North of Ireland Family History Society NIFHS © 2015 Page 1
North of Ireland Family History Society
North Irish Roots
This lists the contents of several recent issues of the Society’s journal. Issues more than three years ago
are online in JSTOR’s Ireland Collection at http://about.jstor.org/content/ireland, where they may be
searched.
North Irish Roots, volume 26, number 1, Spring 2015
2 Editorial
3 President’s Report
4 Profile – The Honneyman Room
5 Additions to the Library
6 In Memoriam – Bright Parish Church – Flora Jackson
7 Recent Transcriptions
7 Presentation
8 Where to Start? 6 – Missing Links
10 Where to Finish? 3 – Pictures – Michael McKeag
14 William Carleton Knew My Ancestors – John McEwan
24 Wanted – O.S. Memoirs, Vol. 20, Mid and East Tyrone
25 Review – Leaving the North by Johane Devlin Trewe – Frank McHugh
27 Occupations in My Family – The Poetry Connection – Janet Cassidy
31 Advertisement – Family Tree DNA
32 Advertisement – Irish Origenes
34 Occupations in My Family – Colette Murray
42 Hooked by a Bouquet of Flowers – Pam Pearce
44 Occupations in My Family – An Irish Pail Maker and Wood Turner – Margaret Gordon
48 The Irish in England, 1330-1550
48 Lost a Web Page?
49 The Strangford Islanders – Beverly Brown
53 Members’ Interests – Queries
56 Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched
61 Names and Addresses
64 Register of Reciprocal Research
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North Irish Roots, volume 25, number 2, Autumn 2014
2 Editorial 3 President’s Report 4 Branch Programmes 8 Obituary – Roy Brady 9 Profile – Belfast Transcribers
10 Additions to the Library 11 Recent Transcriptions 12 NIFHS DNA Project 13 How DNA can help you determine non-Irish origins of your family – Elayne Lockhart 16 Register of Reciprocal Research 17 Holy Family Parish Church, Belfast - Digitizing the BMD Records – Sandra Ardis 20 Help from across the Pond – Kathleen Morrison 21 Where to Start? 5 – Graveyards 25 Occupations in My Family – Heber MacWilliams III 32 World War Graves in County Donegal – John & Flora Jackson 33 Advertisement – Forces War Records 34 Thomas Smyth – a Native of Bangor – Hilary Maginnis
35 Where to Finish? 2 – Stories – Michael McKeag
41 Occupations in my Family – Diana Kirkpatrick 48 Postscript to Occupations in my Family – Diana Kirkpatrick 48 Lives of the First World War
49 Leaving a McGuire Legacy – Linda Roy Walls
53 H.M.S. Caroline 54 Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 58 Members’ Interests – Queries 60 Correspondence – The Toal Chalice – Urbain Van Kemseke 60 Names and Addresses
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North Irish Roots, volume 25, number 1, Spring 2014
2 Editorial 3 President’s Report 4 Who Do You Think You Are? Live, Olympia, 2014 5 Profile – Sandra Ardis 6 News from the Branches: Fermanagh and Ballymena 7 County Research Guides 8 Additions to the Library
11 Where to Start? 4 – Parish Records 14 Where to Finish? 1 – My Family History
18 The Grandmother that my Grandfather didn't get to know – Martin McDowell
22 English Masonic Records 23 Tracing My Canadian Relatives – Chris Kirkpatrick
27 Assisted Emigration from the Lennard Estate in Clones – Dermot McCabe
27 A Tale of Three World War I Medals – Flora Jackson
29 First World War Medals – Michael McKeag
32 Rea’s Garage – Northern Ireland’s First Petrol-Filling Station? My Search for Proof – Beverly Brown 37 New Life for Old Records 38 Irish Family History Research: why you should never give up – Dean Kirby 41 Recent Transcriptions 42 Transportation to Tasmania: Irish female convicts aboard the Atwick 1838 – Lea Wootton 45 Murder of the Greyabbey Innkeeper – Elma Wickens 47 Family History Societies 48 Buckinghamshire Family History Society Open Day 48 Recent Publications 49 Correspondence – Gettenby of Islandmagee – Barbara Boulter
