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Darcy
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Searching for little needles in big haystacks
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Antrim Town
Excellent site for photographs and local history.
I found two photographs of my relatives houses in the Past and Present section.. 
I was amazed to see that Riverside Church was built in 1596. I attended Sunday service there on many occasions, as a visitor, and had no idea the church was quite that old. We live and learn.
http://www.antrimtown.co.uk/
Darcy
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Fisher, Pitts, Lucas, Emmit, Keal, Bennett, Maddock, Jackson, Pidd, Lincolnshire Bullock, Read, White, Gloucestershire. Shepherd, Foyle, Crowter, Green, Wiltshire Strickland, Fisher, Butterworth, Brown, Northhamptonshire Shepherd, Bullock, Waterhouse, Lancashire Fisher, Goodwin, Rutland Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Christopher
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This is a useful site mentioning the history of this lovely Co. Antrim village, its church and school.
Is there a RootsChat member in that 1960s photograph of the youth organisations of the village?
http://www.glynnvillage.co.uk/history.htm
http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/ant/glynn.htm
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Christopher
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The main road from Ballymena to Cushendall cuts through Glenravel which is one of the lesser known Glens of Antrim although it is probably the one with the most interesting past. The three villages making up the area are ... Cargan (formerly known as Fishertown), Martinstown and Newtowncrommelin. Glenravel, at one stage in the mid to late 1800's, was the hub of the mining industry in Co. Antrim. Large deposits of iron ore were found in the area, which were fairly easily mined.
Learn more about Glenravel's history, compiled by The Glenravel Environmental Improvement Committee, on The Higgins Family of Glenravel, County Antrim website. The better known Glens in Antrim are the Nine Glens of Glenarm, Glencloy, Glenariff, Glenballyeamon, Glenaan, Glencorp, Glendun, Glenshesk and Glentaisie. The aims of the Clachan Project of the Glens of Antrim Historical Society are ...
1. To record of all clusters of houses (which might be clachans) presently recognisable in the Glens area.
2. To trace the physical, economic and social history of these settlements from the 1850s to the present.
3. To examine their current relationship with the present day community in the Glens.
4. To involve members of the Society and the general Glens community in the Project.
5. To involve local schools in the Project. (So far ten Primary Schools have taken part in the Project).
6. To produce a range of outputs such as booklets, CDs, web site etc.
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Christopher
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One of the members on the Curious Fox site has written a fourteen page document on "Ballymena Genealogy" which mid-Antrim members might find useful. Unfortunately I'm not a member of that site.
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Christopher
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Those of you with ancestors from Glenavy may be interested in www.glenavyhistory.com This site includes details of the Parishes, Townlands, Places of Worship, Schools and War Memorials in the Glenavy area.
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Christopher
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Click here to watch a YouTube video about Ballycastle. Learn more about this area of
Co. Antrim by reading Cahal Dallat's article about "Ballycastle's 18th Century Industries."
Ballycastle.free-online.co.uk has a genealogy page which might be worth checking in case there's someone looking for the same ancestor as RootsChatters with ancestors from Ballycastle. The two American ladies from Chicago who appear in the video were searching for a Lowry family from the area.
Ballycastle War Memorial
If anyone is able to supply some more information or photographs about the Ballycastle memorial , or any other memorial, or wish to make comments, suggestions, requests, etc. please send an e-mail to the address in the link.
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Christopher
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Len Kinley's Down Memory Lane website is full of photographs of people and places in Co. Antrim. There are several of the Castle in Antrim town before it was destroyed by fire in 1922. www.downmemorylane.me.uk/index.htm
There are collections of photographs from Aldergrove, Antrim, Ballycastle, Ballyclare, Ballymena, Belfast, Cookstown, Crumlin, Cullybackey, Doagh, Glenavy and Glenoe on this great site. If anyone has any amusing stories of days gone by please send an e-mail to Len.
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Christopher
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Lisnagarvey (Irish: Lios na gCearrbhach: meaning fort of the gamblers) has been anglicised to Lisburn but a number of clubs, groups and organisations retain the Irish name. When David Trimble, a former First Minister of Northern Ireland, was elevated to the House of Lords, he took the title Baron Trimble, of Lisnagarvey.
Sports clubs are good places to find an ancestor. Have a look at the names of the guys from Lisnagarvey Hockey Club who fought in WWI www.lisburn.com/books/Lisnagarvey-HC/garvey-2.htm
The roots of the Lisnagarvey Operatic Sociey go back to 1928 when it was known as the Lisburn Choral and Orchestral Society. Unfortunately the website doesn't mention names but there should be Society records and possibly old programmes. http://members.lycos.co.uk/thompydj
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Christopher
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Gaelic football has been played in the Glenavy area since 1899. The first club was "Owen Roes." The Club records show that it participated in competitions up until about 1916 - 17. The present club was founded in 1942 when a group of locals including Dan Cardwell, Kevin Cinnamond, Joe Ayre, Bobby Heatley, John and Paddy O'Neill, Felix Mulholland, Donald Jordan, Tom Fleeton, and Joe McGarry enlisted the support of the curate Fr. O'Hare www.glenavygac.com/history.php
You can read "Glenavy: Past and Present" Compiled by Charles Watson, M.A., B.D., T.C.D. Vicar of the Union. 1892 on www.lisburn.com/books/Glenavy_past_present/glenavy_past-2.html
The Down Memory Lane website has a photograph of pupils at the Ballymacricket School, Glenavy in 1922 but unfortunately there are no names www.downmemorylane.me.uk/Antrim%20B18.htm
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aghadowey
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Doagh
Leaflet "Heritage Walking Trails in Newtownabbey- Doagh" (Ballyclare & District Historical Society) gives directions for 1 1/2-2 hr. walk around Doagh.
Ancient Churchyard (remains of Church of St. Mary which may have been part of th century monastic settlement of Black Friars)
Norman motte (outpost of Carrickfergus Castle)
site of Doagh Railway Station (ran to Ballyclare then Larne)- opened 1884 for goods traffic- walk along track to see red brick stationmaster's house
Fisherwick- hunting lodge built by Marquis of Waterford in late 1700s- hotel and stables built nearby for visitors who came to hunt wth Marquis
John Rowan monument- engineer and inventor born 1787 Doagh, established foundry in village, 1836 designed and built steam coach which he drove to Belfast
Ballyhamage House built by Rev. George Johnston with adjoining church used as a chapel of ease
Methodist Church
William Gault, United Irishman, started book club and one of 1st Sunday schools in Ireland in 1770 (after Battle of Antrim soldiers destroyed many of the school books by playing football wth them)
Torrens Hall- built 1885 as Ladies' School
Doagh Spinning Mill- built 1870s
Kilbride Church of Ireland
Kilbride Presbyterian Church
Mary Florence McDowell, author of Roses & Rainbows and Other Days Around Me, wrote about her life in Doagh in her books (spent her childhood at Brookfeld House outside Doagh, taught Cogry Mill School)
Ballyclare
Ballyclare & District Historical Society NEW
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Yet another fascinating site. This one includes a speech by W. H. Webb F.T.I. (Fellow of the Textile Institute) who was a Director of the Old Bleach Linen Co. Ltd.