These Hallowed Grounds Volume 2 – Lisburn, County Antrim

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These Hallowed Grounds Volume 2 – Lisburn, County Antrim

Published 2005.

A4 book, 310 pages

Please note that Volume 1 is no longer in print. However, it can be viewed in the Society’s Research Centre or Members can request a Look Up. It deals with Kilrush, or Millbrook, Burial Ground, Millbrook Road, and St. Patrick’s Chapel Burying Ground, Chapel Hill, Lisburn.

Volume 2 records the surviving gravestone inscriptions for Christ Church Cathedral, and Friends’ Burying Ground, Lisburn, County Antrim.  There is a list of names from Quaker burial records of all the people buried in Friends’ Burying Ground. It also contains a background history of Lisburn Cathedral, the Huguenots in Lisburn and Friends’ Meeting House.  

Included are:

• the memorials in the Cathedral;
• a list of burials recorded as being inside the Cathedral building;
• lists of rectors, curates and churchwardens;
• maps of both burying grounds, with keys;
• death notices, and
• brief information on the wills of some of the people buried in the two grounds.  

In addition, there are short biographies of 53 families connected with the grounds, 16 family trees, as well as extra information with the names of some late 18th and early 19th century Lisburn people.  The 310 pages include four in colour, with 50 black and white photographs, three maps and an index.

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