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Derry or Londonderry County, IRELAND

 

Londonderry or Derry Genealogy - Londonderry or Derry (History & people etc)

 

Google Groups: Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Offaly Ireland Genealogy A new group that I set up recently. It's only got one member - me, but then again, once upon a time Y-IRL the Yahoo group which I created back in 2001 had only a few members and today, it's one of the largest Irish Genealogy groups on the internet

Yahoo Group : Ireland Genealogy (Y-IRL) A group set up by me in 2001 and currently with over 1700 members

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 Ballymoney, they immediately think of County Antrim - they'd never think of it having anything to do with County Derry and genealogical research in County Derry.

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

Lewis Topographical Dictionary Londonderry or Derry Index. (Parishes, towns, villages)

Londonderry or Derry Civil Registration Districts

Derry or Londonderry Gravestones

Irish Genealogy Research Service (fee based)

 

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County Londonderry or Derry, 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 Derry or Londonderry. 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 Malone Family Directory - Malone Family web site hosted by Joe Malone
A Frenchman's Walk through Ireland - Chap. 10. Londonderry etc
Church of SS John and Trea, R.C. - Moneymore (Ardtrea)
Church of St. Trea, R.C. - Newbridge (Ardtrea North)

 

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