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Researching Your Family Tree or Local Area History – Some Useful Websites

http://VisitArmagh.com/
ARMACHIANA. This is the name given to 24 volumes of unpublished writings by the first curator, TGF Paterson. There are already over 2700 pages of searchable text available and this will increase in the future. The subject matter is wide and varied, ranging from 18th century outlaws to rural traditions and parish histories.

County Armagh Links
http://www.from-ireland.net/county-armagh-genealogy/ Links to ancestry information for Co Armagh
http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.ireland.arm.general/mb.ashx People searching for ancestors in Co Armagh
http://www.bygonesandbyways.com/mainmenu.htm History of Markethill area
http://www.librariesni.org.uk/Libraries/Pages/Irish-And-Local-Studies-Library.aspx Details of the history library in Armagh
http://nmni.com/acm Armagh County Museum
http://www.historyarmagh.org/ Armagh History Group, plus access to articles
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl/ARM/ Big list of Armagh Links
Historic memorials of the Stewarts of Forthergill Perthshire, and their male descendants Charles Poyntz Stewart, 1874. Includes the Stewarts of Acton House. Can be downloaded as a searchable PDF. Information from contemporaneous account, and gravestones.
Historical and genealogical memoir of the family of Poyntz : or, eight centuries of an English house John Maclean 1886 Part 2
Bassett’s Book of County Armagh George Bassett, dated 1888 describes every town and village, has some history about each, and lists the principal inhabitants and landowners
http://failteromhat.com/ Assorted data, including useful maps
http://VisitArmagh.com/ ARMACHIANA. This is the name given to 24 volumes of unpublished writings by the first curator, TGF Paterson. There are already over 2700 pages of searchable text available and this will increase in the future. The subject matter is wide and varied, ranging from 18th century outlaws to rural traditions and parish histories.

County Armagh Links

http://www.from-ireland.net/county-armagh-genealogy/
Links to ancestry information for Co Armagh

http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.ireland.arm.general/mb.ashx
People searching for ancestors in Co Armagh

http://www.bygonesandbyways.com/mainmenu.htm
History of Markethill area

http://www.librariesni.org.uk/Libraries/Pages/Irish-And-Local-Studies-Library.aspx
Details of the history library in Armagh

http://nmni.com/acm
Armagh County Museum

http://www.historyarmagh.org/
Armagh History Group, plus access to articles

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl/ARM/
Big list of Armagh Links

Historic memorials of the Stewarts of Forthergill Perthshire, and their male descendants
Charles Poyntz Stewart, 1874. Includes the Stewarts of Acton House. Can be downloaded as a searchable PDF. Information from contemporaneous account, and gravestones.

Historical and genealogical memoir of the family of Poyntz : or, eight centuries of an English house
John Maclean 1886 Part 2

Bassett’s Book of County Armagh
George Bassett, dated 1888 describes every town and village, has some history about each, and lists the principal inhabitants and landowners

http://failteromhat.com/
Assorted data, including useful maps

County Down Links
http://www.from-ireland.net/county-down-genealogy/ Links to ancestry information for Co Down
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/ Great resource containing info on family names and place names
http://countydown.x10.mx/html/index2.htm Great site for searching people and place names
http://www.glascar-donaghmore.org.uk/
http://www.glascar-donaghmore.org.uk/home/4581849243 Churches
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~donaghmore1/contents.html Donaghmore Parish
http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.ireland.dow.general/mb.ashx People searching for ancestors in Co Down
http://loughbricklandcourtyard.com/index.php/a-brief-history-of-the-whyte-family-in-loughbrickland/ Loughbrickland
http://www.bagenalscastle.com/ancestry/ Newry resource
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl/DOW/ Big List of Co Down Links
http://failteromhat.com/ Assorted Data
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_antient_and_present_state_of_the_cou/jPg9AAAAcAAJ?gbpv=1 “The Antient and Present State of the County of Down: containing a chorographical description, with the natural and civil history of the same. Illustrated by observations made on the baronies, parishes, towns, villages [… &c.] with a survey of the New Canal; as also, a new and correct map of the county” by Walter Harris 1744

County Down Links

http://www.from-ireland.net/county-down-genealogy/
Links to ancestry information for Co Down

