Dysart Family history

Hi,

Thank you for your message.

Have you tried looking for information on the family in Church records?

Most Catholic records are held locally. You could try writing to the parish priest for possible assistance. One website which can be useful is the irishtimes, where they give an overview of what records are available in specific parishes. For Rasharkin parish follow this link:

http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/rcparishmaps/index.cfm?fuseaction=showidrecords&CityCounty=Antrim&parish=Rasharkin&churchid=424

For Church of Ireland records check http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42 and http://www.nationalarchives.ie/.

You could also check the two land records peraining to Ireland in the 19th century for some record of Henry or his parents. There are two:

The Tithe Applotment Books dating from 1823-1838. This can be found here: http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/home.jsp

and Griffith's Valuation (1848-1864) found at http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/

Some other websites which may be helpful are:

The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/

The National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx

The National Archives UK ? genealogy search: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/

The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm

Family Search: https://familysearch.org/  

Genealogy Links:  http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/antrim/index.html

You could aslo try contacting the Ulster Historical FOundation for assistance, however a fee may appaly. Here are their contact details:

Ulster Historical Foundation,

49 Malone Road,

Belfast BT9 6RY,

Northern Ireland.

Phone: +44 28 9066 1968   EMail: enquiry@uhf.org.uk

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Also researching the Dysart Family:  James Dysart was born in 1727 in Londonderry, Ulster.  His father was Joseph Dysart, born in 1700, mother was Marie Martin, born in 1730.  James married Margaret Young Stewart who was born in 1725 in Ulster.  All information is appreciated.

hello Sam,

We share the same ancestry, I see you are from NZ as well,my father is Melvyn Dysart, his father my grandfather is Henry Hugh Dysart,, My great grandfather is Henry Hugh Dysart as well who married Maria Keery, I guess I have got as far as you have, my great great grandfather being Robert Dysart who married Mary Jane Steele. So like you That is as far as I have got. I do know that Robert was a farmer as well as an Orangeman.  The birth place of my grandfather was Ballymcpeake,31st October 1893.

All the best, if you find any further information.  Regards Marion.

Marion - I'm working on the same surname - and have information that might be of use.

Email e direct at dabeck@btinternet.com

Hello All,

My name is David Dysart and I live in the US. I have done extensive research on the family line.  I have visited Dysart, Scotland and Rasharkin and there met Dysarts living on Mullan Road.  Even though my people left No. Ireland in 1805, the family resemblance of the Dysarts I met there was uncanny.  Ernest Dysart did speak of the Crashybracken branch of the family that moved to Australia/NZ  (Crashybracken is a part of Rasharkin).  There are monuments in a cemetery there that Dysarts of Australia/NZ?  (I'll have to check) had erected in there absence.  I have photographs.  My ancestors were William Dysart and Jane Boyd Dysart, both born about 1770.  I have no absolute proof that they are of Rasharkin because the ship manifest only list Antrim as their place of Residence.  They sailed with whom I suppose was a younger brother of Jane, John Boyd.

Just this summer I spent time in Brechin in County Angus in Scotland.  From my research it seems that they were probably tenant farmers (crofters) in this area for probably centuries before leaving for Ulster.  The first recorded name of Dysart in Scotland is a Walter and Gaffrid de Dysart dates 1427.  The "de" of course means "of" so like many surnames, we Dysarts took the name of the village from whence we came.  They were in the service of the Maules of Panmure who probaly sent tenants to Ulster to farm land he had been granted there.

I'm sorry I can't respond with any specifics to the entries above.  I can be reach at ddysart@stetson.edu.

Kind Regards,

David Dysart

To the Fellow Seeker of the first post in this thread,

In the Cemetery at the Rasharkin Presbyterian Church are two stones.  One is an impressive obilisk with the following inscription: Erected by James Dysart, Crushybracken, and family in New Zealand in memory of Jane Dysart who departed this life 13th Sept 1868 aged 64 years also above named James Dysart who departed this life 5th May 1883 aged 79 years, their son Robert died 14th June 1915 and his wife Mary Jane died 29th July 1905. She is not dead but sleepeth .  William died 7th April 1874, Henry died 12th of June 1921, James died 14th Feb 1930, Anna McCurdy died 16th Dec 1905, sons and daughters of Robert Dysart.  And his Daughter Nancy Jane died 16th Jan 1941

The other is a ver decrepid stone of which only the following is legible:  Erected by James Dysart, Crushybracken, in memory of his daugter Agnes who departed this life the ? April ? Aged 23.  ?  ? who dept this life on ?/?.

There also Dysarts buried in nearby towns of Portgenone and Aughnahoy.  See http://www.the braid.com/genealogy.aspx

Hope this helps,

Your possible American cousin,

David Dysart