McCONAGHY, Richard in Drumgor ^{1 2}

   User ID: L351.

  General Notes:

"REG DATE:1810 June
NAME:Richard McConaghy
ADDRESS:Drumgar
RENT:£7.2.6d
OTHER LIVES:Sam Chambers
NAMED FOR TENURE"

from Freeholders Index


"Ireland, Indexes to Wills

Name:Richard McConaghy Senior
Probate Year:1835
Probate Diocese:Dromore
Probate Country:Ireland
Residence Year:Abt 1835
Residence:Drumgor, Armagh, Ireland
Volume Vol 4: Dromore, Newry and Mourne"

from ancestry.co.uk ^{1 2}

  Research Notes:

FREEHOLD LAND IN COUNTY ARMAGH

"Freeholders' records are lists of people entitled to vote, or of people who voted, at elections. A freeholder was a man who owned his land outright (in fee) or who held it by lease which could be for one or more lives (for example, his own life or for the lives of other people named in the lease). From 1727 to 1793 only Protestants with a freehold worth at least 40 shillings a year were legally permitted to vote. Between 1793 and 1829 both Protestants and Catholics with 40 shilling freeholds could vote, but in 1829 the franchise level was increased to 10 pounds, so 40 shilling freeholders were no longer allowed to vote."

Thus begins the introduction on the PRONI web site to Freeholders' Records Archives that can be searched now by members of the public online. Freeholders' records provide a range of information about land ownership in Northern Ireland, and are especially valuable before 1840.


JANE MCCONAGHY

There is a record for a woman named Jane McConaghy, at Drumgor, who may be a wife, daughter or sister of Richard:

"Burial/Death Record

Name: Jane Mcconaghy
Date of Death:07-Nov-1838
Age:
Parish / District:SEAGOE
Address:Drumgor
County:ARMAGH
Status:
Denomination:Roman Catholic
Occupation:
Sex:Female
Graveyard
Parish:ARMAGH
County:ARMAGH
Notes:

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from www.rootsireland.ie ^{2 3}

Richard married.