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[Bill Macafee's Website]

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Case Studies
Families and Localities in Co. Londondonderry & North Antrim

Read this first. Note that I am still working on this page.

CASE STUDIES OF INDIVIDUAL FAMILIES - read more.

In the table below you will find case studies of a number of families from Co. Londonderry and North Antrim. Clicking on any of the Co. Londonderry links in the table below will open a PDF file in a separate window or tab. Each of the four North Antrim studies will open as a webpage in a separate window or tab. I have also included extracts from the Diary of Abraham James Hopkins Moody who lived in Church Sreet, Coleraine from 1853 to 1899 [PDF file].

Lecky family of William Street, Derry/Londonderry Fallows family of Dungiven & Derrynaflaw.
McMullan/McMcMillan & Bond families of Lisbunny, Claudy. Dale family of Drumadreen, Limavady/Dungiven.
Doherty & Crilly families of Gorteade, Upperlands. Campbell & Montgomery families of Upperlands.
O'Kane family of Coolnasillagh, Ringsend. Pollock family of Moyletra Toy, Garvagh.
Frizzell family of Ballymoney. Dunlop family of Drumnagee, Ballintoy. [still to come.]
Mooney family of Seacon, Ballymoney. [still to come.] McCauley family of Craigs, Cullybackey. [still to come.]

CASE STUDIES OF URBAN LOCALITIES

Ballymoney. Coleraine. Derry/Londonderry. Dungiven. Limavady Magherafelt

CASE STUDIES OF RURAL LOCALITIES IN CO. LONDONDERRY - read more. Note that the Griffith's Revision Books are now online at PRONI - click here for more details on how to access them. Note that I have also included a link to an Excel file which summarises the information and is searchable. Note also that the Upperlands Revisions are handled differently.

Parish Townland
Census 1831
Townland Valn. c.1830
OS Maps c.1833
Griffith Page c.1860
Valn. Maps
c.1860
Griffith Revisions
c.1860 to c.1930
Census 1901
Census 1911
Cumber Upper Lisbunny
Bovevagh Drumadreen
Search PRONI: VAL12B
VAL/12/B/31/14A-E Excel
Errigal Coolnasillagh
N/A
Search PRONI: VAL12B
VAL/12/B/30/13A-F Excel
Desertoghill Moyletra Toy
Search PRONI: VAL12B
VAL/12/B/34/27A-E Excel
Maghera
[Upperlands]
Gorteade

Search PRONI: VAL12B
VAL/12/B/34/27A-E

Gorteade - Excel - read.
Tirgarvil - Excel - read.
Upperland - Excel
- read.

Tirgarvil
Upperland

Note that I have also included material that I produced for a talk that I gave to Ballynascreen Historical Society in 2009 on researching townlands in Ballynascreen parish. The townlands of Drumderg, Dunmurry and Glebe were chosen as exemplars.

CASE STUDIES OF RURAL LOCALITIES IN NORTH ANTRIM - read more. Note that the Griffith's Revision Books are now online at PRONI - click here for more details on how to access them. Note that I have also included a link to an Excel file which summarises the information and is searchable. Note also that these Excel files often contain details of some of the surrounding townlands. For reasons of size, there is no Excel file for Craigs.

Parish Townland
Townland Valn. c.1830
OS Maps c.1833
Griffith Page c.1860
Valn. Maps c.1860

Griffith Revisions c.1860 to c.1930

Census 1901
Census 1911
Ballymoney Seacon More
Search PRONI: VAL12B
VAL/12/B/4/23A-E Excel
Ballymoney Glenlough
Search PRONI: VAL12B
VAL/12/B/3/24A-E Excel
Ballintoy Drumnagessan
Search PRONI: VAL12B
VAL/12/B/1/6A-D Excel
Drumnagee
Craigs Craigs Click Click
Search PRONI: VAL12B
VAL/12/B/3/13A-E
Online
Excel
Online
Excel

There is also an 1851 Census for Craigs -This Excel or PDF database will provide details on the head of each household enumerated in 1851, including the number of the house in the census. You can then go online with the house number and there you will find details of all individuals present in the house on the night of the census.

For those of you interested in the Glens of Antrim region, you will find information on some families and localities at the Clachan Project within the Glens of Antrim Historical Society website.

Remember that if you have difficulty reading any of the 6 Inch townland maps [except for the townlands of Drumadreen and Lisbunny in Co. Londonderry ] you can get a better copy at askaboutireland.ie [Griffith's Valuation]. If you are not sure of what to do, when you get there - read this. Note also that the maps for the Ballymena area on the askaboutireland.ie website are difficult to read, and parts of many townlands are only covered by OS maps which do not demarcate the boundaries of holdings and do not include the numbers and lettering from the printed valuation.Unfortunately there are no large scale town maps on askaboutireland.ie so I had to use the copies of the town maps that are held in PRONI. The town maps [and the rural townland maps] have been reproduced here with the kind permission of the Deputy Keeper of Records, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.

My Databases
c.1860 to c.1930 Griffith's Revision Books
c.1860 Griffith's [Tenement] Valuation
1830s Townland Valuation
1820s/30s Tithe Applotment Books
1831 Census Returns Co. L/Derry
Church Censuses
1803 Agricultural Census, N. Antrim
Eighteenth Century
Seventeenth Century
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