Finnie, Stevenson Island Magee

Hi,

Thank you for your message.

Have you tried looking in church records for more information?  Presbyterian registers are held in three main locations:

• in local custody
• in the Public Records of Northern Ireland (PRONI) http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm
• at the Presbyterian Historical Society http://www.presbyterianhistoryireland.com in Belfast.

PRONI has microfilm copies of almost all registers in Northern Ireland and also lists of records held by the Presbyterian Historical Society.

Civil registration began in Ireland in 1864 so any births, deaths or marriages in the family after this date would be recorded in these records. Civil records are available from the General Register?s Office in Dublin. Here is their website:

http://www.groireland.ie/research.htm

You can search the indexes to these records up to 1958 online at:

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1408347

Have you tried looking for record of the families in Griffith?s Valuation? This is a property valuation survey that was carried out in Ireland 1848-64. You can search it here:

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/

Please note however, that you may have to use different variations of the surname Finnie as according to the Irish Times surname database (which is largely based on households recorded in Griffith?s) there were no ?Finnie? households in Ireland mid-19th century:

http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&UserID=

Some other websites that you may find useful are:

The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/

The National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx

The National Archives UK ? genealogy search: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/

Family Search: www.familysearch.org

Genealogy Links: http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/antrim/index.html

Ireland Gen Projects: http://www.igp-web.com/antrim/

I hope some of this is helpful. Please be patient - as our programme has only begun to rollout across the island of Ireland and volunteers in some areas may not yet be organized.

Kind regards,    

Genealogy Support