The importance of parish histories - Cumber parish
KINCULBRACK IN UPPER CUMBER PARISH Kinculbrack in Upper Cumber parish is a townaland close to the village of Claudy containing 576 acres. Kinculbrack borders the following other townlands: Ballymaclanigan to the north; Binn to the west; Claudy to the west; Dungorkin to the west; Gortilea to the north; Killycor to the south and Mulderg to the east. The Rev John Rutherford B.A wrote a history, 'Cumber Presbyterian Church and Parish' published by James Calhoun, of the L'Derry Sentinel, 1939. He appears to have had access to primary source material that was subsequently destroyed in the explosive fire in Dublin, 1922. Included in the appendix are freeholders' registers 1761-1781 & 1796. I have used Kinculbrack as an example but the freehold registers' cover most of the townlands in Cumber parish. Below are the freeholders' returns for Kinculbrack in chronological order by surname. It reveals the importance of locating published family and parish histories ...