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I HOPE THE SITE HELPS IN YOUR SEARCH OF ANCESTORS FROM LURGAN, COUNTY ARMAGH.

I WOULD WELCOME YOUR FEEDBACK / COMMENTS ON THE SITE.

  ANY INFORMATION OR PHOTOS WOULD BE VERY WELCOME.

 I have the following:

Tenants and Their Occupation on Brownlow’s Manor for 1670 – 1799,
The Lurgan Free School Records for 1786 – 95,
The Lurgan Church of Ireland Young Men’s Society
Annual Report and List of Members for 1881,

and the Street Directories;

Lurgan Street Directory for 1904,
Lurgan Street Directory for 1914,
Lurgan Street Directory for 1919,
Lurgan Street Directory for 1943,
Lurgan Street Directory for 1947,
Lurgan Street Directory for 1959,
Lurgan Street Directory for 1969.

I will put these onto the website soon.

I am updating the site with a new section ‘Newspaper Articles’ on Lurgan.

I have just published:

A list of Presbyterian Marriages in Armagh, 1707 – 1728,
and Convicts Released from Armagh County Gaol, 1835 – 1839.

N.B. The Lurgan Street Directories for 1881, 1894, 1928, 1939, 1953,
and 1965 are now complete as are
the Lurgan Free School Records for 1786 – 1795,
the Freeholder Records of Oneilland East for 1813 – 1832,
and the Schoolmasters in County Armagh for 1824.

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Email me at: andrew.mcelroy@lurgan-ancestry.co.uk

Lurgan (from Irish: an Lorgain meaning “the long ridge”) is a town in Northern Ireland. It is located in the Province of Ulster, in the County of Armagh, in the Barony of ONeilland East and in the Civil Parish of Shankill. Shankill parish consists of 26 Townlands.

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