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/
Great resource containing info on family names and place names

http://countydown.x10.mx/html/index2.htm
Great site for searching people and place names

http://www.glascar-donaghmore.org.uk/

http://www.glascar-donaghmore.org.uk/home/4581849243
Churches

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~donaghmore1/contents.html
Donaghmore Parish

http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.ireland.dow.general/mb.ashx
People searching for ancestors in Co Down

http://loughbricklandcourtyard.com/index.php/a-brief-history-of-the-whyte-family-in-loughbrickland/
Loughbrickland

http://www.bagenalscastle.com/ancestry/
Newry resource

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl/DOW/
Big List of Co Down Links

http://failteromhat.com/
Assorted Data

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_antient_and_present_state_of_the_cou/jPg9AAAAcAAJ?gbpv=1
“The Antient and Present State of the County of Down: containing a chorographical description, with the natural and civil history of the same. Illustrated by observations made on the baronies, parishes, towns, villages [… &c.] with a survey of the New Canal; as also, a new and correct map of the county” by Walter Harris 1744

Maps
http://www.placenamesni.org/map.php Good information on townland names and history
http://www.placenamesni.org/index.php Good information on townland names and history
https://www.spatialni.gov.uk/geoportal/catalog/search/browse/browse.page LRNI Map
http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php Map of Downs and Armagh dated 1655. Poyntzpass known as Fenwick’s Pass
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/ Great resource for names by townland dated between 1850 and 1860, roughly. With ability to drill down on map
http://maps.google.co.uk/ Drillable map with street view too
http://www.sinton-family-trees.com/maps2/mapsx.php Townland maps in County Down
John Roque Maps of County Armagh in 1760 These maps show a great level of detail including Acton forts, two windmills in Aughantaraghan and a curious round shape which might be the original Poyntz house/castle.

Maps

http://www.placenamesni.org/map.php
Good information on townland names and history

http://www.placenamesni.org/index.php
Good information on townland names and history

https://www.spatialni.gov.uk/geoportal/catalog/search/browse/browse.page
LRNI Map

http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php
Map of Downs and Armagh dated 1655. Poyntzpass known as Fenwick’s Pass

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/
Great resource for names by townland dated between 1850 and 1860, roughly. With ability to drill down on map

http://maps.google.co.uk/
Drillable map with street view too

http://www.sinton-family-trees.com/maps2/mapsx.php
Townland maps in County Down

John Roque Maps of County Armagh in 1760
These maps show a great level of detail including Acton forts, two windmills in Aughantaraghan and a curious round shape which might be the original Poyntz house/castle.

General Sources
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ Irish Census for 19011 and 1911
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/ Great resource for names by townland dated between 1850 and 1860, roughly
http://www.proni.gov.uk/ Public Record Office NI. Has searchable Content
http://www.poyntzpass.co.uk History Society website
https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk/ Search the General Register Office
http://www.libraryireland.com/ General source
http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/cgi-bin/belfst/QueryForm1.cgi Belfast Newsletter searchable database
http://www.convictrecords.com.au/ Included emm err just for a laugh
https://archive.org/details/descriptionofire00hoga Online book describing Ireland in 1598
http://www.ulsterplacenames.org/street-names_project.htm Ulster Placenames
A Picturesque Handbook to Carlingford Bay Dated 1846, it covers much further inland than just the coastal region, including Poyntzpass on page 209
A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland By Samuel Lewis, dated 1840

General Sources

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
Irish Census for 19011 and 1911

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/
Great resource for names by townland dated between 1850 and 1860, roughly

http://www.proni.gov.uk/
Public Record Office NI. Has searchable Content

http://www.poyntzpass.co.uk
History Society website

https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk/
Search the General Register Office

http://www.libraryireland.com/
General source

http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/cgi-bin/belfst/QueryForm1.cgi
Belfast Newsletter searchable database

http://www.convictrecords.com.au/
Included emm err just for a laugh

https://archive.org/details/descriptionofire00hoga
Online book describing Ireland in 1598

http://www.ulsterplacenames.org/street-names_project.htm
Ulster Placenames

A Picturesque Handbook to Carlingford Bay
Dated 1846, it covers much further inland than just the coastal region, including Poyntzpass on page 209

A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland
By Samuel Lewis, dated 1840

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