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Antrim
County, IRELAND
There
are over 2000 pages on this web site, created over the last six years,
new pages are added constantly. It is not possible to link all these
pages to any one section of the site. Please use the search
engines provided to see if there are any other pages of interest
to you on this site, or elsewhere on the internet.
The advertisements
you see on this web site may be off-putting but they are necessary.
The From Ireland web site is privately owned, and everything has to
be paid for - web site maintenance, photocopying, travelling to the
archives, driving to graveyards etc. The web site is 'Google monetised'
this means that Google 'sponsors' the web site through advertsing. The
advertisments on this web site have never yet covered the cost of running
the site in any month, e.g. for Antrim there are 4973 BMD refernences
from the civil registers every 200 references have cost about 5 Euro;
the names of 13,000 Heads of Household for the Belfast 1901 census have
been transcribed to date (not all on the web site yet), for the most
part the enumerator sheets were photocopied, each sheet contains a maximum
of 17 names and a photocopy card costs 2 Euro in the National Archives
in Dublin giving you 8 copies.
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
**The
census pages are currently being updated and added to. For the moment
the new pages will not be linked to this page. Check back next month.
All in all, there were over 30,000 Heads of household listed for Belfast
city in 1901 and I have the name and addresses of approximately 13,000
of these to put on line.
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County
Antrim, history, geography, genealogy, people
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
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