Biography, Archibald WISEMAN, Ballywatermoy, Co. Antrim, Ireland - ca 1813-1835

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Contributed by Robert J Wilson Jr 

WISEMAN, ARCHIBALD (CA. 1813-1853), A NATIVE OF COUNTY ANTRIM

According to the Ordnance Survey Memoirs of 1833 for County Antrim, he left
Ballywatermoy Townland in the old Ahoghill Civil Parish, "Bound for America."
( Attached, a 2006 photo of a structural ruin at Ballywatermoy, believed to
be on the Wiseman family's ancestral property). Wiseman family burials are
located at First Killymurris Presbyterian Burial Grounds in what is now Glarryford
(source: Ballymena Borough Gravestones Series: 6 pamphlet published in 1995),
and at the burial grounds of the Cullybackey Old Methodist Church...formerly the
United Presbyterian Church/United Free Church of Scotland), as sourced from the
Ballymena Borough Gravestone Series: 3 pamphlet published in 1994.

His parents are believed to have been Robert Wiseman and Margaret Delap or Dunlap.
According to the Immigrant Ship Transcriber's Guild (ISTG), he left Liverpool in
1836 on the bark "Lanark", sailing to New York City.

According to the records of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Newburgh
NY, USA, (where he had come to join his brother James), he married Susan Clyde there
on Christmas Day, 1838. In 1840, he was censused in Newburgh, Orange County, NY, USA
as "ACHABAD" Wiseman, a "laborer". Surviving children of this union included WISEMAN,
Elizabeth Frances (1842-1875) and WISEMAN, Samuel Dunlap (1844-1917), both born in
Newburgh. In 1850, he was censused in Newburgh, Orange County, NY, under his correct
name (WISEMAN, Archibald) as a "brewer".

According to an inscription on a tombstone in Section 1 of the Old Town Burying Ground
in Newburgh, NY, USA, Archibald passed away at age 40 on May 9, 1853, when he "Died At Sea."

Ballywatermoy ruin photo at:
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/antrim/bio/wiseman-bwtermy.jpg