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This lists the contents of several recent issues of the Society’s journal. Issues more than three years ago are online in JSTOR’s Ireland Collection at http://about.jstor.org/content/ireland, where they may be searched.

North Irish Roots, volume 27, number 2, Autumn 2016

2 Editorial 3 Outgoing President’s Report 3 Northumberland and Durham Family History Society 4 Incoming President’s Report 4 Additions to the Library 5 Obituary – Samuel Bracegirdle 6 Obituary – Ronald Moffett 6 Trusty – Michael McKeag 9 Branch Programmes 13 North Down & Ards Branch Outing to Bangor Abbey 14 NIFHS Exhibition, Portaferry Visitor Information Centre 15 A Programme of Courses for the Autumn 18 Maisie’s Dates 18 Melville – Martin McDowell 19 Review – Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors by Ian Maxwell – Ann Robinson 20 Review – A Decade of Centenaries – Researching Ireland 1912-1923 by Chris Paton – Patricia Cummings 21 Review – The Somme: The Epic Battle in the Soldiers’ Own Words & Photographs by Richard Van Emden – Ann Robinson 22 The Valour of Ulster 23 James Reid 1896-1916 – Kathleen Morrison 25 Hamilton Mathewson – Ann Robinson 27 Orval Stiegman’s Letter 28 Greyabbey Roll of Honour – Elma Wickens 30 I.G.R.S. Fellowship Presented to Family of Randal Gill 32 Return to the Causeway 34 C4 Gems - Directories 36 Montgomery & McCammon – Shirley Bulley 36 Wagga Wagga and District Family History Society 37 Carntall and Greeneville – Chris Hill 40 Maisie’s Dates Explained 41 Biennial Competition 2016 42 The Story of George and Eliza McClelland – William S. Kelley 55 Who Do You Think You Are? Live 56 Facebook 56 Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 59 Members’ Interests – Queries 60 Register of Reciprocal Research 60 Names and Addresses

North Irish Roots North Irish Roots, volume 27, number 1, Spring 2016

2 Editorial 3 President’s Report 4 Branch News 5 Additions to the Library 7 H.M.S. Caroline 7 PRONI’s New Website 8 A Programme of Courses for the Spring 10 Maisie’s Questions 11 Wonderments 12 Looking for my Templeton Family at PRONI – Elizabeth Cowie 14 Free Online Magazines 15 William Gibson – Sandra Ardis 17 C4 Gems – Church Histories 19 C4 Gems – P.H.S.I. Correspondence 21 Memories – Jim McIlveen 25 Where to Start? 8 – Ordnance Survey Memoirs 28 Bits and Pieces of a Genealogical Research – Margaret Gordon 30 First ’Plane Marriage 31 Correspondence – A Criminal Ancestor – Aoife O Connor 32 Booklets & Maps 34 The Life of Thomas Maguire, 1850-1932 – John Maguire 38 Gold Miners in Bendigo – Elizabeth Scott 41 My Eight Great Grandparents “Pieces of Eight” – Allan Johnston 52 Maisie’s Answers 52 Register of Reciprocal Research 53 Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 58 Members’ Interests – Queries 60 Names and Addresses

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North Irish Roots, volume 26, number 2, Autumn 2015

2 Editorial 2 Dublin Gallery 3 President’s Report – Grant of Honorary Life Membership to David Deane 4 Branch Programmes 8 Profile – www.nifhs.org 11 Additions to the Library 13 Obituary – Dr Doggart 13 Tyrone Joins Cavan & Monaghan 14 Where to Start? 7 – Newspapers – Michael McKeag 18 Where to Finish? 4 – Citations – Michael McKeag 21 A Programme of Courses for the Autumn 23 Picture Postcards 24 Australia, Canada & New Zealand 28 Gazettes 29 Belfast Royal Academy, Admission Register 1880-1923 – Sandra Ardis 31 Pictures from PRONI 32 Advertisement – Irish Origenes 34 Bright Parish Church – Flora Jackson 34 Roman Catholic Parish Registers 35 Biennial Competition – My Family Odyssey 36 William Orr Goudy and Alice Brown: from Greyabbey to the Victorian Goldfields – Rob & Ramon Goudey 45 My Eight Great Grandparents – Deborah Flint 52 Irish National School Registers 52 Old Age Pension Applications using Church of Ireland Parish Registers 53 Members’ Interests – Queries 54 Membership Secretary & Treasurer 55 Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 58 Snippets 60 Register of Reciprocal Research 60 Names and Addresses