50 Correspondence – Campbell, Elliott & McCallum – Murray Thomson
52 Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 58 Members’ Interests – Queries 60 Register of Reciprocal Research 61 Names and Addresses
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North Irish Roots, volume 24, number 2, Autumn 2013
Editorial 2
President’s Report 2
Profile – Phyllis Hancox & Heather Magowan 3
Branch Programmes 4
Branch Newsletters 8
North Down & Ards Branch Summer Outing 2013 – Hilary Maginnis 9
Announcement - Using DNA to Help Research Your Northern Irish Family Tree by Dr Maurice J. Gleeson 10
The Irish Genealogist Index 10
Belfast Branch Visits Methodist Archives – Charlotte Murtagh 11
Additions to the Library 11
Competition 16
Recent Church Register & Graveyard Transcriptions 17
Guinness Archives 17
Where to Start? No. 3 – Census Returns 18
A Visit to Dumfries and Galloway - Ann McClelland 21
FindMyPast’s Irish Records 21
Review – Childhood Recollections of Killyleagh, Co. Down, N. Ireland
22
by Zena McAllister – Allan Johnston
Review - Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet by Chris Paton – Maeve Rogan 23
The Sweetie Bottle - Shirley Leggett 23
The Genealogy of Intelligence in my Line of Sproules – Kate Tammemägi 24
Correspondence – Clegg of the Copeland Islands, Purse, McCutcheon – Mark Donald 26
The Great War 1 27
Correspondence – Cummings – Carl Grandstrand 28
The Great Parchment Book & the Down Survey Maps 28
The British Transport Police Historical Group (BTP HG) – Robert C. Davison 29
Correspondence – Wilson – Keith Wilson 30
Below Stairs at Finnebrogue – Beverly Brown 31
My Eight Great Grandparents - Bonny Robinson Cook 36
The Great War 2 43
Stray Notes on Singapore (Extracts) by Alexander Flanigan - Bob Pue & Doreen Walker 44
Ulster Gravestones 46
Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 47
Matthew Robert Perry – Hilary Maginnis 50
Members’ Interests – Queries 51
Register of Reciprocal Research 53
Names and Addresses 53
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North Irish Roots, volume 24, number 1, Spring 2013
Editorial 2
County Monaghan 2
President’s Report 3
Who Do You Think You Are? Live, Olympia, 2013 4
Profile – Doreen Walker 5
Additions to the Library 6
Recent Transcriptions 7
Where to Start? No. 2 – Civil Registration 8
Looking for Royal Naval Officers? 10
Review - Derrykeighan Old Church Graveyard by Dorothy Arthur - Michael McKeag 10
Professional (and Amateur) Standards 11
Byrne's Irish Times Abstracts 11
The Anglican Record Project 11
NIFHS Members’ Area Now Available 11
Life in Ballyrickardbeg Through the Eyes of My Ancestors (Ellen and Isabella Buchanan) – Linda Hooke 12
Townland - A Letter to my Great Granddaughter - Linda Burgham 20
Review - Tracing Your Merchant Navy Ancestors by Simon Wills – Sandra Ardis 28
Life in Ballygrainey – Anne Johnston 29
Griffith's Valuation Revision Books 34
Beck of Northern Ireland – Peter Brown 35
The Irish Law Times and Solicitors’ Journal – Hilary Maginnis 38
Review – Pioneer among the Gum Trees by Anne & Tom Johnston - Hilary Maginnis 40
Irish Army Census of 1922 40
Marie Richenet – from Switzerland to Ireland – Elayne Lockhart 41
National Archives of Ireland 41
Fate of Highwayman in 1839 – Flora & John Jackson 42
Free Irish Genealogy eBooks 42
Correspondence – Hendry (of Cullybackey?) 43
Register of Reciprocal Research 44
Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 45
Members’ Interests – Queries 50
Matheson on Names in Ireland 52
Names and Addresses 53
