Researching Derry and Londonderry Ancestors: A Practical Guide for the Local and Family Historian (CD ROM)
With contributions from Terry Eakin, Robert Forrest and Brian Mitchell. The link within the home page of Researching Derry and Londonderry Ancestors: A Practical Guide for the Local and Family Historian provides an introduction to the process of researching ancestors within the …
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| Author(s) | William Macafee |
| Publication Date | 2010 |
| Publisher | William Macafee |
| Format | CD-ROM |
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With contributions from Terry Eakin, Robert Forrest and Brian Mitchell.
The link within the home page of Researching Derry and Londonderry Ancestors: A Practical Guide for the Local and Family Historian provides an introduction to the process of researching ancestors within the county and an historical background providing the historical context for that research.
There are links to Administrative Divisions within the County. Here there are maps of the Baronies and Parishes, Poor Law Unions, Dispensary Districts and District Electoral Divisions [DEDs] within the county. There is also a database that contains every townland within the county. Here you will be able to search for an individual townland and see in which Barony, Parish, Poor Law Union, DED, etc. it was located. The remaining links in the top menu relate to the records that are used to research ancestors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – civil, church, census, school and estate records, etc. A standard explanation of sources with illustrated examples related to the county is given for each source.
In order to provide more detailed examples of the sources and demonstrate how they can be used to research the history of families, a number of case studies of families have been included which both tell the history of a family and make explicit the sources that were used to create that history. In these case studies attention is paid not only to the genealogical side of the family history but also to the localities where each of the families lived and worked. There are some twenty case studies of individual families drawn from within the baronies. The names include: Archibald, Bond, Brolly, Campbell, Cassidy, Crilly, Dale, Doherty, Fallows, Forrest, Lecky, Long, McCloskey, McLean, McMillen, Moody, Montgomery, Mullan, O’Kane, Pollock and Walsh.
The baronies are also the framework for the Case Studies of Localities which include both rural and urban examples. The urban examples include William Street in Derry/Londonderry; Church Street in Coleraine; Broad Street in Magherafelt; Roe Mill Road Street in Limavady and part of Main Street in Dungiven. The rural examples include the townlands of Muff and Coolafinny around the village of Eglinton; the townland of Lisbunny near Claudy; the townland of Drumadreen between Limavady and Dungiven; the townland of Ballymacallion near Dungiven; the townlands of Cabragh, Derganagh and Lurganagoose around the village of Knockloughrim; the townlands of Gorteade, Tirgarvil and Upperland around the village of Upperlands; the townland of Moyletra Toy near Garvagh and the townland of Coolnasillagh near Ringsend.
A key feature of the CD is the inclusion of databases containing names and places within the county covering the years 1622 to 1859. These are available in both Excel and PDF formats. These include the standard census substitutes – the 1630 Muster Rolls, the 1663 Hearth Money Rolls, the 1740 Protestant Householders’ Returns, the 1766 Religious Census and the 1796 Flaxgrowers’ List. Two important databases on the CD are the 1831 Census Returns [unique to the county] which list virtually all heads of households within the county at that time and the 1858/59 Griffith’s [Tenement] Valuation which lists the occupiers of houses and holdings in the county at that time.
As well as databases containing lists of names and places there are a number of databases relating to sources and administrative divisions within the county. Another database which should prove useful when looking for estate records is Landlords of Individual Townland in the County, c.1859 and 1600s.
With regard to sources the following databases are available on the CD - Church Records extant for the County; Landed Estate Records extant for the County; Estates in the County sold by the Encumbered Estates & Landed Estates Courts, 1850–1874; Enrolment Registers for National Schools in Co. Londonderry that are held in PRONI; Bibliography of books relating to the County. Because this CD contains Excel/PDF databases and links to online databases, it can be used to organise searches for members of any family living in the county, particularly during the period c.1860 to c.1920.
For further details and examples of some of the material on the CD visit www.billmacafee.com
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