July 1915

Seagoe Parish Magazine.

JULY, 1915,

AT THE FRONT.

The following is an Alphabetical List, revised and enlarged, of the Names of Men

from Seagoe Parish who are at present Fighting at the Front, or who have taken

part in the fighting line at some time or other since the War began.

Henry Adair, 1st Batt R.I.F.

William Henry Armstrong, 1st Batt. R.I.F., killed

in the trenches, Friday, March 12th, 1915.

John Brown, R.I.F., injured.

Robert Brown, R.I.F. severely wounded at Dickebusch, Flanders.

William Jas. Brown, R.G.A., wounded, Oct., 1914.

Robt. Callison, Irish Guards, wounded, Oct., 1914.

Thomas Cordner, R.I. FT., killed in action November 9th, 1914.

U. Cordner, R.F.A., wounded.

Nathaniel Dawkins, Lance Corporal, Irish Guards

and Leinster Regiment,formerly of Edenderry R.I.C.

Isaac Donaldson, A.S.C., wounded.

Thomas Flannigan, Canadian Contingent.

Richd Flannigan,Canadians, severely wounded, 1915

George Fox, R.I.F., wounded.

Thomas Freeburn, R.I.F.

Willoughby Frazer, R.I.F., formerly of Edenderry.

R. Gibson, R.I.R., severely wounded, October, 1914.

Samuel Gillespie, R.I F.

John Girvan, R.I.F.

David Gracey, Highland Light Infantry.

James Grqcey, R.I.F , died of wounds at Hazebruck, on April 14th, 1915.

Joseph Gracey, R.I.F.

Samuel Gracey, Canadian Contingent.

David Gregston, Highland Light Infantry.

Robert Hara, A.S.C.

Thomas Hora, R F.A.

Wm. Hewitt, R.I.F.

Harry Kane, H.M.S. Rinaldo, wounded October,

James Kane, R.I.R., wounded at Fromelles, May 9th, 1914.

James Lamb, R.I.F.

John J. Liggett, R F.A.

Thomas Liggett, RI.R.

James Liggett, Scottish Rifles.

Joseph Malcomson, R.I.R., killed in action, June, 1915.

William Malcomson, R.I. F., killed in action, May, 1915.

Robert Malcomson, R.I.R,

Edward Miller, I.G., wounded, May, 1915.

Thomas Mighton, R I.F., killed in action May, 1915.

John Milligan, I.G., wounded, October, 1915.

William Milligan, R I.F.

Thomas Milligan, R F.A.

Wm. James McNeill, R.I.F , severely wounded at St. Julien, April, 1915.

Joseph McAnally, Canadians, taken prisoner May, 1915.

David McCord, R.I.F. wounded.

Robert Porter, Naval Division, Dardanelles.

Thomas Porter, "Benbow" Batt. Naval Division, Dardanelles, wounded.

George Preston, Lance Corporal, R.I F., wounded and prisoner, September, 1914, interned at

Doeberitz Camp, Berlin.

Robert Rainey, R.I.R.

Samuel Rainey, R.I.F.

Alfred Richardson, Canadians.

Hugh Roney, R.I.F., wounded and prisoner,

May, 1915, interned in Münster, West Germany.

Wm. Russell, R.I.F., wounded Oct., 1914.

George Steenson, R.G.A.

Walter Vaughan, N.I.H.

Isaac Walker, N.I.H.

George Whiteside, Scots Greys, reported killed in action, October, 1914.

Wm. James Whiteside, R.I.F , severely wounded April, 1915.

James wells, R.I.F., gassed.

The Sunday School Excursion.

We were greatly favoured by the splendid weather

which made our Sunday School outing this year a

great success. The threatening clouds of the previous

day made many feel uneasy, but real Seagoe weather

was again our lot as in so many past years.

The Superintendents, Teachers and Children

assembled in the Parish Church, at 10 0'clock on the

morning of June 24th, Midsummer Day. The hymn

" There is a happy land " was sung, and a short

service of prayer followed.

The various Sunday Schools were then ranged in a

long procession many banners being carried by the

children.

Crowds of sightseers assembled along the route, and

many good wishes were expressed for the success of

the excursion. Johnnie Hughes with his mouth

organ helped to provide us with music as he marched

under the folds of the Union Jack at the head of the

Procession.

Carrickblacker was reached in good time and soon

the hundreds of children were swinging and racing

and jumping all over the great field. A well furnished

stall had been erected under the chestnut tree, and

splendid sales were made at it all through the day.

Everybody liked to patronise it because the profits

were to go to the Ambulance Fund for the 9th Batt.

R.I.F.—our own Regiment.

