Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians

196 Pages·2016·8.74 MB·English

by  Ian Maxwell

FAMILY HISTORY FROM PEN & SWORD
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Tracing Your Ancestors
Tracing Your Ancestors from 1066 to 1837
Tracing Your Ancestors through Death Records Tracing Your Ancestors through Family Photographs
Tracing Your Ancestors Using the Census Tracing Your Ancestors’ Childhood
Tracing Your Ancestors’ Parish Records#
Tracing Your Aristocratic Ancestors
Tracing Your Army Ancestors - 2nd Edition Tracing Your Birmingham Ancestors
Tracing Your Black Country Ancestors Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors Tracing Your Canal
Ancestors
Tracing Your Channel Islands Ancestors Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors
Tracing Your Criminal Ancestors
Tracing Your East Anglian Ancestors
Tracing Your East End Ancestors
Tracing Your Edinburgh Ancestors
Tracing Your First World War Ancestors Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Gallipoli Campaign
Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Somme Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: Ypres Tracing Your
Huguenot Ancestors
Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors
Tracing Your Labour Movement Ancestors Tracing Your Lancashire Ancestors
Tracing Your Leeds Ancestors
Tracing Your Legal Ancestors
Tracing Your Liverpool Ancestors
Tracing Your London Ancestors
Tracing Your Medical Ancestors
Tracing Your Merchant Navy Ancestors Tracing Your Naval Ancestors
Tracing Your Northern Ancestors
Tracing Your Pauper Ancestors
Tracing Your Police Ancestors
Tracing Your Prisoner of War Ancestors: The First World War Tracing Your Railway Ancestors
Tracing Your Royal Marine Ancestors
Tracing Your Rural Ancestors
Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors
Tracing Your Second World War Ancestors Tracing Your Servant Ancestors
Tracing Your Service Women Ancestors Tracing Your Shipbuilding Ancestors
Tracing Your Tank Ancestors
Tracing Your Textile Ancestors
Tracing Your Trade and Craftsmen Ancestors Tracing Your Welsh Ancestors
Tracing Your West Country Ancestors

First published in Great Britain in 2010
Second edition published 2015 by
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Copyright © Ian Maxwell 2010, 2015
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1 Where to Begin
What Do I Need to Know?
A Walk Round a Graveyard
Surnames
Visiting the Archives
Family History Centres
Heritage or Genealogical Centres
Societies
DNA
Chapter 2 Census Records
1821
1831
1841
1851
1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891
1901
1911
1901 and 1911 Censuses Online
Old-age Pension Claims
Chapter 3 Civil Registration
Birth Certificates
Marriage Certificates
Death Certificates
The Indexes
General Register Office, Belfast, and District Registrars’ Offices
Church of Latter-Day Saints
Chapter 4 Eighteenth-century Records
Survey of Downpatrick, 1708
Protestant Householders, 1740
Householders Returns, 1766
Armagh ‘Census’, 1770
Flaxseed Premiums, 1796
Catholic Migrants from Ulster, 1795–96
Records Relating to the 1798 Rebellion
Chapter 5 Seventeenth-century Records
1602 ‘Census of Fews’
Fiants of the Tudor Sovereigns, 1521–1603
Calendars of Patent Rolls from the Reigns of James I and
Charles I
Muster Rolls, 1630s and 1640s
Depositions of 1641 Rising
Books of Survey and Distribution
Civil Survey of Ireland
Census of Ireland, c. 1659
Poll Tax Returns, 1660
Hearth-money Rolls, 1666
Subsidy Rolls, 1630s, 1660s
The Franciscan Petition Lists, 1670–71
Names of Those Attainted by James II, 1689
Williamite War and Siege of Londonderry, 1689
Regiments of Infantry
Chapter 6 The Plantation of Ulster
The Records
Plantation Records of the London Companies
Chapter 7 Church Records
The Records
Church of Ireland Records
Indexes to Church Registers
Roman Catholic Church Records
Presbyterian Church Records
Methodist Records
The Religious Society of Friends (or Quakers)
Congregational Church Records
Baptist Church Records
Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church (or Unitarians)
Reformed Presbyterian Church (or Covenanters)
Moravian Church Records
Huguenot Records
Jewish Records
Census Returns
Marriage Licence Bonds
Chapter 8 School Records
Secondary Education
Third-level Education
Chapter 9 Valuation and Tithe Records
Tithe Applotment Books, 1823–38
Valuation Records
Chapter 10 Landed Estate Records
The Name of the Local Landlord
The Records
Other Classes of Records
Chapter 11 Wills and Testamentary Records
Wills Before 1858
Wills, 1858–1900
Wills From 1900
Chapter 12 Printed Sources
Ordnance Survey Memoirs
Street Directories and Almanacs
Countrywide Directories
Provincial Directories
Newspapers
Chapter 13 Poor Law Records
The Records
Chapter 14 Local-government Records
Corporations
Belfast Corporation
Other Corporations
Town Commissioners
Grand Jury
County Councils
Chapter 15 Military Records
The Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum
The Royal Inniskillen Fusiliers Regimental Museum
The Regimental Museum of The Royal Ulster Rifles
Militia
Yeomanry
Volunteers
Chapter 16 Electoral Records
Voters, Poll and Freeholders’ Records
Poll Books
Electoral Registers and Voters’ Lists
Chapter 17 Law and Order
Policing
The Courts
Crown and Peace Records
Chapter 18 Emigration
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast
Ulster American Folk Park
Chapter 19 Miscellaneous Collections
Solicitors’ Collections
Business Records
Orange Order Records
Hospital Collections
Charity Records
Pedigrees
Ulster Covenant, 1912
Appendix: Useful Addresses
Bibliography and Sources
To my sons Scott and Callum, without whose help this book would
have been finished in half the time