David was buried at Old Ballynure Graveyard, Ballynure, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland, UK; gravemarker is no longer identifiable. Author and cousin Margaret Agnew, visited this graveyard 25 May 2013. No gravestones or markers were found for David Agnew nor his wife, Jane ‏(Erskine)‏ Agnew; they were buried there in 1885 and 1900 respectively.

Need to find and research this for graves of David and Jane ‏(Erskine)‏ Agnew.

PRONI Wills online: ‏(Notice death date on this Will.)‏
Title : Date of Death : 12 February 1885
Surname : Agnew Date of Grant : 2 March 1885
Forename : David Reseal Date :
Registry : Belfast Effects : Effects £249 10s.
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Letters of Administration of the personal estate of David Agnew late of Ballynerry County Antrim Farmer who died 12 February 1885 at same place were granted at Belfast to Jane Agnew of Ballynerry the Widow.

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Source: ancestry.com hosted by Roots Web
Gravestone Inscriptions Co. Antrim, Vol. 2, Parishes of Glynn, Kilroot, Raloo and Templecorran. Compiled by George Rutherford. Belfast: Ulster-Scot Historical Foundation. ‏(TRL/929.50941 G667 v1-2)‏

‏[Note: Unable to find any reference to "Clendinnen/Glendinning".]‏

Includes: Ballycarry Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Graveyard, Ballyvallaugh Gravestone, Glynn Graveyard, Kilroot Graveyard, Raloo Graveyard, Raloo Church of Ireland Graveyard, Raloo Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Graveyard, Raloo Presbyterian Graveyard, Templecorran Graveyard, Templecorran Church of Ireland Graveyard

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Source: A portion of Margaret Agnew's email to author, 27 Aug. 2012

"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 great-great granny Agnew 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]‏."

The following information was obtained from Robert Hornbaker's research which was included in his Ireland Trip Report, 2002:

"Ballynarry Townland is an area of land, like a township, where a lot of the Agnews live, and farm. It is located a couple of miles northeast of Ballynure, a small town of about thirty houses, between Belfast and Larne, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland."

"A clan map "Scotland of Old" ‏(by Sir Iain Moncreiffe and Don Pottinger, published by John Bartholomew & Sons, Ltd., Duncan Street, Edingurgh EH91TA Scotland)‏, shows the land of the Agnew clan next to, and north of, the land of the Erskine clan, on the west coast of Scotland, across the Irish Sea from Northern Ireland. These two Scottish clans produced ... our ancestors, David Agnew and Jane Erskine ...."


Google Search, internet, MHK 2-7-12.

Ballynure
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Christ Church, Ballynure
Ballynure ‏(from Irish: Baile an Iúir meaning "homestead of the yews")‏‏[1]‏ is a village near Ballyclare in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 677 people in the 2001 Census.

The village is effectively split in two by the A8 main road, which runs from Belfast to Larne. A stream called the Ballynure Water runs through it and the houses are a mixture of old fashioned buildings and new estates. Christ Church, Church of Ireland is one of the old buildings of note in Ballynure.

Contents ‏[hide]‏
1 Transport
2 2001 Census
3 Places of interest
4 Additional information
5 References
6 External links
‏[edit]‏Transport

Ballynure was formerly served by the Ballymena and Larne Railway, a narrow gauge railway. Ballynure railway station opened on 24 August 1878, but finally closed on 1 October 1930.‏[2]‏
‏[edit]‏2001 Census

Ballynure is classified as a small village or hamlet by the NI Statistics and Research Agency ‏(NISRA)‏ ‏(i.e. with a population between 500 and 1,000 people)‏. On Census day ‏(29 April 2001)‏ there were 677 people living in Ballynure. Of these:

22.3% were aged under 16 and 15.8% were aged 60 and over
48.2% of the population were male and 51.9% were female
3.0% were from a Catholic background and 95.0% were from a Protestant background
1.4% of people aged 16– 74 were unemployed.
‏[edit]‏Places of interest

The Ballynure Elementary School for Primary Education ‏(often known simply as Ballynure Primary School)‏ is only school in the village and surrounding areas until Ballyclare. It is also one of six schools in Northern Ireland classed as "Elementary Schools". The School was founded in 1930.

The Ballynure Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in all Newtownabbey and second oldest in all Antrim.

The current blacksmiths in Ballynure ‏(lying on the corner of The Old Larne Road)‏ initially was a carpenters shop. During World War 2 it was used for storing brushes and after the war the building was used for the slaughter of pigs. When the original plans for the new A8 were to become effective the old blacksmith shop, which sat behind the carpenters shop, was demolished and James ‏(Jim)‏ Barr the blacksmith bought the original carpenters shop. At that time he had been given £50 disturbance money from the roads division. He replaced the roof which had originally been round. The building is still used by Jims son-in-law as a blacksmiths and agricultural engineers.

‏[edit]‏Additional information

Jonathan Swift, the writer of Gulliver's Travels, was responsible for the Ballynure parish of the Church of Ireland, during his time as prebend of Kilroot.

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.

‏[edit]‏References

^ Placenames Database of Ireland
^ "Ballynure station". Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
NI Statistics and Research Agency ‏(NISRA)‏
Culture Northern Ireland
‏[edit]‏External links

The Village website
Coordinates: 54°46'N 5°57'W

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David Agnew ‏(bachelar)‏ and Jane Askin/Erskine's ‏(spinster)‏, Marriage Certificate, dated 11 November 1854, married at the North Gate St. Presbyterian Church, Carrickfergus County, Carrickfergus, N. Ireland. David, farmer, place of residence Ballinerry, Ballyneure; Jane's residence, Middle Division. Ceremony performed by licensed minister, James Warwick; witnesses were John and Agnes Askin. David's father was listed as Samuel Agnew, farmer; Jane's father was listed as Robert Askin, farmer.