Margaret Dinsmore 
Margaret was born in 1789. Margaret's father was Samuel Dinsmore and her mother was Mary Brewster. Her maternal grandparents were Andrew [Glenhall] Browster and ???? ????. She had a brother and a sister, named Andrew and Mary.General Notes
Source: Linde Lunney from Norman Parkes, using NI newspaper, dated 28th March 1925. NB: To Barbara Braswell, "Can you work out who was whose child below? "Samuel Dinsmore a farmer on the old homestead at Ballywattick, son of > Robert, married in 1783, Mary daughter of Andrew Brewster of Glenhall, > co. Derry. He died 13 November 1829. He was a large, tall, > strong-limbed farmer. His daughter Margaret b. 1789 married Archibald > McIlreavy, who removed from Ballywattick to Portstewart. Their > daughter Rachel McIlreavy married Mr Reid of Cromore. Their son Daniel > a carpenter who emigrated in 1826 to Australia was the author of a > song about the Fishing Disaster at Portrush, see no. 27 Songs of the > People. ...A daughter Mary married Samuel Johnson, merchant, > Bushmills. Another daughter Rachel, b. 1806, married James McAfee, > born near Giant's Causeway, who emigrated." Specifically, are Daniel, Mary and 1806 Rachel the children of Samuel Dinsmore and Mare Brewster, OR, the children of Margaret Dinsmore and Archibald McIlreavy?"
Details of Margaret's family with Archibald McIlreavy
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