North Irish Roots North Irish Roots, volume 26, number 1, Spring 2015

2 Editorial 3 President’s Report 4 Profile – The Honneyman Room 5 Additions to the Library 6 In Memoriam – Bright Parish Church – Flora Jackson 7 Recent Transcriptions 7 Presentation 8 Where to Start? 6 – Missing Links 10 Where to Finish? 3 – Pictures – Michael McKeag 14 William Carleton Knew My Ancestors – John McEwan 24 Wanted – O.S. Memoirs, Vol. 20, Mid and East Tyrone 25 Review – Leaving the North by Johane Devlin Trewe – Frank McHugh 27 Occupations in My Family – The Poetry Connection – Janet Cassidy 31 Advertisement – Family Tree DNA 32 Advertisement – Irish Origenes 34 Occupations in My Family – Colette Murray 42 Hooked by a Bouquet of Flowers – Pam Pearce 44 Occupations in My Family – An Irish Pail Maker and Wood Turner – Margaret Gordon 48 The Irish in England, 1330-1550 48 Lost a Web Page? 49 The Strangford Islanders – Beverly Brown 53 Members’ Interests – Queries 56 Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 61 Names and Addresses 64 Register of Reciprocal Research

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North Irish Roots, volume 25, number 2, Autumn 2014

2 Editorial 3 President’s Report 4 Branch Programmes 8 Obituary – Roy Brady 9 Profile – Belfast Transcribers 10 Additions to the Library 11 Recent Transcriptions 12 NIFHS DNA Project 13 How DNA can help you determine non-Irish origins of your family – Elayne Lockhart 16 Register of Reciprocal Research 17 Holy Family Parish Church, Belfast - Digitizing the BMD Records – Sandra Ardis 20 Help from across the Pond – Kathleen Morrison 21 Where to Start? 5 – Graveyards 25 Occupations in My Family – Heber MacWilliams III 32 World War Graves in County Donegal – John & Flora Jackson 33 Advertisement – Forces War Records 34 Thomas Smyth – a Native of Bangor – Hilary Maginnis c 35 Where to Finish? 2 – Stories – Michael M Keag 41 Occupations in my Family – Diana Kirkpatrick 48 Postscript to Occupations in my Family – Diana Kirkpatrick 48 Lives of the First World War c 49 Leaving a M Guire Legacy – Linda Roy Walls 53 H.M.S. Caroline 54 Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 58 Members’ Interests – Queries 60 Correspondence – The Toal Chalice – Urbain Van Kemseke 60 Names and Addresses

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North Irish Roots, volume 25, number 1, Spring 2014

2 Editorial 3 President’s Report 4 Who Do You Think You Are? Live, Olympia, 2014 5 Profile – Sandra Ardis 6 News from the Branches: Fermanagh and Ballymena 7 County Research Guides 8 Additions to the Library 11 Where to Start? 4 – Parish Records 14 Where to Finish? 1 – My Family History c 18 The Grandmother that my Grandfather didn't get to know – Martin M Dowell 22 English Masonic Records 23 Tracing My Canadian Relatives – Chris Kirkpatrick c 27 Assisted Emigration from the Lennard Estate in Clones – Dermot M Cabe 27 A Tale of Three World War I Medals – Flora Jackson c 29 First World War Medals – Michael M Keag 32 Rea’s Garage – Northern Ireland’s First Petrol-Filling Station? My Search for Proof – Beverly Brown 37 New Life for Old Records 38 Irish Family History Research: why you should never give up – Dean Kirby 41 Recent Transcriptions 42 Transportation to Tasmania: Irish female convicts aboard the Atwick 1838 – Lea Wootton 45 Murder of the Greyabbey Innkeeper – Elma Wickens 47 Family History Societies 48 Buckinghamshire Family History Society Open Day 48 Recent Publications 49 Correspondence – Gettenby of Islandmagee – Barbara Boulter c 50 Correspondence – Campbell, Elliott & M Callum – Murray Thomson 52 Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 58 Members’ Interests – Queries 60 Register of Reciprocal Research 61 Names and Addresses

