Samuel and John McBriar: From Co. down to New ZealandAuthor(s): John BassettSource: North Irish Roots, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2001), p. 29Published by: North of Ireland Family History Society (NIFHS)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27697392 .

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SAMUEL AND JOHN McBRIAR -

FROM CO. DOWN TO NEW ZEALAND

Offered by John Bassett, Member B 0114

Extracted from Cyclopedia of New Zealand - Volume 3, Canterbury, Published 1903.

McBriar, Samuel and John, Farmers, "Mealough", West Oxford. The j^^^mm senior partner in this firm was born at Mealough, County Down, ̂ y^^^^^^^M

Ireland, on the 15th of August, 1831, and was brought up to country B ^^^^?P

The junior partner was born in the same place on the 8th of November, M^^^Mi^ ^;:^^M 1840. Both brothers came to New Zealand by the ship "Canterbury", ̂ ^^H|^B which arrived in Lyttelton on the 9th of January, 1864. WHB^^3bJ^!

In March of the following year they settled at West Oxford, and ^^^^^^BJ^?MK purchased fifty acres of open land, where they resided for eleven

f??H years. In 1878 they built a comfortable homestead, at which they ̂ ^^Bl|j^|||^^ have since resided, and where they have twenty-one acres of land. A niece of the members of the firm, Miss Agnes Rainey, came out with her uncles, and has

kept house for them ever since.

CEMETERY LINKS LONELY HEADSTONES IN IRISH CHURCHYARDS

Mel McGuirk

In the cemetery of the old Roman Catholic Church in Carrickmore, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland I found one headstone for both:

McGURK, Patrick, born ? died 1910? and

McGURK, Brigid, born ? died 1915?

I was told there was no one left to take care of this

large, once beautiful headstone that at one time held an equally large Celtic cross. Family members have long since taken off for parts unknown. I felt

sorry for it, not wanting it looking so forlorn and

forgotten during the annual Cemetery Sunday outdoor mass (held while I was there, mid-August 2000), so I took it upon myself that Sunday, dressing it up a bit with some flowers, as the picture shows

In the cemetery by the Old Killaghtee Church,

County Donegal, Ireland, I found one headstone for all those named below:

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