CARRICKFERGUS REGISTRATION

Go to the Ireland Civil Registration article to read more about these records.ĭe Breffny, Brian. Registration of Protestant marriages began in 1845, with all marriages being registered by 1864.

Government registration of births and deaths began in 1864. Name(s) of ecclesiastical parish, records, availability, archive, online indexes, notes. Read general information about church records. Read more about the records in the Ireland Census article. While the government began census taking in 1821, only fragments exist before 1901. The purpose of a census was to gather information about people who lived in an area. Maps and gazetteers Īdd references to indexes to gravestones or monumental inscriptions. List the names of town-lands in this civil parish List the names of the surrounding parishes List the names and give a description of a district, poor law union, etc. There are places of worship for Presbyterians, Wesleyan Methodists, Independants and a small congregation of Covenanters and lastly, Unitarians. The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Connor, united with the rectories of Island-Magee and Ralloo, the vicarage of Inver and the grange of Moylusk(or Moblusk), once constituting the corps of the deanery of Connor.In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the district of Larne and Carrickfergus.

The parish is co-extensive with the county of the town. Carrickfergus is a parish, but also a seaport, a borough, a market and post town and a county of itself, in the union of Larne and locally situated in the county of Antrim.