Tulleygarley - the next generation's tragedy

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The next set of dates researched by our Antrim friend were those of the children of James Spence McIlhagga. They are as follows:

Mary Ann (Mai), 17 Oct 1906 - 2 May 1971;
William, 24 Nov 1907 - 16 Feb 1980;
John, 16 Jun 1090 - 2 Oct 1975 (who married Jean who died 29 Mar 1998);
Samuel, 4 Dec 1910 - 25 Mar 1984 (who married Jessie Elizabeth who died 25 Jan 1995);
Lizzie, 14 Sep 1912 - 29 Sep 1997;
James, 8 Aug 1914 - 6 Jun 1972;
Robert: In my blog of 20 Mar 2010 I referred to Robert, born in 1914 and James, born in 1916. It seems that James was actually born in 1914 and no reference has been found for a Robert, son of James Spence McIlhagga.

We now come to the offspring of the other children of William McIlhagga and Mary Spence / Ross:

We can confirm that the children of Andrew (who married Sarah Pattali Wilson) were:

Liston Burns McIlhagga, 221 Nov 1918 - 20 Jan 2006;
William, 2 May 1922 - 27 Oct 1992.

The children of Robert (who married Annie Lowry) were:

John (Jack), 11 Nov 1914 - 19 Feb 1982;
Robert, 8 Jun 1916 - 6 Jun 1977;
Andrew, 22 Mar 1918 - 15 Jun 1955;
William, 6 Jun 1920 - 6 May 1997;
Samuel Robert, 22 Jun 1922 - 16 Feb 1998;
Jean Crowe (Ferguson), b.c. 1925 - 6 Sep 2007, Ballymena.

The children of Jeanie (Who married Aaron Scott Crowe) were

William Crowe, 18 Mar 1920 - 21 Dec 1985;
Samuel Crowe, 29 Dec 1921 - c.1988.

Finally the children of  Samuel Robert, (married to Kathleen Baillie, who died 29 Mar 1982) and grandchildren of Robert and Annie (nee Lowry) McIlhagga, were:

Robert Ronald (Ronnie), born 28 Jan 1949;
Brian Thomas Charles, 12 Jan 1950 - 14 Mar 1953.

One poignant discovery has been the death of little Brian, above, aged 3. He died tragically in a hayshed fire at the family home at Cromkill, near Ballymena. He is buried in the same grave as his grandparents, Robert and Annie McIlhagga, and his uncle Andrew. Elizabeth (Betty), daughter of Samuel and Jessie Elizabeth McIlhagga and grand-daughter of James Spence McIlhagga, who died 30 Mar 1990 aged 49, is buried with her parents in Ballymena Cemetery.