The Earl of Donegal's Antrim Estate
1775-1862
Marquis of Donegal’s Antrim Estate Rental (tenants arranged alphabetically)
Rent paid half yearly.
May 1775 to November 1778
Milliken, William, Ballybracken, holding 24a. 3r. 39p., paid £3 5s half yearly.
The townland of Ballybracken is located in the civil parish of Kilbride.
Vaght, John, Bulter Lane, Belfast (later Jasper Curry), holding 1a. 3r. 14p., paid £2 1s 10p.
[Source: PRONI D.835/3/1]
May 1779 to November 1783
Milliken, William, Ballybracken, holding 24a. 3r. 39p., paid £3 5s.
Milliken, Thomas, Bulter Lane, Belfast (lately John Vaught), holding 1a. 3r. 14p., paid £2 1s 10p.
Sitlington, John, Ballyboley, holding 40a. 1s. 14p., paid £5 10.
Sitlington, John, Ballycorr, holding 146a. 2r. 4p., paid £21 5s.
[Source: PRONI D.835/3/1]
1. Rent Ledger of Antrim Estate 1783-1786
May 1783 to November 1786
Milliken, Thomas, Bulter Lane, Belfast (lately John Vaught), holding 1a. 3r. 14p., paid £2 1s 10p.
Milliken, Thomas, Carrickfergus Street, Belfast (late Mr. Burns), holding paid £1 5s.
Milliken, William, Ballybracken, holding 24a. 3r. 39p., paid £3 5s.
Sitlington, John, Ballywoodock, holding 68a. 3r. 29p.
Sitlington, John, Ballyclaverty, holding 69a. 3r. 38p.
Sitlington, John, Ballyboley, holding 40a. 1s. 14p., paid £5 10.
Sitlington, John, Ballycorr, holding 146a. 2r. 4p., paid £21 5s.
[Source: PRONI D.835/2/1]
2. Rent Ledger of Antrim Estate 1787-1797
May 1787 to November 1796
Milliken, Thomas, Bulter Lane, Belfast (lately John Vaught), holding 1a. 3r. 14p., paid £2 1s 10p.
Milliken, Thomas, Carrickfergus Street, Belfast (late Mr. Burns), paid £1 5s.
Milliken, William, Ballybracken, holding 24a. 3r. 39p., paid £3 5s.
Sitlington, John, Ballywoodock, holding 68a. 3r. 29p.
Sitlington, John, Ballyclaverty, holding 69a. 3r. 38p.
Ballywoodock and Ballyclaverty sold to Jas. Beggs (3\4) and John Spence (¼) from 1787.
McLelland, Edward, Ballynashee, holding 41a. 2r. 25p.
Sitlington, John, Ballyboley, holding 40a. 1r. 14p., paid £5 10s.
Note of change, “John Milliken” occupying property from May 1795.
Sitlington, John, Ballycorr, holding 146a. 2r. 4p., paid £21 5s.
Note of change, “James Ferguson“, junior, occupying property from May 1795 and leasehold for property renewed to him for three lives from November 1795.
[Source PRONI D.835/2/2]
Antrim Estate Cash Rent Book 1796 to 1800
Saturday 5/11/1796
No. 54: John McLeland, Kilbride, paid half yearly £3 19s.
Saturday 14/4/1797
No. 47: Thomas Milliken’s heirs, Carrickfergus Street, Belfast, paid £5 for 2 years from Nov. 1796.
Saturday 29/4/1797
No. 45: John MacKay, Rashee, paid £12 for one year.
Saturday 16/9/1797
No. 53: Edward McLeland, Ballynashee, paid £12 15s half yearly for May 1797.
Friday 6/10/1797
No. 16: John Love, Ballycorr, paid £4 17s 6p half yearly for May 1797.
Monday 9/10/1797
No. 9: John Barklie, Ballynashee, paid £8 10s for one for May 1797.
Friday 13/10/1797
No. 46: William Millikin, Ballybracken, paid £6 10s for one year May 1797.
Friday 13/10/1797
No. 26: James Ferguson, Ballybracken, paid £16 for one year May 1797.
Friday 27/10/1797
No. 74: William Millikin, Ballyboley, paid £11 for one year May 1797.
Friday 27/10/1797
No. 76: John Wilson, Ballyboley, paid £9 1s for one year May 1797.
Wednesday 20/12/1797
No. 44,46,47,48, 53: Thomas Millikin’s Trustees, 3 holdings, paid £7 10s 6p for one year Nov. 1797.
Wednesday 28/3/1798
No. 9: John Barklie, Ballynashee, paid £4 2s 6p for one year November 1797.
Tuesday 3/4/1798
No. 80: John Love, junior, Ballycorr, paid £4 17s 6p for November 1797.
Friday 27/4/1798
No. 80: Edward Love, Ballycorr, paid £9 for November 1797.
Saturday 19/5/1798
No. 75: John Wilson, Ballybracken, paid £10 for one year May 1798.
Friday 1/6/1798
No. 44: William Millikin, Ballybracken, paid £6 10s for one year May 1798.
Saturday 21/9/1798
No. 80: John Love, Ballycorr, paid £7 14s for November 1797.
Friday 9/11/1798
No. 81: John Wilson, Ballyboley, paid £4 10s 6p for half yearly May 1798.
Friday 9/11/1798
No. 80: William Milliken, Ballyboley, paid £11 for one year May 98.
