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Derry (Londonderry) / Derry records
« on: Thursday 19 June 08 01:44 BST (UK)  »
I'm going back to Ireland shortly and have a goal to make some progress on last summer's trip.  Previous trips to PRONI have proven helpful.  This time I was hoping to make it to the Genealogical Centre in Londonderry but have been told it has been closed.  Can anyone confirm this.  If so, where would someone recommend looking for further baptism, cemetery and church records for Derry.  I still have not found the grave of several great-great grandfathers (was one of the founders of Magilligan Presbyterian Church in the early 1800s and his eldest son's spinster daughters are buried there but he nor his other sons are buried there).  I want to be able to scour some of the records of churches there (quessing that they would be somewhere between Magilligan and Derry (rejecting the theory that my relatives would have hiked over the hill and some 5 miles to go to church in Articlave - preferring instead to take an easier walk to some place in the flat lands). 

Thanks in advance for any tips. 

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Derry (Londonderry) / Caldwells from Magilligan
« on: Wednesday 01 August 07 06:08 BST (UK)  »
My father, Uncle and I recently visited Magilligan and Derry from the States.  Since we had only relatively recently traced our Caldwell emigrant great grandfather 3x (William Caldwell 1823-1891) to his hometown in Tamlaght/Tamlaghtard.  We walked what we think was the farm they rented.  We are working diligently to plug in many missing holes and would appreciate any help.  One thing I particularly found disouraging was the number of Caldwells in Derry & nearby Antrim.  Clearly, we have our work cut of for us.

William Caldwell b. 1823, emigrated 1843.
Brothers Daniel (family legend has him dying young), Alexander (thought to be the one who inherited the land) and a sister.
Dad of William Caldwell is John Caldwell (no birthdate but we guess somewhere around 1790s. 
We have a record of John Caldwell helping to found the Magilligan Presbyterian Church in 1813 and two Caldwell spinsters are buried there (we think they are Alexander Caldwell's daughers). 
Oddly, however, Alexander, John nor Daniel Caldwell were buried there. 
A straight shot from the Caldwell farm along the old road is a Church of Ireland parish - Tamlaughtard.  This Church is only several hundred yards from the farm and is much older so if these Caldwells stayed on the same land, or near there, this seems like a logical church for them.  In fact, we found Luke and Robert Caldwell on the Vestry there in the 1700s. 
Challenge is to try to tie John to any of them.  We were not succesful in locating the burial place for John Caldwell, Alexander Caldwell, Daniel Caldwell or their sister. 

If anyone can provide any help or suggestions, I would be very grateful.  Having visited this beautiful place for the first time and tracing it back through my blood line has increased my desire to tie out as much of my Irish roots as I can. 

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