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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Antrim => Ireland => Antrim Resources & Offers => Topic started by: aghadowey on Friday 20 March 09 10:09 GMT (UK)
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General history of various denominations in regard to records (http://www.rootschat.com/links/05s2)
Information on various denominations (http://www.from-ireland.net/gene/churchrecrds.htm)
Sources for church records (Antrim records start page 47 but all pages may not be available to view): www.rootschat.com/links/05s1
Various Co. Antrim marriage records (http://www.genealogylinks.net/marriages/uk/ireland/Antrim.htm)
Belfast Churches- http://www.churches-uk-ireland.org/belfast.html NEW
Church of Ireland- also see post below for Shankill Parish information
Church of Ireland records (microfilms) in PRONI (http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/search_the_archives/online_indexes/church_of_ireland_index.htm)
Church records (http://irelandgenealogyprojects.rootsweb.ancestry.com/Old/coirecs.html)
Shankill Parish, Belfast- register 1745-1761 (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,254673.0.html)
Billy Parish Church burying ground (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlantbp)
Christ Church, Derriaghy (http://www.lisburn.com/books/derriaghy/derriaghy1.html#parish)
Church of the Holy Spirit, Mossley Parish (http://mossley.connor.anglican.org/index.php?id=HistoryOfOurChurch)
St. John's, Donegore (http://templepatrick.connor.anglican.org/Framesets/f_history.ht)
St. Nicholas' Church, Carrickfergus (http://www.saintnicholas.org.uk/tour1.html)
St. Patrick's, Templepatrick (http://templepatrick.connor.anglican.org/Framesets/f_history.htm)
St. Thomas', Belfast (http://www.answers.com/topic/st-thomas-church-belfast)
St. Thomas', Rathlin (http://www.ballintoy.connor.anglican.org/rathlinchurch.html)
Holy Trinity, Portrush (http://www.holytrinityportrush.org.uk/index.html)
St. Mark's, Dundela (Belfast) (http://dundela.down.anglican.org/stmarks_history_bap.html)- download excel database of baptisms 1864-2009 NEW 4/1/12
Roman Catholic:
www.from-ireland.net/ant/antrimrcindex.htm
Penal Mass sites in the Glens (http://www.antrimhistory.net/content.php?cid=131)
Other Penal Mass sites in North Antrim (http://www.antrimhistory.net/content.php?cid=42)
St. Patrick's, Aghagallon marriages 1837/8 lookup offer (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,352500.0.html)
Belfast convents (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,248400.0.html)
St. Joseph's, Ballygally (http://www.rootschat.com/links/05v9)
Belfast convents (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,248400.0.html) mentioned
St. Mary's on the Hill (http://www.saintmarysonthehill.org/about.htm)
Lovely old photo of Glenravel R.C. Church (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,472017.new/boardseen.html#new) on this thread- be sure to view the improved version
Presbyterian:
Presbyterian records (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fianna/county/antrim/antpres.html)
Presbyterian records (microfilms) in PRONI (http://www.proni.gov.uk/index_to_presbyterian_records-2.pdf)
Presbyterianism in Ladye + Cushendall (http://www.antrimhistory.net/content.php?cid=65)
1st Ballyeaston (http://www.firstballyeaston.org/)- history His House on the Hill 1676-2004 with Population of Congregation 1813
Second Ballyeaston (http://www.ballyeaston.org)
First Larne (http://www.firstlarne.org.uk)
Rosemary St.- various baptisms from 1822 - 1867 (http://ancestorsatrest.com/church_records/rosemary_street_church_ireland_births.shtml)
Rosemary St.-various marriages from 1811 - 1840 (http://ancestorsatrest.com/church_records/rosemary_street_church_ireland_marriages.shtml)
Some Carnmoney Presbyterian Church baptisms 1799-1867 (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,521542.0.html)
1st Donegore baptism & marriage records available on DVD (http://www.firstdonegore.org/records.html) NEW 9/1/12
Congregational:
Congregational Church, Straid in Bassett's directory (1888):
www.libraryireland.com/BassettAntrim/Straid.php
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Microfilm collections held in the self-service microfilm room at PRONI
MIC1 Church of Ireland records
MIC1B Non - Subscribing Presbyterian Church records
MIC1C Reformed Presbyterian Church records
MIC1D Roman Catholic Church records
MIC1/E Methodist Church records
MIC1/F Moravian Church records
MIC1/G Congregational Church records
MIC1/H Baptist Church records
MIC1P Presbyterian Church records
The Coleraine Branch of the NI Family History Society commenced a Project filming local Church Records in 2000.
