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Note: Beckett Surname: English: from a diminutive of Beck 3: Beck; English: topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream, from northern Middle English bekke �stream� (Old Norse bekkr).
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in northern France, for example Bec Hellouin in Eure, named with Old Norman French bec �stream�, from the same Old Norse root as in 1. English: probably a nickname for someone with a prominent nose, from Middle English beke �beak (of a bird)� (Old French bec). English: metonymic occupational name for a maker, seller, or user of mattocks or pickaxes, from Old English becca. In some cases the name may represent a survival of an Old English byname derived from this word.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a baker, a cognate of Baker, from (older) South German beck, West Yiddish bek. Some Jewish bearers of the name claim that it is an acronym of Hebrew ben-kedosh im �son of martyrs�, i.e. a name taken by one whose parents had been marty red for being Jews.
North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, from Low German Beke �stream�. Compare the High German form Bach 1.
Scandinavian: habitational name for someone from a farmstead named Bekk, B�k, or B�ck, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a stream.
English: habitational name from places called Beckett in Berkshire and Devon. The former is named with Old English beo �bee� + cot �cottage�, �shelter�; the latter has as its first element the Old English personal name Bicca. This surname is also found in Ireland.
Possibly an Americanized spelling of French B�quet (see Bequette). Variant spelling of French B�quet, a diminutive of Bec, a nickname for a gossip monger, from bec �beak�.
According to family tradition, the forefathers of the Beckett Family were Englishmen, and were members of The Church of England from the reformation. It is told that a member of this family came to Ireland under King William III and fought at the Battle of The Boyne in 1690. As a recognition for his services, he was given a tract of land in Ballinderry, Co., Antrim, Ireland, on which he erected a house of limestone with a tile roof in 1692.
Family tradition has it that Thomas Beckett came from Yorkshire or Somerset and was a Captain in King William's III Army. ( Place of English origin, as per family member) Villages of Newfield have been found in England as follows: Newfield, Co., Durham, England, about two English miles, Northwest of Chester-Le-Street, town center, Co., Durham. Newfield, Co., Durham, England, about one English mile, South of Willington, Co., Durham. (A place to look for Thomas Beckett's origin)?
The following was obtained from the listings of a six-volume set of books published
by Francis Edwards Ltd., London, England. Edited by Charles Dalton, F. R. G. S.
English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714. Volume III.
Index to commission officers, February 13, 1689 - April 23, 1694; page 135.
Peregrine, Earl of Danby, to be Col. of a Regt., of Dragoons to be raised
by the City of London. Dated W'hall, 15 July.
(Commissions of the four first troops bear date July 15, and the rest July 16, 1690)
Capts.
Earl of Danby, Col.
Tho. Paston, Lt.-Col.
Chas. King, Major
Fras. Edgeworth
Evans Jenkins
Philip Bertie
--------Stringer
--------Edgebury
Ric. Cressett
Wm. Hussey
Wm. Congrave
Chris. Billop
Lieuts.
Edwd. Jones, Capt.-Lt.
Ric. Williamson
Walter Brough
Ric. Waring
Tho. Beckett
Ric. Hanway
Jno. Wyche
Jno. Dakin
Edwd. Benskins
Lestrange Sims
Wm. Congrave (sic)
Edward Bayly and Richard (sic)
Cornets.
Morgan Barnar (d)
Hen Grimes
Hugh Smith
Henry Smith
Ric. Gore
Ric. Atkins
Rowlin Gwin
--------Woodlot
Ric. Wise
--------Harrison
--------Everden
and Richard{(sic)(Bayly)}
The Battle of The Boyne was fought on July 1, 1690, Old Calendar.
Today's Calendar, July 12, 1690.
William landed at Carrickfergus, Ireland on June 14, 1690, again Old Calendar.
Were the commission dates, the date of "filing" after the Regiment was in Ireland.
In the computer age today: The "government" sometimes has a little difficulty keeping records in order! In 1690, maybe a shortage of goose quills; fletching for arrows per coming events.
