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Late addition Gondie/Gondy

Goudy, William - c1825 - (Father William Gowdy of Ballycullen) - (Mother Jane Thompson)
Goudy, John - ???? - (Father William Gowdy of Ballycullen) - (Mother Jane Thompson) - Later became a merchant in N'Ads
Goudy, Hugh - ???? - (Father William Gowdy of Ballycullen) - (Mother Jane Thompson)
Goudy, Jane - 21st. December 1834 - (Father William Gowdy of Ballycullen) - (Mother Jane Thompson)
Goudy, Anne - ???? - (Father William Gowdy of Ballycullen) - (Mother Jane Thompson)

Goudy, William - August 1826 - {Father William Goudy} - {Mother Elizabeth Stewart}

Gowdy, Ann - 11th. March 1834 - (Wife to James Douglass) - Mother of Rose Ann Douglass

Goudy, Thomas William Miscamble - 24th. January 1841 - (Father William Goudy of Scrabo Isles) - (Mother Jane Edgar)

Goudey, Margaret - 9th. May 1865 - (Father John Goudey) - (Mother Isabella Seeds)
Gowdey, Mary Jane - 2nd. April 1867 - (Father John Goudey) - (Mother Isabella Leeds)

Gondy, Margaret - 1868 - See Goudy below for possible mispelling

Goudy, Jane Thompson - 23rd. May 1868 - (Father Robert Goudy a farmer of Ballyskeagh) - (Mother Margaret McMurray)
Goudy, Anna - 8th. or 13th. June 1872 - (Father Robert Goudy a farmer of Ballyskeagh) - (Mother Margaret Murray)
Goudy, William - 16th. November 1874 - (Father Robert Goudy a farmer of Ballyskeagh) - (Mother Margaret McMurray)
Goudy, James - 19th. February 1877 - (Father Robert Goudy a farmer of Ballyskeagh) - (Mother Margaret McMurray)
Goudy, John - 26th. January 1881 - (Father Robert Goudy a farmer of Ballyskeagh) - (Mother Margaret McMurray)

Goudy, Margaret - 10th. June 1868 - {Father Arthur Goudy} - {Mother Isabella Stevenson}
Goudy, Nathaniel - 9th. December 1875 - {Father Arthur Goudy} - {Mother Isabell Stevenson}

Gowdey, Catherine - 1870 - (Wife to Alexander Smyley) - Mother of Jane Smyley

Gondy, William - 1871

Gondy, Thomas James - 1878

H = Headstone Image

Movilla Graveyard
Goudy, Ann - 1774 aged 36 - {b.c1738}
Goudy, Sarah - aged 12

Gravestone erected by Hugh Ferguson of Castleavery
Ferguson, Elizabeth alias Goudy - 21st. September 1811 aged 41 - Mother of above Hugh
Ferguson, Robert of Newtownards - 30th. August 1825 aged 62 - {b.c1763}
Ferguson, Elizabeth alias Patton - 14th. March 1844 aged 25 - {b.c1819} - Daughter of above Hugh
Ferguson, Robert - 21st. Spril 1845 aged 19 - {b.c1826} - Son of above Hugh
Ferguson, Mary Ann - 13th. June 1845 aged 25 - {b.c1820} - Daughter of above Hugh
Ferguson, John - 23rd. January -1849 aged 26 - {b.c1823} - Son of above Hugh
Ferguson, Margaret alias Morrison - 3rd. September 1853 aged 62 - {b.c1791} - Wife of above Hugh
Ferguson, Hugh (The above) - 29th. December 1853 aged 61 - {b.c1792}
Ferguson, James - 24th. September 1863

Eddy, Margaret alias Goudy nee Moore - 23rd. November 1832 aged 84 - Wife to Gilbert Eddy of Loughriescouse

Erected by William Goudy of the Demesne Newtownards - H
Goudy, John - 22nd. December 1832 aged 67 - {b.c1764} - Father to above William
Goudy, Robert a surgeon - 8th. April 1837 aged 39 - {b.c1798} - Brother to above William
Goudy, Elizabeth nee Stewart - 25th. September 1847 aged 82 - {b.c1763} - Mother to the above William