This project, originally undertaken as the Branch Millennium Project, has been completed. The objective was to obtain copies of all the Church records held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast, of churches in the council areas of Ballymoney, Coleraine, Limavady and Moyle. There was a considerable financial commitment involved; each film copy costs £13.30, and the Branch is very appreciative of the generous financial assistance provided by Coleraine Borough Council, The Northeast Education and Library Board, and the Cultural Diversity Programme of the Community Relations Council, towards the cost of the project. The project was later extended to cover the Registrar districts of Ballymena, Magherafelt and Londonderry, and is now virtually complete. There are now 212 church record films, relating to almost 300 churches, available for inspection and research by residents of, and visitors to, the middle and north of the Province.
These Church records are available at the Coleraine Library at Queen Street for research purposes.
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Ballymoney Old Church Graveyard (http://ballymoneygraveyard.com/)
Billy Parish (inscriptions & map) (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlantbp/index.htm)
Larne Borough Council cemeteries (several listed) (http://www.larne.gov.uk/template1.asp?pid=1044&area=4&parent=469)
Famine Graveyard near Kenbane (http://www.northantrim.com/faminegraves.htm) NEW
Kilrush & St. Patrick's burying grounds, Lisburn
"These Hallowed Grounds" Lisburn Historical Association & North of Ireland Family History Society Vol.1 A Record of the Memorials in Kilrush and St. Patrick's Burying Grounds, Lisburn (www.nifhs.org)
Ulster Historical Foundation (inscriptions)- pay site:
www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/counties/ulster/antrim5.htm
Covenanters in Ulster: NEW
http://covenantersinulster.typepad.com/posts/2008/05/part-one-the-co.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scotch-irish/message/30063
Ireland's Gravestone Index (http://www.irish-world.com/gravestones/index.cfm)- pay site but search is free and can be quite useful (although there are some errors with people being listed twice in wrong parishes) NEW
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http://www.thebraid.com/genealogy.aspx
an excellent, fairly new, online resource with a great amount, albeit not complete, of inscriptions.
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Information below copied from this thread by akanex2:
www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,353901.0.html
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This is a posting I made on another site which I thought might be useful to Rootschatters.
It attempts to explain the shifting CoI parishes within the Civil Parish of Shankill (Belfast). The parish name on civil records for all marriages etc in these churches will be "Shankill", but Church records will use the religious parish name (e.g. St Anne's or St Mark's) causing some confusion. It should also help trace likely churches to search if you know where your ancestors lived in Belfast. Remember until 1870 the CoI was the established church and many members of other religions can be found in their records.
"Shankill is the name of the civil parish in Co Antrim where the town of Belfast began. It covers the city centre and practically all the city west of the Lagan - east Belfast is mostly in the civil parishes of Knockbreda and Holywood. Other civil parishes within the urban area of Belfast are Carnmoney, Derryaghy, Drumbeg and Drumbo.
There is a separate civil parish in the Lurgan area of Co Armagh named Shankill which includes neighbouring parts of Co Down but is not connected to the Belfast Shankill.
St Anne’s Cathedral is the successor to the original parish church, which I understand was original located close to the old graveyard on the Shankill Road. The parish church moved to Donegall Street in the 1770s. St George’s church is the successor of a chapel under the jurisdiction of St Anne's parish which stood at the ford of Belfast in ancient times and became a separate church early in the development of the town, known as “the Corporation Church” as it was used for civic functions in the C17th and C18th. The old civil parish now contains 26 Church of Ireland parishes, several with more than 1 functioning church. The main church in each current parish is marked with an asterisk in the list below.
