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Catholic Cemetery @ Coolranny | Brown, Hamilton, Laverty, McKendry and Stewart

AntrimCulfeightrin (Antrim)

Catholic Cemetery @ Coolranny | Brown, Hamilton, Laverty, McKendry and Stewart

I am actively researching these ancestral families of Culfeightrin. When I visited the parish in 2001, I suspected that my immigrant ancestors of Steuben County, New York originated here but I could not prove it.

When I visited the Roman Catholic Chapel, St. Marys Start of Sea Church, in the coastal Townland of Coolranny, I found grave markers with the surnames of Hamilton and McKendry and felt like I was home. Now I know that I was!

Some of the earliest markers found in this cemetery

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Marys_Star_of_the_Sea_Church,_Coolranny,_September_2010_(08).JPG

should correspond with the burials recorded in these parish registers

https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0409

Unfortunately, back in 2001 I did not have a digital camera to photograph every marker in the small cemetery or the time necessary to transcribe them.

Is a full or summary transcription of the markers in this cemetery available?

Thanks for your help!

Perry

www.perrystreeter.com

perrystreeter

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Perry:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

Our Co. Antrim expert is on Holidays at present. He should return at the end of the month. I will alert him to your message when he returns.

Roger McDonnell

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Thank you Roger!

perrystreeter

perrystreeter,

The legible graves in St Mary’s are listed on the Causeway Coast & Glens Family History site: http://colerainefhs.org.uk

Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

Thank you for the reply.

It was exciting to learn that “Graveyard inscriptions are free access and available to all by clicking the respective link.” On the list of Graveyard Inscriptions, I found a number of Roman Catholic Churches from the Causeway Coast and Glens, including “Culfeightrin Roman Catholic” at:

http://colerainefhs.org.uk/?page_id=110917

However, this pertains to the Roman Catholic Parish of Culfeightrin, which is much smaller than the Civil Parish of Culfeightrin.

The Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Church, in Coolranny Townland, is in the *Civil* Parish of Culfeightrin but it is in the *Roman Catholic* Parish of Cushendun:

http://www.cushendunweb.co.uk/St%20Patricks/Stmarys.htm

Confusing, eh? Imagine how we American descendants feel—LOL!

So the question remains open…

Has anyone ever created a full or summary transcription of the markers for the small cemetery behind St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Church?

Thank again for your help!

 

 

perrystreeter

Perrystreeter,

I am sorry that this was not the graveyard you are interested in.  I have searched on-line (as presumably you have too). It doesn’t appear that the transcriptions are on-line anywhere. Perhaps your only alternative is to get a local researcher to go and look at them for you, or you might want to make a personal visit which you might find rewarding in its own right.

Researchers in the Antrim area: http://sgni.net

 

Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

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