- 17th Century Irish Presbyterian Minister
William Adair was born 1651 in Cairncastle, County Antrim, Ireland to Patrick Cathcart Adair (1625-1694) and Margaret Cunningham (1625-) and died 1698 Genoch, County Antrim, Ireland of unspecified causes.
Father's Will
Rev. Patrick Adair (d 1694) had four sons: William, Archibald, Alexander and Patrick, and a daughter, Helen. The children are listed in Patrick's will.
Gordon says that Patrick junior was a minister at Carrickfergus and that he died in June 1717.[58] William, his eldest son by Margaret Cunningham, was an executor of his father’s will, and his third son Alexander, a witness to it.
In 1697 the Synod of Ulster voted an honorarium to the Rev. William Adair for his trouble in copying out, with the aid of an amanuensis, his father’s ‘collections’.[59] Dr Reid afterwards copied the greater part of his manuscript and made much use of it in his history of the Church.[60] The Rev. William Adair’s copy appears to be the one which the Rev. Classon Porter’s son, Classon Porter B.L. donated to the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland.[61] When Dr Killen published the Narrative in 1866 he followed Dr Reid’s copy, no doubt collating it with the Rev. William Adair’s manuscript.
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| William Adair (1651-1698) | 1651 Cairncastle, County Antrim, Ireland | 1698 Genoch, County Antrim, Ireland | |
| Archibald Adair (1651-1725) | 1651 Cairncastle, County Antrim, Ireland | 1725 Genoch, County Antrim, Ireland | |
| Alexander Adair (1652-1715) | 1652 County Antrim, Ireland | 1715 Genoch, County Antrim, Ireland | Margaret Agnew (1657-1715) Helen Douglas (1665-1707) |
| Helen Adair (1654-1740) | 1654 Cairncastle, County Antrim, Ireland | 1740 County Antrim, Ireland | |
| Patrick Adair (1658-1717) | 1658 Cairncastle, County Antrim, Ireland | June 1717 Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland | |
Residences
Research Notes
- Missing documentation on any marriage or children?
See Also
- Patrick Adair
- Adair Family
- Adair in County Antrim
- Patrick Adair - Geni.com
- Patrick Adair of Cairn Castle - Antrim Historical Society