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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Derry (Londonderry) => Topic started by: aghadowey on Wednesday 18 March 09 13:28 GMT (UK)
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Resources and Links in this Section organised by the following catagories:
General sources for research
Census Records
Land Records & Maps
Directories
Places
People & Families
Libraries, Museums & History Groups
Schools, Workhouses, Institutions, Occupations
Books, Newspapers, Magazines
Misc. & General Sources
Irish Genealogy Project- Derry (http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/derry/index.htm)- lots of links NEW
Various Co. Londonderry links (http://www.ukisearch.com/londonderry.html) NEW
Derry GenWeb project- http://londonderry.wordpress.com/
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GENERAL SOURCES for Londonderry/Northern Ireland/Ireland research:
PRONI (Public Records of Northern Ireland): www.proni.gov.uk
Freeholders Records, Will Extracts, 1912 Ulster Covenant. Also guides to records, etc.
New e-catalogue has lots of material and is well worth searching with names, places, etc.
LDS (also known as Mormon) website: www.familysearch.org
IGI (International Genealogical Index) has some, not all, Irish births 1864-c1882.
LDS records both submitted and extracted so need to be verified.
Online catalogue (using place search) can help find if there are any surviving church records for a particular area.
Index to Irish Civil Registrations (LDS Pilot site):
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;t=searchable;c=1408347
Magherafelt Registry Office marriages (http://magheragenealogy.org/index.php/churches/civil-registrars-office.html) broken link
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LONDONDERRY CENSUS RECORDS & census substitutes
1630 Muster Roll- Ironmongers' Estate (http://web.archive.org/web/20030814111020/http://members.aol.com/Manus/derry1630.html)(Aghadowey area)
1659 Census (http://www.from-ireland.net/derry/census/derrycity1659.htm)
c1663 Hearth Money Roll- Aghadowey Parish (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nirldy/aghadowey/ag_hrth.htm)
1820 Nominal Census of Fishmongers Estate (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,367067.0.html)
1831 Census- Dunboe Parish (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nirldy/dunboe/1831cen/1831indx.htm)
1841-1851- Old Age Pension Claims: the introduction of old age pension (min. age 70) c1909 meant 1841 and 1851 census returns were checked as claimants were born before civil registration of births started in 1864. Extracts from these census searches are in the pension claim files (PRONI).
It is sometimes worth checking for people slightly younger than pension age (surprising how many people weren't as old as they said!) or older siblings whose details can fill in family details such as names of parents and year of marriage, townland, etc.
1901 Census- North West Liberties, Templemore Parish (http://www.from-ireland.net/derry/census/templemore1.htm) (heads of household)
1901 Census- Co. Londonderry- available on microfilm at Ballymena Library:
www.ni-libraries.net/libraries/ballymena-library
1901 census (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie) NOW ONLINE 3/6/2010
1911 census (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/) NOW ONLINE
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LONDONDERRY LAND RECORDS & MAPS
Townlands, Parishes, etc.
Counties are made up of parishes and parishes are made up of a group of townlands. If you are doing any research in Ireland these divisions become extremely important.
For further information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townland
http://www.ancestryireland.com/database.php?filename=townlands
To find Townlands, Parishes, etc. in Ireland: www.thecore.com/seanruad
(be sure to change default setting from exact match to find part of a word)
www.logainm.ie/?menuItem=about&uiLang=en
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Griffith's Valuation:
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/
www.failteromhat.com/antrim.php
1778 Taylor and Skinner maps of Ireland (http://www.failteromhat.com/taylorskinner.php)
Map of Ireland (http://www.failteromhat.com/eiremap.php)
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There are several different systems of land measurement in place in Ireland at various times.
