Overall the record of ships departing Newry for
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History
Emigrant Ships: ‘Brothers’
The Irish famine, it hardly needs emphasising, had an enormous impact on the course of Irish history. Its ramifications impinged greatly not only on the demography of the country but also on its socioeconomic and cultural development.
Abbott’s House or Castle?
The Environment and Heritage Service (EHS) is the Government body charged with the preservation of historic monuments and as part of a survey five and a half years ago produced an assessment of McCann’s Bakery.
Newry Museum building: 1
Now that renovation of McCann’s Bakery is almost complete we can expect shortly to be again bombarded with ‘evidence’ that Newry’s ‘new’ Museum is in fact the very same building that was entitled ‘The New Castell’ on the earliest known map of ‘The Towne of The Newrye’ – the same building that Canavan, Newry’s definitive historian, referred to as the Abbott’s House.
Ebenezer Chapel revisited
Live and learn! I have reason to visit the Salvation Army building on Trevor Hill on a regular basis – so I thought I’d enquire if they knew of the Ebenezer Community of old and where it was centred. But of course!
Warrenpoint Clerks/Chairmen
Mr Bernard McKernan served as Warrenpoint Town Clerk for all of thirty-two years up until the outbreak of the Great War.
Behind the Horse’s Tail!
Those who choose to trivialise our local history do a great disservice to present and future generations.
Abbey Carvings
The long-defunct ‘Open Window Annual’ may, or may not, have been just that, but to the best of my knowledge the only extant editions are those for 1901-2 and 1902-3. It was a local magazine – not unlike today’s Newry Journal
Ebenezer Chapel Marriages
We like occasionally to upload items that might be of use to readers in search of their ancestors. To this end, glancing through a certain ‘roots’ website, we found someone seeking evidence of the marriage in Newry in 1847 of one Henry Martin.