Source Notes:

 

[1]

Ballymoney Ancestry, http://www.ballymoneyancestry.com [June 2009]

 

Ballymoney Borough Council, with the assistance of the EU Programme for

 

Building Sustainable Prosperity, provides this website as a free, on-line resource.

 

[2]

Their online databases:

 

 

Date Range

Abbreviation

Description

 

 

1790

[1790] 

1790 election Deputy Court

[Note 3]

 

1825

[Tithe 1]

1825_tithe_applotment_books_ballymoney

[Note 4]

 

1824-1834

[Tithe 2]

Ballymoney Tithe Valuation

[Note 4]

 

1859-1862

[Griffith's]

Ballymoney Griffith's Valuation

[Note 4]

 

1847-1899

[Outdoor]

Ballymoney Outdoor Register

[Note 5]

 

1914, 1928

[old chyd]

Old Churchyard

[Note 6]

 

1924

[1924]

1924 Electoral Register

[Note 7]

 

[3]

“1790 Electoral Lists for Co. Antrim” . . . [voters owned] a “forty shillings freehold”

 

- a property worth forty shillings a year above what they collected in rent. The elector

 

was allowed two votes and the candidates they voted for became public knowledge . . .

 

“10” . . . denotes the value of the Freehold owned by this individual i.e. £10 . . . [and]

 

LM refers to [candidates] James Leslie and Edmund Alexander McNaughton.

 

http://www.ballymoneyancestry.com/1790_-electoral-lists.aspx [June 2009] 

 

[4]

The “Irish Householder’s Index” is a combined index to two tax records

 

of the early 19th‑century, microfilmed by The National Library of Ireland --

 

1820s, 1830s

Tithe Applotment Books, Tithe to support the King’s official

 

 

Church of Ireland (Anglican Church, Church of England), and

 

1850s, 1860s

Griffiths “Valuation of Tenements”, date varies by County.

 

[see MFHN v.III n.2 May 1995, pg.1995-13, and MFHN v.V n.2 May 1997, pg.1997-12]

 

[5]

The 1847 Temporary Relief Act allowed Poor Law Commissioners and boards to give

 

food to the able-bodied poor for limited periods. This database is the register of people

 

in the Poor Law Union of Ballymoney who received outdoor relief. The original register

 

is in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) under reference BG/5/EA/1.

 

http://www.ballymoneyancestry.com/ballymoney-outdoor-register.aspx [June 2009]

 

[6]

Ballymoney Old Churchyard. Burial records for the graveyard 1883-1932. The original

 

of this burial register is currently held by Ballymoney Borough Council (1430 names).

 

http://www.ballymoneyancestry.com/old-churchyard.aspx [June 2009]

 

[7]

“1924 Electoral Register for Ballymoney town”

 

http://www.ballymoneyancestry.com/1924-electoral-register.aspx [June 2009] 

 

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McAninch Family History NL v.XVII n.3 / July 2009 / Copyright Frank McAninch / page 2009-24

 

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