REDGATE, Magilligan Parish

[Magilliganlass]

Dear Aghadowey:
You mentioned that there are Magilligan Church of Ireland records - marriages 1820-26,1832-34; burials 1824-29, 183-34, 1837, 1844-1962. Vestry book 1820-43, 1844-1870, 1855-1897. Baptisms 1844-1961. Session book 1813-1857 contains baptisms 1814-54, 1857; marriages 1814-45, 1846-1923; members lists 1814/15, 1836; committee minutes 1823-28, etc.

Do you know where I can access them for research? (PRONI, the Genealogy Center, etc.)  I am looking for records of my Redgate ancestors, who lived at Aughil, Magilligan parish in the 1831 Census.

Thanks for all your sound advice and experience!

Magilliganlass (Barbara Miller in Allentown, PA, USA)

[kingskerswell]

Hi Barbara,
                Welcome to Roots Chat. It would have been better to have started this as a new thread and then the name REDGATE would have appeared in the title. I have had a look at my 1831 Census index and noticed that the only Redgate in Magilligan was William and he lived in the townland of Carnowry which is in the mountainoue area above that part of the North coast known as Umbra. The townland of Aughil is on the lower ground a couple of miles to the west. That said here is some info which may be relevent.

6 May 1838 John Redgate married Rose Quinn in Bellarena RC church, Parish of Tamlaghtarde (Magilligan)
7 Jun 1846 William Black married Martha Redgate in Tamlaghtarde Church of Ireland
15 Oct 1849 William Redgate married Mary McCummins in Magilligan Presbyterian Church.

Regards

[aghadowey]

First of all, I've split your post from the Caldwell thread and named it REDGATE, Magillian Parish to avoid confusion.

The Derry Genealogy Centre has been closed for over a year and although there was talk that they would re-open last year nothing seems to have happened. However, you can still check their index online. Several Redgates in Co. Derry are listed:
www.irishgenealogy.ie/frame_1024.cfm

The church records are on microfilm at PRONI and Coleraine Library. Unfortunately the LDS don't seem to have copied them but quite a few Redgates are in their records. If you search for 'Redgate' in 'Ireland'  at www.familysearch.org you might find something.

Griffith's Valuation is mid-1800s and only one entry (with the spelling Regdate) appears.
http://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/gv_family_search_form.php

[kingskerswell]

Aghdowey,   
               Many thanks, however you have left my original Redgate posting on the Caldwell thread.

Regards

[aghadowey]

Have now merged your reply with this thread- it looks as though I was typing and splitting the thread around the same time you replied and it got left behind but all together now.

[Gortinanima]

A William Redgate was in Aughill, Magilligan in the 1831 census
returns.

[Magilliganlass]

To all, thank you for your very prompt and helpful replies.  Gortinanima, as you saw, my William Redgate family is the one in Aughil in the 1831 census.  I have found lots of Redgate data in the Magilligan/Tamlaghtard R.C. registers and in the 1700s Tamlaghtard Church of Ireland records, but somehow I missed the 1800s CofI microfilm when I visited PRONI, and I did not know that Brian Mitchell's Genealogy Center had closed.  The widow of William Redgate, Margaret Rudgate, is in Aughil in Griffiths Valuation.  I did not have the Martha Redgate or William Redgate marriages that you gave me.  Thank you!

Thanks for your wonderful advice, and for creating a new thread for my inquiry.  Being new to Rootschat, I did not know how to do that.

Slan, Barbara Miller

[aghadowey]

Coleraine Chronicle, 20 Oct.1849: On the 15th inst., in the Presbyterian Church, Magilligan, by the Rev. Samuel Butler, Mr. William Redgate, to Miss Mary McCumins, both of the parish of Tamlaghtard.

[Magilliganlass]

Dear Aghadowey:
Thank you so much for the Coleraine Chronicle information.  Do you know where I can look at the Coleraine Chronicle, either online or on microfilm?  I hope to visit Magilligan this year or next year and would like to plan my research time as efficiently as possible.  Did the Coleraine Chronicle begin in 1844?  Is there anyone you know who might do a lookup on a specific date?

I am hoping to find accounts of the Great Wind of January 1839, and what damage it caused in Magilligan or Dunboe or Aghanloo parishes.  (I know this probably predates the Coleraine Chronicle.)

Barbara Miller (Allentown, PA, USA)