Transcribed by Wendy Jack, footnoted by Sharon
Oddie Brown. December 17, 2003 |
Beechill
Park Ave,
Dear Mr Wright [1] , You are quite correct. Mrs Bradford [2] and Capt. Gillmer [3] were half-brother and sister. I once promised to send you a pedigree of Mrs Bradford's ancestors, and it is enclosed. It also shows how you are related to the Crozier [4] family. Through the Jackson and White [5] family you could also claim relationship with the Chichester-Clark [6] and Clark of Upperlands [7] families. An old manuscript in my possession states that William Breakey [8] was a member of the Drumskelt, Co. Monaghan, family. I have been unable to check this statement. I am still working on the pedigree, and if I can come across any new facts I will pass them on to you. I would be more than grateful if you could, at your leisure, make out a pedigree, giving dates of birth, marriage, and death of Mrs Bradford's descendants. My pedigree is woefully incomplete. Yours sincerely, Aiken McClelland [9] P.S. I can verify the enclosed, if required. [1] James
Francis Wright (1902-1979)
[2] Elizabeth
Bradford née Breakey, daughter of William Breakey & Elizabeth Birch
[3] Capt.
Gillmer is Eliezer Birch Gillmer (1763-1834) He was an officer in East
India Company and fought at Seringapatam.
[4] The Crozier
family connection is one I have yet to learn about.
[5] The White
family connection, I also know nothing of - although it may be due to Jane WHITE, wife of Jackson CLARK..
[6] Chichester-Clark,
ignorance on my part here too.
[7] Clark
of Upperlands also signals another area for research - Jackson CLARK will likely be the link. Jackson Clark of Maghera, County Londonderry,was bornabt. 1698,and was a son of John Clark and Jane (nee White). He married in1720, and had 4 sons, 4 daughters. His will was dated 20 Nov 1754.
[8] William
Breakey died before 1760
[9] Aiken
McClelland. The archives at PRONI include the Aiken McClelland
papers D/3815, T/1752, T/2362, T/2046, D/2108, T/2917) These papers include:
"research undertaken by Aiken McClelland himself, the majority of
which was of a genealogical nature. These include approximately 140 notebooks
with information relating to William Johnston of Ballykilbeg, Co. Down,
the prominent Orangeman and Conservative M.P. for Belfast, 1868-1878,
the Rev. David Stewart, and research into the family trees and background
of the Birch and Ledlie families. Other (slightly extraneous) items include:
12 title deeds, legal case papers and wills, dating from 1810 to 1925,
relating to William Johnston and his property at Ballykilbeg; transcribed
minute books of the Dublin Protestant Association, 1861-1864, of the Greyabbey
Graveyard Committee, 1872-1893, and of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland,
1798; and a bundle of 25 typed essays by the writer, Cathal O'Byrne, 1965-1970." |
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