This file of the Petitions of Protestant Dissenters, Donegore, Kilbride & Grange of Nilteen Parishes, County Antrim, Northern Ireland 1775 forms part of the vast archive of 4,000+ pages of genealogical records relating to COUNTIES TYRONE, DONEGAL, LONDONDERRY, ARMAGH & FERMANAGH provided without charge or subscription by CoTyroneIreland Welcome to the Premier Website & Research Tool for Cos. Tyrone, Donegal, Londonderry & Fermanagh Genealogy (cotyroneireland.com) A complete list of records pertaining to COUNTY ANTRIM on this website can be found at the foot of this file.
PROTESTANT DISSENTERS (as PRESBYTERIANS were disparagingly termed) were barred from holding public office because of their beliefs. Presbyterian congregations across Ireland petitioned the parliament in Dublin for repeal of the Test Act which required all office holders, i.e. magistrates, burgesses etc. to be communicant members of the Established Church. Clearly, not all members of the congregations signed and may have been beholden to a landlord belonging to the Established Church. Some petitions contain the names of members of the Established Church.
Names were recorded by Parish or Congregation and very few such petitions have survived.
Donegore, Kilbride & Grange of Nilteen Parishes, County Antrim
Surname Given Name Adair Arthue Adair Arthur Agnew William Aichan senior John Aiken junion John Allen William Bowman Samuel Brown James Colman Thomas Crawford Malcolm Davidson William Erwin William Ferguson Thomas Gamble Robert Gardiner William Gillilan John Hogg Francis Hunter James Hunter John Larther James Liggat James Lorimmer Andre Magee William Marshall James McMaster John Murdock William Orr John Owens William Ramsay Robert Ritch John Scott John Sloan Robert Stephenson Samuel Walker William Watt Thomas Watters Robert Weatherhead George Williamson Hugh Willson Robert Wilson James
Further records for COUNTY LONDONDERRY can be found at:
County Londonderry Records, Northern Ireland
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