Anne Beck

Other Events:

• Occupation: Linen Merchant
• Newspaper: 10 Feb 1870; The Belfast News-Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), 10 February 1870

Notes:

A fairly flamboyant character who in 1848 went to California as a result of the "Gold Rush". He apparently did very well and on his return set up in business, eventually owning a large mill and building Garvaghy House, Portadown and living in splendour there. The business receipts refer to "Manufacturers of Cambric Handkerchiefs". He was buried in Seagoe Parish Churchyard, leaving male issue two sons: Hugh and Paul. (Source: Information received from Alan C. Beck including phamplet - John W. Beck, A.M.I.E.E., "Beck of Northern Ireland", 1931)

Newspaper:

Beck-February 8, at his residence, Garvaghy House, Portedown, Mr. Archibald Beck. his remains will be removed by Interment in Seagoe Burying ground, on the (Thursday) afternoon, at three o'clock.

Archibald married Elizabeth Bullick on 25 Oct 1853 in Seagoe, County Armagh, Ireland. Elizabeth was born on 23 Apr 1829 in Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland; died on 12 Jul 1912 in Sydenham, County Antrim, Ireland; was buried in Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Newspaper: Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom; Death Notice; Address:
  The Belfast News-Letter. Belfast

Notes:

Newspaper:

Beck--December 19, at Edenderry Cottage, near Belfast, Elizsa, relict of the late Mr. Hugh Beck, formerly of Banbridge, age 72 years.

Notes:

Married:
Seagoe Parish Church

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• Census: 1821, Drumnahaire and Greenan, Loughbrickland, County Down, Ireland
• Occupation: 1821; Farmer & grain merchant

Notes:

Hugh Beck, the sixth son of William Beck of Cascum, Loughbrickland, was born in 1788, and in 1821 per Census Returns he was engaged as farmer and grain merchant at Drumnahaire and Greenan, Loughbrickland. He was then 33 years of age, and later, in the 1831 Census Returns, he was in business as a grain merchant at Armagh City, which he continued until his death on December 14, 1850. He married in 1813 Elizabeth, daughter of John McClelland of Greenan, Loughbrickland, who died at Beersbridge House, Belfast, on December 19, 1862. He left three sons and three daughters. (Source: John W. Beck, A.M.I.E.E., "Beck of Northern Ireland", 1931)

Hugh married Elizabeth McClelland in 1814 in Ireland. Elizabeth was born in 1790 in Loughbrickland, County Down, Ireland; died on 19 Dec 1862 in Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland; was buried in Banbridge, County Down, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Newspaper: 24 Dec 1862; The Belfast News-Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), 24 December 1862, p2: Death

Notes:

Newspaper:

DEATHS
Beck—December 19, at Cottage, near Belfast, Eliza, relict of the late Mr. Hugh Beck, formerly of Banbridge, aged 72 years.

Other Events:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Birth: 1743, Ballyguniham, Parish of Donacloney, County Down, Ireland
• Will: 3 Nov 1825; proven 23 January 1828 in Dromore Diocesan Court

Notes:

William Beck, born at Ballyguniham, Donacloney, 1743, and later settled at Cascum Loughbrickland, 1769. The lease of the property was renewed in 1789 for the lives of William Beck, his son John Beck, and the then Prince of Wales. He was still resident at Cascum in 1821, being then 78 years of age, dying there on September 16, 1827. He was buried in Loughbrickland Presbyterian Graveyard. in his will, dated November 3, 1825 and proved at Dromore Diocesan Court on January 23, 1828, he mentions his sons William, Alexander, Hugh, John and Joseph, his grandson John Haddon Beck, and his son-in-law, Moses Woods, and appoints his "kinsman and friend" Robert Beck of Clay one of the executors. his wife, nee Margaret Hanna of Shankhill, Aghaderg, died on May 18, 1810. He left issue six sons and one daughter. (Source: John W. Beck, A.M.I.E.E., "Beck of Northern Ireland", 1931)

Extract of WILL
William Beck of Cascum, Parish of Aghaderg, County Down. Dated 3 November 1825.
To son William £25. To son Alexander £20. To son-in-law Moses Woods £10. To son Hugh £25. To granddaughter Jane Woods. £5. To grandson John Haddon Beck £10, with loom now out on hire. To son John farm at Cloverhill. Residue, farm at Cascum, crops thereon, stock, cattle, farming utensils, dwelling-house and furniture to son Joseph Beck.

Executors: (1) Robert Beck of Clay, kinsman, (2) John McClelland of Cloverhill.
Witnesses: Mary Hamilton, Isaac Parker, William Donaldson.
Probate granted to Jhn McClelland and James Hamilton at Diocesan Court of Dromore on 23 January 1828.

William married Margaret Hanna about 1760. Margaret (daughter of James Hanna and Nancy _____) was born in 1740; died on 18 May 1810. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
of Shankill, Aghaderg, Down, Ireland