Moville.Records
- Muster Roll Enishone - 1630
- Poll Tax Ordinance - 1660-1
- Hearth Money Rolls -1665
- Flax Growers List - 1796
- Tithe Applotment - 1825
- Slater's Directory - 1846
- Griffith's Valuation - 1857
- Parish Records (Catholic)
- Census - 1901
- Census - 1911
- Maritime Memorial
- Other Records
Other.Information
Old photographs Old photos of Moville and the surrounding areas.
Maps Old maps of the two parishes in Moville.
Books Read a history of Moville, and see other references to the area.
Lewis' Topographical Dictionary Extracts from the Topographical Dictionary published in 1837
FHC Records Family History Centre (LDS) film references for Moville records
Moville.Records
Murder at.Moville
The following report was taken from Bells Life in London dated 28 January 1849
The following are the particulars of the inquest on the body of James JOHNSON, the process server, who was murdered at Moville, in the county of Donegal, on the 19th instant. Deceased was about serving a process on a man named ELKIN when he was shot.
The jury sat for two days examining witnesses, some of whom, and the most material, being ELKIN's own boys and girls, and servants, were most reluctant to give evidence. It was elicited, however, that on Wednesday the deceased was in Moville endeavouring to find John ELKIN, and failing to find him there, he went to his house in Carnagarive.
John ELKIN, it appeared, had been expecting one or two writs or processes to be served upon him from Belfast, and, some time previously, had been heard to threaten that if anyone came upon such an errand he should "go down". The writ or process which (the) deceased came to serve upon him was at the suit of a firm in Derry, and it would seem that the indebted person did not expect that anything of the kind was so soon to proceed from that quarter.
On (the) approach of (the) deceased to the house Alexander SMITH, a servant boy of John ELKIN, gave notice of the circumstances to his master, on which ELKIN went up stairs to his sitting-room, where he had a gun, and in the window of which there was a pane of glass wanting.
At the same time his wife disposed of the domestics, by sending two boys and her niice to a dark room up stairs, with a warning not to look out, and another, a servant girl, into a back room down stairs. She then, with her son, Edward ELKIN, and Alexander SMITH, went out and spoke to the deceased; after which she went with the boy to the boiler, which had been set for boiling turnips.
At that time the fatal shot was fired at (the) deceased. It is supposed that ELKIN's wife brought the deceased into a position where he would be best covered by a shot fired from the window of the room where her husband then was. Between the arrival of JOHNSON and his death, not more than three or four minutes had elapsed. Edward ELKIN, the son, immediately betook himself to flight.
On receiving intelligence of what had happened, the constabulary, and, in aid of them, the revenue police, under Mr M'CARTY, proceeded to the spot, and apprehended all whom they could find in and about ELKIN's house, and lodged them in the Police Barracks.
At half-past six o'clock on Friday evening the jury returned the following verdict:-
"We agree, unanimously, that James JOHNSON came to his death by gun-shot wounds inflicted on him at Carnagrive, on or about the afternoon of the 17th January 1849, by John ELKIN; and we also agree that Alexander SMITH, Jane ELKIN, and Edward ELKIN were siding and abetting in preventing the deceased from entering the house of John ELKIN, which, unfortunately, resulted in James JOHNSON's death"
In consequence of the verdict, John ELKIN, his wife, and Alexander SMITH, have been committed for trial by the coroner's warrant; which warrant includes Edward ELKIN, who fled, but was subsequently apprehended at Articlane, near Coleraine.
The information is for your personal use. You may link to any page on this site, but please do not copy any pages without the prior permission of the webmaster.