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From: adele stanfield and chris simon <>
Subject: [NIR-DOWN] Re: NIR-DOWN-D Digest V01 #163
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 13:14:27 -0400
In-Reply-To: <200107071600.f67G0pT01918@lists2.rootsweb.com>


Just a note to let you know, your URL for unsubscribing is incorrect. The
actual one is
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/NIR/NIR-DOWN.html
Adele Stanfield :)

> From:
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> Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 10:00:51 -0600
> To:
> Subject: NIR-DOWN-D Digest V01 #163
>
>
> NIR-DOWN-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 163
>
> Today's Topics:
> #1 [NIR-DOWN] Directory/Census Info ["Chris Foxon" <]
> #2 [NIR-DOWN] Parish Interest []
> #3 [NIR-DOWN] Big Wind of Ireland ["Carol Bokas" <]
> #4 [NIR-DOWN] interesting information ["Raymond Kelly" <]
> #5 [NIR-DOWN] FW: Upper Ards Historic ["RCDavison" <>]
> #6 [NIR-DOWN] My sincere apology ["Mary Guler" <]
>
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> Please keep the postings coming - anything to assist in County Down research
> is most welcome.
>
> Lisa Carson
> County Down Listowner
> http://website.lineone.net/~ladyengineer/DOW.html
>
>
>
> ______________________________
> From: "Chris Foxon" <>
> Date: Friday, July 6, 2001 8:28 AM
> To:
> Subject: [NIR-DOWN] Directory/Census Info
>
> I am trying to clarify the location of an address on a death cert. dated
> April, 1877 for Walter Porter Johnston, age 53.
>
> It is 11 Short Strand. Superintendent Registrar Dist. was Belfast, Registrar
> Dist. Castlereagh, Union of Belfast in the County of (Down) or (Cavan). I
> cannot read the name of the county. The informant was George Lindsay.
>
> Would there be a directory available for this address? I am also hoping to
> order the 1901 census.
>
> Any information regarding this address much appreciated.
>
> Lorraine
>
> ______________________________
> From:
> Date: Friday, July 6, 2001 11:32 AM
> To:
> Subject: [NIR-DOWN] Parish Interest
>
> Hi All,
>
> Posting our expertise and/or interests seems a good
> idea. I am interested in learning more about Parishes
> associated with Killyleagh. Hope someone out there has
> information to share.
>
> Barbara Stettler
> Raining in Washington State this early morning.
>
> ______________________________
> From: "Carol Bokas" <>
> Date: Friday, July 6, 2001 3:39 PM
> To:
> Subject: [NIR-DOWN] Big Wind of Ireland
>
> Dear List Members,
>
> Has anyone heard or read of "The Big Wind of Ireland?" I have found in my
> notes (which I am trying to organize) a note that on 6 January 1839 there
> was a storm in Ireland.
> Is there a list perhaps of any sailors who perished? I am searching for the
> death of John McIlwaine (various spellings) who was a sailor and who died
> "before 1840."
> Thank you for any direction.
> Carol McBurney Bokas
>
> ______________________________
> From: "Raymond Kelly" <>
> Date: Friday, July 6, 2001 5:28 PM
> To:
> Subject: [NIR-DOWN] interesting information
>
> I think the idea of Lisa,s is great and most people on the list would
> welcome it, this would give people researching ancestors in County Down
> some valuable information ,
>
> Raymond
>
> ______________________________
> From: "RCDavison" <>
> Date: Friday, July 6, 2001 6:59 PM
> To:
> Subject: [NIR-DOWN] FW: Upper Ards Historical Society
>
> Greeting to all from the sunny and sultry Ards peninsula!
>
> With the approval of our Listowner I would just like to bring to your
> attention the following:-
>
> UPPER ARDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
>
> The 2001 edition of the Society Journal is now available and for anyone with
> an interest in this area of the Barony of Upper Ards, this is a must! The
> contents are as follows:-
>
> 1. Secretary's Report 1999/2000 - Information on Society Talks Programme,
> and matters of
> general interest in the Upper Ards.
> 2. Obituary of Marjorie ELLIOTT, President of U.A.H.S.
> 3. 'Here the Wolf was lost' - Article on maritime burial records in
> Portaferry from the 18th. century onwards.
> 4. 'Home by Half the Town' - Reminisences of the 1950's; people and places