The Churches, with date of separation from the old parish of Shankill are as follows:-
* St Anne's Donegall St
1811 * St George's High St
1833 Christchurch College Sq North
1839 * St Mary Magdalene's Donegall Pass
1839 * St Matthew's Woodvale Rd
1843 * Holy Trinity Oldpark Rd formerly Clifton St
1851 * St Paul's York St
1856 * St Mark's Ligoniel Rd
1859 * St John the Baptist Stewartstown Rd
1863 St Luke's Northumberland St
1869 * St Stephen's Millfield
1870 St Andrew's Hope St
1870 * St Thomas's Lisburn Rd
1871 St James's Antrim Rd
1872 St Philip's Grosvenor Rd
1892 St Barnabas' Duncairn Gardens
1892 St Matthias's Glen Road
1894 * St John's Malone Rd
1895 St Aidans Blyth St
1898 * All Saints' University St
1898 * St Mary's Crumlin Rd
1899 * St Michael's Craven St
1900 * St Peter's Antrim Rd
1901 * St Nicholas's Lisburn Rd
1908 * St Colman’s Church Avenue, Dunmurry
1912 Holy Redeemer Riga St
1929 * St Bartholomew's Stranmillis Rd
1929 St Saviour's Wilton St
1929 * St Simon's Donegall Rd
1932 * St Polycarp's Lisburn Rd
1944 * St Katherine's Dunlambert Park
1958 St Silas's Cliftonville Rd
Bef 1961 * St John’s Shore Road
1961 * Epiphany Sicily Park
1962 * St Columba's Ballygomartin Rd
1963 Immanuel Ardoyne Rd
1963 St Ninian's Whitewell Rd
1964 * St Hilda’s Seymour Hill
1982 * St Andrew's Forth River Rd
Demographic shifts in Belfast since the start of “the troubles” have lead to the closure of several churches and the merging of some into grouped parishes. St Matthias’s became a Roman Catholic church after closing as a Church of Ireland in 1970. St Barnabas’s was merged with St Paul’s in 1992 and subsequently demolished. Christchurch merged with St Stephen’s and closed in 1993. The church has been converted into a library for the neighbouring Royal Belfast Academical Institution (“Inst”). St Silas’s also closed in the 1990’s and the parish was merged with Holy Trinity. The original Holy Trinity Church was destroyed in the Blitz in 1941 and rebuilt in it’s new location. Holy Redeemer closed in 1995 and this parish was merged with St Mary’s. The original St Andrew’s was on the site of the car park behind Great Victoria Street Railway station and closed before a new congregation was formed in Glencairn, bearing the same name but created out of part of the parish of St Mark’s. St Saviour’s merged with St Luke’s which closed in 2006 and is being converted into a cross community facility still under the Church of Ireland within the parish of St Stephen’s. St Philip’s merged with St Simon’s and is also closed.
All these parishes/churches are in the parish of Shankill for purposes of civil registration."
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Jewish Burial Ground, Belfast City Cemetery (http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/citycemetery/jewishburialground.asp?menuitem=jewish)
Jewish gravestones, Carnmoney Cemetery (http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/community/Belfast/Carnmoney.htm)
Researching Jewish Families in Belfast (http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Vx9C9mot2XAC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=researching+jewish+families+in+belfast&source=bl&ots=B0wenMXX8I&sig=Mecz3RWvhn5E1sKVxPUYKRkOxPU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0MpKUbvVIpOS0QXy0oG4Aw&ved=0CGAQ6AEwAw)
International Jewish Cemetery Project (http://www.iajgs.org/cemetery/ireland/index.html) with links to various sites
British Jewry (http://www.british-jewry.org.uk/northernireland.html)
History of the Jews in Northern Ireland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Northern_Ireland)- Wikipedia
All Saints Church Eglantine (near Lisburn) (http://www.eglantine.me.uk/history.htm)
Ballymagarrick Gospel Hall (http://www.ballymagarrickgospelhall.org.uk/our_history.htm)
Journey of Remembering (http://www.journeyofremembering.org/index.htm)- Book of Honour for Belfast commemorating soldiers died WWI
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Belfast City Cemetery- website (http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/citycemetery/index.asp) and map (http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/citycemetery/cemetery%20map%20final.pdf)
Website has now added searchable database for City Cemetery, Dundonald Cemetery and Roselawn Cemetery- see also reply #10 on this thread.
New UPDATE: you can now view who else is buried in a particular grave by clicking on the grave number contained in your search results
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Maps of Carnmoney cemetery posted on this thread by The Whuttle- may be of use to other people looking for relatives buried there-
www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,434765.0/topicseen.html
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Book Lisburn's Rich Church Heritage (published June 2009) gives brief history of all 132 churches and places of worship in and around Lisburn.
