There's actually a lot of places in Ireland that are in two jurisdictions. Drives ya to drink, it does. Possibly one reason is that the townlands are among the oldest placenames. They are prehistoric, in many cases, though some are new. Some have also become archaic. Generally they belonged to one owner, excepting the townland that I finally, after a lot of grief, traced my one line to. That townland was half in one estate and half in another. At that point I began looking for an pub!!! I still haven't gotten up the courage to pursue THAT one. Village of Ahoghill, anyone???!! On the plus side, I now have custody of my furniture and genealogy books (etc) after they were sent on a misadventure by incompetant movers for 3 weeks. However I am now working with Arizona (where the firm is registered) to cause them great pain in return. So since I no longer have to spend my time filing reports with the FBI, being nice on the phone to these scammers, dealing with my elderly and disfunctional parents whose reaction to it all was to become nasty (NOW I recall why I moved away <GRIN>), and trying to digest my food and sleeping on the floor in a sleeping bag, I hope to have more time for the list. I'll make myself admin again today (Rev. Andrews was serving as admin). Regarding Irish genealogy, it wasn't till I started doing it that I realized why it is the Irish drink....and started to want to myself!! Linda Merle ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Alan <alan@ulster-scots.co.uk> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:08:46 +0100 >JParks1393@aol.com wrote: >> So Waringstown straddles both Down and Armagh, eh? Is that a result of >> changing boundaries over the years? Does that mean I have to check church and >> civil records for both counties? Or do the civil parishes take precedence? >> >> I'm having a terrible time getting a grip on poor law unions, civil parishes, >> townlands, etc., and Waringstown being in both Down and Armagh isn't helping >> any! >> >> Regards, >> Julie Anne Parks >> >> Searching: Parks, Finley, Doherty, Donnelly, Flynn, Mahoney, McAvoy >> Hettrick, Cassidy, Donahoe, Donahue, Timmons, Winrow >> >> >> >The village of Coagh also has half the village in Tyrone and the other >half in Londonderry / Derry and therefore different postmen lol > > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net