[1] Thomas BALL (1748-1825) owner of Cullihanna, Parish of Creggan. He also held the lease to Liscalgot that David JACKSON held. His father had held the lease to Urker. * The following entries in the Creggan Vestry Book are interesting :----"1766. It is agreed that Thos. Ball, Esq., shall have the ground in ye church that belonged to John Ball, Esq., to renair ye seats." "Ground next to that, to Thos. Ball, Esq., to build a seat on, viz. : that ground in which the Balls are buried." 1777. "Seats confirmed to Thos. Ball, Esq., and his family for ever." Also the Silver Communion Vessels have this inscription: "The gift of John Ball, Esq., to the Church of Creggan in ye County of Armagh. Fehy., ye 8, 1739." In 1741 Thom. Ball, Esq., was churchwarden. (Information received by kindness of Revd. Gordon Scott, Rector of Creggan). Another part of the backstory with respect to JACKSON connections and Urker is interesting: Lieut. Thomas Ball, of Fleetwood's Regt., received grants of land in several counties of Ireland, which were confirmed under the Act of Settlement. In Crickstown, barony of Ratoath, he received "a mansion house, orchard, garden, and groves,'' and land in Westmeath; also Loughgarmore, Loughross, Cullyhanna, Orker [aka Urker], in the psh. of Creggan, Co. Armagh, and land in Co. Kerry, to the use of Daniel and Sarah Jackson. In the Co. Armagh Hearth Money Roll for 1664, Barony of Fewes, Glassdromyn, Thos. Ball paid 4s. for 2 hearths. A Deed of 9 June, 1669, records the sale of lands in Orior Barony by Richd. Whaley to Thomas Ball of Glassdromyn; witness, John Ball. He was made a J .P. for the Co. Louth on June 13th, 1672. He died intestate at Glassdrummin, Co. Armagh, in 1674. His widow, Frances Ball, alias Pridgeon, took out administration in the Prerogative Court on the 13th Novr., 1674, when the tutelage of the bodies and persons, goods, &c., of Thomas, John, Abraham, Samuel, Martha, Frances, Mary, and Elizabeth Ball, minors, Thomas's children, was committed to their mother. On the petition of James Donaldson, Esq., and Frances, his wife, relict of Thomas Ball, Esq., the guardians and trustees of Thomas Ball, son and heir of Thomas Ball, there was a remittal of quit rents, 22nd Feby., 1678, land in Munster, 2,936 Acres; in Ulster, 5,911 Acres. This was inrolled 23rd October, 1678. SOURCE: Rev. William Ball Wright, Ball Family Records: Genealogical Memoirs of some Ball Families of Great Britain, Ireland and America, Yorkshire Printing Co., Ltd. 1908

[2] Cullihanna aka Cullyhanna, Parish of Creggan. In 1688, about 249 acres of Tullyvallen, Parish of Creggan were granted to Thomas BALL to the use of Daniel & Sarah JACKSON. In another source, Thomas BALL of Creggan was also listed in Ferguson Certificates as having 5,253 acres as an assignee of Edward Richardson, Ellinor Blackiston, Dan Jackson, Sarah Jackson, Elisabeth Hepburne and Katherine Jones. NOTE: I still do not know how these JACKSONs connect.

[3] John JACKSON (1780-1817). At the time of this deed, he was possible just come of age – since I do not know what month he was born. His father had died four years earlier, and John was the only male child. He was assisted by George JACKSON, presumably his uncle, a lawyer based in Dublin. His parents were David JACKSON (1743-1796) and Margaret BRADFORD (1739-1820). She had twin brothers.

[4] Liscalgat, Parish of Creggan – the townland that his grandfather George JACKSON had first settled at in 1737.

[5] Urker, Parish of Creggan. John’s father was already living there with his family prior to his death in 1796.

[6] The Charter Lands were set up in connection with the school at Liscalgot.

[7] Since he was then aged about nineteen, and it seems that there had been a lease for a year, this is likely what is being referred to.

[8] Margaret JACKSON, b 1783, married Thomas McKEE with whom she had one child born after his death, and then after his death, she married John SEAWRIGHT. She died in 1810, in childbirth, age 27. Nothing is known about the child, or whether it even survived.

[9] Barbara JACKSON (1783-abt 1813) died age 30, likely also in childbirth since her third child was born in September 1813. Her Husband was Thomas STEPHENS (1773-1829), of Crossmaglen.

[10] Samuel BALL of Urker, Parish of Creggan, Co. Armagh. NOTE: In Creggan graveyard, Standing in what is known as the "Ball Enclosure", this headstone is a memorial to Elizabeth Page, daughter of Captain Sam Ball, Crossmaglen, a descendant of Thomas Ball, the military adventurer who was granted 5911 acres of land in the Baron of Upper Fews at the time of the Cromwellian Plantation. Thomas Ball may have lived at, or on the site of, "Woodvale House" for some time, as the Hearth Money Rolls of 1664 record that he paid on four hearths in the townland of Glassdrummond. "Woodvale House", occupied by the Johnstons of the Fews in the 18th. century, stood in the townland of Glassdrummond. The name of the village adjacent to the house may have been changed by the Johnstons from Ballynaclera to Ballsmill. The Ball surname is also preserved in Camlyball, a townland near Newtownhamilton.

1970 reading of inscription:"Elizabeth Page born 1807. Died 12th June 1831. This tablet a slight but tender tribute to her virtues is erected by her affectionate husband Robert Luke Page MD".  SOURCE: http://creggan1.tripod.com/CregGui4a.htm

[11] Patrick KANE of Coolderry, Co. Armagh

[12] George JACKSON (aft 1744-aft 1820), a lawyer in Dublin. It is not known if he married. He left Urker in disgrace after being involved with a daughter of a church warden.