Mooney and Campbell from Atrim, Upper Dunluce, Derrykeighan Parish

Hi Robert,

You could try Griffith's Valuation (1848-64) for more information regarding John and Rachel. Griffith's is freely available here: www.askaboutireland.com or here: www.failteromhat.com Failte Romhat has lots of other useful links you could try looking at. 

Civil registration records are available from the General Register Office (GRO). These start from 1864. You can access the website here: http://www.groireland.ie/research.htm .  Valuations office in Dublin (http://www.valoff.ie) will have a record of the land registry from 1855 to modern times. This will assist in seeing what happened to John and any land he may have had (as it usually passed on to a relation).

Often church records are available and can provide interesting clues. Church of Ireland parish registers for the period up to 1870 are public records. Registers are available for about one third of the parishes, however many were destroyed in the Public Records Office in Dublin in 1922. Most are still held by the local clergy, although some are in the National Archives of Ireland and others are in the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin. A list of all surviving registers is available in the National Archives. http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42 and http://www.nationalarchives.ie/. Presbyterian registers are held in three main locations: in local custody, in the Public Records of Northern Ireland (PRONI) and at the Presbyterian Historical Society in Belfast. PRONI has microfilm copies of almost all registers in Northern Ireland and also lists of records held by the Presbyterian Historical Society. For the rest of Ireland, almost all records are in local custody. It can difficult to locate these as many congregations in the South have moved, amalgamated, or simply disappeared over the last sixty years. For Catholic records it may be better to contact the local parish priest for assistance. 

Other useful sites may be https://familysearch.org/ which is a free site provided by the Church of Ladder Day Saints which contains documents from Ireland and abroad , and both http://www.castlegarden.org/        http://www.ellisisland.org/  are free sites to search for North American emmigration records. 

One genealogical database for Co Antrim is available for a fee at http://antrim.rootsireland.ie/ .

I wish you the best of luck with your search. 

Please make sure you link anyone else in your family who is interested in their Irish heritage to our site - and indeed anyone else you know of Irish heritage.

Kind regards,

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Ireland Reaching Out