RJB.
The Middle Church
This Church of Ireland Church was built under the direction of Jeremy Taylor (1664 - 1667), Bishop of Down and Connor and Dromore from 1661. Jeremy Taylor served as chaplain with the Royal Army during the English Civil War and, to avoid imprisonment, was brought by Lord Conway to Lisnagarvey (the old name for Lisburn).
At that time, after the Reformation there was encouragement to build and improve Anglican places of worship. The construction of the Middle Church began in 1665 and it was consecrated in 1668. Its barn church simplicity is similar to Irish non-conformist churches of the period. It has straight high-backed pews made of Irish oak and a centrally placed three tier oak pulpit. There is a local tradition that the huge pew opposite the pulp it was reserved for Lord Conway. The graveyard is still the graveyard for the parish.
Although not in regular use throughout the year because of no artificial light or heating, the Middle Church is used for services at Easter, Christmas and occasional evening prayer during the summer months, including baptisms, weddings and burials.
The Middle Church has an atmosphere its own, entire puritan in style, simple and unadorned. The finest example of a plantation church in Ireland today. It is said that in no country church can better examples of the conditions under which worship was held over 300 years ago be found. The great family pews, high and uncomfortable, the old central pulpit in 3 stages, rising one above the other, where the wardens sat in the lowest section called the AMEN corner. They led the congregation in saying the Amen because in those days few people could read, so they needed to know when to say Amen.
There are no nails in the pulpit, it is held together with wooden pegs. The wide stone paved isle, the small red tiled chancel and the bell cot on the west gable are also characteristic of churches 300 years ago. The ceiling of this church with its oak beams is of great interest, it would be virtually impossible to replace all those oak beams today, the ceiling is Medieval in design, probably based on the old Portmore church.
The communion table is a plain square table, - not in the least altar like in its shape or design. There is still one piece of communion silver used in this church in the 17th century, a large chalice that bears the inscription the Ballinderry Chalice. The font is also made of a large piece of oak with a stone bowl on top. Other things worth noting are the large wooden alms box dated 1706 and the collection pans with their long wooden handles.
Middle church ceased to be the parish church in 1824 when the present parish church was consecrated. In 1822 there was a great debate in the parish as to whether Middle Church should be demolished and a new one erected on the same site or a new church be built elsewhere. Happily they decided to go elsewhere and the Middle Church survived. Then by 1900 the roof was in a bad state and Mrs. Maria Octavia, the wife of the local Squire gave the sum of �2,000 to have it renovated. If this hadn�t happened, today Middle Church would just be a roofless ruin. Graves of Beckett, and Hall families found in the Church yard.
OH! 'tis pretty to be in Ballinderry according to the well known tradition al poem which tells of a local
girl's doomed love for one Philemy Hyland.
'Tis pretty to be in Ballinderry, Pretty to be in Aghalee 'Tis prettier to be on bonny Ram's Island
A-sitting forever beneath a tree.
For often I sailed to bonny Ram's Island, Arm in arm with Phelim, my love.
"I'm going," he said, "from bonny Ram's Island Out and across the deep blue sea,
And if in your heart you love me, Mary, Open your arms at last to me.
'Twas pretty to be in Ballinderry
But now it's as sad as sad can be, For the ship that sailed with Phelim, my love,
http://www.searchforancestors.com/locality/ireland/census1851/ballinderry.html
1851 Census Return Fragments for Ballinderry, County Antrim, Ireland
Free Ireland 1851 Census Ballinderry
Genealogy documentary sources are scarce for the 18th and early 19th centuries due to the destruction by fire in 1922 of most of the public records of Ireland.
Name, Position in Household, Marital Status, Age, Occupation, Birth Pla
http://search.ancestry.com/browse/view.aspx?dbid=1025&iid=RDUK1850_901403-00061&pid=236899249&ssrc=&fn=F&ln=Beckett&st=g
BT Archives British Phone Books, 1880-1984 Record for Becket
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