Ireland: County Down: Newry Area Project Description: Difference between revisions

Francis Crossle, M.D., extracted information from decaying newspapers dating back as far as 1600 into his scrapbooks. They were in no particular order and had no index. His son, Phillip Crossle, was a professional genealogist and took his father’s notebooks and transferred the information by page number (reference # p444, for instance) into booklets which listed a surname on the cover. These are the records that were microfilmed. Unfortunately, he left no index or cross reference to explain why certain names were in the booklets. For instance the ANDREWS book, first book of the microfilms, has many REEDs, DOWDALLs, and GLENNYs listed as well and we don’t know the connection between them, although Phillip obviously did to include them in the Andrews booklet. While mislabeled “History of Newry Families” this collection is not just about families in Newry, County Down, Ireland but the entire surrounding area, and many times all of Ireland. Sometimes it also includes genealogies of families in England or Scotland. More of Phillip’s work is also microfilmed (although unindexed) in the Family History Library, and more are available in Ireland that have not been microfilmed. The originals of all these Crossle booklets are now in the Irish Studies Library in Armagh City, County Armagh, N. Ireland – seen by the indexer in a trip to Ireland in 2004.  

*N.T. is the Newry Telegraph newspaper  

'''Extraction and Data challenges – locality strings'''<br>When the data was extracted from the “Crossle Collection” the FamilySearch extraction template that was available and used was for vital records. This template allowed for the extraction of names and dates but did not provide a place to enter the locality string for the event. The locality string was entered later in the “back end” processes because all of the data was from the same film which was for a specific locality. Therefore all of the events extracted from this collection received the locality string of Newry, Down, Ireland. However, unlike vital records, the Crossle Collection gave reference to events in many localities which could not be recorded correctly in the template that was used. Since most of the events took place in Newry we have listed all of the events as having occurred at “probably Newry, Down, Ireland”. Each record, or someone they are connected to, will have in their source a reference to the microfilm and page that the data came from within the Crossle Collection. Please review the films for the person you are interested in to verify the locality strings, or to find other places where the event may have taken place. For many people when you review the films, you will also find more information about them that could not be extracted as part of this project. These films are currently available through the branch libraries called Family History Centers. In the future the images of these films will be available on the Internet, when that happens an effort will be made to link these records to those images for easy access. However, for the present the best access is to use the records in Ireland, or on film through a Family History Center. Use the links below to find a Family History Center near you and to go directly to the Family History Library Catalog listing for this collection.  

'''To see the Family History Libarary Catalog entry for this collection click '''[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog-search-api%3A8080%2Fwww-catalogapi-webservice%2Fitem%2F226899 '''here''']  

'''To search the Ireland: County Down: Newry area Community Tree click '''[http://histfam.familysearch.org/search.php?tree=NewryIreland&mybool=AND&nr=50&showspouse=&showdeath=&offset=72200&tree=NewryIreland&page=1445 '''here''']'''.'''  

In the James Harshaw (c1799-1867) Diaries book (of Ringbane, Donaghmore, Newry, Co. Down), films #259201 and #259202, the nicknames for the various family members are as follows: