Sources: A photo copy of the Marriage Certificate was mailed to author by Robert Hornbaker via Jane "Jean" and daughter, Margaret Agnew. Email attachment copies were sent by Jacqueline ‏(Agnew)‏ Haugseng and Margaret Agnew. Samuel Agnew information was sent to author by Jacqueline Agnew Haugseng, 21 Oct 2012.

Irish Records Extractions Database, Ancestry.com online, regarding Agnew surname: "Agnew" from the extinct Irish surname "O'Gnieve".

According to Robert Hornbaker's research, David Agnew moved from Scotland to Ireland in about 1861 or so, shortly after Robert Agnew was born. They moved to this house. The house is located near Ballynure between Belfast and Larne, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland and this photo is from 2002, taken by Robert Hornbaker. He was the first person of Agnew blood from America that returned to the house since his grandfather left 116 years before ‏(1886)‏.

Further research reveals:
A portion of Cousin Margaret Agnew's email to author, 27 Aug. 2012:«b»
«/b»"We have the 1891 census form for the house I grew up in. It was obviously never returned. Had it have been it would have been destroyed. In it my great-granny Mary's mother is listed as Jane and she is a widow. Also in the house was another sister of Jane Agnew Barker, Martha. At that stage unmarried. At this time Jane Agnew Barker's sisters Mary and Martha and their mother were living in the townland of Ballyfore in the Parish of Raloo. That is the house that is pictured in the Loofbourrow website. I always understood that the farm and farmhouse 2 fields away in the townland of Ballynerry in the Parish of Ballynure was the Agnew home further back and that Jane Agnew ‏(nee Erskine)‏ moved to Ballyfore after her son Samuel inherited the main farm and so Jane Agnew ‏(nee Erskine)‏ moved there as an older woman either after her husbands death or else they both moved there in later life with whatever children were still with them, certainly Mary was. Both houses are still standing. Your ‏(author's)‏ great granny Jane Agnew ‏(Barker)‏ lived in them both. The one in Ballyfore is derelict. The one in Ballynarry ‏(used to be spelt Ballynerry and still pronounced that way by some people in the district)‏ is occupied by our 2nd cousin once removed ‏[Sam Agnew]‏."

"Land records in Belfast show that in 1861, David Agnew, in the Townland of Ballynarry, in the Parish of Ballynure, was the occupier of 27 acres. His landlord was Conway L. Dobbs."
Source«b»: «/b»Robert Hornbaker's 2002 Ireland Trip Report«b».
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The last people to live there were William Agnew, born 7 Jul 1924, ‏(now deceased)‏, the grandson of Mary Agnew. His widow, "Jean" Jane ‏(Robinson)‏ Agnew and daughter, Margaret Agnew, currently live in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland.

The Clements family, who lived at Clements Hill outside the village, were the ancestors of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. Twain, who was author of works including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, was described by William Faulkner as 'the father of American literature.' His grandfather Samuel Clemens emigrated to America and Twain was born in Florida, Missouri, in November 1835. One of his ancestors, Henry Clements, was Mayor of Carrickfergus in 1696 and another is said to have fought for William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne six years earlier.

In 2007 Ballynure started a fair, which is now known as the "Yearly Ballynure fair". Along with Ballyclares "May Fair" this fair is one of the very few yearly fairs in the U.K. where animals can be bought, although unlike the "May Fair" ‏(which sells horses)‏ the Ballynure Fair has only been known to sell cows.