Hi Averil,
The 1756 marriage to John Garrett is on that Radcliffe file which I sent you.
John Garrett's wife Catherine didn't marry Daniel Tear. The Tear/Radcliffe was the other way around!
She was originally Cath Tear, not Cath Radcliffe. Stephen Radcliffe and Cath Tear married 1 Feb.1755 Andreas.
“Stephen Radcliffe from Lezaire buried April 19th 1756” (Andreas par. reg.)
His 1756 decree is on Brian Lawson's website.
They had only one child, Mary bapt. 4 Dec.1755 Lezayre daughter of Stephen Radcliffe & Catherine Tear.
The decree includes "... And the s’d widow having of late intermarry’d with one John Garrett of KK Andrews and the s’d minor’s goods secured in the s’d Widow’s hands as foresaid falling into her s’d new husband’s Hands who being careless of the same by his too many adventures Has very much diminished the s’d goods belonging to the minor... As aforesaid and by all appearances the whole in a short time Shall be squandered ..."
Cath Radcliffe als Tear married John GARRETT 1 Aug.1756 Lezayre “John Garret of Andrews & Cathrine Radcliffe als Tear of Lezayre married Aug.1st” .
Stephen Radcliffe was the son of Thomas Radcliffe who was buried 10 Jan.1728/1729 Andreas. “Thomas Radcliffe of Lez-Ayre buryed January 10th 1728” [1729] Andreas Parish Reg.
His 1728 will (on Brian Lawson's website) names only his wife Catherine Ratcliff als Corlett, and his son Steven Ratcliffe.
Thos Ratcliff married Cath CORLETT 22 May 1725 Lezayre. “Ann Ratcliff from L’zAire bury’d the 2d of Jan 1727” [1728] Andreas Parish Reg.
In her article on Radcliffes in Andreas Constance Radcliffe wrote "Radcliffe the Curragh. Among the intack-holders whose names appear in the Lord's Composition Book of 1703 is James Radcliffe, entered for "Cooleraine, an intack near Close e Keel" (Lord's Rent threepence…. James had two brothers, John (d. 1701) and Thomas (d. 1728), whose Will describes him as being 'of Lezayre.' In this curragh area, South of the main road at St.Jude's, the parish boundary was difficult to define clearly; even in the time of Woods' Atlas (1867) the rentals of curragh intacks were combined with those of neighbouring parishes. So Thomas could well have been living very near to his kinfolk, although technically in a different parish".
John d.1701 was my ancestor, and I haven't been able to establish whether or not this Thomas was definitely his brother. A Thomas Radcliffe (and James Radcliffe) were supervisors to his underage children as next of kin when he died, so it seems likely.
Their father was John Ratcliff of Crot-e-Lough, Andreas, died 1669 [will on Brian Lawson's website]. He had four underage children: John, Thomas, Margaret, and unborn son James who is named later when his sister Margaret claimed their goods.
John d.1669 was one of the sons of Gilbert RADCLIFFE & Margaret KINRY (heiress of Belfast), and inherited Crot-e-Lough, Andreas, when Gilbert died in 1668.
Sue