Gowdy, Nathaniel - ???? - A farmer of Cunningburn - Will Probated

Late 1700s map showing a Goudy farm @ Cunningburn - Click to ENLARGE

Erected by William Goudy of Ballycullen- H
Goudy, Jane (Daughter of William) - 15th. February 1844 aged 9 - {b.c1834}
Goudy, Mary (Daughter of William) - 6th. September 1852 aged 20 - {b.c1832}
Goudy, James (Son of William) - 8th. April 1874 aged 22 ..? - {b.c1852}
Goudy, William (The above) - 5th. July 1882 aged 77 - {b.c1805}
Goudy, Jane nee Thompson (Wife of William) - 11th. November 1889 aged 80 - {b.c1809}

Goudy, William Orr - 26th. June 1881 aged 31 - {b.c1850} - {Father John Gowdy} - Husband to Alice Brown

Erected by Anna Crawford nee Goudy - Movilla Cemetery - H
Crawford, Henry of Ballyharry - 3rd. March 1884 aged 49 - {b.c1835} - Husband to above Anna - A farmer of "Ardsview" Ballyharry
25th. April 1884 - The Will of Henry Crawford late of Ardsview Ballyharry Co.Down Farmer who died 3 March 1884 at same place was proved at Belfast by the Reverend William Wright Presbyterian Minister and John Goudy Merchant both of Newtownards in said County the Executors. - Effects £582-14s-6d

Crawford, Anna nee Goudy - 20th. September 1895 aged 56 - {b.c1839} -  - A widow of Ballyharry - Widow of Henry Crawford - Anna "Anne" never had children
17th. January 1896 - Letters of Administration of the personal estate of Anne Crawford late of Ballyharry Co.Down Widow who died 20 September 1895 were granted at Belfast to John Goudy of Newtownards said County Provision Merchant the Brother - Effects £205-11s-9d

Goudy, Hugh of Ballyskeagh - 28th. May 1928 aged 83 - {b.c1845} - Husband to Letitia Goudy nee Reed/Reid
Goudy, Letitia nee Reid - 29th. October 1928 aged 79 - {b.c1849} - Wife to above Hugh Goudy

Goudy, William - 1st. December 1915 aged 90 - Son of William Gowdy of Ballycullen and Jane Thompson - Died @ Hamilton, Township, Northumberland, Ontario. Canada - His Wife Ellen McCann had died in Canada 1892

Note: Informant was Letitia Goudy

Erected by Catherine Goudy - H
Goudy, John - 9th. November 1924 aged 74 - {b.c1850} - Of Loughriescouse - Husband to above
Goudy, Catherine - 14th. April 1937 - The above

Erected by Mary Carnduff in memory of - H
Goudy, Isabella - 7th. March 1953 - Mother of above
Goudy, James - 12th. March 1961 - Father of above
Carnduff, Frederick - 13th. April 1980 - Husband to above

Goudy, William a farmer of Ballycullen - 6th. April 1847 aged 22 - {b.August 1826} - (Father William Goudy a farmer) - Married Elloner "Ellen" McCann of Ballycullen - {Father James McCann a farmer} Witnesses were Lucius Crymble and Hugh McCann - Couple later emigrated to Canada

Gowdy, William Orr born Bangor - 18th. January 1850 - {Father John Gowdy} - Married Alice Brown

Gowdy, Eliza - 20th. May 1851 - (Father Nathaniel Goudy a farmer) - Married Robert Magee

Goudy, David - 16th. July 1853 aged 32 - (Father Samuel Goudy) - Married Margaret McQuoid

Goudy, Mary - 20th. July 1853 - {Father Alexander Goudy} - Married James Bennet aged 21 - {Father Robert Bennet}

Goudy, Eleanor of Drumawhey - 20th. March 1857 - (Father Nathaniel Goudy a farmer) - Married Robert Wallace - {Father Hans Wallace} Witnesses were John McBratney and Catherine McGimpsey

Goudy, John - 15th. October 1863 - Married Mary Major or McMinn

Gourd, Anna/Anne - 27th. October 1863 - (Father William Goudy a farmer of Ballybarnes) - Married Henry Crawford - {Father William Crawford a farmer}
Witnesses were David Orr and Agnes Spratt

Goudy, Robert a farmer of Ballycullen then Ballyskeagh - 19th. February 1867 - (Father William Goudy a farmer) - Married Margaret McMurray
Witnesses were Thomas Montgomery and Jane Thompson Goudy

