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Title: coleraine
Post by: jcass on Sunday 29 June 08 21:22 BST (UK)
Hi
Anyone heard of Preaching House Street in Coleraine aound the 1880s.

J
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: Ossie on Sunday 29 June 08 22:49 BST (UK)
There's a Meeting House Street in Ballymoney - is that any good?
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: aghadowey on Sunday 29 June 08 23:04 BST (UK)
There was a Preaching-house street in Coleraine in 1897. Are you looking for a particular name?
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: jcass on Monday 30 June 08 14:48 BST (UK)
Hi
Barr is the family name.

J
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: aghadowey on Monday 30 June 08 15:28 BST (UK)
1897 Coleraine directory has some listings for Preaching-house street but no Barrs there. There is a James Barr, pawnbroker, on Meetinghouse street. Might have more information on Barrs- do you have any idea of names and dates?
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: jcass on Monday 30 June 08 21:53 BST (UK)
Hello
Thanks again have you any idea of names of any churches in that area. The earlierst I have is 1877 when Hugh Barr was born there, the family lived there till at least 1882.

J
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: aghadowey on Monday 30 June 08 22:26 BST (UK)
Lots of churches is and around Coleraine. Presbyterian, Reformed Presbyterian, Congregational, Methodist, Church of Ireland, Roman Catholic, etc. all in Coleraine. Do you know what religion your Barrs were?

Have Barr relatives in area but can't remember any named Hugh that time period. If I had more clues I could see if I've anything in my notes.
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: Christopher on Monday 30 June 08 22:44 BST (UK)
Hello jcass,

There's some correspondence on Ancestry.com about Barrs in Coleraine. http://boards.ancestry.com.au/localities.britisles.ireland.ldy.general/7584.1.1/mb.ashx

One of the members of the North of Ireland Family History Society is researching Barr of Coleraine www.nifhs.org/memint.htm

The 1880 Directory of Belfast and the Province of Ulster on Mary Lennon's website shows the Churches in Coleraine as well as the locations of some of them ...

Church of Ireland
Killowen Parish Church, Killowen Street
First Presbyterian Church, Meetinghouse Place
Second Presbyterian Church, New Row
Third Presbyterian Church, Terrace Row
Independent Congregational Church, New Row
Baptist Chapel, Meetinghouse Place
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Preachinghouse Lane
St. Malachy's Roman Catholic Chapel, Chapel Square
St. John's Roman Catholic Chapel, Killowen Street

The Directory also lists three guys named Barr ...

James Barr, M.D., L.R.C.S., New Row
James Barr, joiner, Brook Street
James Barr, pawn broker, Meetinghouse Street

Christopher
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: aghadowey on Monday 30 June 08 22:51 BST (UK)
Have that Barr family tree in case they are the correct family but they actually lived at Curragh which is outside Coleraine.
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: Christopher on Monday 30 June 08 23:02 BST (UK)
There's a Coleraine poster on Genforum who is researching the Barr family.

She may be the NIFHS member ... http://tinyurl.com/64wv9a
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: janet higginson on Thursday 28 February 19 21:33 GMT (UK)
Hi if you are still on here i have a relative with preaching house  street  in Coleraine on documentation they are Barr
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: jcass on Tuesday 05 March 19 14:52 GMT (UK)
Hi
Still here only not so often, My Barr is John married to Catherine.
Any help to you
J
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: janet higginson on Tuesday 05 March 19 15:36 GMT (UK)
Yes there is a John Barr married to Catherine Bratton/Britain a great great grandmother of mine. She had a Wiliam Archibald Barr who then had my granda John Barr.

Can I ask what your relationship is to Catherine and if she is the same Barr?

Thanks for replying
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: jcass on Tuesday 05 March 19 15:47 GMT (UK)
Hi
No probs.
 Same Catherine and your William is an older brother of my Great grandfather Herbert. So I guess that makes us some sort of distance cousins.
J
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: janet higginson on Tuesday 05 March 19 18:39 GMT (UK)
That's good to know. I live on the ards peninsula I see your in Coleraine
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: Kiltaglassan on Tuesday 05 March 19 18:45 GMT (UK)
Quote from: jcass on Tuesday 05 March 19 15:47 GMT (UK)

So I guess that makes us some sort of distance cousins.........


If John Barr is the great great grandfather of you both, then you are 3rd cousins.  :)

KG
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: jcass on Tuesday 05 March 19 18:56 GMT (UK)
 :) Yep thanks, brain is not behaving today.
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: snookie147 on Monday 01 March 21 11:19 GMT (UK)
Hi there,
I found an entry for David Barr in the 1831 Census for Co. Londonderry. If you search for 1831derrycensus, you should get a website for Bill Macafee, where you can download a PDF file. Hope this helps.
I don't know where this street is, probably no longer exists.
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: aghadowey on Monday 01 March 21 21:27 GMT (UK)
Quote from: snookie147 on Monday 01 March 21 11:19 GMT (UK)
Hi there,
I found an entry for David Barr in the 1831 Census for Co. Londonderry. If you search for 1831derrycensus, you should get a website for Bill Macafee, where you can download a PDF file. Hope this helps.
I don't know where this street is, probably no longer exists.

You can view the actual page through this site-
census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1831/Londonderry/Coleraine/Coleraine/Meeting_House_Place/301/

Meetinghouse Place now Upper Abbey St.
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: janet higginson on Monday 01 March 21 21:57 GMT (UK)
Thank you I will take a look at that.
Title: Re: coleraine
Post by: snookie147 on Monday 01 March 21 22:10 GMT (UK)
OK