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Derry
or Londonderry 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.
Londonderry
or Derry Genealogy
- Londonderry or Derry (History & people etc)
Londonderry
or Derry Maps, Old & Current
Geography
Index - St. Cronan's
school. If you want to check out mountains and rivers in Ireland.
Some of the links on this page do require that you are a student
in St. Cronan's, but then some do not
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Past
Homes
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19th
Century Irish map collection online.
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Genealogy
Londonderry or Derry
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
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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.
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Saunders
Newsletter & Daily Advertiser 1816
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