John Beckett died date unknown in Aghadavey, Ireland.
Notes for John Beckett: Family Separates John Beckett, the original soldier, had six grandchildren they must have been: Thomas, of whose ten children three sons emigrated to Pennsylvania with their uncle Mathew about 1830 (see US Census and Archives of Penn., Vol. 11, pp 443 46; also Maryland and Virginia Archives); Jane died childless; but Richard and Joseph lived at Aghadavey, as did the other offspring of Thomas and reared large families. James the oldest of these grandchildren of the original soldier, became the grandfather of R. C. Beckett.
Father of James McKinney Beckett James Beckett, the grandfather, was born in Ireland Sept. 12, 1762, was married to Scottish born Margaret Kyle July 10, 1782, who was born May 12, 1763; they,took up residence in Dublin. Whereupon her family disowned her or so 'tis said; at any rate with one or more small daughters they emigrated to Charleston, S. C., Sept. 6, 1788, where they remained long enough to be listed in the first US Census, 1790. Oddly enough for a family so sparse then, there is another James Beckett listed at Charleston in this same Census, no relationship discoverable, said to have acquired his homestead on Edisto Island through a grant from King George of England, see History of South Carolina, Biographical Vol. IV, page 109, by Wallace. Descendants of this family still reside around Charleston.
John Beckett, who came to Aghadavey from a settlement of Oliver Cromwell's soldiers at Ballemoney, County Antrim, Ireland, much to the dislike of the natives so 'tis said, about 1660. R. C. Beckett's youngest son and namesake, Capel, while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, England, made a visit to the Old Sod, and wrote as follows:
"On my visit to Ireland in 1909 1 bore a letter of introduction to a lawyer in Dublin who was regarded as the leading authority in Ireland on Irish genealogy. He told me at once that my Irish kin lived in Ulster just south of Belfast. I went there and found numerous Becketts living in and around the villages of Lisburn and Aghadavey. The head of the family, an old man about 90, had a beautiful farm which he said had belonged to the family since it was first allotted to his ancestor who was a soldier of Cromwell. The family seemed to have come to Ireland from Yorkshire or Lancanshire, England, with Cromwell's soldiers. They are all Presbyterians and violently opposed to Home Rule and to Catholicism."
Children of John Beckett are:
+James Beckett, b. September 12, 1762, Ireland, d. May 01, 1812, Maybe South Carolina.
John Beckett (d. date unknown)
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