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From: "Charles and Maria Shaw" <>
Subject: Re: [Sc-Ir] Census
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:53:48 -0500
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Forrest,

There is a census for all of the Ulster Plantation in 1659 including
County Armaugh. I have seen Armaugh but only have copies of Counties Antrim
and Down since that's where almost all my ancestors were located. However,
these censuses are only broken down by Parrish, Town, Title Holder's Name, #
People and then Count of English/ Scots vice Count of Irish. You may be
lucky if the family held title to a grant of land such as the case in
Antrim, or held a caretaker position for an Earl in Down, or even head of a
militia company for a district since they are often mentioned by name.
Copies of these censuses along with selected family information has been
published by the Irish Genealogical Foundation and can be found at
www.irishroots.com.

This 1659 Census is the earliest existing census of which I'm aware but
it doesn't contain many specifics so you generally resort to numerous
secondary sources as a substitute for the census prior to the 1830s. The
National Library and PRONI have many of these including the Freeholder's
(Land Owners) Rolls for various years, Poll Book or Electors Rolls for
various years, Church/ Parrish censuses, etc.. The church is often the best
source.

This seems to be the rule for Colonial Virginia as well as the Ulster
Plantation generally. Good Luck.



V/R



Chuck Shaw

Charles H. Shaw, III, CPL
15934 Spyglass Hill Loop
Lake Manassas
Gainesville, VA 20155
USA
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Forrest Plumstead" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 9:20 PM
Subject: [Sc-Ir] Census


> Does anybody know if there were any census in County Armagh before 1835?
>
> Forrest Plumstead
> Researching the following Surnames:
> Bushouse, Plumstead, Risser, Schroeder, Senne, Thayer,
> Quaker Families: Coppock, Heald, Hobson, Hollingsworth, Potts, Ross, Watt
> Plumstead and Associated Families:
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fplum/
> Military Kool Lynx: http://geocities.com/fplum/
> Ham Radio WB5HQO http://forrest.3h.com/main.html
>
>

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