Civil Records

Civil registers of births and deaths are available from 1864 and civil registers of marriages are available from 1845 (in the case of Protestant marriages) and for all marriages from 1864. However, in my experience, some births, deaths and marriages went unrecorded in the years immediately following 1864.

This information for Northern Ireland is held by the General Register Offices in Belfast. You can also obtain information relating to Northern Ireland before 1922 in the Research Section of the General Register Office in Dublin. The links below will take you to these offices where you can find out about where these records are held, what they contain and how you can access them and how much it will cost you.

The Coleraine Branch of the North of Ireland Family History Society have published three lists of births, marriages and deaths which contain names relating to the Ballymoney area. Two of these are in book form - The Coleraine Chronicle - Births, Marriages and Deaths 1844 - 1869 and The Ballymoney Herald - Births, Marriages and deaths 1860 - 1863. Their latest project, The Londonderry Sentinel - Births, Marriages and Deaths, is in CD format.  For details of these books and the CD, go to the Coleraine Branch (NIFHS) web site.