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gormangenealogy
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Wednesday August 19 2009
BELLEWSTOWN Heritage Group is pulling out all the stops for this year's exhibition.
Coinciding with National Heritage Week at the end of August, the exhibition is entitled '150 Years of Bellewstown, its Fieldnames, Families and Dwellings' and records the family histories of all the houses in the village.
Almost 200 houses are given a mention, including ruins and long-gone houses, based on census material from the 1911 and 1901 returns as well as local history of the area. 'Our focus was largely on dwellings from the 1850s up to the 1970s,' said Grace McCullen, PRO of Bellewstown Heritage Group. 'But we've gone through each and every house in the locality and put a name to who's living there now and who's lived there through the ages. It will be very interesting for locals to discover who had been living in their homes in the early 1900s.'
Grace praises the hard work of John Kirwan, who spent the last year researching the information and she also gives credit to local octogenarian Seamus O'Neill for his contribution. 'Seamus is a well-known character in Bellewstown who had plenty of parochial stories to share with us,' she said. He provided background information on numerous residents which was great.'
In addition to the census-gathering side, the exhibition coordinates with the Meath Field Name Project which was set up last year with a view to recording the 100,000 fieldnames in Co. Meath.
Recent Geography graduate Colin Byrne, from Julian-stown, has mapped all of the fields in Bellewstown and locals will be able to identify where their homes are situated.The exhibition takes place on August 29th (6.30pm-9.30pm) and 30th (10.30am5.30pm) at Bellew-stown Parish Hall.
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shanew147
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Just found ancestors with the help of the 1911 census who were from Bellewstown. They were a James Doonan and Bridget Robinson who were married in 1869. Will any of the information become available online?
G.
Irish Civil BMD records are not available on line but you can search an Index to them on familysearch at : http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1408347;p=2;t=searchable
If you find promising matches you can order certs from the GRO using the index details - www.groireland.ie A cert will give you the full recorded details for the event - date, place names etc.
The details the GRO require are
name
registration district
record type ( e.g. birth)
year/quarter
volume & page
The other items mentioned on that website index are familysearch/LDS internal reference numbers (image, film no etc).
(see the Ireland resources section for tips on searching)
Shane
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Wilson : Cambridgeshire [Chatteris], Yorkshire [Leeds], Dublin & Australia [Sydney/NSW] | Fitzsimon : Bray, Co. Wicklow & South Co. Dublin
Hayes, Shepherd, Bickerdike, Render, Harper : Yorkshire | Doyle, Dillon, Cantwell, Roach, Clarke : Co. Wicklow
Cathcart, Wilson : Kings Co./Offaly, Dublin City & N. Ireland | Hodges : Bristol, Glos./Bray Co. Wicklow/Dublin City | Nevin : Cork
Sheridan : Dublin City | Kavanagh, Rooney, Clarke, Hughes, May, Monks : North Co. Dublin [Rush/Thomastown]
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shanew147
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not sure which sources you have looked at so far .. these are a few sources that might be useful for Bellewstown occupants :
The National Archives are working on the 1901 census and it's due late this year or early next year.
Griffiths Valuation is available on the AskAboutIreland website and gives heads of household in 1854 : http://www.rootschat.com/links/0709/ The area is split between three different parishes.
Shane
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Wilson : Cambridgeshire [Chatteris], Yorkshire [Leeds], Dublin & Australia [Sydney/NSW] | Fitzsimon : Bray, Co. Wicklow & South Co. Dublin
Hayes, Shepherd, Bickerdike, Render, Harper : Yorkshire | Doyle, Dillon, Cantwell, Roach, Clarke : Co. Wicklow
Cathcart, Wilson : Kings Co./Offaly, Dublin City & N. Ireland | Hodges : Bristol, Glos./Bray Co. Wicklow/Dublin City | Nevin : Cork
Sheridan : Dublin City | Kavanagh, Rooney, Clarke, Hughes, May, Monks : North Co. Dublin [Rush/Thomastown]
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