This illustrated, well indexed book, was created specifically to help you
find your family in County Armagh in Ireland. Focusing on families within the
county, it includes an introduction to research and sources in Armagh. The most
numerous families from birth records are given, as well as rather rare Armagh
families found in heraldic records. Included you will find a full page county
map from the Atlas of Ireland, along with a listing of modern parishes and old
townlands, along with the address and location of records for more research.
This work includes copies of actual records (some worn, torn and faded), as
well as rough sketches of family coats of arms and notes from centuries past -
seldom found elsewhere. The resources provided here will help research any
family in the county, including old Irish families, and settler families from
England, Scotland, Wales and the continent. This book is a hands on guide for
finding your family in Armagh - some family history is included - but it is not
a gigantic collection of family histories. For that see 'The Book of Irish
Families Great and Small, by the same author.
'The Book of Irish Families Great and Small', gives hundreds of family
histories from County Armagh and the surrounding areas. This volume "Genealogy
and Family History of County Armagh" expands upon that coverage with added
families.
The most numerous families here in the 19th century according to this book were:
Murphy.....Murphey..... Morphie;
Hughes.....Hewes.....Hughs;
Wilson.....Willson.....Wilsone;
Campbell.....Cambell.....Cambel;
O'Hare.....Hare.....Haire; Smith.....
Smythe.....Smithe;
McCann.....Macann.....McGann;
Donnelly.....Donelly.....Donnally;
Watson.....Wattson.....Watsone;
Quinn.....Quin.....Quinne;
Johnston.....Johnstone.....Johnson;
Kelly.....Kelley.....Kellie;
Thompson.....Thomson.....Tompson.
Some of the other families of Armagh were: O'Neill, Hoey, Hanlon, MacMahon,
Keelaghan, McPartlan, MacVeagh, Heaney (Bird), MacSherry, MacAlinden, Rogan,
Mulcreevy, Heron, Garvey, Loughran, and McGinty.
Contents:
- List of Books
- Illustration from an earlier work
Part One
- Introduction to Sources; Birth Index
- National Resource List
- Local Resource List
- Names in the County
Part Two
- The Complete Existing returns from the 'census' of 1659, showing the
methods of spelling family and place names at that time
Part Three
- Coats of Arms and Genealogical Notes
- Arms connected in some way to the county, as taken fro the "Irish
Book of Arms"
Part Four
- Family History Extracts
Part Five
- Finding Locations
- County Map
- Index of Place Names, ancient & modern. A sampling of place names to
assist the researcher
- Index
