Archibald Beck

Other Events:

• Education: Governess at Everton House
• Military: Between 1899 and 1901; Boer War, North Irish Horse

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Rosetta May Beck was born on 14 Sep 1918; died on 24 Mar 2009.
2. Living
3. John Beck was born in 1924; died in 1970.

Other Events:

• Occupation: Founder of Belfast Chemical Works
• Residence: 1854, Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland
• Religion: 1877; Presbyterian - senior member of Committee at Ballysillan Presbyterian
• Will: 21 Apr 1897, Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland; proven in Belfast Probate Office

Notes:

...James Alexander Beck, the second son of Hugh Beck of Loughbrickland and Armagh, was born at Drumnahaire in 1824. He was known as a very talented scholar who was sent to Dublin to study law, but apparently came home with degree and became apprenticed into the linen trade with Dunbar, Mc Master & County at Gilford (Read Maralin Cohen Linen, Family and Community in Tullylish County, Down 1690-1914 Dublin 1997). James became experiienced in the chemical process and became aware of the commerical enterprise in supplying chemicals to the trade. He settled in Belfast in 1854, and subsequently was founder and proprietor of Belfast Chemical Works, which later became James A. Beck & Son - chemical manufactures principally to the linen trade. In 1859 he purchased Everton House and Estate from the marquis of Donegal, and died there on March 1, 1897, being buried in Belfast City Cemetery. His will, dated November 3, 1895, was proved at Belfast Probate Registry on April 21, 1897, and included several charitable bequests.
...There was a history that his father died young, and that they were estranged. Neither facts are substantiated by the various researches, in fact his father died when he was 26, and probably still at home....Married into the Bullick family, as did his cousin Alexander. Created a bit of a stir by marrying his late wife's younger sister. Developed a passion for travel which was passed on to his family. (Source: Information received from Allan C. Beck, John W. Beck, A.M.I.E.E., "Beck of Northern Ireland", 1931)
...Bought: 1859, Everton House from Marquis of Donegal (Source: Information received from Alan C. Beck, email dated February 24, 2002)

James married Rosetta Bullick on 18 Apr 1876 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Rosetta (daughter of Ralph Bullick) was born on 10 Apr 1848 in Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland; died between Oct 1930 and Dec 1930 in Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• 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]

Other Events:

• 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