> around Ballycaranbeg in the Parish of Ardkeen.
> 5. Photograph, with names, of 14 members of the GILMORE family outside their
> Forge at Rubane Corner, Parish of St. Andrew's c.1895.
> 6. 'The Civil Parish of Castleboy & the Manor of Cloughy' - Part 4 of a
> superbly detailed series comprising local and family history information, by
> the present Society President, Amy ANDERSON.
> 7. 'Sink the Bismark' - Local man Tony BYERS who served on H.M.S. Rodney in
> W.W.II, writes on his part in the naval action that led to the sinking of
> the great German Battleship.
> 8. 'The Great Unveiling' - Article and colour photographs of the U.A.H.S.
> 'Millenium Project', the sundial erected on Portaferry Market House.
> 9. Three pages of colour photographs depicting the changing face of
> Portaferry.
> 10. 'The ECHLIN Family of County Dublin (1727-1799) - The first part of
> three articles by Eugene COYLE of the Skerries Historical Society, Co.
> Dublin. The ECHLIN'S had strong links with the Ards peninsula.
> 11. 'The Journal of Thomas McCARRIE' - Part 9 of the reminicenses of a
> Portaferry Photographer in the 1920's.
> 12. Photograph, with names, of St. Patrick's Portaferry Catholic Boy Scouts
> 1964.
> 13. 'Imprisoned in Fort George' - Background information on the 1798
> Rebellion and an unpublished letter of the Rev. Dr. William Steel DICKSON a
> United Irishman.
> 14. Extracts from the Newtownards Chronicle & Co. Down Observer from July
> 1900 to June 1901.
> 15. Part 5 of a series on lectures on local history given by Ted GRIFFITHS
> in Portaferry 25 years ago.
> 16. Index to Volumes 20-24 of the Journal, compiled by Amy ANDERSON.
> 17. Back cover - Photographs of Northern Ireland Vintage Ploughing at Tara,
> Parish of Witter, in October 2000.
>
> Copies of this Journal and back issues can be obtained by sending £5 per
> copy (STERLING only please)to the Society Treasurer,Mrs. Betty LYTTLE, Mount
> Ross, Ballygarvigan, Portaferry BT22 1JT, Northern Ireland.
>
> For anyone interested in obtaining information on the contents of the Index
> to Volumes 1-19 of the Journal, or the 2001/2002 Programme of Talks, please
> contact the Society Chairman, Robert C. DAVISON at <> and
> they can be sent as an Attachment - Virus free!!
>
> Yours aye
>
> Rob C. Davison
>
> ______________________________
> From: "Mary Guler" <>
> Date: Saturday, July 7, 2001 7:55 AM
> To:
> Subject: [NIR-DOWN] My sincere apology
>
> To all who inadvertantly received a virus from me, I humbly apologize.
>
> Like most of you, I have Norton antivirus software, and thought I was well
> protected. I received an email on TheShipsList-L which appeared to be the
> response I sought to a question I had posted about 6 weeks ago. I opened
> the email and it read something like, "I am sure that you will be pleased to
> read the attached in response to the question you posed.......", and I went
> on to click on the attachment, believing it was a genuine response from one
> of you, my well respected peers. When the message read that there was a
> transmission problem or a bad disk, I believed it was a genuine error, and
> even wrote to the person who sent the message to let her know there was a
> problem opening the file.
>
> The next message (after the one I opened) was the message from the list
> owner advising DO NOT OPEN mail from this person, because it is infected.
> It was too late for me, but I thought Norton surely had kicked in.
>
> When I opened my mail the next morning, I learned just how much damage
> opening that email had done. My Norton was last updated before April 11th,
> which is when this particular virus went live. I was not protected, and I
> have been appalled and humbled by the experience. I think of everyone on
> the lists I belong to as member of my family.....each of us searching for
> one another! I have no control over what was sent and to whom it was sent,
> but please believe me, it was unintentional on my part.
>
> In the future, I will not be opening attachments. I hope all of you will be
> equally cautious, both in sending and in opening attachments.
>
> Again, please accept my sincere apologies!
>
> Mary Guler
>

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