Two refreshments were given to the children at 12

and 5 p.m. Many rings were formed for games in

in the field and the fun went on until quite a late

hour in the evening. Before the children left

they assembled at the head of the field and in

response to a signal from the Rector they gave three

hearty cheers for Colonel Blacker, through whose

kindness they were permitted to enjoy a day in the

SEAGOE PARISH MAGAZINE.

demesne.

A meeting of the Excursion Committee was held in

Seagoe School on Monday, June 28th, at eight

when a very satisfactory report was presented by the

Hon. Treasurer, Miss Atkinson. There only remains

a small deficit of 5/- on the excursion, and a nett

balance of Cle3 is in hand from the proceeds of the

Stall towards the Ambulance Fund.

Anniversary Service.

Although this " Twelfth " will be observed very

differently from others owing to the war, yet the

religious side of our customary celebrations should

not be omitted. More than ever before we need to

concentrate and consecrate the forces of the Empire in a

fresh spirit of humiliation and determination. God

is speaking to us in this awful war with no uncertain

voice. He calls us to Faith and Repentance as

individuals and as a nation.

On Sunday evening, July 11th, at 7 p.m., a special

Service will be held in Seagoe Parish Church. The

Rector will preach. The offerings will be given to

the Funds of the Enniskillen Orphan Society. The

Lodges will not attend in a body, but individual

members are heartily invited.

Missionary Week Collections.

[We publish a list of the amounts collected in the

Parish during the recent house to house collection.]

Parish during the recent house to house collection.]

Christina Cordy, Killicomain (part) ￡0 3 8

Lily M‘Kerr, Seagoe (part) ... 1 5 10

Minnie Watson, Bocombra ... 0 1 6

Theresa Ramsay, Kernan (part 0 4 9

Priscilla Smartt, Kernan (part) 0 6 9

Lena Best, Ballyhannon 0 6 0

Mollie Cox, Carrickblacker Road 0 3 11

Maria Watson, Killicomain (part) 0 2 8

Josephine Webb, Lylo

Minnie Crawford and Amelia M'Cormick, 0 5 6

James Street 0 2 11

Bessie Dawson, Town residents 0 5 1

Lizzie Dickson, Tamnifiglasson 0 2 11

Christina Flannigan, Carrickblacker Ave. 0 4 2

Maud Dickson, Drumnagoon & Kilvergan 0 7 3

Sarah Coulter, Railway Street 0 4 8

Bella Magee, Century St., Killicomain Rd. 0 8 4

Annie Smith, Bridge S tre e t... 0 8 6

Pearl Grimshaw, Tamnificarbet 0 3 0

Maggie Reid, Derryvore and Seagoe (part) 0 10 8

Mrs. Porter, Seagoe (part) ... 0 1 7

Letitia Quaile, Balteagh 0 6 2

Cissie M'Dowell, Breagh 0 6 3

Judith M'Neill, Drumnacanvey 0 4 0

Minnie England, Knock 0 4 3

Hannah & Christina Anderson, Drumgor 0 7 6

Grace Best, Drumlisnagrilley 0 2 6

Ellen Noble, Hacknahay 0 4 3

Sarah Martin, Lurgan Road... 1 3 3

Maggie Rainey, Bright Street 0 2 6

Agnes Johnston, Foundry Street 0 0 5

Cissie Price, Ballinacor 0 3 4

Minnie Allen, Joseph Street... 0 3 0

Maggie Simpson, Carne 0 3 6

Hannah Caddell, Tarson 0 7 2

Kitty M'Mullan, Clanrolle & Knockmena 0 7 3

Minnie M'Laughlin, Levaghery (part) ... 0 3 6

Nellie Lewie, Levaghery (part) 0 5 3

Ethel Ruddell, Lisniskey 0 2 9

Other Sources .. 0 2 6

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The War Loan

We strongly advise our readers to invest in the

new War Loan, for two reasons, firstly, because by so

doing you can help the Empire to gain a glorious

victory in this present war, secondly, because it is a

first rate investment in which you can get £4 10s

each year for every £100 you lend to the Government,

with a Government guarantee that you will get your

£100 back without fail.

You can invest any sum from 5/- up. The way to

do it is to go to the nearest Post Offce (Money Order

Office,) and pay your money across the counter and

you will receive the “ scrip " or voucher in return, and

you will be paid your interest only every half year.

You should not delay as the last day for investing is

July 10th and you may never have such a chance

again.

SEAGOE PARISH MAGAZINE.

The Egg Collection.

CULLREAGH,

DONAGHADEE,

June 23, 1915.

DEAR MR. ARCHER,

Co. Down.

I would be much obliged if you would

express in the "Parish Magazine" my very warm

thanks for the splendid manner in which the

townlands of Seagoe responded to my request

for Eggs, for our wounded Soldiers and

Sailors. I would like particularly to thank those kind

helpers who at the cost of much trouble and time

went round the different districts asking for the eggs.

