History

These pieces, mostly riffs on material from Sentry Hill and on press clippings about my Hill relatives and their Carnmoney neighbours, needed generous help and frequent coffee from Wesley Bonar and his expert team:

Sentry Hill house and Dundee-McKinney archives: www.sentryhill.net

and from NIFHS volunteers:

North of Ireland Family History Society: www.nifhs.org

Presbyterian Historical Society: www.presbyterianhistoryireland.com

Separate pages concern three local men:

William Steel Dickson, D.D. (1744-1824) was a celebrated Carnmoney neighbour and Presbyterian minister.

Samuel Alexander Hill (1851-1890) was a Ballynure-born schoolteacher, Allahabad professor, and friend of Rudyard Kipling.

Thomas Collyns Simon (c. 1811-1883) was a tutor in the Agnew family of Kilwaughter.

Only Hill has any reputation as a scientist. But Dickson studied "black smut" crop disease, and Collyns Simon published extensively and unreliably on solar radiation, and all three are interesting.

Nothing here is published for profit, but the organisations above will welcome your support. They have copies of the articles; some (only some - there are page limits) have appeared in their newsletters and journals. The articles on S A Hill and publicans (see PDFs below) appeared in North Irish Roots.