Researching Cooke - Tolerton - Lutton links

You haven’t said what denomination these families were. If they were Church of Ireland then the following records exist for Seagoe parish:

Baptisms, 1672-1731, 1735-1821 and 1829-76;

marriages, 1672-1731, 1735-1821 and 1826-45;

burials, 1672-1731, 1735-1821 and 1829-81;

Analysis of register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1672-1904.

Index to baptisms, marriages and burials, 1672-1919.

There’s copies of the above records in PRONI (the public record office) in Belfast. No other denomination has any Seagoe records for the 1700s.

If any of the families were farmers then they should be listed in the tithe applotment records in 1834. Here’s the tithes for Seagoe:

http://www.irishgenealogyhub.com/armagh/tithe-applotments/seagoe-parish…

Hi Elwyn...Many thanks for the reply. I am unsure what denomination they were but only assuming Church of Ireland. Are the PRONI records online / available to public ? Please excuse my ignorance as our system in NZ is quite different. Thank you for the Tithe link also re farmers I will do some digging.

Many thanks

The records in PRONI are not on-line. You have to go in person to look them up. If you are unable to go yourself, you could employ a researcher. Researchers in the PRONI area: http://sgni.net

Their e-mail contact is: secretary@sgni.net

(Like all museums and repositories in Ireland, PRONI is closed at the moment).

You may find Seagoe’s records on subscription sites like rootsireland or Emerald Ancestors. They don’t always cover all years and there can be transcription issues which make some records hard to locate.

There’s an article about the Seagoe records and general social conditions in the area that you might find interesting:

http://www.craigavonhistoricalsociety.org.uk/rev/mccorryseagoeparish.ht…