Goudy, Jane born Canada - 30th. December 1880 aged 26 - {b.c1854} - {Father William Goudy b.Newtownards} - Married George Clarke of Port Hope, Canada

Goudy, Hugh of Ballyskeagh - 10th. October 1883 - (Father William Goudy a farmer) - Married Letitia Reid
Witnesses were John Goudy and Jane Thompson Goudy and Anna Belle Steele

Goudy, Jane of Ballycullen - 24th. December 1888 - (Father William Goudy a farmer) - Married William John McDowell - Couple never had children
Witnesses were John Goudy and Jane Thompson Goudy

Goudy, Anna of Ballycullen - 27th. December 1905 - (Father Robert Goudy a farmer) - Married James McMurray
Witnesses were James Courtney and Susanna McMurray

James Gowdy was a ruling Elder at Newtownards in 1714.
John Gawdy was a ruling Elder at Drumbo, Down, 1713.

Rev. John Gowdy was the first of the name settled as pastor over the Presbyterian church at Ballywalter. In a work titled "The Scotch-Irish in North Britain 
and North America", we learn that John Gowdy was schoolmaster from the parish of Galston, Ayrshire, Scotland, and taught in the county of Down, Ireland, from 
1681 to 1688. As the latter date was that of the ordination of Rev. John Gowdy as minister of Ballywalter, we shall assume that the two were identical.
 The designation of the place of his nativity is of especial interest because it proves that he was descended from the ancient family of Millers at Cragie Mill in the parish 
of Galston, Ayrshire. From a "History of the Presbyterians in Ireland", by Withrow, the following was taken: "John Goudy became the minister of Bally- 
walter in 1688. He survived the revolution, and the debates of the non-Subscription Controversy, and died 20th of March, 1733. He is said to have published 
a sermon preached at the administration of the Lord's Supper. If any copy of this exists, I have not seen it. That it once existed, I only know through the MS, 
Catalogue of Dr. Reid. 
Tradition speaks of him as "Goudy the Prophet" by way of distinction among the ministers of this name connected with Ballywalter. In a letter from Rev. 
Robert Jeffrey of Greyabbey, under date 25th of June, 1875, he says: "I have inquired more fully into the 'Prophet'. He foretold the death of Queen Antie, 
on a certain day, and on that day she died. He foretold the ruin of the Eclilinville (a local) family in a particular way, and it happened, as foretold. He foretold 
the 'Split' in his own congregation, and it happened. These are samples of things which gained for him the name by which he is altogether known here now. They 
are too absurd to write about seriously, but they are worth giving as curious specimens among others, as furnishing the basis of a name which has survived for more 
than a century". 
Tradition has brought forward in the district many quaint expressions spoken by "Prophet Goudy" of which the following touching the rigid sectarian spirit 
that existed among the different factions in the Presbyterian church is one: "An extreme subscriber would not hoe corn with a non-subscriber." His son, Rev- 
Robert Goudy, joined the non-subscribing Presbytery of Antrim.
He had the honor extended to very few indeed, that of being interred within the walls of the ancient Abbey of Greyabbey. The following is a copy of the 
inscription on his tombstone: "Here lyes ye body of ye Rev'd Mr. John Goudy: who departed this life March ye 26th, 1733, in ye 78th year of his age: minister 
of ye congregation of Ballywalter & Greyabbey nigh ye space of 40 years. Also of his wife Margaret Goudy: who departed this life, March ye 2nd 1725 in ye 
58th year of her age, with six of their children". 
Rev. Alexander Goudy was ordained at Donaghadee, Ireland, March 14, 1780; resigned June 30, 1791; deposed in August, 1804, and went to America. He was 
under the care of the Bangor Presbytery and then a native of the "Ards." 
Rev. Robert Goudy in Dunover, near Milli He was executed in Newtownards June 1798 for complicity in the Rebellion. Family connection unknown. 

REV. ALEXANDER P. GOUDY, D.D. 
Rev. James Goudy was ordained at Clontilew, Ireland, March 25, 1790, and died Sept. 10, 1826. He was third son of John Goudy of Newtownards, County 
Down, in Ireland, and father of a James Goudy, a student there in 1821-22. 

All of the ministers above named were natives of the Ards Peninsula, except "the Prophet." It is believed that he was a native of Ayrshire, Scotland, and 
formerly a schoolmaster. 

