Thursday, 26 September 2013

Jeremiah Andrews and James Gibson

The reference in the Belfast News-Letter of 14 July 1835 to Jeremiah Taylor Andrews marrying Martha Rogers seems to assume readers will be familiar with "Rev James Gibson", who conducted the wedding. But there appear to have been no James Gibsons in the Church of Ireland at this time.
However, there was a Presbyterian minister of this name associated with the Lisluney, now Lislooney, Meeting House in County Armagh - on the border with Monaghan. A Rev. James Gibson was also active in the Deaf and Dumb Society in Magherafelt. Records at PRONI only go back to 1845. Do any other records of Lislooney survive? Did either Jeremiah or Martha have any connection with Lislooney, or with James Gibson?