Indeed the response—365 dozen eggs in five weeks—

was magnificent.

I cannot sufficiently express my gratitude to all who

so kindly helped.

Yours sincerely,

EVA BLACKER.

ITEMS.

Six of the children in our list of those Baptised last

month are the children of Railway Employees on the G.N.R.

At the marriage recently in Seagoe Church of a

popular member of the 9th Batt. R.I.F., his fellow

soldiers, who were present in large numbers, formed

in a double line outside the Church door, and holding

their canes so as to form an archway the happy couple

walked between them to their carriage.

The Annual Appeal on behalf of the Co. Armagh

Protestant Orphan Society will be made in the Parish

Church on Sunday Morning, July 11th, at the 11-30

a.m. Service.

The Day Schools adjourned for Summer vacation

on Wednesday, June 30th. They will resume work

(D. V.) on Monday, August 9th.

Offertories for

Sundays—Mornings, £6 16 4

Evenings, 1 15 1

Week days 0 8 4

8 19 9

The above includes special collection of £3 7s 0d

for the Parochial Day Schools.

PARISH REGISTER FOR JUNE.

Baptisms.

The following were Baptized on June 5, 1915.

Johnston—William James, son of James and Ellen Margaret Johnston, of Kilmore.

Sponsors—Caroline Shanks, Mary Shanks, Ellen Margaret Johnston.

Wright—John Valentine, son of William Henry and Elizabeth Wright ( the late) of Edenderry.

Sponsors—Letitia Adair, Sarah Wright.

Kelly—William Ernest, son of Robert and Anne Kelly, of Kernan.

Sponsors—Robert Kelly, Letitia Kelly.

Gordon—William Henry, son of Thomas Henry and Charlotte Gordon, of Ballinacor.

Sponsors—Mary Anne Gordon, Charlotte Gordon.

Simpson—Edna, daughter of James and Sarah Simpson, of Carne.

Sponsors—Elizabeth Conolly, Sarah Simpson.

Aston—Samuel James, son of William Thomas and Sarah Elizabeth Aston, of Edenderry.

Sponsors—William Thomas Aston, Sarah Elizabeth Aston.

Neill—James, son of James and Sarah Neill, of Edenderry.

Sponsors —Emily Neill, Sarah Neill.

Gracey—Henry John, son of John George and Sarah Jane Gracey, of Balteagh.

Sponsors—John George Gracey, Sarah Jane Gracey.

England—Margaret, daughter of William Henry and Evelyn England, of Killicomaine.

Sponsors - Ellen Jane England, Evelyn England.

Beckett—Ruby, daughter of Robert James and Jessie Beckett, of Tamnifiglasson.

Sponsors—Robert James Beckett, Jessie Beckett.

Marriages.

M 'Dougald and Currie—At Glasgow, on June 1st, 1915, Lachlan M' Dougald,

youngest son of the late Constable Dugal M 'Dougald,

to Elizabeth, only daughter of John Currie, late of Bridge Street,

Edenderry.

Mullan and Reid—on June 4th, 1915, Harris Henry Mullen, of Portadown,

to Christina Reid, of Upper Seagoe.

Jenkinson and Haire—On June 12th, 1915, John Jenkinson, 9th Batt. R.I.F., of Portadown,

to Anne Haire, of Edenderry.

Moore and Shanks—On June 23rd, 1915, David Moore, of Knocknamuckley,

to Caroline Shanks, of Kernan.

Burials,

Millsopp—June 5th, Thomas Millsop, of Portadown, 3rd Batt. R.I F. ,

died of wounds received in action in Flanders, May 1915, aged 24 years.

Sherman—June 13th. George Sherman, of Edenderry. Aged 88 years.

Craig—June 20th, Margrettfb Craig, of Belfast. Aged 7 years.

KILLED IN ACTION.

Malcomson - June 16th, 1915, near Hooge, in Flanders, Joseph Malcomson, Private,

2nd Batt, Royal Irish Rifles, of Joseph Street. Aged 28 years.

For King and Country."

SEAGOE PARISH MAGAZINE.

Distinction for a Sunday School Teacher.

Miss Rhoda Guy of Lower Seagoe has been

awarded a Second-class Certificate for good answering

at the Examination for Sunday School Teachers,

held recently by the Sunday School Society for Ireland.

We hope that in future other teachers from

Seagoe Parish will enter for the Examination. It is

held at centres through Ireland in May of each year.

Valuable prizes are given to those who answer well

at the Examination,

Old Seagoe Notes,

Rev. Patrick Sheridan, D. D. , Rector of

Seagoe 1664—1682.—Patrick Sheridan was the

son of Denis Sheridan, a Roman Catholic priest

converted by Bishop Bedell. He was born at Tocher,

Co. Cavan, and educated at Enniskillen ; entered

Trinity College, Dublin, aged 14, on May 15th, 1652.

