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Faloona Family (Belfast)
« on: Saturday 28 August 10 17:22 BST (UK) »
Trying to trace Faloona family for my husband.  His mother was Mary Faloona and was the first Irish Linen Queen.  My husband was always told that there were Spanish roots but no further information.

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Re: Faloona Family (Belfast)
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 28 August 10 17:36 BST (UK) »
It's best to start with yourself (or in this case your husband) and work back one step at a time. We aren't allowed to mention details of living people but the latest available Irish census is 1911 (it and 1901 are online (free)-
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/
Most Faloona seem to come from Co. Down.
See also Introduction to Irish Records-
www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,442233.0.html
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Re: Faloona Family (Belfast)
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 28 August 10 18:15 BST (UK) »
Very useful I found the family.  Is there any census before 1901?

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Re: Faloona Family (Belfast)
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 28 August 10 18:21 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Babbacombegirl on Saturday 28 August 10 18:15 BST (UK)
Very useful I found the family.  Is there any census before 1901?

from the introduction topic link mentioned by aghadowey :

'...Also available online are the Irish 1901 and 1911 census  (free) on the National Archives website. No other earlier complete Irish census returns have survived and only fragments of earlier ones for a few places survive.'


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Re: Faloona Family (Belfast)
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 29 August 10 10:03 BST (UK) »
What a shame and one wonders why.

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Re: Faloona Family (Belfast)
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 29 August 10 10:21 BST (UK) »
Census returns were taken from about 1821, but have been destroyed for various reasons. Some in an explosion and fire in the Public Records Office during the Civil War (1922), others appear to have been re-cycled under government order (from London) as a result of a paper shortage during World War 1.


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Re: Faloona Family (Belfast)
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 29 August 10 10:25 BST (UK) »
It's not a big secret what happened to earlier census records-
1821, 1831, 1841, 1851- largely destroyed by fire at PRO in 1922
1861, 1871- destroyed by government order after population figures (the main reason for census) were extracted
1881, 1891- pulped for paper during World War I

http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/census-record.html
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Re: Faloona Family (Belfast)
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 29 August 10 12:50 BST (UK) »
Babbacombe Girl,
                           I have found a newspaper report of  Miss Mary Faloona being "crowned" Irish Linen Queen in 1937. Having found the family on the census if you give us some more detail we may be able to go back further.

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Stewart, Irwin, Morrison, Haslett, Murrell - Dungiven area Co. Londonderry
Browne, Barrett -Co.Armagh
Neil, Smyth _Co. Antrim

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Re: Faloona Family (Belfast)
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 29 August 10 12:54 BST (UK) »
Thank you.  What do you need?  She was apparently quite a celebrity then.
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