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Rea/Rae of Ballynahinch, Holywood and Allied Families

Rea/Rae of Ballynahinch, Holywood and Allied Families

Gary Rea (View posts)
Posted: 10 Jan 2003 2:02PM GMT
Classification: Query
Does anyone have, or know where I can obtain, a copy of "Rea/Rae of Ballynahinch, Holywood and Allied Families," which was supposedly located at or published by the University of California in 1980? I'm not sure if it's a book, or if it's in microform.

Gary

Re: Rea/Rae of Ballynahinch, Holywood and Allied Families

Posted: 27 Feb 2003 3:33AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 25 Sep 2003 8:03AM GMT
Gary, I believe I have this. It is only a few pages. Keep my email and I'll find it in my files. I have just come home from a trip.

Re: Rea/Rae of Ballynahinch, Holywood and Allied Families

Posted: 12 Oct 2013 2:03AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Rae
If 10 years later is not too late, I have a copy of Mary Osborne's Raes of Ballynahinch book. She was my third cousin, and died in 2007. Also, PRONI has a copy, and the Ballynahinch public library bought 2 copies. Mostly, they are in the hands of relatives who contributed to the book. The LDS in Salt Lake City may have a copy, since Mary did a fair amount of research there.

Re: Rea/Rae of Ballynahinch, Holywood and Allied Families

Posted: 4 Jan 2014 3:23AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: REA
Kenneth - do you still have the Rea book? I have been looking for a copy. my home email is Emerald2393@gmail.com

Re: Rea/Rae of Ballynahinch, Holywood and Allied Families

Posted: 4 Jan 2014 3:25AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: REA
Hi

would you still have a copy of this book.

Re: Rea/Rae of Ballynahinch, Holywood and Allied Families

Posted: 11 Jan 2014 8:46PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Rae
I wish I could say that Mary Osborne’s “Rea of Ballynahinch” book was a well organized generation by generation genealogy like Ray Jones’s “Ulster Pedigrees,” but it is not.

It is strongest in listing all known descendants of Hugh Rea (1749-1822) and his wife Margaret McKelvey of Ballynahinch, which easily number in the hundreds. It is also quite strong on research into Reas of colonial America and the early 19th century, plus research into Rea emigrants to Australia and New Zealand.

Mary had a considerable amount of correspondence around 1970 with J. Harris (Jack) Rea of Banbridge who researched land records in an effort to close the gap between Hugh Rea b. 1749, and the well documented David Rea, born 1672 and buried in the Saintfield Church of Ireland churchyard, as are many of my Garrett, Porter and McCullough ancestors.

The book does contain a great deal of information, but Mary chose an often hard to follow method of organization based on Roman numerals to indicate family groupings as well as generations, so if at all possible, I recommend spending some time with PRONI’s copy, or hopefully the Ballynahinch public library still has the two copies that they ordered years ago.

I can probably be of most assistance if you can give me a few names and dates in the 19th century, and I’ll see if they are in the book, and if so, how far back they are traced. The best documented related families are probably the McElveens, Armstrongs and Smylies.

I have added some of these Reas to by ancestry.com tree

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/24333383

along with five source documents under the Hugh Rea b. 1811.

Ken Duzy

Re: Rea/Rae of Ballynahinch, Holywood and Allied Families

Posted: 14 Jan 2014 12:59AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello tom

I came across your posting to Gary Rea. Did you ever find a copy of the book in your files.

Lorraine

Re: Rea/Rae of Ballynahinch, Holywood and Allied Families

Posted: 14 Jan 2014 1:01AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Gary

Did you see the posting from ken, he has a copy of Mary Janes book on the rea's.

Lorraine

Re: Rea/Rae of Ballynahinch, Holywood and Allied Families

Posted: 15 Jun 2015 2:46PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello Ken,
I am interested in the book mentioned as I believe I am descended from the same family, my x3 great grandfather was David Ray/Reay and he was born in Dundonald Co Down abt 1799/1800.
His wife was a Catherine McCormick daughter of Elizabeth McCormick bc 1775 from Comber, Co Down. I have been unable to Trace any further back but the Ulster Historical Society said that there is a possibility that my family could be related to the Rea's of Magheraknock and Kileen in Co Down. Any help would be much appreciated, June Staughton

Re: Rea/Rae of Ballynahinch, Holywood and Allied Families

Posted: 16 Jun 2015 3:43AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi June- The book is long out of print but I do have a photographic copy of its pages (and permission to distribute it). However, it is more difficult to use than most self-published genealogies, so to make its information readily available, I’ve created a tree on ancestry.com based on the book for the Ballynahinch Reas. I suggest you start there. I’ll send you an invitation to the tree. I also have a few McCormicks of Ravara (near Ballygowan) born around 1800 in my own tree (Duzy-Porter) so I’ll send you an invitation to that one too. If you decide that you want images of the book, we can work out the details.

Oh, I imagine you’re aware of the UHF’s William Roulston’s work on the Reas of Ballynahinch, but if not search Google for “william roulston reconstructing” for the initial article which is updated in his book. BTW, although I live in California, I was in Saintfield this April and cleared some weeds from David Rea’s remarkably well preserved gravestone there.
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