Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-16
spirit of the manufacturing masses of Ire

land.
About three, perhaps four miles, from
Kilroot, nearly north, is village which
bears the sonorous name, Ballycarry. The
number of its inhabitants do not know.
1t is only small village, but it is place of
is and has for long time been called Broad
island. Ballycarry has history. 1t is the
starting pointof fPresbyterianism in Ireland.
1t was at this place that Rev. Edward Brice
began to preach, in 1913. James the First of
England and Sixth OF Scotland was King at
that time. With him series of bloody per-
secutions began to be waged against Presby-
terians and Presbyterianism. These perse-
cutions increased in number and in revolt
ing cruelty until James the Second, in 1888,
was driven from the throne-a period OF
about eighty-five years. During all this
long and gloomy period, Ireland was to the
prosecuted Scotch Presbyterians an asylum,
and New England afforded place of refuge
for the prosecuted English Puritans.
In 1886 Rev. Edward Brice died in Bally-
carry. For period of about two hundred
years this congregation of Ballycarry had
only four pastors. The original church,
which, think, was called TemplecOrn, has
long been in ruins.
Edward Brice was Scotchman, but where
and when he was born do not know. He
entered Marlborough College in, perhaps,
1885 and graduated in 1893. for number
of years previous to going to Ireland he
was minister of Dryman, in Stirlingshire.
One of the first movements to establish pre-
lacy in Scotland was to make the modera-
tor of a Synod permanent office. A mo-
ton was made in the synod of Clydesdale,
to which Edward Brice belonged, to make
Spotiswood, afterward Archbishop of Glads-
boro ,or,popopf r,oo6oro This ,pova-
ment Edward Brice opposed, and thereby
incurred the displeasure of the prelatic par
ty. This was in 1907. To oppose any of the
movements of the dominant party was to
place the property, liberty and life of the
opposer in jeopardy. Brice knew this, and
to escape the bloody fangs of the heartless
monsters, he fled to Ireland. TO this asy-
lum others had preceded him. Edward
Brice seems to have won the favor of Ech.
lin, the Bishop of Down and Connor, for in
1919 he promoted him to the prebend OF
Kilroot. In this it seems that the church
of Ballycarry was situated and Brice c0ntin.
ued to labor in his first field until his death
From Rev. Edward Brice, the Brice fam.
lily of Fairfield county, South Carolina, are
descended. He had two sons, Robert and
large property, and Randall was, at the
time of his death, in 1907, a member of Par
lament for Lisburn.
The original name of the family from
which Edward Brice sprung was Bruce, and
is said to be a branch Of the celelebrated
Robert Bruce, one of ScOtland's most illus
trious heroes. When the change from
Bruce to Brice was made, do not know
neither do l know for what purpose it was
made. Probably to avoid persecution. In
Ireland the descendants of Edward Brice
have assumed the original name Bruce
/ do not know that all of them have made
the change, but there can be no doubt thai
some of the lineal descendants of Rev. Ed
ward Brice, of Broadisland are now called
Bruce. The change from Brice to Bruce
was made, perhaps, more than fifty years
ago.
From this BrOadisland sections of Ireland
came to America the Bankheads, of Fair
field, and the Barrons, of York. l was
struck with the changes which have been
made in the many names in the last three
hundred years. The name Barron, is some
times spelled Baron, sometimes Barrone
and sometimes Barran. If it be not i'm.
modest, may say that my own name is
spelled in Scotland, Latham and in Ireland
Leathem.