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North Irish Roots, volume 24, number 2, Autumn 2013

Editorial 2

President’s Report 2

Profile – Phyllis Hancox & Heather Magowan 3

Branch Programmes 4

Branch Newsletters 8

North Down & Ards Branch Summer Outing 2013 – Hilary Maginnis 9

Announcement - Using DNA to Help Research Your Northern Irish Family Tree by Dr Maurice J. Gleeson 10

The Irish Genealogist Index 10

Belfast Branch Visits Methodist Archives – Charlotte Murtagh 11

Additions to the Library 11

Competition 16

Recent Church Register & Graveyard Transcriptions 17

Guinness Archives 17

Where to Start? No. 3 – Census Returns 18

c A Visit to Dumfries and Galloway - Ann M Clelland 21

FindMyPast’s Irish Records 21 Review – Childhood Recollections of Killyleagh, Co. Down, N. Ireland

c by Zena M Allister – Allan Johnston 22

Review - Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet by Chris Paton – Maeve Rogan 23 The Sweetie Bottle - Shirley Leggett 23

The Genealogy of Intelligence in my Line of Sproules – Kate Tammemägi 24

Correspondence – Clegg of the Copeland Islands, Purse, McCutcheon – Mark Donald 26

The Great War 1 27

Correspondence – Cummings – Carl Grandstrand 28

The Great Parchment Book & the Down Survey Maps 28

The British Transport Police Historical Group (BTP HG) – Robert C. Davison 29

Correspondence – Wilson – Keith Wilson 30

Below Stairs at Finnebrogue – Beverly Brown 31

My Eight Great Grandparents - Bonny Robinson Cook 36

The Great War 2 43

Stray Notes on Singapore (Extracts) by Alexander Flanigan - Bob Pue & Doreen Walker 44

Ulster Gravestones 46

Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 47

Matthew Robert Perry – Hilary Maginnis 50

Members’ Interests – Queries 51

Names and Addresses 53

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North Irish Roots, volume 24, number 1, Spring 2013

Editorial 2 County Monaghan 2 President’s Report 3 Who Do You Think You Are? Live, Olympia, 2013 4 Profile – Doreen Walker 5 Additions to the Library 6 Recent Transcriptions 7 Where to Start? No. 2 – Civil Registration 8 Looking for Royal Naval Officers? 10 c Review - Derrykeighan Old Church Graveyard by Dorothy Arthur - Michael M Keag 10 Professional (and Amateur) Standards 11 Byrne's Irish Times Abstracts 11 The Anglican Record Project 11 NIFHS Members’ Area Now Available 11 Life in Ballyrickardbeg Through the Eyes of My Ancestors (Ellen and Isabella Buchanan) – Linda Hooke 12 Townland - A Letter to my Great Granddaughter - Linda Burgham 20 Review - Tracing Your Merchant Navy Ancestors by Simon Wills – Sandra Ardis 28 Life in Ballygrainey – Anne Johnston 29 Griffith's Valuation Revision Books 34 Beck of Northern Ireland – Peter Brown 35 The Irish Law Times and Solicitors’ Journal – Hilary Maginnis 38 Review – Pioneer among the Gum Trees by Anne & Tom Johnston - Hilary Maginnis 40 Irish Army Census of 1922 40 Marie Richenet – from Switzerland to Ireland – Elayne Lockhart 41 National Archives of Ireland 41 Fate of Highwayman in 1839 – Flora & John Jackson 42 Free Irish Genealogy eBooks 42 Correspondence – Hendry (of Cullybackey?) 43 Register of Reciprocal Research 44 Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 45 Members’ Interests – Queries 50 Matheson on Names in Ireland 52 Names and Addresses 53

