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Down / Re: Newtownards Methodist Church
« on: Thursday 30 July 09 18:43 BST (UK)  »
Hi.  Could you check a marriage in book 6 for me?  Francis Hubert Mulligan to Mary Evelyn Kirkpatrick on 24/04/1937.  What, if any, details are given - witnesses etc.?  Thanks.

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Down / Re: francis mulligan banbridge
« on: Thursday 30 July 09 18:36 BST (UK)  »
Great!  Thanks a lot.  I knew I would have to bite the bullet and go to PRONI again, but at least I've got a good starting point. 

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Down / Re: francis mulligan banbridge
« on: Tuesday 28 July 09 11:41 BST (UK)  »
Thanks.  Been to Ros Davies' page - it doesn't hold any clues.  Nor does lennonwylie or Emerald Ancestry.  I am new to Rootschat and haven't found any sign of mulligans being searched. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places.

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Down / francis mulligan banbridge
« on: Tuesday 28 July 09 10:53 BST (UK)  »
I'm stuck at my husband's great, great grandfather, the above named Francis Mulligan.  I have some information - he was married to a Jane Bullick or Bullock - she used both spellings on her school samplers, which I have.  From his son William's birth certificate, he's listed as a publican (1849) and they were Unitarians by religion.  His siblings were Eliza, John, James, Mary and Anne.  Anne married a James Thompson and Mary married a Rev. S. Ruddell.  I am trying to verify this, as I'm unsure where this information came from.  Anyone doing a search on any of these relatives?

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Down / Re: Rathfriland
« on: Sunday 19 July 09 13:26 BST (UK)  »
Glad to hear you could access the Gravestone Inscription books.  Depending on who you are looking for, some sites have copied the relevant names from these books and you can view them online.   For general interest in Rathfriland, there are a couple of books you could try for - "Rathfriland in Bygone Days" by John A McCracken  or "City Set on a Hill" by Edith M. Clarke.  Both of these deal with Rathfriland from its inception but unfortunately are so old as to have been printed before the use of ISBN numbers, which would have made them easier to trace world wide.  However you might be lucky and get copies on Ebay or some out of print book site.  For photos and layout of Rathfriland, try getting a copy of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society's book on Rathfriland and Hilltown.  It lists all the buildings of importance in the town,  with good descriptions and a little history.  Hope some of this is of use to you.  Good luck.

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Down / Re: Rathfriland
« on: Thursday 09 July 09 20:55 BST (UK)  »
R S J Clarke's books can be ordered by any library anywhere in N.I. - we are now one single Library Board, so you could look at stuff from Enniskillen area, even though you may now be living in Belfast.  The old school I mentioned seems to be the one (with some further research) - Iveagh school was only opened around 1930.

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Down / Re: Rathfriland
« on: Monday 29 June 09 20:59 BST (UK)  »
There was a school in Newry Street, just above 2nd Rathfriland Presby. Church.  It may well have been the R.C. one, as the former National School was further up that road.
As for the graveyards, your best bet would be R.S.J Clarke's "Gravestone Inscriptions" which come in a plethora of volumes, none of which specifically mention Rathfriland, but cover the small, older graveyards in each district.  You just have to look via townland names, but these cover both R.C. and Protestant graveyards.

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