The 'ARDS PENINSULA'
Cloughey, Portavogie and County Down
My current main name interest is YOUNG in this area. If your name is YOUNG or you are related to a YOUNG I would be pleased to hear from you. It would probably be fair to say with a few exceptions that most Young's in the Cloughey area are related in some way back to the late 1700's
Email me
Lindsay Young
More details will appear here later meanwhile have a look at the Portaferry Lifeboat Web pages particularly the former Cloughey crew.
Towns and villages of particular interest in County Down are Cloughey, Kirkistown, Ratalla, Portavogie, Ballyfrench, Ballyeasborough, Innishargie and Newtownards.
Family names include Young, Palmer, Baillie, Mahood, McCappin, Coffey, Adair, Robinson, McVea, Lemon, Blakely, Ennis, Kyle, Piper (Pyper), Clint.
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For the Palmer and associated families in Co Down, you must see 'The Brennen Chronicles' by Charles Earls Brennen. This an excellent work which includes details of a number of other families from Co Down including Brennen and Gibson.
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Another site worth visiting for Mahood's, Warnock, Palmer, Curran and associated families is WARNOCK Family of Portavogie Co. Down.
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The Adair name is also closely linked and a site worth looking at is ADAIR ORIGINS. However this site tends to deal with all Adairs not just those with County Down links.
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Clint and other recognisable connected families (Adair, Boyd, Robinson Pyper, Curran, Drysdale, Hagan, Kelly, Lawson, Lemon, Warnock) can be found at the the Cravener Name Project www.cravener.org
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Coffey, Hamilton and connected families. By Bobbi Rosen
www.rosen_geneology.tripod.com
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Gray's in County Down. By Douglas Gray
Email: douglasengray@yahoo.co.uk
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Partial 1911 Census provided by Francis Parker and linked through her site. Her father was born in Portavogie, his Grandfather being John Cooke.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hunter45/census/1901/1901census.html
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hunter45/census/censusindex.html
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Young Family History - Pages by Lindsay Young
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Co Down Town Directories with links
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Ulster Covenant
Ballyeasboro - page under construction
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Coastguards
Coastguards of County Down - thanks to Tony Daly
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Local Village Websites
Click here for Local Sites Links
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Interesting Family History/ Local History sites
History Of Cloughey and Kirkistown School (seems to have disappeared 1/2004)
Cloughey Website (seems to have disappeared 1/2004)
Coastguards of Yesteryear - By
Tony Daly
This site
From Ireland'
©Dr. Jane Lyons, Dublin, Ireland,
may have something of County Down interest