Statute acre (or English acre) = 4840 square yards
Cunningham acre = 6250 square yards
A Scottish measurement. Cunningham acres need to be multiplied by 1.29 to convert them to English, statute acres. www.clancunningham.org/photos/Settlement6.html
Irish acre = 7840 square yards
www.sizes.com/units/irish_acre.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre_(Irish)
conversion table: www.convertcenter.com/convertunit.aspx/area/irish_acre/all/56/0/1
This may explain the differences in the acreage of a farm which seems to have changed in size.
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The Northern Ireland Valuation and Lands Agency (http://pip.vla.nics.gov.uk/districts.asp) gives the names of the District Councils throughout the Province, the names of the Wards in each Council and the names of roads and streets within those Wards. broken link
Current road maps and aerial views (http://www.mapchannels.com/DualMaps.aspx) of Co. Londonderry (Derry city particularly good in places in
bird's eye view).
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LONDONDERRY DIRECTORIES
1824 Pigot's Directory (http://www.failteromhat.com/pigotu.php)
1843 Belfast & Province of Ulster Directory (http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/BSD1843.htm)
1846 Slater's Directory (http://www.failteromhat.com/slateru.php)
1852 Belfast & Province of Ulster Directory (http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/1852PD1.htm)
1861 Belfast & Province Ulster Directory (http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/BSDStart.htm)
1877 Belfast/Ulster Street Directory (http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/BSD1877.htm)
1880 Belfast/Ulster Street Directory (http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/BSD1880.htm)
1901 Belfast/Ulster Street Diretory (http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/BSD1901.htm)
1907 Ulster Towns Directory (http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/PT1907.htm)
1910 Ulster Towns Directory (http://www.libraryireland.com/UlsterDirectory1910/Contents.php)
1913 telephone directory- Londonderry (http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/1913PhoneList7.htm)
Some Directories added to PRONI site- see here for contents:
www.proni.gov.uk/index/search_the_archives/street_directories.htm
Resource guide to Belfast & Ulster directories- NEW 3/8/11
http://www.liscni.co.uk/docs/Belfast_and_Ulster_Street_Directories.pdf
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LONDONDERRY PLACES
The early history of Derry
(http://www.geographia.com/northern-ireland/ukidermp.gif)
www.geographia.com/northern-ireland/ukider01.htm
"The Geograph British Isles project (http://www.geograph.org.uk) aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland."
The US Naval Operating Base, Londonderry, was officially commissioned on 5th February 1942. Derry was the first US Navy establishment in Europe and became the terminal for
US convoys bound for Britain. www.secondworldwarni.org/print.aspx?pagerecordid=1083
Derry became the Allies’ most important escort base during the Battle of the Atlantic. www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/radiofoyle/peoples_war/context.shtml
Just came cross this online booklet Victorian Coleraine (http://www.niarchive.org/directory/uploads/8872c70b-e26a-47d5-8d9d-7c1180106d61/Victorian%20Coleraine%20ST08.pdf) with some lovely old photos and prints of Coleraine.
More Coleraine pictures, families, etc.- Old Killowen and The Waterside (http://oldkillowen.angelfire.com/index.html)
NEW 3/2/13
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Londonderry People & Families
Surnames of Magilligan Parish (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,334586.0.html)
New site which has some links for Co. Londonderry- see here for link to it as well as comments on problems viewing, etc.
www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=359576.msg2363343#msg2363343
The O'Cahan Princes of Ulster website (http://clankane.net/index.htm) contains a lot of information about the surnames on the following list The further back you go with your research the more you need to consider the spelling variations ... today you'll find that some families are reverting to the old spelling so some of the next generation of genealogists may have to start with the old spelling, then the present spelling and then the old spelling as they start researching their ancestors.
The Spelling Variations of O'Cahan ...
