random research finds - BAPTISMAL RECORDS FOR THE BANBRIDGE NON-SUBSCRIBING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, COUNTY DOWN, IRELAND 1756-1794

 This definitely qualifies - I found a few details of my own ancestors via this document:

BAPTISMAL RECORDS FOR THE BANBRIDGE NON-SUBSCRIBING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, COUNTY DOWN, IRELAND 1756-1794

Sometimes, gems come in the most random of places. For me, this was one of them for one of my paternal lines.

I thank those who researched and compiled these as they serve as an access point for documentation that would otherwise be unavailable online.

Sharing should others benefit for their own family research: the records

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ulster-scot names

 

It's a back and forth...my father was Scottish, raised in Glasgow, and yet much of his family ancestry is rooted in Northern Ireland.

I try to gap-fill, and look for resources, even just simply lists of names for guidance.

The searches in Northern Ireland have certainly led to me being better read on the Ulster Plantations, a period of history I learned about on my own, never covered in school

Family history seems ephemeral in many ways...there were few in my own family who ever bothered writing anything down, My mum has told me memories of her childhood in Ireland where her mother and family would talk about the family, and the layers and generations of it...yet they never wrote it down. Though my interest and research in family history has spanned two decades, I was too late...many of those who held the family stories died - and the unwritten family history went with them.

Sigh

a list of Ulster-Scottish names - I sometimes use this as a quick reference...anything to chip away at those brick walls of hidden/lost history.

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1609 - ulster maps

 ...pouring through these beautiful, artistic maps from 1609.

Love stumbling upon gems like this (kudos to Queen's University Belfast for making these available online)

Many of my paternal ancestors lived in the Ulster counties. My father knew nothing of where his ancestors were from, so every find I make feels like a gift. 

I am taking my time with them - Maps of the escheated counties of Ireland, 1609 / copied at the Ordnance Survey Office in Southhampton, Colonel Sir Henry James, Director

Lisrath instead of Lisseraw

Crosmoyglan instead of Crossmaglen

Creggan stayed the same

more than 400 years separate these maps and the current moment

here they were in Fewes/Fews, in this map the Baronie of Fves.

Gem. 

Had to share

more to come!

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