Rev. Robert Goudy, son of the preceding, was the minister of the Presbyterian congregation of Ballywalter from the year 1734 till that of 1761. He seems to have 
been his father's successor. Nothing concerning his character or his ability as a preacher has been found. He was a man of education, however, or he would 
not have been called to officiate as pastor of a Presbyterian church at the time of his incumbency. 

John Goudy, of the same family, was a sturdy, industrious farmer, a Godfearing man so typical of the Scotch-Irish pioneers of Ulster, and lived in the 
Townland of Cunningburn, at a distance of three miles from Newtownards and Greyabbey, respectively, along the shores of Lough Strangford. He trained his 
family to follow the path of virtue and truth. 

Rev. Andrew Goudy, son of the preceding, was ordained in Ballywalter on the third Tuesday of December, 1802. Of his subsequent life little is known. 
He was a large and powerful man who labored faithfully for seventeen years in a quiet but important field and died suddenly when in the prime of life from typhus 
fever contracted while in the performance of his pastoral duties, Dec. 8, 1818. He was buried in the old grave-yard of Whitechurch which lies a quarter of a mile 
from Ballywalter. In an obituary notice that appeared in a Belfast newspaper at the time of his demise, he was mentioned as "an amiable man who possessed an 
independent and discerning mind, and a generous, affectionate and feeling heart". His conduct was guided from principles and marked by integrity while the example 
of his life was an invitation to all who mourned his sudden removal that they should become " followers of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises". 
The old house in which he had lived and in which his children were born was standing in 1887 and in a good state of preservation. This dwelling was described as 
of two storys, slated, and with bay-windows. A small field intervened between the Manse and the seashore. It was attached to a small farm, or glebe, of 30 acres 
which the minister had cultivated. There is a beautiful beach of smooth, yellow sand picturesquely dotted with scattered stones which extends for a mile southward 
to Ballyobican, where the old Goudy house stands. There were six children, four sons and two daughters, in this family. The sons were Alexander P., the clergyman ; 
John, who went to America and was not afterwards heard from; James, who went to America and was not heard from; and Henry, who went to his uncle, Hon. Alex- 
ander Porter, U. S. senator, and died with scarlet fever. All were single men. 

The daughters were named Anna and Matilda. The former was married to George Herdman, flaxspinner of Sion Mill, county Tyrone, Ireland, and had a 
large family. Matilda was not married. 

Rev. Alexander Porter Goudy, D.D., was the youngest son of Rev. Andrew Goudy of the preceding sketch. His mother was Matilda Porter, daughter of the 
Rev. James Porter, of Greyabbey, who was executed in 1798 for the supposed or real complicity in the conspiring of the United Irishmen of that time. He was 
born in the very heart of one of the oldest Presbyterian settlements in the Ards, beside Ballywalter, in February, 1809. This small town, on the eastern side of 
the peninsula, bordering on the sea with its quiet, industrious population of farmers, tradesmen, fishermen and sailors, was settled by the Presbyterians during the 
first years of the 17th century. Mrs. Goudy was very young at her father's death and remembered little of the terrible tragedy on the Greyabbey Green. She was 
of a buoyant temperament and kept all around her alive and stirring; she was the loving centre of everything kind, good and true, to make all labor light and 
duty pleasant. All loved her and vied with each other in doing her honor. The minister's home at Ballywalter, must have been a happy retreat, full of quiet 
pleasure, healthful activity, and gentle charities forming the purest elements in which a young life could develop and receive its first impressions of truth and duty. 
In this family there were four sons and two daughters, the latter being at home with the mother in 1887. The three eldest sons went to America in their young 
manhood to join their uncles, the Porters, and soon died. The youngest was Alexander Porter Goudy, named in honor of his uncle the American Judge. He 
had no teacher but his father until his tenth year; indeed his father kept a school several years for the benefit of his children. Young Alexander was a true "son 
of the manse". His uncle in the United States used every inducement to have him study law and seek a wider career, but he adhered to his inclinations and 
sought to prepare himself for the sacred calling. He was a quiet, studious boy, rather shy and sensitive among strangers and addicted to solitude and the society 
of books. He was fond of resorting to a ledge of rocks just behind his father's house at Ballyobicon where he would sit for hours with his book. He was possessed 
with a richly observant nature and his youthful mind became the receptive treasury of everything useful. While young he was placed in the preparatory department 
of the Belfast Academical Institution. Through the good offices of a friend the Goudy boys were provided with lodgings in Hercules Street, Belfast, and here 
they had the society of their venerable grandmother, Mrs. Porter, who through the kindness of her sons in America had been transferred from Greyabbey to the 
city of Belfast. Here young Goudy remained for twelve years. After four years in the preparatory studies at the Belfast Institution, Alexander P. Goudy passed 
the entrance examination of the Belfast College in Greek and Latin in 1823 and was formally enrolled as a student on its books. He was fortunate during his 
college days in having the instruction of eminent educators and the history of his life there shows how quickly he responded to all of the best influences about him. 
He was twice prizeman in Hebrew; he was awarded a prize in elocution in 1824 and received the medal for reading in 1830. He was thus preparing to take his 
place as one of the orators of his day. In 1827 he obtained his general certificate, which represent,ed at that time the degree in arts of a university, and at the same 
time won a faculty prize for an essay on "Instinct". During this period of his career he was engaged in debate with Hagan almost every week and here he began 
to manifest the sharp and refreshing wit which delighted his audiences in after years. In one of these intellectual encounters he won a prize offered by the 
society (a handsome edition of Johnson's Lives of the Poets) which has since been treasured by his family in Ayr, Scotland. In 1828 he appeared before the 
Theological Examining Committee with the purpose of entering the theological class. In the ensuing year Alexander P. Goudy entered the class of systematic 
Theolog>', and finished his collegiate course in 1830. His career as a student was prophetic of greater things to come. He had kept up the most affectionate 
relations with his Ballywalter home during the twelve years of his life in Belfast, and when making a visit to his mother and sisters, always carried some well-chosen 
present as an expression of his considerate love for them. His mother said he had never given her a moment's anxiety, and his sisters almost adored him.