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North Irish Roots, volume 23, number 2, Autumn 2012
Editorial 2
News 2
President’s Report 3
Randal Gill, F.I.G.R.S. (1946 - 2012) – An appreciation by Robert C. Davison 4
Profile – N.I.F.H.S. Research Centre & Randal Gill Library 6
Branch Programmes 8
Recent Church Register & Graveyard Transcriptions 13
Additions to the Library 13
Ulster Covenant 14
Where to Start? No. 1 - Ask Granny 15
The “Auld Light” Meeting House in Greyabbey – Elma Wickens 17
Life in My Townland through the Eyes of My Ancestors – Michael McKeag 19
In Memoriam – University Road Moravian Church, Belfast - John & Flora Jackson 26
Correspondence – With Great Appreciation to N.I.F.H.S. - Patrick John McKibbin 27
Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland Envelopes 27
Mitchell Letters - Robert F. Gibson 28
Correspondence - Do you know the COULTERS or MAGEES from LISBURN? – Sheila Brindley 34
Lynn of Eskylane - Constructing a Family Tree in County Antrim - James Lynn 35
Members’ Interests – Queries 49
Review – The 1st
Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War by James W. Taylor – Michael McKeag 50
Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 51
Register of Reciprocal Research 53
Names and Addresses 54
Byrne's Irish Times Abstracts 1859-1901 56
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North Irish Roots, volume 23, number 1, Spring 2012
Editorial 2
President’s Report 2
New Premises 4
Robert James (Bertie) Edgar 5
Profile – Ann Robinson 6
North Armagh Family History Society – Summer 2011 Outing – Richard Burns 7
Correspondence – Sea Captains – Hugh Macartney 9
A Clarke Family of Northern Ireland – Valerie Walker 10
New Discovery in Bangor Abbey Graveyard – Elma Wickens 14
Researching Via Acquaintances – Margaret Gordon 15
Association of Professional Genealogists in Ireland - How it all began – Steven Smyrl 20
In Memoriam - Church of Ireland Parish Church, Ballintoy – John & Flora Jackson 24
Recent Church Register & Graveyard Transcriptions 25
Review - The Corkey Story 1600-2000 by David Robinson – Michael McKeag 26
Review - In Search of Buchanan from Anselan to President James Buchanan
27
by Irene Martin – Ann Robinson
Happy Birthday! – Sandra Ardis 28
A McWilliams Family of Newtownards - Heber MacWilliams 29
JSTOR 32
Review - Remembering Their Sacrifice in the Great War: The War Dead of North Down and Ards
32
by Barry Niblock - Noëlle McCavana
My Eight Great Grandparents – Chris Kirkpatrick 33
Additions to the Library 43
Correspondence – Wilkinson of Fermanagh & South Africa – L. Thomason 43
Nominal Roll of Officers - Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers by Alexander Flanigan - Bob Pue & Doreen Walker 44
Review - Ballinascreen Gravestone Inscriptions: Old Church, Moneycorey and St. Patrick's Church,
45
Tullybrick - Noëlle McCavana
Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 46
Correspondence – Surnames of County Down – Michael Rooney 48
Members’ Interests – Queries 49
Register of Reciprocal Research 52
Names and Addresses 52
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North Irish Roots, volume 22, number 2, Autumn 2011
Editorial 2
President’s Report 2
Branch Programmes 3
Branch News 7
Plantation Booklets 7
Landed Estates 7
Profile – Rosemary Sibbett 8
Additions to the Library 9
Notes on a Voyage from Singapore to Portsmouth in the Transport “Mexican”
10
by Alexander Flanigan - Bob Pue & Doreen Walker
Titles (Past & Present) of the Different Regiments of the Line with Number of the Regimental Districts
13
by Alexander Flanigan - Bob Pue & Doreen Walker
The York Adventure – Phyllis Hancox 16
