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Sorry for resurrecting this again - I found a Lightbody who has some compelling evidence of being connected to the Lightbodys here. She definitely appears to be connected to me. She may be sister to Mary and James, and aunt of Charlotte. I did an Ancestry.com DNA test, and found four...

I’ve been able to find information as far back as 1820 for most of my ancestors, but there’s one branch that I can’t find anything about. My great grandmother was Charlotte Lightbody and I’m 100% certain she is the person mentioned in the following thread. I commented on that thread a while ago...

I should really stop hijacking this thread and post a separate query. I did so just to see if I could get more information about the Lightbodys, the same ones that Dave was investigating. They're the one branch of my father's side of the family that I have sparse information on. I'm 100%...

In case you’re interested, I found two records of marriage for James Lightbody in Killinchy, Co Down in the 1840s. Killinchy is about 12 miles from Ballynahinch. First was in 1842 to Jane Gibson in Second Presbyterian Church, Killinchy. Second in 1845 to Anne Gordon. Hard to know if either is...

Yes, half the men are called John or James (although there are too many called Francis and William among the Lindens), and half the women are called Mary or Ellen. Also the Famine probably caused a lot of disruption even in Ulster, and the loss of all the pre-1901 census records makes it much...

Francis Linden from Ballynahinch was my great grandfather, and married Charlotte Lightbody in 1886. Ballymaglave is part of Ballynahinch so it’s almost certain these are the same people. According to family lore, Francis was an employee of the Lightbody family and eloped with Charlotte. Since...