O'Kane is the anglicised form of O'Cahan and is variously rendered as Kane, Keane, Kayne, Keaney, O'Keeny, Keyne, Cahan, O'Cain, Cain and Keny. In addition, it embraces McAvinney, McEvinney and McQueen. Another large sub-sept of O'Cahan is McCloskey (McCluskey, Cluskey and McLuskey), a numerous north Derry name. McCloskey derives from Bloscaidh O'Cathain (Bloskey O'Kane), who, in 1196, slew Murtagh O'Loughlin, heir to the Irish throne. Other Variant Spellings ; Cahan, Cain, Cane, Gahan, Kain, Kaine, Kane, Kean, McAvinney, McCain, McCloskey, McEvinney, McKain, McKane, McKean, MucKian, O'Cahan, O'Caughan, O'Kane.
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Libraries, Museums & History Groups
Coleraine Library (http://www.ni-libraries.net/libraries/coleraine-library)
Copies of PRONI microfilm Church records- covers churches in council areas of Ballymoney, Coleraine, Limavady and Moyle. www.irishpalmers.org.uk/churchrecords.asp
NEELB Libraries (http://www.ni-libraries.net/search/?q=londonderry) (most very small and have few resources, limited opening hours):
Foyle Valley Railway Museum (http://www.discovernorthernireland.com/Foyle-Valley-Railway-Museum-Londonderry-Derry-P2915)
Garvagh Museum (http://www.garvaghmuseum.com)
Londonderry Harbour Museum (http://www.discovernorthernireland.com/Harbour-Museum-Londonderry-Derry-P2912)
Londonderry Workhouse Museum (http://www.discovernorthernireland.com/Workhouse-Museum-Londonderry-Derry-P3201)
Roe Valley Country Park (http://www.discovernorthernireland.com/Roe-Valley-Country-Park-Limavady-P2922)
North of Ireland Family History Society, Coleraine branch (http://www.coleraine-fhs.org.uk)
Coleraine Historical Society (http://www.colerainehistoricalsociety.org.uk)
Maghera & District Genealogy website (http://www.magheragenealogy.com/home)
New Buildings and District Archaeological and Historical Society (http://www.newbuildingshistorical.org.uk/) NEW
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Schools, Workhouses, Institutions, Occupations
Some school records - www.magheragenealogy.org (Kilrea & Lislea Schools)
Loreto College, Coleraine- http://www.loretocollege.org.uk/our_history.php
Workhouses: Coleraine (http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Coleraine/), Limavady (formerly Newtownlimavady) (http://www.workhouses.org.uk/NewtownLimavady/), Londonderry (also knwn as Grasha) (http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Londonderry/), Magherafelt (http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Magherafelt/)
Details of inmates Magherafelt Workhouse (http://www.neelb.org.uk/search-results/?q=magherafelt)- 1st entry under Assets
Occupations:
Shirtmaking: www.geocities.com/historyofshirtmakinginderry/Index.htm Broken Link
Shirtmaking: www.derryjournal.com/features/Thriving-industry-is-no-more.4184442.jp
Distilling
www.potstill.de/derry1.htm
Ship Building
The North of Ireland Shipbuilding Co. http://tinyurl.com/6lesqh
Shipping
J. & J. Cooke
McCorkell Line: 1778-1897 www.mccorkellline.com
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Books, Newspapers, Magazines
Coleraine Chronicle (http://coleraine.thechronicle.uk.com/) started publishing in 1844.
Londonderry Sentinel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londonderry_Sentinel) published since 1829.
Other newspapers which cover Co. Londonderry births, marriages + deaths include Belfast Telegraph, Belfast Newsletter, Irish Times, Northern Constitution and now defunct papers such as Ballymoney Free Press, Northern Whig.
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Misc. & General Sources
Misc. Londonderry Sources:
www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/links/counties/derry.htm
www.ulsterancestry.com/ua-free-pages.php (free)
1833-1839 List of Emigrants extracted from Ordnance Survey Memoirs for Co. Londonderry:
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ote/ships/irish1833-1839a.htm
Draper's Company records (http://www.thedrapers.co.uk/Heritage/2_archives.html)
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I have discovered that the Londonderry Standard newspaper which became the Derry Standard from 1888 sometimes published complete parish histories in its pages. I am aware of four parishes that were covered in county Derry but I am sure there are many more yet to be discovered. Unfortunately the early editions seem to be only available in the British Library.
