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>>County Antrim page >>
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
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