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Antrim County, IRELAND

It is over a year since I removed whatever I had on line for my index to Heads of Household in Belfast City at the time of the 1901 census. Altogether there were over 30,000 heads of household living in Belfast in 1901, I have indexed the names of 13,000+ of these people using the enumerator sheets, the names are spelled in the same way that the enumerator spelled them. Some names can't be read properly. In the past, I have tried to index these names by the street but that has been too time consuming. Now, I am beginning to bring the index on line and it is sorted alphabetically by the surnames. I am giving the name of the Head of Household and the name of the street. The complete information as to any family can be obtained through your local family history centre. Some of the streets are divided over more than one film but you can get the references for these films through your FHC

Belfast City Heads of Household Index 1901 Census.

Surnames beginning with A : B : C : D : E : remainder to be added soon

Antrim Genealogy - Antrim (History & people etc) -

I don't like 'pure' genealogy per se, that is, the putting of names on a family tree, instead I like to know about the people, how they lived and the places they lived in. There are lots of people who are not like me, who do like to know just the names and where they came from. The pages linked to below are pretty much to do with pure genealogy (but a little bit of the other thrown in!).

To my mind, the Lewis Topographical Dictionary is one of the most valuable and ignored tools for genealogists or family historians because it gives us alternative names and spellings of parish names, also, most importantly it names the religious parishes which cover any civil parish. I find that people generally do not understand the Civil Registration Districts and the fact that a district can cover townlands in different counties. If anyone (myself included before I got to know all this) thinks of Coleraine, they immediately think of County Londondery or Derry - they'd never think of it having anything to co with County Antrim and genealogical research in County Antrim. My version of the Griffiths Primary Valuation differs from that which you find in the Griffiths CD in that I list the names of the people who were the 'Immediate Occupiers' and how many times a persons name is listed as having land in any townland.

There is more to do with Antrim Genealogy on the History & people tables

Every time I have seen someone ask if anyone knows anything about education or emigration on any of the mail lists I have been subscribed to I always think of the 1931 descriptions of the counties in Ireland which I have on line. At the end of every county description there are tables listing the figures for emigration from the county, education in the county, whether or not the people speak Irish, and a breakdown of the religious denominations in the county taken from various census returns from 1821 through 1926. So, these descriptions are of historical and genealogical importance.

 

The Official Authority listings for the counties listed below include the addresses of the people named, some of whom were lviing in County Antrim. The Diocescan listings were one of the first sets of pages I created for this web site, because sometime way back then I had read that when a man qualified as a priest he was usually put back into his own parish, originally I had considered these tables of importance because they told us the names of the Roman Catholic parishes in a Diocese in 1836 (which sometimes changed over the years) and they also told us the name of the closest post town - this never changed. So, to me, these lists help if I am looking for a Roman Catholic parish which no longer exists. I find the name of the closest post town to where-ever it is I am loking for information about and then I find the records which co exist for that area, regardless of the name.

Lists such as the 1832 Military list, the Revenue Officers, the Admiralty Examinations, the General Synod, the Presbyterian Synod - these can apply to any county - they are of genealogical & historical value. The Frenchman's Walk gives me impressions of places at that time, the names of people he met - genealogical & historical.

O.C* = Official Authorities. Other county links are given when people from Antrim are mentioned on those county pages

Diocese of Down and Connor 1836, Priests, parish names and counties

Brennen Family Chronicles - Christopher Brennen
Earls Famiy Chronicles - Christopher Brennen
Kerr Family Chronicles - Christopher Brennen
   

 

 

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