Recent Church Register & Graveyard Transcriptions 17
The Matthews Family of Ballygally, Downpatrick – Beverly Brown 18
216 Male Residents of Inch Parish, County Down, 1796 – Beverly Brown 20
Can Anyone Help Dorothy? 22
Roddy & Young – Lighhouses, Lifeboats & Lightships – Syl Maguire 23
Derry City’s Archive and Genealogy Service – Bernadette Walsh 27
Competition 30
Don’t Believe Everything You Hear! – Jennifer A. Duguid 31
Correspondence – William Putnam McCabe – Allen Penney 35
Alan Godfrey Maps of Ulster 36
Correspondence – Morgan & Lavery of Blaris – Adrienne E. Cullen 37
Correspondence – Return Migration to Ireland – Beverly Brown 37
Correspondence - Mystery Gravestone in Wroxall Garden – Tony Cutcher 38
A Miscellany of Irish Records Online 39
My Eight Great Grandparents – Christine McCafferty 40
Some Free Websites 46
Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 47
Members’ Interests – Queries 50
Register of Reciprocal Research 53
Names and Addresses 53
Baptisms at St Mark’s, Dundela, Belfast 56
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North Irish Roots, volume 22, number 1, Spring 2011
Editorial 2
President’s Report 2
Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2011 at Olympia, London 3
Annual General Meeting 4
PRONI @ Titanic Quarter 4
Honorary Members 5
Irish Roman Catholic Parish Registers 5
Profile – Georgie Siberry 6
Notes from the Branches 7
Additions to the Library 8
Wills at P.R.O.N.I. – Online Copies and Calendar 9
The ARCHON Directory of Record Repositories 9
Souvenir of Conflict: A Coleraine Man’s War 1939-1945 – Diana Kirkpatrick 10
Allisons’ Photographic Studios 11
British Pathé 1896-1976 11
Nominal Roll of Draft which left England in HMS Himalaya on the 28th
December 1878
12
en route for Hong Kong by Alexander Flanigan - Bob Pue & Doreen Walker
Famine Relief Commission Papers, 1844-1847 16
Review - St Patrick’s Parish Church Graveyard, Ballymoney by Dorothy Arthur 17
Review - Researching Derry and Londonderry Ancestors by William Macafee 17
The 1718 Migration – Linde Lunney 18
Correspondence – My Mysterious Irish Ancestors – Ian Sutherland 26
Newly Released Online Irish Databases 27
Correspondence – Youngs of Antrim – Ellison Withe 28
Irish Graveyards 29
Recent Church Register & Graveyard Transcriptions 30
My Eight Great Grandparents – Maureen Waugh 31
My Eight Great Grandparents – Heather Baird 39
The Scottish 1911 Census 45
Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 46
Members’ Interests – Queries 50
Register of Reciprocal Research 52
Names and Addresses 52
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North Irish Roots, volume 21, number 2, Autumn 2010
Editorial 2
President’s Report 2
Correspondence – A Merseyside Branch? 3
Profile – Samuel Bracegirdle 4
Branch Programmes 5
Additions to the Library 9
Correspondence – James Bill of the 28th
Regiment – Dennis Bill 10
The 27th
Regt. from date of landing in Hong Kong 25 February 1879 by Alexander Flanigan - 11
Bob Pue & Doreen Walker
Book Review – Fultons of the Lagan Valley by J. T. Fulton – Eleanor McFadzean 12
Irish 1901 Census 12
Book Review - Tracing your Northern Irish Ancestors by Ian Maxwell – Richard Burns 13
Irish Glassplate Photographs Digitised 13
Church Register Transcriptions 14
Registry of Deeds, Dublin 15
Monaghan Headstones – John & Flora Jackson 16
Correspondence – Connor of Carolina – Jim Connor 17
CD Review – On the Shining Bann by R. M. Sibbett – Brian O’Hara 18
Irish Church Records Online 18
Holden’s Directory 1811 - Hillsborough 19
1641 Depositions 20
The North Irish Horse in the Great War 20
JSTOR – The Ireland Collection 21
Index of Wills and Administrations, England & Wales, 1861-1941 21
