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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Margaret Anna Beckett: Birth: 16 NOV 1853 in Co., Antrim, Ireland. Death: 23 JAN 1947 in Ballinderry, Co., Antrim, Ireland

  2. Thomas William Beckett: Birth: 30 DEC 1853 in Ballinderry, Co., Antrim, Ireland. Death: 12 MAR 1952 in Co., Antrim, Ireland

  3. Walter Matthew Beckett: Birth: 16 FEB 1855 in Ballinderry, Co., Antrim, Ireland. Death: 12 MAR 1952 in Co., Antrim, Ireland

  4. Joseph Beckett: Birth: 22 MAY 1857 in Ballinderry, Co., Antrim, Ireland. Death: 2 AUG 1933 in Jarrahwood, Western Australia

  5. Samuel Beckett: Birth: 14 MAR 1860 in Ballinderry, Co., Antrim, Northern Ireland.

  6. John Beckett: Birth: 24 FEB 1863 in Ballymaclose, Ballinderry, Co., Antrim, Ireland.

  7. Agnas Matilda Beckett: Birth: 22 OCT 1865 in Glenavy, Co., Antrim, Ireland. Death: 28 DEC 1908 in Co., Antrim, Ireland

  8. Harriet Louisa Beckett: Birth: 24 NOV 1867 in Ballymaclose, Co., Antrim, Ireland. Death: 1907 in Belfast, Co., Antrim, Northern Ireland

  9. Sarah Jane Beckett: Birth: 25 MAY 1869 in Co., Antrim, Ireland.

  10. Sarah Lavinia Beckett: Birth: 30 MAY 1870 in Ballymaclose, Ballinderry, Co., Antrim, Ireland.


Notes
a. Note:   Matilda, and Mary the aunt who could not see her leave with her parents and siblings to America.
 It is believed that Mary was mentally handicapped.
 34 AGHADAVY TOWNLAND , Ballinderry Co., Antrim (1851)
 ELIZABETH BECKETT, HEAD, W, 80, NONE, Ant,
 MARY BECKETT , DAUGHTER, U, 48, SPINSTER, Ant,
 MATILDA BECKETT , GRANDDAUGHTER, U, 16, MANTUAMAKER, Ant.
  It is believed John Beckett and Matilda Beckett eloped. Since Matilda was
 already promised to another older man, thought to be a different "cousin."
  The story still told in Ireland today, is that two "Aunts" seeing Matilda going
 down the road on a weekday, dressed in her Sunday best, commented to each
 other: " Wonder where Matilda is going, do you suppose she is off with that John
 Beckett."
  Today in Ireland, relatives still talk of Matilda's wit, sharp tongue when she needed it,
 perseverance, a woman who stood her ground.
  According to this census, Matilda would have been born in 1835, rather than
 in 1829. The birth date, February 17, 1829 is her family record, noted on daughter Agnas
 Matilda's Beckett as lived to the age of 97.
 This will stand as printed and noted here. RJB


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