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Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary Beckett: Birth: ABT 1787 in "Fairy Hill", Ballinderry, Co., Antrim, Northern Ireland. Death: 1837 in Co., Antrim, Ireland

  2. William Beckett: Birth: OCT 1787 in "Fairy Hill", Ballinderry, Co., Antrim, Northern Ireland. Death: 6 OCT 1868 in Boggsville, Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania

  3. Helena Beckett: Birth: 1789 in "Fairy Hill" Ballinderry, Co., Antrim, Northern Ireland. Death: MAR 1875 in Freeport, Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania

  4. Anna Jane Beckett: Birth: ABT 1795 in "Fairy Hill", Ballinderry, Co., Antrim, Northern Ireland. Death: in Co., Antrim, Ireland

  5. Henrietta Beckett: Birth: 7 JUN 1798 in "Fairy Hill", Ballinderry, Co., Antrim, Northern Ireland. Death: 9 MAY 1875 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

  6. Thomas Bickett: Birth: 28 DEC 1801 in "Fairy Hill", Ballinderry, Co., Antrim, Northern Ireland. Death: 15 AUG 1887 in Winfield Twp., Butler Co., Pennsylvania

  7. Matthew Bicket: Birth: 1803 in "Fairy Hill", Ballinderry, Co., Antrim, Northern Ireland. Death: 3 FEB 1895 in Clinton Twp., Butler Co., Pennsylvania

  8. Eliza Beckett: Birth: 1 FEB 1803 in "Fairy Hill" Ballinderry, Co., Antrim, Northern Ireland. Death: 18 JAN 1855 in Strongstown, Indiana Co., Pennsylvania

  9. Margaret Beckett: Birth: 31 OCT 1810 in "Fairy Hill", Ballinderry, Co., Antrim, Northern Ireland. Death: 7 MAR 1895 in Mt. Ayr, Ringgold Co., Iowa


Notes
a. Note:   See the diary of his grandson, Samuel Martin who was born on December 16, 1818, their voyage to Canada, then to USA in 1823.
  Lord Hertford's records supply us with many facts, and from 1611 onwards these may be more easily ascertained. Tenants rolls are available and many old maps are clearly marked, the smallest cottage being shown.
 An interesting event happened at Lord Hertford's hunting lodge. AI the western corner of the Parish is a fertile coastal strip dividing Lough Neagh from the bogland. On this stands the Deerpark, which was once surrounded by a high wall l2-I5 feet high, and where Lord Hertford kept a herd of deer. One calm day a huge oak tree fell, the girth of which was so vast that two men on horseback holding long sticks could not make them meet across it. The trunk was taken away by boat and used for the keel of the famous battleship, the Royal Oak - the branches were used for building at Portmore.
 The surrounding land, being low-lying, in periods of flood, the raised ground became an island and many of these so-called islands retain the name ' Island, such as Branken's Island and the Island Hill. Branken's Island was used by Lord Hertford for duck shooting. It is thought by some authorities that Bracken was a Dutch engineer, spelt Vranken, who was employed by Lord Hertford to improve his estate and to drain the land.
  In 'Heterogenea or Medley' by J. M. Johnston, written in 1803, is an interesting account of Aghalee district.
 `Some of the tenants farming here at this time were called:- Gresham, Higginson, Waring, Close, Bullmer, Bunting, Charlton, Aprichard, Gwilliams, Haddock, Wheeler, Garrett, Bennet, Gregory, Willis, Shillington, Hammond, Moore, Richardson, Clark, Smyth, Peel, Bickett, Lamb and Carter etc.'
 'The estate is in an oval form from Clogher in the Co., of Down to Hogpark Point in the Co., of Antrim and about ten miles in breadth from near Moira to Crumlin. It is one of the most populous, best improved, and occupied by the most wealthy and substantial yeomanry of any perhaps in Ireland. The farms are in general 20-100 and 200 acres. The houses are neat and in general white, surrounded by fields well cultivated and well planted, much after the English fashion, the tenantry being descended from Englishmen in general, and follow the customs, manners, industry and religion of their ancestors


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