Old Burying Ground at Billy

Gravestone Inscriptions at the old burying ground beside Billy Parish Church in North Antrim

These pages are experimental and part of a project by John A I McCurdy, Shane McCurdy and Norman Parkes to catalogue the cemetery. For convenience of presentation and updating, the burying ground to the south of the Parish Church has been divided into 9 sectors. There is a detailed plan (due to John McCurdy) showing the locations of the stones at the bottom of each sector of inscriptions and an approximate plan of the sectors on this page. Inscriptions checked and edited by Ian Page, 2004.

There are some items of background material from John McCurdy:

The Parish and People of Billy

Previous Records of Inscriptions

Outline plan of the sectors of the old Burying Ground

South West

Aken, Anderson, Babington, Beers, Brown, Campbell, Dinsmore, Douglass, Elliott, Fall, Forgie, Fullerton, Gilmour, Hill, Ininch?, McCarroll, McCaw, McComb, McCurdy, McFarland, McLean, Moor, Moore, O'Quin, Parkhill, Pollock, Robertson, Stewart, Taggart, Taggert, Twaddle, Wales, Weir, Young, unreadable.

Centre West

Anderson, Corkadell, Corkydall, Cvrdie, Dickey, Hatty, Heaney, Hoggart, Howard, Huey, Hunter, Kerr, Knox, Martin, McConachie, McConaughey, McConaghy, McCurdy, McCvrdie, McFadden, McFall, McKendry, McKinney, McLeese, McMichael, McNeill, Moore, Reid, Richmond, Ross, Thompson, Wallace, Wilkinson.

North West

Bell, Boyd, Camac, Cunningham, Curry, Darragh, Ferguson, Fletcher, Hill, Hunter, Kane, Laughlan, Laverty, Magee, McBride, McConaghy, McConaughy, McCurdy, McFadden, McKay, McKeown, McKinlay, McLean, McQuillan, McVicker, Mogey, Moore, Mullin, Rankin, Shannon, Stewart, Tweed, Walker, Wallace.

Centre South

Black, Boyd, Brown, Campbell, Cathcart, Diamond, Farrow, Forsythe, Hatley, Haughey, Holliday, Howard, Humes, Kane, Kelly, Lighton, Longmoor(e), Magee, Macaw, McConaghy, McCurdy, McFerson, McGown, McIntyre, McKeeman, McKendry, McMullan, Murphy, Patterson, Smith, Stewart, unreadable.

Centre Centre

Anderson, Boyle, Carnegy, Clarke, Currie, Curry, Fullerton, Getty, Graham, Hatt(e)y, Johnston, Kerr, Laughlin?, Leighton, McAlister, McAuley, McCaige, McCaughin, McCaw, McCurdy, McKay, McKeigt, McKinley, McLaughlin, McNeill, McNinch, Mogey, Patterson, Reid, Ross, Sinclair, Steel(e), Taylor, Twadel, Wallace.

Centre North

Antoinett, Auld, Boyd, Campbell, Canning, Cannon, Christie, Clark, Clements, Cooke, Cunningham, Curry, Dougherty, Douglas, Fitzgerald, French, Gayer, Getty, Gregg, Hamill, Haughey, Heaney, Huston, Johnston, Kane, Kerr, Laverty, Lloyd, Magee, Maybin, McAleely, McAl(l)ister, M'Caughan, McCurdy, McElroy, McKaughan, McKeague, McKeeman, McKendry, McKeown, McMullan, McNeil(e), McPharson, McQuade, Moor(e), O'Brien, Pollock, Reid, Smyth, Todd, Trail, White, Wray, unreadable.

South East

Adams, Craig, Dixon, Forgie, Haughey, Hill, Kirkpatrick, Laverty, Magee, McCurdy, McFaddin(?), McIlroy, McKeown, McPherson, Park, Scally, Stewart, Taggart, Todd, Wilmot, unreadable.

Centre East

Biggart, Davis, Dinsmore, Forgie, Hunter, Kerr, McCaw, McCollam, McIntyre, Semple, Sharpe, Sweeney, Twaddle.

North East

Achison, Alexander, Anderson, Auld, Black, Cal(l)aghan, Cazier, Curry, Hanna, Jackson, Kerr, Magee, Martin, McAfee, McCarrel, McCaw, McClain, McClean, McConaghy, McCurdy, McDuffee, McIvor, McMullan, McNeill.

The new burying ground is to the south of the old and there are some graves around the church building at the north of the site.

Pages updated 17 March 2004 Norman Parkes