Hugh Coulter 
Birth Notes
1901 census gives his age as 66. Inthe 1911 Census, he gives his age as 76, which confirms a year of birth of 1835. But, I have found a Hugh Coulter's death in the Civil Deaths Index at Derry FHC, aged 74, registered in the June Quarter of 1922 in Ballymoney. This really ought to be him as he disappears from the GVRBs at the same time but the age cannot be right because that would make him born in 1848 which is too late for the birth of his first child in 1860. I am going to accept that this is him but stick with the age given in the 1901 census.
Death Notes
Searched Civil Records Deaths Index at Derry FHC for Hugh, registered in either Ballymoney or Coleraine from 1901 to 1919 inclusive but did not find him. Hugh said he was 66 in the 1901 census so we should expect him to go toes up within ten years anyway. On the other hand, he may have lived well into his 80s and I will need to trawl as far as the 1920s!
Found a Hugh Coulter's death in the Civil Deaths Index at Derry FHC, aged 74, registered in the June Quarter of 1922 in Ballymoney, Page 86. This really ought to be him as he disappears from the GVRBs at the same time but the age cannot be right because that would make him born in 1848 which is too late for the birth of his first child in 1860. I am going to accept that this is him but stick with the age given in the 1901 census.
Registration number Forename of deceased Surname of deceased Date of death Age at death Date of birth Sex of deceased Registration district
D/1922/31/1005/14/30 Hugh Coulter 19th May 1922 74 Male Ballymoney(pre-1973 Q4)
General Notes
A farmer of Vow. Married at Finvoy Presbyterian church on 7th Sept 1859. His father is given as John Coulter. Both given as farmers. Vow is in the parish of Finvoy, not Rasharkin, in Co Antrim.
Held plot 24a in Griffiths Valuation - at 24 acres, the third most valuable in the townland of Vow. A Hugh Coulter also holds land in the townland of Artnagross in the GV and there are no less than 5 Hannas there as well. Since Hugh's mother was a Hanna, I wonder is there a connection.
When she died in 1859, his mother one left him "one milk cow, the Gray horse and one cart" so one has to assume that he already had the land at the Vow from his father. "This year's crop of the whole land equally divided between Hugh and Daniel." And Daniel got her "room and field of land".
1901 census does shows him living in a household of 4 - son, daughter-in-law and grandson. He lived next door to Francis Bellingham. His land seems to have passed to the Bellinghams post 1920.
In 1911, he is living in a 2nd class, 7 to 9 room slated house with 5 front windows, which he owns. He is a widower farmer, living with his son, James, his daughter-in-law (James wife), Sarah Jane and grandchildren John, Maudie, Mary Magretta and Sarah Jane.
Details of Hugh's family with Margaret Ann Bellingham
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