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General Social and
Economic Sources
It would
be impossible to list all of the sources available
under this heading. What I'm trying to do here is
to suggest some other sources which will give the amateur
historian some sort of feel for the place that they
are studying and provide those, particularly from
abroad, searching for their ancestors some feel for
the kind of place they lived in.
It also
has to be said that perhaps the richest period for
such sources is the first half of the nineteenth
century when Ireland was seen as an oddity by many
Victorians. The sources listed below are just a selection
of material relating to the period from the latter
years of the eighteenth century to the early years
of the twentieth century.
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Extracts from the Diary of John Tennent,
apprentice to a grocer, 1786 to 1790 |
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Ordnance Survey Memoir for the Parish of
Ballymoney 1832-1834. |
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Evidence given by Alexander Burnside of
Seacon to the Devon Commission in 1845. |
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Letters from
John Getty of Taghey to his brother James in
Australia 1853 & 1855. |
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Some Advertisements from G. H. Bassett's Guide and
Directory for County Antrim 1888 |
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Extract from the 1905 Belfast
and Ulster Directory for the town of
Ballymoney |
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Ballymoney Flax
Market 1914-1915 |
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Ballymoney
Heroes - a web site which lists the names of
men from the Ballymoney area who died during
the Great War 1914-1918. |
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