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Grant, James (1897-1914); Identified + grave located
Topic Started: Jan 8 2011, 06:14 PM (11,232 Views)
steve

Awesome.

Decided the other night with this one to just stare down the Google archives page of the Herald until it buckled and gave me what I wanted. Seems to have paid off.
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steve

Dianogah
Feb 14 2011, 02:04 PM
It's in the mitchell

Will take a wander down later today
You've probably left by now, but it's just occurred to me that (based on nothing other than SaintMartin's post and having done no research at all) Tom Colgan could be there too?
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Dianogah
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Schoolboy error. Wrong parish. Has all the ones for Country Down, but not Antrim

Next port of call is trying to get obit in local paper
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http://www.libraryireland.com/UlsterDirectory1910/Toomebridge.php

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Toomebridge, County Antrim

From the Belfast and Ulster Towns Directory for 1910

« Templepatrick | Contents | Trillick »

TOOMEBRIDGE, CO. ANTRIM.

36 miles from Belfast by rail. Petty Sessions District of Toome, Quarter Sessions District of Antrim, Union of Ballymena, Barony of Upper Toome, and Parliamentary Division of South Antrim. The area is estimated at 10 acres, and the population at 210. There is a market on Tuesdays for the sale of agricultural produce; a flourishing cattle fair the second Tuesday of each month, and hiring fairs on each Tuesday in May and November

POST OFFICE, with Money Order and Telegraph Departments and Savings Bank

—William Ellis, postmaster

Royal , Irish Constabulary—James Smith, sergeant.
Dispensary Medical Officer—Dr. Mewhirter, registrar of births, deaths, and marriages
Midland Railway (N.C.C.)—James Gillespie, stationmaster
Inland Navigation—John M'Connell, locks inspector
Foyle and Bann Fishery Co.—Andrew King, inspector
Northern Banking Company (open on Tuesdays)—Mr. Hanna, manager

MAGISTRATES

Colonel S. A. M. Bruce, John Keenan, William Holmes, R.M.; B. Meenan, James Grant, Thomas A. Kelly, Dr. R. Love, J. P. Butler
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in 1910, toomebridge had a population of 210, and the only Grants there were

Grant, Francis, proprietor Tourist and O'Neill Arms Hotel
Grant, James, J.P., Toome house
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Also, in the 1911 census, James Grant is listed as being a Keiselguhr Merchant

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Kieselguhr, a diatomaceous earth (diatomite) is a form of silica composed of the siliceous shells of unicellular aquatic plants of microscopic size. Kieselguhr is heat resistant and has been used as an insulator, as a component in toothpaste and as an abrasive in metal polishes. In the chemical industry, it is also used as a filter to clarify syrups and sugar and as a filling material in paper, paints, ceramics, soap and detergents.



http://www.diatomsireland.com/fossil-subfossil-toome-bridge/diatomite-at-toome-bridge/

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Diatomite was first discovered in lands adjoining the River Bann in the townland of Ballynease near Portglenone in or about the year 1855. Locally it was referred to as Bann Clay and used in the manufacture of bricks for the building trade, known as Culbann Brick.


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On enquiring, "What sort of peat is that?" He was informed rather sharply by one of the cutters, "That's not peat, that's Diatomite!" or what is pronounced "Kieselguhr" in German.



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Diatomite was first discovered in lands adjoining the River Bann in the townland of Ballynease near Portglenone in or about the year 1855. Locally it was referred to as Bann Clay and used in the manufacture of bricks for the building trade, known as Culbann Brick.

In 1898, the Grant Brothers of Toomebridge on finding deposits on their lands, took its uses further, in that they developed its insulating properties. The machinery used to reduce the Diatomite to powdered form was housed in a factory erected by them on a site situated to the rear of where the present RUC Station now stands. They operated a successful business here until 1914 when they sold out to the United Kingdom Peat, Moss, and Litter Co. Ltd., which was owned by a Mr. James Stott, an Englishman who settled in Toome and on his death was laid to rest in Duneane Parish Graveyard.


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Frank Quinn the Company's General Manager then began a search for larger and better quality seams of Diatomite. In this he had much success, as he found a large areas of the mineral in the townland of Creagh, together with deposits on land belonging to Mr. Hunter of Brecart, also on lands the property of Frank, Neill and John Grant all of Toomebridge.


Edited by Dianogah, Feb 16 2011, 05:37 PM.
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Here are the other Grants in 1911 in toomebridge

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Toome/Toome/125268/

Grant Francis 61 Male Head of Family Roman Catholic Co Antrim Hotel Keeper Read and write - Widower - - - -
Grant Nellie 30 Female Daughter Roman Catholic England - Read and write - Single - - - -
Grant Mary 25 Female Daughter Roman Catholic Scotland - Read and write - Single - - - -
Grant Annie 21 Female Daughter Roman Catholic Scotland - Read and write - Single - - - -
Grant Joseph 19 Male Son Roman Catholic Scotland - Read and write - Single - - - -
Grant Bridget 17 Female Daughter Roman Catholic Co Antrim Scholar Read and write - Single
Grant Francis D Male Grand Son Roman Catholic Belfast City Antrim -
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And here is an Antrim Builders Provider called James Grant & Co Ltd

James Grant & Co Ltd
Address:
Unit 6 Windsor Business Park
Boucher Place
Belfast
Antrim
BT12 6HT
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SaintMartin
Feb 13 2011, 07:26 PM
The Toomebridge Connection.

The Toomebridge connection is complex but important. Tom Colgan had married in 1906, a daughter of James Grant, whose family roots were in Toomebridge. However Mrs Colgan died on the birth of their daughter Mary a short time later. From a young age Mary lived at Toome House, Toomebridge with her aunt and uncle, Neil and Felcia Grant, both of whom were unmarried. From the 1920s to the 1950s Mary and her aunt Felicia would make occasional expeditions to Glasgow for major Celtic occasions although according to surviving relatives the ladies interest in the sport was distinctly limited. Mary's cousin Brian Grant recalls joining in those expeditions which took the Toomebridge party to the Bank resturant before and after the game, on to the team bus and even into the dressing rooms! When Tom Colgan retired both from business in Glasgow and as a Celtic director in 1940 he took up residence in Toome House with his daughter and the Grants. He died in 1946 and the Colgan's shares were left to Mary who thus became, when the transfer was completed in 1949, the holder of 1103 fully paid and 1150 part paid shares making her the third force in Celtic behind only the Kellys and the Whites.

From Celtic A Century With Honour by Brian Wilson.
This post confirms

1) the James grant listed in the 1910 Toomebridge list is ours (toome house)
2) the other Grants in toomebeidge (from the census) are related
3) The grant family (now we know they are the one family) were involved in the diatomite trade


Ps here is toome house

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=Toome+House,Main+St,Toomebridge,Antrim,County+Antrim,BT41+3TF&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=Toome+House,Main+St,Toomebridge&hnear=Antrim,+County+Antrim+BT41+3TF&ei=_QhcTeCWE4TLhAfaj4SYDQ&sa=X&oi=local_group&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CAsQtgMwAA
Edited by Dianogah, Feb 16 2011, 06:29 PM.
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CelticIreland

Steve and Dianogah.

:notworthy: :notworthy:

Mon the Toomebridge Connection.
(I've got an aunt lives there and some cousins)

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