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North Irish Roots, volume 23, number 2, Autumn 2012

Editorial 2 News 2 President’s Report 3 Randal Gill, F.I.G.R.S. (1946 - 2012) – An appreciation by Robert C. Davison 4 Profile – N.I.F.H.S. Research Centre & Randal Gill Library 6 Branch Programmes 8 Recent Church Register & Graveyard Transcriptions 13 Additions to the Library 13 Ulster Covenant 14 Where to Start? No. 1 - Ask Granny 15 The “Auld Light” Meeting House in Greyabbey – Elma Wickens 17 c Life in My Townland through the Eyes of My Ancestors – Michael M Keag 19 In Memoriam – University Road Moravian Church, Belfast - John & Flora Jackson 26 c Correspondence – With Great Appreciation to N.I.F.H.S. - Patrick John M Kibbin 27 Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland Envelopes 27 Mitchell Letters - Robert F. Gibson 28 Correspondence - Do you know the COULTERS or MAGEES from LISBURN? – Sheila Brindley 34 Lynn of Eskylane - Constructing a Family Tree in County Antrim - James Lynn 35 Members’ Interests – Queries 49 st c Review – The 1 Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War by James W. Taylor – Michael M Keag 50 Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 51 Register of Reciprocal Research 53 Names and Addresses 54 Byrne's Irish Times Abstracts 1859-1901 56

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North Irish Roots, volume 23, number 1, Spring 2012

Editorial 2

President’s Report 2

New Premises 4

Robert James (Bertie) Edgar 5

Profile – Ann Robinson 6

North Armagh Family History Society – Summer 2011 Outing – Richard Burns 7

Correspondence – Sea Captains – Hugh Macartney 9

A Clarke Family of Northern Ireland – Valerie Walker 10

New Discovery in Bangor Abbey Graveyard – Elma Wickens 14

Researching Via Acquaintances – Margaret Gordon 15

Association of Professional Genealogists in Ireland - How it all began – Steven Smyrl 20

In Memoriam - Church of Ireland Parish Church, Ballintoy – John & Flora Jackson 24

Recent Church Register & Graveyard Transcriptions 25

c Review - The Corkey Story 1600-2000 by David Robinson – Michael M Keag 26

Review - In Search of Buchanan from Anselan to President James Buchanan by Irene Martin – Ann Robinson 27

Happy Birthday! – Sandra Ardis 28

c A M Williams Family of Newtownards - Heber MacWilliams 29

JSTOR 32 Review - Remembering Their Sacrifice in the Great War: The War Dead of North Down and Ards

c by Barry Niblock - Noëlle M Cavana 32

My Eight Great Grandparents – Chris Kirkpatrick 33 Additions to the Library 43

Correspondence – Wilkinson of Fermanagh & South Africa – L. Thomason 43

Nominal Roll of Officers - Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers by Alexander Flanigan - Bob Pue & Doreen Walker 44

Review - Ballinascreen Gravestone Inscriptions: Old Church, Moneycorey and St. Patrick's Church,

c Tullybrick - Noëlle M Cavana 45

Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 46 Correspondence – Surnames of County Down – Michael Rooney 48

Members’ Interests – Queries 49

Names and Addresses 52

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North Irish Roots, volume 22, number 2, Autumn 2011

Editorial 2

President’s Report 2

Branch Programmes 3

Branch News 7

Plantation Booklets 7

Landed Estates 7

Profile – Rosemary Sibbett 8

Additions to the Library 9

Notes on a Voyage from Singapore to Portsmouth in the Transport “Mexican”

by Alexander Flanigan - Bob Pue & Doreen Walker 10

Titles (Past & Present) of the Different Regiments of the Line with Number of the Regimental Districts