He was licensed to preach Dec. 29, 1830, by the Bangor Presbytery, and in September 1831, he received a call from the congregation of Gastry, in the Ards, 
and thus became a minister of the Synod of Ulster. For more than two centuries the Presbyterians had held this ground, the whole surrounding country was given 
to agriculural pursuits and his congregation was largely composed of a shrewd discriminating class of farmers and their families. The meeting house was an old- 
fashioned structure, uninviting in exterior appearance and cruciform in shape. Here Mr. Goudy resided with his mother and sisters at Ballyobicon House, near 
Ballywalter, and rode over three miles to Glastry every Sabbath morning to minister to his admiring fiock. A wealthy farmer who appreciated the young 
pastor, presented him with a horse and carriage to help him. His congregation rapidly increased and several very influential Episcopalian families often frequented 
the church. The tradition of the neighborhood represented Mr. Goudy as an able and attractive preacher. He preached two sermons each Sabbath, writing 
out his thoughts and committing them to memory. He was an ardent advocate of the cardinal doctrines of his church and was cordially upheld by hi? congregation. 
However, the labor of preparing and preaching two sermons was too severe and he sought for a change which was soon opened up for him at Strabane. His call 
to the new field was voted on the 17th of February, 1833, and his installation on the 20th of March following. He was then only twenty-four years of age. He 
was most cordially received by his congregation. His aggressive preaching suited them. He was well posted in theology and never afraid to speak the truth. We 
must pass with mere mention the great controversy of a theological and political character in which Dr. Goudy was prominently engaged to give our attention to 
a banquet held in his honor that showed, notwithstanding the strong prejudice excited against him in consequence of his determined attitude upon the questions 
discussed by him, a large number of the local population about Strabane rose superior to such considerations and manifested a public spirit of confidence and 
generosity. On the 1st of September, 1854, he was presented with a tea and coffee service of solid silver and a purse of two hundred sovereigns. An able 
address was given on the occasion in the Town Hall in the name of the congregation in which they gave expression to their estimation of the professional and private 
life of their minister. 

Dr. Goudy as a Minister. 