[His elder brother William, who afterwards became

Bishop of Kilmore, also entered Trinity College,

Dublin, the same day, aged 17.] He became Fellow

Trinity College, Dublin, in 1660 ; B.D., 1665 ; Senior

Fellow, 1665, by Mandamus from the King, with a

clause dispensing with the statutes prohibiting him

from holding a living; Vice-Provost, 1666-68. He

became Vicar of Castleknock, March 24th, 1660 ;

Rector of Clonfeacle, October 16th, 1662, and was

appointed Archdeacon of Dromore and Rector of

Seagoe, August 12th, 1664, resigning Clonfeacle the

same year, but he was re-appointed, being permitted

to hold the Benefice with his Fellowship. He became

Dean of Connor and Rector of Carrickfergus in 1667,

both of which he held with the Archdeaconry. He be-

came Rector of Conwall when he resigned his Fellow-

ship. He was consecrated at Cashel on April 27th,

1679, Bishop of Cloyne, being allowed to hold "in

commendam" the Deanery and Archdeaconry, and

Rectory of Islandmagee. He married in 1677 Anne

Hill, of Hill Hall, Co. Down, widow, and died in Dublin

November 22, 1682, and was buried in the old College

Chapel, Trinity College, Dublin, but no monument to

him exists now.

A Tamnificarbet Will. dated 1683.—1 Francis

Robson, of Tannefecarbit, in ye Parish of Sego, and

County of Ardmagh, being sick in body but of good

and perfect memory, and calling to remembrance the

uncertainty of this life, do this twenty-fourth day of

the Eleventh Month called January, anno. 1683,

make and constitute and declaire this my last Will

and Testament in manner and form following, revoking,

and annulling by these presents all and every

Testament and Will or Wills heretofore by me made

and declared, and this to be taken for my last Will

and Testament desiring that my body may be buried

in ye burying place in Monreverty, in ye Parish and

County aforesaid, and for ye settling of my temporall

estate, I do order, give and dispose of same in manner

and form following, viz. ;—First I will that all these

debts that I owe in right or conscience to any person

shall be well and truly paid by my executor hereafter

named, and within convenient time after my decease.

Item I give unto my son John Robson my whole

interest, right and title, that ought to have in and

to ye said Townland of Tannefecarbit, with all houses

and offices and improvements whatsoever.

Item I give unto my son Jacob Robson my whole

interest, right and title that I have or ought to have

in and to ye townland of Tarson which I now hold

with all houses, edifices and improvements whatsoever

therein made. I also leave to him eleven head of

cattle (that to say) two oxen of five-yeare old apiece,

two bullocks of four-year old apiece, two bullocks of

three-year-old apiece, two bullocks of two-yeare-old

apiece, one bullock of one-year-old, one sorrell mare,

and one brown horse. I also leave him (my sd son

Jacob) twenty pounds, sterling, to be paid by my

Executor out of my goods and chattels ; and also I

leave him one bed of clothes (viz )—one bed, one

bolster, two pillows, one paire of lining sheets, one

paire of harden sheets, one rugg, one blanket, and one

bedstead (or ten shillings in lieu thereof.)

Item I give unto my daughter, Jane Robson, twenty

seven pounds, sterling, to be paid by my Executor out

of my goods and chattels. I also leave to her two

cows and one brown heifer of two years old, one

feather bed with all furniture belonging thereto, and

one bedstead (or ten shillings in lieu thereof), and one

Cubbard.

Item I give unto my daughter Catherine seven

pounds, sterling, and her three eldest children three

pounds, sterling, to be paid by my Executors. If any

of them die before it be paid then ye survivors to have

it. I also leave to her youngest child, Sarah, one

heifer of a yeare old.

Item I give unto the three eldest children of my sd

son John three pounds, sterling : that is to say twenty

shillings apiece. I also leave to his youngest child,

Hanna, one heifer of a yeare old.

Item I give into ye hand of Roger Webb twenty

shillings, sterling, to be disposed of as I have spoken

unto him to do, which I fully trust in his hand to be

done accordingly.

I appoint my sd son, John Robson, to be my only

and sole Executor.

FRANCIS ROBSON, F.R.

Signed and sealed in the presence of Roger Webb,

Robert Hooper and William Porter.

Notes on Francis Robson's Will, 1683—The

above will is interesting, not merely because of its

antiquity (it is 232 years since it was made), but also

because of some of the expressions it contains, "The

Eleventh month commonly called January' '—This

expression which seems so strange to us was quite

correct in 1683. Counting from September, which

means Seventh month," January is the Eleventh

month, February the Twelfth month, and the New

Year up to 1752 always began on March 25th.

"Sorrell" is also an old expression. It means "reddish-brown."

It is connected with the word "sere," often used to describe the colour of a withered leaf.