Hi John,
We have no censuses in Ireland before 1900 but we do have two census
substitutes. One is the Griffiths Valuation which shows the head of every
household in the early 1850s. Your Cooneys are NOT in The Vow, which I
would have expected them to be, and nor are they in Finvoy Parish:
Cochrane Samuel Tullaghans
Finvoy Antrim
Colgan James Artnagross
Finvoy Antrim
Colgan John Artnagross
Finvoy Antrim
Collins Neal Dunloy
Finvoy Antrim
Conan George Ballytunn
Finvoy Antrim
Connan John Knockans
Finvoy Antrim
Connell John Slievenaghy
Finvoy Antrim
Connor John Unshinagh
Finvoy Antrim
Cooper Daniel Drumlee
Finvoy Antrim
Cooper William Carrowreagh
Finvoy Antrim
Cotton John Ballytunn
Finvoy Antrim
Coulter Hugh Artnagross
Finvoy Antrim
Coulter Hugh Vow
Finvoy Antrim
Coulters Samuel Caldanagh
Finvoy Antrim
You can check for yourself here:
http://www.failteromhat.com/griffiths/antrim/finvoy.htm
... And here:
http://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/gv_family_search_form.php
Btw, I know The Vow reasonably well as the Hugh Coulter above is my great
great grandfather.
The other census substitute dates from the lat 1820s and early 1830s and
is
called The Tithe Applotment Books but it does not include EVERY head of
household and so is less useful. As far as I know, it is not online.
However, you willneed to obtain it and check it for your people.
This is the new Bann Valley Site mentioned by others:
http://www.torrens.org.uk/Genealogy/BannValley/index.html
Let me know if I can be of any more help.
Regards,
Boyd Gray
http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/Boyd/default.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: John Cooney [mailto:jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 26 May 2009 11:41
To: BannValley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Bann Valley] Cooney Family
How do you do! Greetings from Australia.
I recently discovered from a marriage certificate that my Great
Grandfather,
John Cooney, was born at Vow in 1853.
SNIP
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