Samuel Palmer [my Dad’s grandfather] married a Rachel Kinnon [Kinnen sometimes] on 23/06/1877 in St Comgall's RC Church, Antrim. Click on the Certificate we requested from the priest. We can see a Mary Palmer from Islandbawn is a witness which we think may be another sister of Sam.
Samuel
was noted [on the civil record] to be working as a Railway Porter and he lived in Dunadry [A
station used to be here; see photo below].
We find out later that he worked as a porter from 1870 [when
was 22].
The civil marriage ceremony [after the church one] took place on the 27/06/1877 [Antrim Roman Catholic, Grange of Muckamore, Co Antrim]. In the Church Records we find it interesting to note that Rachel Kinnon was described as a Convert. There are records of Presbyterian Kinnens/ons in the Muckamore area. It notes exactly on the computer database that ‘Wife Convert Husband a Heretic Father from Islandbawn’. We want to check the original record to see if this means Sam or his father was a heretic [which might be a Protestant].