• General Notes

  Mentioned in marriage certificates of my Samuel (1885) and also Sarah, John, and David (all married 1894, oddly).  The addresses given were Ballystrone for Samuel,  Ballystrone for Sarah, Blakes, Dunboe for John and Ballintere for David.  This suggests Ballystrone is the main home as the first marriage was there in 1885 and the daughter married from there - the other two sons may have moved, or Samuel may have moved to the places they give but this seems unlikely as there are two different addresses and both are in the same year.
  
  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.  My Samuel was born in 1865.  I am therefore assuming this Samuel and Jane Finlay are my great great grandparents and this links my McClemenstes with all those in Altibrian!!
  
  And, there is a Samuel McClement in Altibrian in the GV (but I now have three candidiates for this post and I think it is more likely to be this man's uncle because of his age), along with an Anne, a James, a Robert and a William.
  
  The Civil Records of the births of his sons show that he was living in Ballinrees in 1865, Dunallis in 1868 and 1870 and Gortycavan in 1872.
   
  There are NO McClementses in Ballystrone in the Griffiths Valuation.  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 when he is replaced by a James Johnston.  A Samuel McClament reappears  in House 14b in Lower Balteagh in the updating in the GVRBs of 1897 (very probably this man's son, Samuel, who appears in Lower Balteagh in the 1901 Census).  He is replaced by John Heaney in 1904.
   
  There are two Samuel McClementses in Ardvarness in 1912 Ulster Covenant and none in Balteagh or Ballystrone. A Samuel Clements, son of James Clements, married a Jane Finlay in 1854 but he was from Altibrian and married in 1st Dunboe.  First Dunboe church records show dozens of McClementses, mainly from Altbrian.
   
  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.
  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.
  
  There is no sign of any McClementses living in Ballinteer North or Ballinteer South in the 1901 census even though Jane Finaly McClements died in Ballinteer with her son, David PAD, in 1897. 
  

Details of Samuel's family with Jane [1854-Ballystrone;1897-Ballinteer] Finlay