by Alexander Flanigan - Bob Pue & Doreen Walker 13

The York Adventure – Phyllis Hancox 16

Recent Church Register & Graveyard Transcriptions 17

The Matthews Family of Ballygally, Downpatrick – Beverly Brown 18

216 Male Residents of Inch Parish, County Down, 1796 – Beverly Brown 20

Can Anyone Help Dorothy? 22

Roddy & Young – Lighhouses, Lifeboats & Lightships – Syl Maguire 23

Derry City’s Archive and Genealogy Service – Bernadette Walsh 27

Competition 30

Don’t Believe Everything You Hear! – Jennifer A. Duguid 31

c Correspondence – William Putnam M Cabe – Allen Penney 35

Alan Godfrey Maps of Ulster 36 Correspondence – Morgan & Lavery of Blaris – Adrienne E. Cullen 37

Correspondence – Return Migration to Ireland – Beverly Brown 37

Correspondence - Mystery Gravestone in Wroxall Garden – Tony Cutcher 38

A Miscellany of Irish Records Online 39

c My Eight Great Grandparents – Christine M Cafferty 40

Some Free Websites 46 Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 47

Members’ Interests – Queries 50

Names and Addresses 53

Baptisms at St Mark’s, Dundela, Belfast 56

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North Irish Roots, volume 22, number 1, Spring 2011

Editorial 2

President’s Report 2

Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2011 at Olympia, London 3

Annual General Meeting 4

PRONI @ Titanic Quarter 4

Honorary Members 5

Irish Roman Catholic Parish Registers 5

Profile – Georgie Siberry 6

Notes from the Branches 7

Additions to the Library 8

Wills at P.R.O.N.I. – Online Copies and Calendar 9

The ARCHON Directory of Record Repositories 9

Souvenir of Conflict: A Coleraine Man’s War 1939-1945 – Diana Kirkpatrick 10

Allisons’ Photographic Studios 11

British Pathé 1896-1976 11

th Nominal Roll of Draft which left England in HMS Himalaya on the 28 December 1878

en route for Hong Kong by Alexander Flanigan - Bob Pue & Doreen Walker 12

Famine Relief Commission Papers, 1844-1847 16

Review - St Patrick’s Parish Church Graveyard, Ballymoney by Dorothy Arthur 17

Review - Researching Derry and Londonderry Ancestors by William Macafee 17

The 1718 Migration – Linde Lunney 18

Correspondence – My Mysterious Irish Ancestors – Ian Sutherland 26

Newly Released Online Irish Databases 27

Correspondence – Youngs of Antrim – Ellison Withe 28

Irish Graveyards 29

Recent Church Register & Graveyard Transcriptions 30

My Eight Great Grandparents – Maureen Waugh 31

My Eight Great Grandparents – Heather Baird 39

The Scottish 1911 Census 45

Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 46

Members’ Interests – Queries 50

Names and Addresses 52

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North Irish Roots, volume 21, number 2, Autumn 2010

Editorial 2

President’s Report 2

Correspondence – A Merseyside Branch? 3

Profile – Samuel Bracegirdle 4

Branch Programmes 5

Additions to the Library 9

th Correspondence – James Bill of the 28 Regiment – Dennis Bill 10 th The 27 Regt. from date of landing in Hong Kong 25 February 1879 by Alexander Flanigan -

11 Bob Pue & Doreen Walker c Book Review – Fultons of the Lagan Valley by J. T. Fulton – Eleanor M Fadzean 12

Irish 1901 Census 12 Book Review - Tracing your Northern Irish Ancestors by Ian Maxwell – Richard Burns 13

