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Offline aghadowey

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Link: ANTRIM CENSUS RECORDS & CENSUS SUBSTITUTES
« on: Friday 20 March 09 12:16 GMT (UK) »
Antrim Census returns & substitutes
1630 Muster Rolls, North Antrim
1669 Hearth Money Rolls, North Antrim
1740 Protestant Householders, North Antrim
1766 Religious Census, Ballymoney Parish

1803 Agricultural Census NEW

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.

1851: www.rootschat.com/links/05va
1851: www.searchforancestors.com/locality/ireland/census1851
1851: www.ulsterancestry.com/ua-free-pages.php
Note: lots of other online sources for 1851 census- just search for '1851 census co. antrim'

1863 list of voters- Lisburn election

1901 census for all Ireland now online  3/6/2010
1901- 1st complete census for all Ireland. Microfilm copies can be found at PRONI and LDS libraries (either in stock or to order) and Ballymena Library.
1901 (Belfast): www.belfastfamilyhistory.com
1901 (extracts-surnames A-B): www.from-ireland.net/dow/census/belfast1.htm
1901 (parts of Ormeau, Pottinger & Victoria wards): Jean McCarthy's website
1901 (Portstewart, Portrush Urban, Coleraine): www.irishpalmers.org.uk/index.asp

1911 census for all Ireland now online

1911- missing bits?: Copperfield St. = missing?, Cornmarket = Corn Market, Whitla St. = Whitta, Skegoniel St. = Skeguriel www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,360351.0/topicseen.html
1911 institutions:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/St__George_s/Lisburn_Road/155677/
People in institutions like prisons, army and police barracks, asylums and workhouses were often listed in the census only by their initials.  If you think the person you seek was in an institution in 1911, first try the return for the institution, if you know it, as the ancillary information on the return (age, county of birth, previous occupation etc.) will help you to decide whether this is the right person. If you don't know the institution, or merely suspect that someone might have been in one, use their initials plus the age and sex boxes to narrow it down, eg T S, 25, female.
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!

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Re: Link: ANTRIM CENSUS RECORDS & CENSUS SUBSTITUTES
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 22 August 23 02:26 BST (UK) »
would it be possible to repost the linke to 1766 religious census Balleymoney?

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Re: Link: ANTRIM CENSUS RECORDS & CENSUS SUBSTITUTES
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 23 August 23 11:53 BST (UK) »
Is on Bill's revised site
https://www.billmacafee.com/1766census/1766religiouscensusballymoney.pdf
https://www.billmacafee.com/18centurydatabases.htm
Images and surviving/transcript 1766 have now been also compiled into the Virtual Treasury 2022, there may be additional piecemeal historical documents there https://virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/1766-religious-census
Not the easiest to use though
https://www.johngrenham.com/blog/2022/07/08/the-rabbit-holes-outnumber-the-rabbits/

As with Tate & Lyle, google can often shortcut the Q&A process, the above list is a bit dated now.

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Re: Link: ANTRIM CENSUS RECORDS & CENSUS SUBSTITUTES
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 23 August 23 20:27 BST (UK) »
this last post was VERY VERY informative! it has been such a joy to feel like i am gettingsomewhere now, thanks to YOU!!!