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The Bann Valley is a fairly closed community: there are a number of common families which tended to interbreed so there are certain very prominent family lines.
My own Torrens line is documented on the Torrens site. This section of the Bann Valley site is a repository for information on other families. So if you have trees of families from the Bann Valley, please use the Contact button so I can arrange to add them to this site.
This area of the site does not have the importance of my own section so is very much what contributors make it! If you can help please use the contact button!
In the 1796 Garvagh Church Visitation list there are over 200 different surnames listed. Among the most common surnames are:
| Alexander | Gray | Martin | Patterson | Toy |
| Brown | Hammil | McClenahan | Smyth | Turner |
| Campable | Hill | McCook | Stewart | Wallace |
| Dunlop | Holmes | McMullen | Sutter | Willson |
| Fisher | Johnston | McPherson | Thompson | Woodburn |
| Gilmore | Kennedy | Nickel | Torrance | Woodrah |
| Campbell | = | Gamble |
| Gamble | = | Campbell |
| Picket | = | Piggot |
| Piggot | = | Picket |
So verbalise the name you are after, then think how it might sound, muttered, with an Irish, Scottish or other accent and put that down on paper.
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