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Clifton Street Cemetery, Belfast: "PDF books for the history of the cemetery, books that contain the information covered in the tours and a brief history of the Belfast Charitable Society, Grave Records for the Upper and Lower Ground and contains the names and date of deaths for those within."
www.cliftonstreetcemetery.com
Note: records seem to give place of origin for deceased so details of many people born outside Belfast are found here
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Burials in Belfast City Cemetery, Dundonald Cemetery and Roselawn Cemetery have gone online. It's a terrific resource for Belfast ancestors.
http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/burialrecords/
NB Clifton Street Cemetery burials are already online at:-
http://www.cliftonstreetcemetery.com/
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Coleraine Library church records on microfilm-
Church of Ireland- Armoy (Drumtullagh), Ballintoy, Broughshane (Skerry & Rathcavan), Craigs, Culfeightrin, Dunaghy, Dunluce, Dunseverick, Glenarm (Tickmacraven), Killagan, Loughguile, Newtowncrommelin, Portrush (Ballywillan), Rathlin Island
Roman Catholic- Ahoghill, Antrim, Armoy, Ballintoy, Ballycastle (Ramoan), Ballygowan, Ballymena (Kirkinriola), Ballymoney, Braid, Bushmills, Culfeightrin, Cushendall (Ladye & Ardclinis), Cushendun (Craigs & Cushleak), Cushendun & Ennispollan, Glenarm (Carnlough & Tickmacrevan), Loughguile (St. Patrick's), Portglenone, Portrush (St. Patrick's), Randalstown (Drumaul), Rasharkin (St. Mary's), Rathlin Island
Presbyterian- 1st Ahoghill, 2nd Ahoghill (Trinity), 3rd Ahoghill (Brookside), Armoy, Ballycastle, 1st Ballyeaston, 1st Ballymena, 2nd Ballymena (High Kirk), Ballymena (Wellington St.), Ballymena (West), 1st Ballymoney, Ballymoney (St. James'), Ballymoney (Trinity), Ballyweaney, Benvarden, 1st Broughshane, 2nd Broughshane, Buckna, Bushmills, Clough, Cloughwater, Connor, Croughmore, Cullybackey (Cunningham Memorial), Cushendun & Cushendall, Dervock, Drumreagh, Dunluce, Finvoy, Garryduff, Glenwhirry, Grange, Kells, 1st Kilraughts, 2nd Kilraughts (Bushvale), Mosside, Newtowncrommelin, 1st Portglenone, 2nd Portglenone, 3rd Portglenone, Portrush, Ramoan, Rasharkin, Toberdoney, Toberkeigh
Reformed Presbyterian- Ballyclabber, Cloughwater, Cullybackey, Kilraughts
Methodist- Ballycastle, Ballymena & Antrim Circuit (Antrim, Ballymena, Crumlin, Randalstown), Ballymoney, Billy, Portrush
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Some Monkstown burials 1878-1889 (http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stephenbarnes/monkstown/burials.htm)
Some Monkstown burials 1890-1899 (http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stephenbarnes/monkstown/burials1.htm)
Some Monkstown burials 1900-1909 (http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stephenbarnes/monkstown/burials2.htm)
Some Monkstown burials 1910-1919 (http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stephenbarnes/monkstown/burials3.htm)
Some Monkstown burials 1920-1953 (http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stephenbarnes/monkstown/burials4.htm)
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Hi, I have spent a fortune getting grave searches done in Milltown only to discover that they are available for free in PRONI.
It is very time consuming to go through the micro films but it is so worthwhile.
Included:
Burial records for general grounds from 1871-1960 (some 1962s).
Register of Grants.
Poor or public ground burials.
Friars Bush burials.
I have found so much family info by doing this it has really helped with my tree.
I found a grave bought by my Great Great Granda in 1871 and interred in it children that my family didnt know existed.
On the same day a grave was purchased by his next door neighbour, this neighbour was the sponsor 4 my Great Granda in 1876 - I was finally able trace who this lady was as her surname didnt match any on my tree. I now believe she is the sister of my Great Great Granda.
I have recorded the following family names and can check my records:
Dempsey, Donnelly, Farr, Foster, Gracey, Madden, Nolan, O'Hara, O'Neill, Rooney.
I am currently recording Bogue, Boyle, Shiels, McAlister & McCormack
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View maps for location of County Antrim graveyards- you can filter by denomination and other N.I. counties are also available.
http://historyfromheadstones.com/index.php?antrim
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Photos of headstones for Milltown Cemetery-
Section 1: http://www.belfastcemeterysearch.com/milltown/mgs/section-1.html
Section 4: http://www.belfastcemeterysearch.com/milltown/mgs/section-4.html
Section 5: http://www.belfastcemeterysearch.com/milltown/mgs/section-5.html
Complete listing of sections available so far here:
http://www.belfastcemeterysearch.com/milltown/grave-sections-5/milltown-grave-sections/
Section Map: http://www.belfastcemeterysearch.com/milltown/maps-3/milltown-section-map/
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Hi aghadowey, great links.
LGC