BALLANTYNE, Helen (DNA Linked) ^{3 4 5 6 7 8}

   Cause of her death was disease of the heart over unknown period and gastro-bilious fever over 10 days.⁵

   Other names for Helen were BALANTINE, Helen,⁶ BALLANTINE, Helen,^{10 11 12} BALLINTYNE, Helen,⁹ BALLINTYNE, Helen ⁹ and BANNATYNE, Helen.^{1 2}

  General Notes:

Old Parish Registers
Tynron parish Dumfriesshire
Births & Baptisms

"Register of Births in Tynron
1803
Born March 14
Helen Daughter of Robert Ballantyne & Jean Gracie Craigencoon Baptised 20"

In 1851 Helen Ballantyne and her children John, Andrew, Janet and Thomas were living in Carlisle Road, Chapelhall in the Holytown district of Bothwell parish Lanarkshire.

When she died in 1861 at the recorded age of 57 years Helen Ballantyne was recorded in her death certificate as married to Thomas Ballantyne coal miner. Her parents were deceased.

When Thomas Ballantine died, at the recorded age of 57 years, in 1863 he was recorded as "Coalminer, Widower of Helen Ballantine". ^{3 5 7 12}

  Research Notes:

CRAIGENCOON

In Place Names of Tynron John Shaw gives the map reference 7795 (NX 79 and NX 89 1:25000 OS maps) for Craigencoon. ¹³

  Medical Notes:

Thomas Ballantyne, Helen's husband who was not present where she died, was the informant of her death before the registrar at Holytown on 26 February 1861. ⁵

Helen married Thomas BALLANTYNE (DNA Linked), son of John BALLANTINE and Margaret CLARK (DNA Linked), on 5 December 1828 in Tynron parish, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.^{1 2} (Thomas BALLANTYNE (DNA Linked) was born on 19 September 1807 in Tynron parish, Dumfriesshire, Scotland ^{14 15 16}, baptised on 27 September 1807 in Tynron parish, Dumfriesshire, Scotland ¹⁶ and died on 7 June 1863 in Chapelhall, Holytown district, Bothwell parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland ^{5 12}.). The cause of his death was ulceration of stomach and liver over several years.⁵

  Marriage Notes:

Old Parish Registers
Tynron parish Dumfriesshire
Marriages

"Marriages in Tynron
1828
Decem^r. 5^th. Thomas Bannatyne and Helen Bannatyne both in Clodruch."

Note: "Clodruch" is almost certainly Clodderoch, for which in Place Names of Tynron John Shaw gives the map reference 7893 (NX 79 and NX 89 1:25000 OS maps). ^{2 13}