"In the intercourse of private life, we have ever found you the dignified yet affable and cheerful companion, the kind and confidential friend, maintaining 
the bearing of the educated and accomplished gentleman, combined with the graces of the Christian. At a time when so much dishonor is brought upon religion 
by exhibiting the form without the power of godliness, we rejoice to recognize in you that piety which indicates itself rather by practice than profession, and 
which is not too elevated to be allied to the humble essential virtues of truth, integrity, and high-toned Christian principle. Your private demeanour among us
had faithfully reflected your public teaching. Your doctrine and your life, coincident, have exhibited lucid proof that you are honest in the sacred cause. As 
a pastor and teacher, your congregation highly appreciate your exposition of evangelical truth, and your earnest inculcation of Christian obligation and duty. 
In common with all the lovers of sound doctrine in this community, they acknowledge with gratitude your untiring and successful efforts to raise and uphold the 
standard of orthodoxy, and to expose and refute the errors which aim at its subversion. In the routine of parochial visitation, and in the instruction of the youth 
of your charge, whether in daily or in Sabbath schools, they have ever found you most attractive; while at the bedside of the sick, and in the house of the mourning 
you have acted the part of a sympathizing comforter".

To this complimentary address, the Doctor responded in a reply, couched in words of truth and power, in which he gratefully acknowledged their kindness, 
and took occasion to reiterate the well-known sentiments, already associated with his name. It appears patent that certain persons in his congregation had used 
some financial influence to cause a compromise of principle or expression, and the sentiment he enunciated shows the mettle of which he was composed. 

"I abhor and repudiate such a spirit (Sectarian). I would desire ever to contend, not against persons but against principle . . not for the triumph of party, 
but for the faith delivered to the saints. To expose and condemn a man's errors is not sectarianism, but charity; instead of displaying hatred, it is the test and 
touchstone of true affection. Why should I be regarded as a man's or a church's enemy because I tell them the truth? I rejoice that I have always lived in friendly 
social relations with my fellow-men of all creeds and classes. I expect to continue to do so. I hold it to be not only right but the sacred duty of all, but especially 
of ministers of the gospel, to canvass freely, and if necessary, to denounce the opinions of men and the claims of churches. I respect conscientious conviction 
wherever I find it, even when I believe it is wrong; and I shake hands cordially with all who hold the head over the barriers of our denominational distinctions. 
I reserve my contempt, deep, settled, and immovable, for those who stifle conviction at the call of self-interest and meanly desert, from worldly considerations, that 
faith which their fathers have handed down to them, and which the blood of many martyrs have sealed." 

The evening dinner was a joyous affair. Dr. Goudy was the centre of attraction, and, in response to the toast of his health, he made another speech, closing with
the following grateful and manly words:

The valuable present they that day had given him, would be handed down to his children's children, who would ever prize it as their father's most precious
legacy; and when the rank grass waved over them whom he now addressed, his descendants would proudly point to that splendid gift and say: "On the 1st of Sep-
tember, 1854, with this was our ancestor honored by the generous people of Strabane and the true-hearted Presbyterians of Ireland". In conclusion, let them always
hold fast by the Presbyterianism of their fathers, let them never sully the blue banner of the Covenant. Come what might, happen what would, let them
ever stand by their beloved Zion; and no matter how governments frowned upon them, no matter how enemies defamed them, even if poverty and persecution
stared them in the face, they would still hold by the true-blue Presbyterianism for which Henderson and Melville suffered . . the religion of him over whose grave
was pronounced the eulogy which they ought to be able to say of every Presbyterian: "He never feared the face of man".

In 1857 Mr. Goudy received the highest mark of honor from his brethen which it was in their power to bestow. He was appointed Moderator of the General 
Assembly. No man who ever filled that chair presided with more dignity and grace. He was courteous to all and exercised his authority with impartiality. 
Every one listened with admiration to his classic language and with interest to his wit. 

As an orator Mr. Goudy was endowed with many excellent parts. He was dignified in manner, literary in style, ardent in feeling, able when excited to let 
loose upon a meeting a whole torrent of rhetoric, while he had this quality dominating all others, that so long as he believed his case was to be good he did not fear 
the face of any man. He was gifted with a noble presence, fine address, and a clear and musical voice. He had an infinite fund of wit and humor in his nature, 
and, when occasion provoked it, his oratory burst out into a strain of invective that was overwhelming and irresistible. 

