Please be generous minded to the LinenHall Library as it is a real gem of a surviving institute from 1788. Enjoy your visit. Don’t underestimate its resources. I was employed in it for over 10 years. Even though I was given free rein to all of the library resources during that time, there were so many more treasures that I didnt unearth or even can still imagine. If I were you I would plan staying the whole day in it and you may find items the staff don’t know about! I hurriedly made the index to the Blackwood MSS family tree collection for my own use
about 1961, already mentored within weeks by a Bookman Jimmy Vitty., the Librarian. I wanted to give the best info possible to members and visitors finding their family history. I already had other outside interests, nevertheless my index was prepared outside library hours in haste and I encountered difficulties completing it, volumes were borrowed or moved before I could allocate numbers to them. My index cards were accidently taken by a governor who thought they were scrap catalogue cards, just after staff member Miss ? Stanley typed them up, as directed by the Governors who had decided they would allow it to be typed at the libraries expense, and she had had difficulties in transcribing my dyslexic pecularities. The Orr entries, demonstrate my problems, so my apologies for this my 1961 exercise. {I learnt much from that experience see the start of the librarys over a ¼ million items of the NI political empheral collection or my work on Irish Booklore. To bring you uptodate on the Blackwood Collection however read
http://irishgenealogical.org/sites/default/files/memsepts/2007281.pdfwhich is the Irish Genealogical Society International quarterly journal called the Septs - the Jan 2007 issue contains, a clear article about the Blackwood Collection by David Rencher pages 16-21 plus he mentions he has completed an index that supplements/ supercedes mine. I think David Rencher who I have just discovered has done an excellent job, and wish I had been told about his work by Librarians Gray or Killen who knew my address and desire to have the collection reindexed properly.
Your Surname Interests expanded a little by me :
Creighton of Grangecam / Down. Could this include in Blackwood CRICHTON Vol 6 p76 and contains a Clarke line.
Edgar of Quoile, Erinagh, Downpatrick. LHL has two entries for Edgar in Blackwood vol 21 and vol 22
Ennis or Innes nothing listed, but I met another bookman mentor of the Innes name in Cambridge Univ Library cataloguing dept in 1968.
McKee of Quoile, Downpatrick. LHL has in Black wood a McKEE Vol 8?N
Megarry of Grangecam/ Down. LHL has in Blackwood a MEGARRY tree Vol 4 p2
Orr of Welshestown, Carrowcarlin, Ballyculter, Strangford. Jim thinks which or what Ulster Orr pedigree. Sounds like Ray Jones Ulster Pedigrees : Descendants, in many lines, of James Orr and Janet Mc Clement who emigrated from.... San Francisco : Printed by the author, 1977. I can imagine also another in the Ulster visitations series about 9 or 11 volumes white leather or white linen outside the irish section, BUT I remember a copied manuscript in manuscript of the Adair or Orr family., once held in their strongroom, My Orr entries for Blackwood are sadly thus ORR 23?, ??
Ross LHL has in Blackwood Volume 90 {this a late number which meant I didnt see it in the first volumes I unpacked , it was possibly kept in the Strong Room and perhaps the whole book is about the Ross family, and a special binding ?
Anyway good luck onwards Jim
