Mary Helen (Neill) Moore (1894)

Born 1894 in Newtownards, County Down, Ireland

Ancestors

Wife of William Moore — married 1914 in Newtownards, County Down, Ireland

Descendants

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Biography

Mary Helen Neill was born Newtownards 1894. ^[1]

She was the third daughter of James Neill & Mary Campbell. ^[2]

She married William Moore^[3], Newtownards 1914^[4].

"Mary Bella and James Neill’s daughter Helen married William Moore, - farmer and land-owner near Bangor, Co Down. They had three daughters of whom the eldest, Maureen, married J R (Rex) Dick, - they met at Trinity College Dublin. Rex and Maureen were my parents. The third of William and Helen’s daughters, Betty, married a cousin Charles Neill, - bottom left of the family tree in Ian Wilson’s book." ^[5]

Sources

• Census of Ireland, 1901, http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Down/Bangor/Sandy_Row/1253315/

1. ↑ "Ireland Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FBFM-J2V : 4 December 2014), BIRTHS entry for Mary Helen Neill; citing Newtownards, Oct - Dec 1894, vol. 1, p. 732, General Registry, Custom House, Dublin; FHL microfilm 101,065.
2. ↑ Neills of Bangor, by Ian Wilson, http://neillorguk.weebly.com/a-history-neills-of-bangor/part-two-21

   James Neill, trading as Robert Neill and Sons, had married again after his first wife Sarah Mulcaster died. His second marriage was to Mary Bella Campbell (1851-1930), and they had eight children between 1880 and 1894, commencing with Amy in 1880 and Rose in 1882. Then followed five boys, Robert Campbell, who died young in 1921; James Wilson, who later emigrated to Canada; John Ferguson, William Campbell and Samuel Dodd, and finally a third girl, Helen, in 1894.

3. ↑ Death of her father James Neill, The Witness, 22 January 1915, Deaths, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~econnolly/twextracts/tw19150100.html
4. ↑ "Ireland Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FYDR-X61 : 4 December 2014), MARRIAGES entry for Mary Helena Neill; citing Newtownards, Jul - Sep 1914, vol. 1, p. 1096, General Registry, Custom House, Dublin; FHL microfilm 101,262.
5. ↑ Grandson, email to Philip Broughton-Mills, 22 October 2019.