'Banagher, it's early plantation days' Derry Standard of 20 August 1900
'Faughanvale parish' Derry Standard 12 Nov 1900
'Some items of historical interest about the Waterside/Glendermott parish' Derry Standard 17 Feb 1902
'History of the parish of Tamlaght Finlagan [Ballykelly] Derry Standard 13, 18, 22 & 25 May 1908 [this is a substantial history].
I have a copy of the history of the parish of Tamlaght Finlagan [which I discovered in the Presbyterian Historical Society in a file on Ballykelly Presbyterian Church, the article having been cut out of the paper so it was hard to read the dates]. The article was written by JH Eakin a local historian and contains many genealogical sources of information: Here is the outline of the parish history:
Tamlaght Finlagan [Ballykelly]
1. Its Early People
2. The Plantation of Ulster
3. Sir Randloph Beresford
4. 1630 Muster Roll Fishmongers' estate
5. 1641 rebellion
6. 1663 Hearth Money roll [for the whole parish]
7. 1688 and the Siege
8. 1740 Protestant Householder's survey [whole of parish]
9. The Morrisons
10. Emigration
11. The Land in the Latter Days
12. The Phillip's estate
13. Churches - Prebyterian church in Ballykelly [including a list of elders at Synod of Ulster 1704-1817] /Bovevagh/Myroe/Largy
14. Churches - Episcopalian & Catholic
J H Eakin in his conclusion thanked Mr Tenison Groves Blackrock, Dublin and Mr JW Kernohan AM Belfast who were both professional genealogists and probably furnished him with the hearth rolls & other sources, which were transcribed before the destruction of the PRO in 1922.
I would imagine that the paper covered most parishes in the county proably in the years 1900-1910 - the British Library has a full run of the newspaper and an examination of the paper for the first decade will almost certainly bring into light other parish histories.
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Billy Macafee has just added some Londonderry databases to his website ;D
http://www.billmacafee.com/index.htm
Included for county L'Derry are:
1630 Muster Roll [all county]
1663 Hearth Money Roll [all county]
1740 Protestant Householders' survey [all county]
1766 religious returns [surviving parishes]
1796 Flax List [all county]
1831 census [head of households for whole county]
1858/9 Griffith's valuation [all county]
There is also a useful guide on sources/resources/repositories:
http://www.billmacafee.com/sources.htm
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'The Irish Genealogist' Volume 13, no 2, 2011 contains an excellent article by Steven Smyrl concerning the Presbyterian congregation of Balteagh, County Londonderry:
'A census substitute; a petition for Regium Donum from the Presbyterian congregation of Balteagh, Co Londonderry, c1828' discovered in the National Archives, Dublin from the Official Papers series:
The petition contains the names of the head of household by townland and the name of all children present - in total 1023 persons are named. A very useful source that can be used in conjunction with the 1834 transcript of the 1831 census returns for Co Londonderry. The Balteagh registers of baptisms and marriages are post civil registration.
The petition reveals that the congregation of Balteagh c. 1828 consisted of Presbyterians from the townlands Ballyness, Maine, Carrick, Terrydremond, Ballyleagry, Ardmore, Carnet, Terrydoo, Little Derry, Aughinsillagh, Temain, Gortnarney, Cloghan, Drumsurn, Lislane, Drumagosker.
Example from Cloghan townland:
LINTON - 2 [adults] Thomas & wife - 9 [children] Catherine, Margaret, William, Martha, Letitia, John, Thomas, Robert, Samuel.
http://www.igrsoc.org/journal.html
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Market Rossville St Derry, great video (thanks aghadowey) of Derry Cattle Market
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QZhXwly4MY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QZhXwly4MY)