North Irish Roots
North Irish Roots is the journal of the Society, it is published twice a year in the spring and autumn. For further details of the journal, binders and special offers on back issues click here.
Publications.
Books
The following books are available through the Branch responsible for their publication.
These Hallowed Grounds Vol 1 - Lisburn, Kilrush and St Patricks.
 | Over the last 25 years, prompted by the growing interest in genealogy, many people, working individually and in groups, have made a permanent record of the gravestone inscriptions in the older burying grounds in Lisburn. Lisburn Branch has collated all this information, and published two volumes dealing with the gravestone inscriptions in all three burying grounds. This, the first volume, deals with Kilrush, or Millbrook Burial Ground, Millbrook Road, and St. Patrick's Chapel Burying Ground, Chapel Hill, Lisburn. Where available, we have augmented the text with interesting photographs and biographical notes. |
These Hallowed Grounds Vol 2 - Lisburn, Kilrush and St Patricks.
 | A companion to volume 1 above, this volume records the surviving gravestone inscriptions for Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn, County Antrim, and Friends’ Burying Ground, in the city’s Railway Street. There is also a list of names from Quaker burial records of all the people buried in Friends’ Burying Ground as well as a background history of Lisburn Cathedral and Huguenots’ and Friends’ Meeting House. Also included are the memorials in the Cathedral and a list of burials recorded as being inside as well as lists of rectors, curates and churchwardens. There are also maps of both burying grounds, with a key, along with death notices and brief information on the wills of some of the people buried in the two grounds. Also included are short biographies of 53 families connected with the grounds, as well as 16 family trees and extra information with the names of some late 18th and early 19th century Lisburn people. The 306 pages include four in colour, with 50 black and white photographs, three maps and an index. |
Further details of both these books which are available from Lisburn FHS can be found here.
Mallusk Memorials: A record of the gravestone memorials in the ancient graveyard at Mallusk, Newtownabbey Co Antrim, N Ireland.
 | Compiled by the Belfast Branch of the North of Ireland Family History Society and published in July 1997. Following the success of their previous publication Carved in Stone: Grave Inscriptions from Carnmoney Parish Church, County Antrim Belfast branch turned their attentions to another burial ground in Newtownabbey, that of Mallusk. Mallusk burying ground has a particular interest, not only for family historians, but also those interested in local and political history. The 1798 Rebellion involving the United Irishmen drew many of its supporters from the Hydepark, Roughfort, Hightown, Lylehill and Mallusk areas, and some people who took a prominent part have been buried in this graveyard. Jemmy Hope, members of his family, and the extensive Bigger/Biggar families have been buried here also, thus giving unique information relating to the United Irishmen. Unlike Carnmoney, there are no visible remains of any church buildings at Mallusk, nor are there any church records relating specifically to this particular graveyard. |
The grounds are clearly divided into two sections: the old burying plot, and a more modern section which has been properly planned and has graves laid out in a regular manner. The memorials and inscriptions in both sections were recorded.
This book is available from Belfast FHS and costs £6.00 in the UK or Europe, and £9 airmail in the Rest of the World, this includes postage and packing. N.B. payment must be a UK Sterling cheque/ money order made payable to "North of Ireland Family History Society." To order a copy, send a letter and payment to Ms Anne Johnston, 11 Ormiston Drive, Belfast BT4 3JS.
Tombstones of the Omey, County Tyrone.
 | This book which was published by Omagh Branch of the North of Ireland Family History Society in 1998 and contains inscriptions from tombstones located in 15 church graveyards within the Omagh District from 1688–1900. The work of transcription was undertaken between 1985–1990 by William J. McGrew, a member of the Omagh Branch and as many of the gravestones transcribed are now no longer legible it is the only remaining record source for family historians. The Graveyards included are: Cappagh Church of Ireland, Clanabogan Church of Ireland, Crevenagh (Interdominational) Cemetery, Donaghanie (Interdominational) Cemetery, Drumnakilly Church of Ireland, Drumragh Old and New Section Graveyard, Dunmullan (Interdominational) Graveyard, Edenderry Church of Ireland, Edenderry Presbyterian Church, Lislimnaghan Church of Ireland, Mountjoy Prebyterian Church, St Columba’s Church of Ireland, St Mary’ Roman Catholic Church Killyclogher, St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church Knockmoyle. |
Hatches, Matches and Dispatches
This book researched by William McGrew and published by Omagh Family History Society in 2007 contains almost two thousand entries of birth, marriage, and death notices recorded from older local newspapers including the Tyrone Constitution, Omagh News, and some from Strabane Morning Post, Belfast Newsletter and Derry Journal. The notices relate to people from Omagh and surrounding districts and cover a period from 1815-1873, with a few prior to 1800. The book is formatted in three sections alphabetically indexed for ease of reference and should be of wide interest to genealogists tracing ancestry whose families have resided in the Omagh area in years past. The book is priced at £12.00.
Both of these books are available from Omagh FHS. Details of how to order both can be found at myweb.tiscali.co.uk/omagh/publications.html.
CD-ROM
The following CD-ROM are available through the Branch responsible for its publication.
Coleraine branch have produced two CD-ROM of births, marriages and deaths in their area.
The first The Coleraine Chronicle: Births, Marriages and Deaths 1844-1869 and The Ballymoney Herald: Births, Marriages and Deaths 1860-1863 was originally available in book form but is now only available on CD-ROM.
The second is The Londonderry Sentinel: Births, Marriages and Deaths 1829-1869.
Further details are available here.