Wilson-Stewart Migrations – J. Scott Wilson 22
James Lyle of Newry (1788 – 1874) – not a Presbyterian Minister – Pat Steen 25
My Eight Great Grandparents 29
Ards First World War Book of Honour 29
My Eight Great Grandparents – Ruth Watson 30
Jennie Hanna and the Church Street Mission – Patricia Neville 37
My Eight Great Grandparents – Margaret Williams 38
Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 48
Members’ Interests – Queries 49
Register of Reciprocal Research 51
STOP PRESS – N.I.F.H.S. Website Wins F.F.H.S. Award 52
Names and Addresses 52
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North Irish Roots, volume 21, number 1, Spring 2010
Editorial 2
President’s Report 3
Jeanne Jordan Awarded Honorary Membership 3
The Route Back Home 2010 4
Profile – John Bassett 5
Annual General Meeting 5
Placenames NI - The Northern Ireland Place-Name Project 6
Book Launch – The McIlrath Letters 7
Placenames Database of Ireland 7
Book Review – The McIlrath Letters – Yvonne Gabbie 8
Book Review – Belfast Boys – Charlie Graham 9
Book Review – The Hidden Graveyard – Tom Buchanan 10
Irish Newspapers 10
Book Review – Tracing Your Irish Roots – R. M. McKeag 11
New Branches 11
In Memoriam – Iona War Memorial – Syl Maguire 12
Holden’s Directory 1811 - Gilford 13
Correspondence – Currans of Ballyhalbert, Co. Down – Martha Parker 14
Correspondence – The Grave of Michael Watters – Syl Maguire 15
Ards First World War Book of Honour 15
Correspondence – Census Strays and the Edgar Family – Steve Edgar 16
British Newspapers 16
Additions to the Library 17
Glasnevin Trust Museum 17
“What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?” – George Busby 18
Diary of a Voyage on H.M.S. Himalaya from Portsmouth to Hong Kong by Alexander Flanigan –
20
Bob Pue & Doreen Walker
The Hamill Ancestors of Ballybrannan, Co. Armagh – Denis Hamill 25
Hunting for Henry - Brian O’Hara 30
Early Irish Maps 33
The Moore Family of Harmony Hill – Gilbert Watson 34
Chelsea Pensioners’ Records Online 42
Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 43
Members’ Interests – Queries 48
Names and Addresses 50
Register of Reciprocal Research 56
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North Irish Roots, volume 20, number 2, Autumn 2009
Editorial 2
President’s Report 3
30th
Anniversary of the Society – Anne Curry 3
Profile – David Honneyman 4
Profile – Randal Gill 5
Interruption to PRONI Service 5
Branch Programmes 6
Online Street Directories at PRONI 10
Competition – My Eight Great Grandparents 11
Additions to the Library 11
Holden’s Directory 1811 - Saintfield 12
Book Review - Migration in Irish History, 1607-2007 13
1911 Census of Ireland 13
In Memoriam – Cavehill 1st June 1944 - R. M. McKeag 14
Online Griffith’s Valuation 14
In Memoriam – Ballintoy Church of Ireland Parish Church – John & Flora Jackson 15
Irish Civil Registration Indexes 1845-1958 15
Census Records of the 19th
& 20th
Century Online, Part Two – R. M. McKeag 16
Correspondence – The Irish in Argentina – Forgotten Emigrants – Peter Mulvany 24
Online Dictionary of Irish Architects 24
Correspondence – McLoughlin / Brown – Sarah Campbell 25
The Times, 5th April 1820 26
Correspondence – Smyth, Carson, Nelson, Haddock, Black, Lockhard, Teuton – David Garrod 27
Family Photographic Index 27
Memories of My Sea-Faring Ancestors Acquired from their many Descendants – John McConkey 28
Excerpts from A Soldier’s Diary (1940 – 1945) – Diana Kirkpatrick 32
The Stewart Weavers of Church Street, Bangor – Patricia Neville 38
Watsons of Dromore - Charles A. Watson 39
Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 43
Register of Reciprocal Research 46
Members’ Interests – Queries 47
Names and Addresses 50