Irish Glassplate Photographs Digitised 13

Church Register Transcriptions 14

Registry of Deeds, Dublin 15

Monaghan Headstones – John & Flora Jackson 16

Correspondence – Connor of Carolina – Jim Connor 17

CD Review – On the Shining Bann by R. M. Sibbett – Brian O’Hara 18

Irish Church Records Online 18

Holden’s Directory 1811 - Hillsborough 19

1641 Depositions 20

The North Irish Horse in the Great War 20

JSTOR – The Ireland Collection 21

Index of Wills and Administrations, England & Wales, 1861-1941 21

Wilson-Stewart Migrations – J. Scott Wilson 22

James Lyle of Newry (1788 – 1874) – not a Presbyterian Minister – Pat Steen 25

My Eight Great Grandparents 29

Ards First World War Book of Honour 29

My Eight Great Grandparents – Ruth Watson 30

Jennie Hanna and the Church Street Mission – Patricia Neville 37

My Eight Great Grandparents – Margaret Williams 38

Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 48

Members’ Interests – Queries 49

STOP PRESS – N.I.F.H.S. Website Wins F.F.H.S. Award 52

Names and Addresses 52

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North Irish Roots, volume 21, number 1, Spring 2010

Editorial 2

President’s Report 3

Jeanne Jordan Awarded Honorary Membership 3

The Route Back Home 2010 4

Profile – John Bassett 5

Annual General Meeting 5

Placenames NI - The Northern Ireland Place-Name Project 6

c Book Launch – The M Ilrath Letters 7

Placenames Database of Ireland 7 c Book Review – The M Ilrath Letters – Yvonne Gabbie 8

Book Review – Belfast Boys – Charlie Graham 9 Book Review – The Hidden Graveyard – Tom Buchanan 10

Irish Newspapers 10

c Book Review – Tracing Your Irish Roots – R. M. M Keag 11

New Branches 11 In Memoriam – Iona War Memorial – Syl Maguire 12

Holden’s Directory 1811 - Gilford 13

Correspondence – Currans of Ballyhalbert, Co. Down – Martha Parker 14

Correspondence – The Grave of Michael Watters – Syl Maguire 15

Ards First World War Book of Honour 15

Correspondence – Census Strays and the Edgar Family – Steve Edgar 16

British Newspapers 16

Additions to the Library 17

Glasnevin Trust Museum 17

“What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?” – George Busby 18

Diary of a Voyage on H.M.S. Himalaya from Portsmouth to Hong Kong by Alexander Flanigan –

Bob Pue & Doreen Walker 20

The Hamill Ancestors of Ballybrannan, Co. Armagh – Denis Hamill 25

Hunting for Henry - Brian O’Hara 30

Early Irish Maps 33

The Moore Family of Harmony Hill – Gilbert Watson 34

Chelsea Pensioners’ Records Online 42

Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 43

Members’ Interests – Queries 48

Names and Addresses 50

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North Irish Roots, volume 20, number 2, Autumn 2009

Editorial 2 President’s Report 3 th 30 Anniversary of the Society – Anne Curry 3 Profile – David Honneyman 4 Profile – Randal Gill 5 Interruption to PRONI Service 5 Branch Programmes 6 Online Street Directories at PRONI 10 Competition – My Eight Great Grandparents 11 Additions to the Library 11 Holden’s Directory 1811 - Saintfield 12 Book Review - Migration in Irish History, 1607-2007 13 1911 Census of Ireland 13 c In Memoriam – Cavehill 1st June 1944 - R. M. M Keag 14 Online Griffith’s Valuation 14 In Memoriam – Ballintoy Church of Ireland Parish Church – John & Flora Jackson 15 Irish Civil Registration Indexes 1845-1958 15 th th c Census Records of the 19 & 20 Century Online, Part Two – R. M. M Keag 16 Correspondence – The Irish in Argentina – Forgotten Emigrants – Peter Mulvany 24 Online Dictionary of Irish Architects 24 c Correspondence – M Loughlin / Brown – Sarah Campbell 25 The Times, 5th April 1820 26 Correspondence – Smyth, Carson, Nelson, Haddock, Black, Lockhard, Teuton – David Garrod 27 Family Photographic Index 27 c Memories of My Sea-Faring Ancestors Acquired from their many Descendants – John M Conkey 28 Excerpts from A Soldier’s Diary (1940 – 1945) – Diana Kirkpatrick 32 The Stewart Weavers of Church Street, Bangor – Patricia Neville 38 Watsons of Dromore - Charles A. Watson 39 Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched 43 Register of Reciprocal Research 46 Members’ Interests – Queries 47 Names and Addresses 50