Hi Walt, If you haven't already, check our archives (www.rootsweb.com, go to 'Mail Lists" and Interactive Search, type in Scotch-Irish). We may have info in the archives. It's not easy to do 'lookups' for you beyond the stuff you no doubt have. In 1831 there is no civil registration and mighty few church records. The church records are often locally held. Many would be indexed by the center in Derry that I don't recall the name of (sorry, all my books are in the storage locker!!). Maybe you could hire Robert to check PRONI for ya. No doubt you've heard that the secret to Irish genealogy is locating the townland on which they lived. So check for the townland. Now why do you want the townland? That's because that will give you the estate. If you have the name of the estate you can look for estate records. This will keep you out of trouble for a few years. Before you do that you should spend time studying the family in the local history. As has been said many times the key to Irish genealogy is local history. In the Aghadowey area is a lot of local history. I am more familiar personally with local history in Ballymena area. To recyle my old jokes, a long time ago I read it was the 'meanest town in Ireland" and I said "That must be where my ancestors are from" and sure 'nuff, they are from nearby. (Personally I can think of a few places in Cork I think are meaner, but that's me...) Much of the local history is in small periodicals and pamplets, often locally published. Finding them is an art -- or a trip to the LInen Hall Library in Belfast!!! It's NOT at PRONI as PRONI is repository of records. People spend a lifetime in PRONI writing a book. The book is published and it's in the Linen Hall Library. Will y ou be able to replicate their life of work in 1 afternoon in PRONI? NO!!!!!!! You must use these publications and note what documents they reference in PRONI. Many of these local history books are not indexed so no one who is sane is going to offer to do 'lookups'. Often they are published in 3 point type too so reading them is hard. You have to read these books or bribe someone. Once you glean as much as you can from local history, then there's all kinds of things you can also check. In fact if yuou check Ryan's book "Irish Records" it'll list all the main sources for you for L'derry. I have NORRISes from Castledawson. Just tonight as I walked my dog I wondered if I was now living on my ancestor Robert Norris's land. It was around here somewhere. He left around 1820 or 1830, one of many NORRISes who came to Western PA and other parts of the USA. In the 1831 census there are a couple left. He had two wives. I descend from Catherine DOWLING. While many in Ulster think it's a 'Catholic name', a variant of DORAN, actually it's also an English surname. Notta clue what Catherine's religion or ethnity was. THeir son DOWLING NORRIS died in the American Civil War. Robert's daughter married a CULMER (English from Kent: we cut the stairs in Broadstairs). An old family history (unproven) of the CULMERs says they were Swedish nobility who came to England with the first fleet of Viking ships to winter over. They were baptized at Thanet. We did okay till the War of Roses, when we lost our estate in Kent. We were patronized by the early Tudors. Nice fantasies!!! happy hunting Linda Merle ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Walt McKENZIE, Sr." <WaltIrish@comcast.net> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:42:32 -0400 > McKENZIE ~ O'NEIL ~ SULLIVAN ~ SHEEHAN >Greetings Listers , > > Hope these few words find things going well. Could anyone with access be so kind as >to do a lookup. Any help is just great. > > Daniel McKensey (b.c. 1815) in 1831 Ire census for Aghadowey Civ. Parish, Co. Derry. >His age would be 21, 11 or 1. If a child not m., his parents & sibling info will solve my >brick-wall. Otherwise, his adult single or m. info would be useful. > > Indicating any info to me via email would be great. If there is no info, perhaps one >could indicate other sources that might have info or related data. Your kindness, >consideration, time and effort / help is greatly appreciated. Good luck and all the best with >your own genealogy family search. > > TIA with kind regards , Grandpa Walt-Irish McKenzie, Sr.- NJ - MA - USA > > > > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.4/143 - Release Date: 10/19/2005 > > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net