Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Co. Tyrone Tithe Applotment Books1820s-1830s: an Essential Genealogical Tool

2018-06-09 Thread Len Swindley 
Hello Marion,
Thanks for your message and I must admit to have been rather tardy in 
responding. I enjoyed reading of your success in locating forebears and their 
townlands  from the tithe applotment books (TABs). Thank you for the feedback. 
And no I’m not thinking of giving up.
I keep finding interesting differences between TABs and Griffiths Valuation and 
today located an entry of Stainton in a TAB of 1829, but recorded as Staughton 
in Griffiths c1860.: yes, best to keep all options open.
Continued good luck with your research,
Len Swindley


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Marion 
Sent: Friday, June 1, 2018 3:00:21 AM
To: CoTyroneIreland.com Mailing List; Boyd Gray
Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Co. Tyrone Tithe Applotment 
Books1820s-1830s: an Essential Genealogical Tool

Hello Len,
I’m afraid we are all guilty of taking you for granted but I for one greatly 
appreciate all the work you do for us. Without the TABs on CTI I would never 
have found my ancestors from that era, particularly, as for a long time, I was 
unable to locate them in Griffiths because of a variation in spelling. The TABs 
pointed me to the right townland and then I was able to locate them in 
Griffiths.
Please don’t give up!
Regards Marion

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From: Len Swindley
Sent: 31 May 2018 14:55
To: CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com; 
Boyd Gray
Subject: [CoTyroneMailingList] Co. Tyrone Tithe Applotment Books1820s-1830s: an 
Essential Genealogical Tool

Hello Boyd and CTI subscribers,

For any who are unaware of Boyd Gray’s presence on the genealogical scene, he 
is a professional genealogist and a tour de force who maintains a friendly and 
informative Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/westulstergenealogy/ which 
is an absolute joy and full of great stories and topics. He has also produced a 
series of informative Youtube family history workshops 
http://www.cotyroneireland.com/videos/monreagh.html and 
http://www.cotyroneireland.com/videos/monreagh.html

Although Boyd resides in Lifford, Co. Donegal, just across the Foyle from 
Strabane, he specialises in Donegal, Tyrone and Londonderry family history 
research. It is my greatest good luck to maintain an off-list correspondence 
with him.

If not for Boyd’s appreciative comments and support, I may have drawn a line 
under my project to index the Co. Tyrone tithe applotment books. As stated in 
my previous post on this topic, the response to these indexes from CTI List 
Subscribers has been a deafening silence, but as a professional genealogist 
Boyd recognises these taxation records as a valuable resource and I commend 
them to every researcher. They are important. Many thanks, Boyd.

The microfilmed tithe books are available for consultation only at the Public 
Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), Belfast or online at a LDS Family 
History Centre. They record leaseholders of agricultural land; they do not 
generally contain genealogical data apart from details such as “widow”, 
“senior” or “junior”, but they do record the presence of possibly your forebear 
in a townland a whole generation prior to the c1860 Griffiths Valuation. The 
online indexes on CTI http://www.cotyroneireland.com/tithe/titheindex.html  
eliminate a great amount of time trawling through original images searching for 
the relevant townland which can be, at times, almost illegible. I can assure 
CTI Listers that the indexes I submit contain identical information (including 
phonetic spelling) as recorded on the originals of the 1820s and 1830s and in a 
legible format.

The tithe books are most important as they record many leaseholders who sold 
their leases and emigrated during the desperate times and harsh economic years 
of the Great Famine 1845-52.

I hope everyone is successful in locating an ancestor or a close relation of 
your emigrant forebear.

Regards and best of luck,
Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia

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[CoTyroneMailingList] CoTyroneIreland.com - New Content - Carnone Presbyterian Church, Donaghmore Parish, Co. Donegal Financial Report 1867 - A List of Pewholders & Stipend Payers

2018-06-09 Thread Jim McKane 
Carnone Presbyterian Church, Donaghmore Parish, Co. Donegal Financial
Report 1867 - A List of Pewholders & Stipend Payers


Thanks again to Len Swindley for another great addition to CTI!

Jim McKane
South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario
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