougal. He had five brothers and a sister, named James, Thomas, David, Thomas, John and Sarah.  He died at the age of 59 on September 15th, 1925 in Ardvarness.

• Death Notes

  Death register entry in General Registry Office shows he died of "Pulmonary TB 12 years", he was a labourer, died in Ardvarness and Sissie McClements, daughter was the informant.
  
  After her death, I received some of Aunt Sadie's photographs and one was of a gravestone with this written on the back:
  "Mum's
  Mum and Dad
  Englishtown
  Cemetary
  Near Coleraine"
  The stone says:
  "Erected
  In Memory of
  Samuel McClements
  Ballywilliam
  Who dies September 15th 1925
  Aged 58 years
  Also his wife
  Annabella McClements
  Who died June 20th 1925
  Aged 63 years"
  Ballywilliam is just south of Ardvarness
  
  I visited this grave with Susan Schiller and the wording has completely decayed so it is lucky Lynn Moulin sent me the photograph from Aunt Sadie's collection which shows exactly what it said.
  
  
  
  

• General Notes

  From Ballinrees according to his birth certificate and Ballystrone according to his marriage certificate, where he made a mark.  (By 1901 census he said he could read and write.) 
  
  Spelling "McClamont" in marriage certificate, changes to McClements for 1901 census and he has moved to Balteagh Lower. 
  
  There are no McClementses in the 1850s Griffiths Valuation in Ballystrone but there IS a Samuel McClements living in a very small house and garden in Lower Balteagh!   He remains in this, House 8b, until the Griffiths Valuation Revision Book updating of 1885.  A Samuel McClament reappears  in House 14b in Lower Balteagh in the updating in the GVRBs of 1897.  He is replaced by John Heaney in 1904. 
  
  A Samuel McClements appears in Ardvarness in a new Coleraine RDC house, House 3Ba, in 1906.  (An Alex McClement was in Ardvarness in House 3b from circa 1895 til circa 1901.)  Sure enough, it is this man in Ardvarness in the 1911 census, living in a 2nd class, three roomed, non thatched house with no outbuildings.  There are two Samuel McClementses in Ardvarness in 1912 Ulster Covenant.  A Samuel McLamont is replaced by a David McLamont in House 3Ba in Ardvarness in 1927.  I assume this was his son who was botn in 1901.
  
  I believe this is the progression of my McClements family through the parishes of Dunboe and Macosquin during the Nineteenth century:
  - My GGG G/F, James Clements, lived in Altibrian.
  - My GG G/F, Samuel Clements, was born in Altibrian circa 1830, was still in Altibrian when he married Jane Finlay in 1854 but had moved to Ballinrees for the birth of my G G/F, Samuel McClements in 1865, moved again to Dunallis for the birth and death of his son, Thomas McClements in 1868, and had moved again to Ballystrone by the time of the marriage of his daughter, Sarah McClements in 1884.
  - My G G/F, Samuel Claments, having been born in Ballinrees in 1865, moved with the family to Dunallis by 1868, and then to Ballystrone by 1884, married Annabella McKeown from Ballystrone on 1885, and then moved to Lower Balteagh by 1897, where he remained during the 1901 cenus, moving to Ardvarness in 1906, where he died in 1925.  His gravestone suggests he lived in the townland of Ballywilliam in the area called Ardvarness.
  - My G/M, Jeannie McClements was in Lower Balteagh at the time of the census in 1901, moved to Ardvarness in 1906 with her father and married from there in 1909.  She probably moved with her husband to Garvagh circa 1910.
  
  1901 Census:
  Residents of a house 16 in Balteagh Lower (Letterloan, Londonderry)
  Surname    Forename    Age    Sex    Relation to head    Religion    Birthplace    Occupation    Literacy    Irish Language    Marital Status    Specified Illnesses
  McClements    Samuel    35    Male    Head of Family    Presbyterian    Co Derry    Labourer Agr    Read and write    -    Married    -
  McClements    Anna B    37    Female    Wife    Presbyterian    Co Derry    House-Keeper    Read and write    -    Married    -
  McClements    Ellen    14    Female    Daughter    Presbyterian    Co Derry    Part of Year Employed as Farm Servant    Read and write    -    Not Married    -
  McClements    Jane    13    Female    Daughter    Presbyterian    Co Derry    Scholar    Read and write    -    Not Married    -
  McClements    James    11    Male    Son    Presbyterian    Co Derry    Scholar    Read and write    -    Not Married    -
  McClements    Samuel    8    Male    Son    Presbyterian    Co Derry    Scholar    Read and write    -    Not Married    -
  McClements    Martha    5    Female    Daughter    Presbyterian    Co Derry    Scholar    Cannot read    -    Not Married    -
  McClements    John    3    Male    Son    Presbyterian    Co Derry    -    Cannot read    -    Not Married    -
  McClements    Anna B    1    Female    Daughter    Presbyterian    Co Derry    -    Cannot read    -    Not Married    -
  
  1911 Census:
  Residents of a house 28 in Ardvarness (Drumcroon, Londonderry)
  Surname    Forename    Age    Sex    Relation to head    Religion    Birthplace    Occupation    Literacy    Irish Language    Marital Status    Specified Illnesses    Years Married    Children Born    Children Living
  McClements    Samuel    46    Male    Head of Family    Presbyterian    Londonderry    Flax Scutcher    Read and write    -    Married    -    -    -    -
  McClements    Anna Bella    48    Female    Wife    Presbyterian    Londonderry    -    Read and write    -    Married    -    25    9    8
  McClements    James    20    Male    Son    Presbyterian    Londonderry    Flax Scutcher    Read and write    -    Single    -    -    -    -
  McClements    Martha    16    Female    Daughter    Presbyterian    Londonderry    -    Read and write    -    Single    -    -    -    -
  McClements    John    13    Male    Son    Presbyterian    Londonderry    Scholar    Read and write    -    Single    -    -    -    -
  McClements    David    10    Male    Son    Presbyterian    Londonderry    Scholar    Read and write    -    Single    -    -    -    -
  McClements    Sarah    8    Female    Daughter    Presbyterian    Londonderry    Scholar    Read and write    -    Single    -    -

Details of Samuel's family with Annabella McKeown