Killead () is a

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. It is near Aldergrove and Antrim and is accessed from the A26 Tully Road. It had a population of 81 people (32 households) in the 2011 Census. (2001 Census: 78 people)

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James Molyneaux James Henry Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, KBE, PC (27 August 1920 – 9 March 2015), often known as Jim Molyneaux, was a unionist politician from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from 1979 to ...

, Baron Molyneaux of Killead (27 August 1920 – 9 March 2015) was born in the village. He was a

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Unionist politician and was leader of the

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from 1979 to 1995. *Reverend

Arthur Bell Nicholls Arthur Bell Nicholls (6 January 1819 – 2 December 1906) was the husband of the English novelist Charlotte Brontë for the last nine months of her life. Between 1845 and 1861 he served as the last curate of her vicar father, Patrick Brontë, w ...

, who was the Reverend

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's curate, and husband of

Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Nicholls (; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855), commonly known as Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ), was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë family, Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novel ...

, was born in Killead on 6 January 1819. * James Gordon was born in the parish of Killead on 31 October 1739, attended local schools and emigrated to the

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in 1758, settling in

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. He served in Congress from 1791 to 1795 and in the State senate from 1797 to 1804. *Rev James Alexander Hamilton Irwin (1876–1954) ministered at the

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Church at Killead from 1903 to 1926. He was a vocal supporter of Home Rule for

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and later became a supporter of Irish independence. * Charles McCorrie VC 1830–1857 Was born in the Parish of Killead and was awarded the Victoria Cross during the Crimean War in 1853 for throwing a live Russian shell over the Parapet. He died in Malta on 9 April 1857. * James Kirker, emigrated to USA where he was a pirate, grocer, fur-trapper and scalp hunter. Kirker's ruthlessness at hunting Apache's and bold actions led to him being informally dubbed 'The King of New Mexico.Mero, William E., "Myths, Legends, and Facts, the final days of James Kirker

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