To show the character of the man the following episode which occurred during one of the discussions in the General Assembly, is illustrative: Dr. Cook had made 
some remark that seemed to reflect upon Dr. Goudy, and rising in his seat, demanded that the Moderator request the offender to retract, when that member retort- 
ing. Dr. Goudy said: "Moderator, if you don't call upon Dr. Cook to retract the epithet I will fasten upon him a designation that will be more inconvenient, for 
I am determined that I, for one, will not submit to the characteristic and perpetual slang and buffoonery of Dr. Cook ". This produced great excitement in the Assemb- 
ly and some of the members asked that the Moderator request Dr. Cook to retract, but the offending clergyman said, "I retract and am sorry", and the storm abated. 

He preached his last sermon on Dec. 5th, 1858, and being taken suddenly ill while in Dublin, died on Dec. 14th following. The immediate cause of his death 
was the thickening of the upper plate of his skull and consequent pressure upon the brain, interfering with its normal action. This sad event took place in the 
Verdon Hotel. Eminent medical skill was brought into requisition, but without avail; the malady was incurable. His wife had been sent for, the message was 
delayed and she did not arrive until a few minutes after his death. The unexpected news of the death of Dr. Goudy was the cause of deep and wide-spread 
sorrow throughout the whole north-western section of the country where his work and character were so admired. 

From some of the discourses preached on the day of his burial the following extracts were taken: " Duty was his guide. All men knew that self-interest, lucre, 
popularity, even private friendship, could not bend him one inch from the straightfoiAvard path of duty. He had respect to the recompense of reward, and there- 
fore he was no respecter of persons. Some may have blamed him because he spoke out all his mind, but it was in the simplicity and godly sincerity of an honest heart; 
he could not connive at injustice, he could not extenuate error, he could not sell the truth which Christ bought with a price, he could not betray his friend, he could 
not make traffic either of his conscience or his country, he could not barter the independence of his church for a mess of pottage. Yet how frank, and generous, 
and kind-hearted was this true man in his intellectual strength! With the might of a giant he had the innocent playfulness of a child. Neither the scowl of the 
bigot, nor the harsh sternness of the ascetic, sat upon his ample and open brow. Grace sanctified his mighty gifts and rare accomplishments. He was a chosen 
vessel fit for the Master's service, a polished shaft, swift, keen, irresistible as the lightning of heaven". 

Mr. Goudy was a man of humorous temperament, and had an intuitive faculty of seeing the ludicrous side of men, or of an incident, or of a situation, and never 
failed to find words that gave expression to his feelings. This was not cultivated but burst forth spontaneously. He would come out with a pun, or an epithet, 
which was always relished by all except the man whom it touched. When he had received a letter which the writer said contained "a coppy" of a certain document 
Dr. Goudy remarked that the gentleman had sown his peas too thickly, for which offence he should be rodded and not the peas". When passing a cemetery and 
hearing the soft tones of a piano floating over the tombstones, he said to a fellow travellr, "this must be grave sweet music". At one time the news reached him 
that a woman who had an unamiable temper and who had married late in life, had given birth to a son. The Dr. remarked that "though she had been intolerable 
she had not passed bearing". On listening to an orator whose hair had a way of standing on end Dr. Goudy remarked that "his head was an infuriated besum". 
But he was prudent and wisely eliminated all such remarks from his pulpit services. After the death of Dr. Goudy the family removed to Ayr where Mrs. Goudy 
found a home with her son, Henry Goudy esq., an eminent lawyer, now professor of Law in Oxford College, England. Mrs. Isabella Goudy died in Ayr, Scotland, 
11th June, 1906, aged 82 years. See page 203. See portrait. 

Rev. Alexander Porter Goudy married Isabella Kinross, daughter of John Kinross, grain merchant of Ayr, Scotland. 

Henry Goudy, A.M., D.C.L., Oxford, England. Honorable LL.D. Edinburgh. Regius Professor of Civil Law, Oxford, since 1893, and Fellow of All
Souls College. He was born in Ireland Sept. 16, 1848; eldest son of the late Rev. Alexander Porter Goudy, D.D., of Strabane, County of Tyrone. Is un-
married. Education: in private schools; Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Konigsburgh University. Advocate of the Scottish Bar; elected Professor of Civil Law, Edin-
burgh University, 1889; editor Judicial Review from its foundation till 1893; official Curator of the Bodlein Library. Publications: joint author of a Manual
of Local Government in Scotland, 1880; a Treatise on the Law of Bankruptcy in Scotland, 1886 (3rd Edition 1903) ; Inaugural Lecture on the Fate of the Roman
Law north and south of the Tweed, 1894; edited 2nd edition of Muirhead's Private Law of Rome, 1898; translated, with notes and additions. Van Jherings' Juris-
prudence d. tag Lebens, 1904; Trichotomy in Roman Law, 1910; contributor of various articles to the Encyclopedia Britannica, etc. Recreation: golf, angling.
Address: All Souls College, Oxford; Strathmore, West Malvern. Clubs: Reform, National Liberal.

