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I have been researching the Spence family for about 20 years now.  They are mostly from the Armagh/Mullabrack and Down/Newry area.  I would really like to find the marriage of John Thomas SPENCE and Lucinda HANNA around 1843 in Armagh (I believe).  I know it might have 'gone up in smoke' with that fire in 1929, but I would still like to see if anyone would have any ideas.

cspence

Tuesday 5th Mar 2013, 06:27PM

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  • Hi

    Thank you for your message. What religion were your Spence family? Most Catholic records are held locally - One site which might be of use is - http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/ - where you can ?browse? an overview of available records per county. If you have any difficulty, you could try writing to the parish priest for possible assistance.

    Church of Ireland parish registers for the period up to 1870-are public records. Registers are available for about one third of the parishes, however many were destroyed in the Public Records Office in Dublin in 1922. Most are still held by the local clergy, although some are in the National Archives of Ireland and others are in the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin. A list of all surviving registers is available in the National Archives. http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42 and http://www.nationalarchives.ie/.  The Anglican Record Project is has created an index to their records: http://ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/AboutUs/library/AngRecord/bunclodyunionindex.pdf

    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 and 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. 

     

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    Thursday 7th Mar 2013, 09:32AM

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