Saturday 2/3/1799
No. 16: William Barklie (lately Craig), Rashee, paid £5 2s 6p half yearly for Nov. 1798.
Tuesday 23/4/1799
No. 44: William Milliken, Ballybracken, paid £3 5s half yearly for November 1798.
Friday 26/4/1799
No. 80: William Millikin (lately Sitlington), Ballyboley, paid £5 10s half yearly for Nov. 1798.
Friday 26/4/1799
No. 81: John Wilson, Ballyboley, paid £4 10s 6p half yearly for November 1798.
Monday 29/4/1799
No. 80: Edward Love, Ballycorr, paid £9 half yearly for November 1798.
Monday 29/4/1799
No. 80: John Love, junior, Ballycorr, paid £7 14s half yearly for November 1798.
[Source: PRONI D.835/4/1]
Rental of the Estate of the Marquis of Donegal 1798
Lease No. 24
Milliken, Thomas; resides, Donegal Street, Belfast; holding, Southside of Carrickfergus Street, Belfast; for the term of 99 years or three lives; commencing from November 1, 1785; rent £2 10; paid from January 1786.
Lease No. 8
Milliken, William; resides, Ballybracken; holding, 24a 3r 29p, part of Ballybracken in the parish of Kilbride; for the term of 41 years; commencing from May 1, 1769; rent £6. 10s per year (note, the heirs of Thomas McCleary hold a side lease for one half of this farm).
Lease No. 9
Sitlington, John; resides, Ballybracken; holding, 51a 2r 18p, part of Ballybracken in the parish of Kilbride; for 41 years or lives; commencing from May 1, 1769; rent £10 5s per year.
Lease No. 10
Sitlington, John; resides, Ballycorr; holding, 61a 3r 29p, part of Ballywoodock in the parish of Donegore, manor of Moylinney; for the term of 41 years or three lives; rent £12 8s per year.
Lease No. 11
Sitlington, John; resides, Ballycorr; holding, 69a 3r 38p, part of Ballyclaverty in the parish of Donegore, manor of Moylinney; for 41 years or three lives; commencing from May 1, 1769; rent £21 5s per year.
[Source: Rental of the Donegal Estate, PRONI D.835/3/2]
Donegal’s Antrim Estate Rent Ledgers
5. May 1797 to November 1806
Milliken, Thomas, Carrickfergus Street, Belfast, (occupied by Dr. Birch), paid £1 5s.
Note of change, rent to commence by endorsement on counterpart at November 1807.
Milliken, William, Ballybracken, holding 24a. 3r. 39p., paid £3 5s.
Milliken, Samuel, part of Bruslee (lately a part of Henry Clement Ellis’s lease), holding 3a. 3r. 39p., paid 8s 2p, starting May 1806.
McLelland, Edward, Ballynashee, holding 41a. 2r. 25p., paid £4 5shillings. See below, this property was divided between Robert and Nathaniel McClelland.
1. McLelland, Robert, Ballynashee, holding 29a. 3r. 15p., lately part of Edward McLelland.
2. McLelland, Nathaniel, Ballynashee, holding 11a. 3r. 10p., lately part of Edward McLelland.
John Owen, Arthur Taggart and Thomas White also held leases for part of Ballynashee.
Sitlington, John, Ballyboley, (occupied by “William Milliken”) holding 40a. 1r. 14p., paid £5 10s half yearly from November 1797 to May 1804. Note of change, from November 1804, John Sitlington lease of Ballyboley renewed to the following:
1. John Marshall, holding of 7a. 0r. 35p., paid 19s 9p.
2. John Wilson, holding of 8a. 3r. 26p., paid £1 3s 6p.
3. William Sinclair, holding of 14a. 2r. 3p., paid £1 19s 6p.
4. Samuel Begg, holding of 10a. 0r. 30p., paid £1 7s 3p.
[Source: PRONI D.835/2/3]
Donegal’s Antrim Estate Rent Ledgers 1807-1862
May 1807 to November 1816
Milliken, Thomas, Carrickfergus Street, Belfast, (occupied by Mr. Birch), paid £1 5s.
Milliken, William, Ballybracken, holding 24a 3r 39p, paid £3 5s.
Milliken, Samuel, part of Bruslee, holding 3a 3r. 7p., paid 8s, 2p.
[Source: PRONI D.835/2/4]
May 1817 to November 1826
Milliken, Thomas, Carrickfergus Street, Belfast, (occupied by Mr. Birch), paid £1 5s.
Milliken, Samuel, part of Bruslee, (occupied by Wm. Ferguson), holding 3a 3r 7p, paid 8s. 2p.
Milliken, William, Ballybracken, (occupied by Wm. Bairnie), holding 24a. 3r. 39p., paid £3 5s.
[Source: PRONI D.835/2/5]
November 1850 to May 1856
Milliken, S., Bruslee, (now occupied by W. Ingram of Bruslee), holding 3a 3r 7p, paid £15 1 shilling.
Milliken, lately Samuel, now Jas & Jno Milligan, Ballyboley, paid £3 5s 6p.
[Source: PRONI D.835/2/6]
November 1856 to May 1862
Millikin, Jas & Jno, Ballyboley, paid £3 5s 6p.
Milliken, Wm, Rushee, formerly J. Wiley, from May 1858 paid 13s 4p.
Milliken, J. H. L., Ballywoodock, from May 1858 paid 13s.
[Source: PRONI D.835/2/7]
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