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Petitions of Insolvent Debtors, Insolvent Debtors' Court, Londonderry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland February 1840

Extracted from Perry’s Bankrupt Gazette May 16 1840
Transcribed, Compiled and Submitted by
Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
len_swindley[at]hotmail.com

A list of bankrupts who presented their petitions for relief from insolvency at Londonderry, Co. Londonderry, Court House at 10.00 a.m. on February 27, 1840

[Bankrupts were detained in the County Gaol until outstanding debts had been cleared to the satisfaction of creditors]

Many names and former places of residence are spelt phonetically, so a reasonable degree of creativity is required to locate a possible forebear.


 

INSOLVENT DEBTORS

SURNAME

GIVEN NAME

LATE RESIDENCE

CALLING

ADAMS

Henry

Coleraine

weaver

ARMOUR

John

Curragh

farmer

BREEN

Felix

Mowillian

farmer

BROWN

John

Londonderry

Labourer

BURLEIGH

Thomas

Coleraine

baker

DUNBAR

John

Gortagerty

Farmer

FORREST

John

Templemoyle

labourer

GALEY

John

Gortagerty

farmer

GEORGE

William

Drummard

farmer

HIGGINS

Thomas

Bellyrogan

farmer

LAMROCK

James

Oughill

cattle dealer

LAPSLEY

Ralph

Ballynacross

farmer

McCLERNON

William

Ballyneese

labourer

McMENAMY

John

Londonderry

inneeper

ORELL

Andrew

Corlacky

farmer

PATTERSON

George

Currin

farmer

STERRATT

Robert

Tamhnaherin

farmer

WALKER

Robert

Ballaghy

grocer