Professor Goudy has manifested an unfaltering interest in this work on the family history and genealogy since he was first informed of its prospective publi-
cation, and has contributed to it such information concerning his own branch of the race as he was able.

"Here lieth the body of Alexander Goudy, son of George Goudy of Ballyespland (County Down, Ireland), who departed this life June 30, 1786, aged 25 years; also 
Jenney Hill, wife to George Goudy, who died July the 29th, 1787, AE. 60 years; also George Hill, who died June the 22d, 1797, AE. 66 years. 

The above inscription was from the "Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland." The churchyard mentioned 
was near Donaghadee, County Down, Ireland. 

Gowdy, William - 27th. August 1789 - Of Newtownards Demesne - Registered a freehold

Gowdy, Mr. - 31st. October 1796 - His servant was shot

Goudy, John - 14th. June 1810 - Will probated

Goudie, Nathaniel - 1810 - Of Cunningburn - Subscribed to a book of poetry by Andrew McKenzie

Gowdy, William - 21st. September 1824 - Of Newtownbards Corporation - Registered a freehold at Castleavery, Comber

Gowdy, William - 9th. July 1827 - Master of the Freemasons Lodge

Goudy, John - 20th. February 1834 - Witness at the wedding of Samuel Irvine and Agnes Birch

Gowdy, John - 1843 - Of Castle Street - A spirit and porter dealer

Goudy, John Snr. - 1863 - Of Greenwell Street - Leased a house,yard and garden from Joseph Davidson

Goudy, John Jnr. - 1863 - Of Greenwell Street - Leased a house from James Martin

Gowdy, William - 1863 - Of Ballycullen - Leased a house and 26 acres from the Marquis of Londonderry and leased out a cottage nearby.
Gowdy, William - 8th. November 1872 -  - Of Ballycullen - In the will of James Craig
The Will of James Craig late of Ballylisbredan Co.Down Farmer deceased who died 7 October 1872 at same place was proved at Belfast by the oaths of James Fisher of Ballyrainey (Comber) and William Goudy of Ballycullen (Newtownards) both in said County Farmers the Executors. - Effects under £1,000

1871 Census 2 Hamilton Township, West Northumberland 54. Ontario. Canada

1881 Census same - Except no Jane but addition of Julius James Goudy aged 8 months - A son James had been born Newtownards 1847 but died in infancy

Gondie, Miss - 1883 - Leased out a property at 28 West Street to Rose Morlin

Gondie, John - 1883 - Leased out a property at 29 West Street to William Linn

Goudy, John - 25th. April 1884 - In the will of Henry Crawford
The Will of Henry Crawford late of Ardsview Ballyharry Co.Down Farmer who died 3 March 1884 at same place was proved at Belfast by the Reverend William Wright Presbyterian Minister and John Goudy Merchant both of Newtownards in said County the Executors. - Effects £582-14s-6d

Goudy, John - 17th. January 1896 - In the will of Anne Crawford nee Goudy
Letters of Administration of the personal estate of Anne Crawford late of Ballyharry Co.Down Widow who died 20 September 1895 were granted at Belfast to John Goudy of Newtownards said County Provision Merchant the Brother - Effects £205-11s-9d

1901 Census 20 in Ballycullen (Newtownards, Down)

Suspect that John emigrated to Saskatchewan, Canada in 1902 - A John of approx. same age appears in the 1916 Census - Under further research

1901 Census - Residents of a house 5 in Ballyskeigh Low (Newtownards, Down)

1901 Census - Residents of a house 23 in High Street (Newtownards Urban, Down)

1911 Census - Residents of a house 8 in Ballycullen, part of (Rural) (a) (Newtownards South, Down)

1911 Census - Residents of a house 7 in Ballyskeagh Low (Newtownards South, Down)

1911 Census - Residents of a house 3 in Castle Place (Newtownards Urban, Down)

Gowdy, Hugh - 1918 - A farmer of Ballyskeagh

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