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Muster rolls 1650-1800 PRONI County Antrim Militia officers, 1691 – T808/15185 Militia pay lists and muster rolls, 1799–1800 – T1115/1A–B Declaration of allegiance by officers of Carrickfergus Infantry [c.1803] – D162/103 County Armagh Militia lists by parish in the barony of Oneilland West, 1793–5 – D1928/Y/1 Muster rolls, Armagh Militia, 1793–7 – D183 Ardress Yeomany Book, c.1796 – D296 Churchill Yeomanry Book, c.1796 – D321/1 Roll of the Armagh corps of Supplementary Yeomanry, 1798–1803 – T808/15248 Militia pay lists and muster rolls, 1799–1800 – T1115/2A–C Miscellaneous notes on County Armagh Volunteers – D3696/A Roll of First Co. of Armagh Volunteers, n.d. – T636/1, p. 339 County Donegal Muster roll of the Abercorn estate, 1745 – printed in the Directory of Irish Family History Research 21 (1998) Return of Yeomanry corps, naming captains, 1803 – D623/A/161/12 County Down Receipts for guns and bayonets to be used in Robert Maxwell’s troop of militia, Inch paris...

A muster roll was a list of able-bodied men who were capable of military service. They were armed at their own expense. Several muster rolls survive for Ulster counties from the early seventeenth century. They are usually arranged by estate and consist in the main of a list of names with perhaps the weapon, if any, possessed. 1642 Muster Roll Raphoe MUSTER ROLLS FOR ULSTER (PRONI) Antrim 1618 D1759/3B/5 (Mss copy extracts) Antrim 1631 D1759/3C/3 Armagh 1631 T934/1 Cavan 1618 D1759/3B/5 (Mss copy extracts) Cavan 1631 T934 Donegal 1618 D1759/3B/5 (Mss copy extracts) Donegal 1631 D1759/3C/2 Down 1630 D1759/3C/1 Fermanagh 1618 D1759/3B/5 (Mss copy extracts) Londonderry 1618 D1759/3B/5 (Mss copy extracts) Monaghan 1618 D1759/3B/5 (Mss copy extracts) Tyrone 1618 D1759/3B/5 (Mss copy extracts) Tyrone 1631 T934 See also: A list of the men and arms of Sir Thomas Phillips and Sir Robert MacClelan [McClelland], County Londonderry, 1611–16 – T/1080/1 Muster roll of Coleraine ...

LIMAVADY STREET NAMES FROM THE PAST: Limavady was known as Newtownlimavady until 1870 when the council decided to officially shorten the name.  The new town of Limavady was a plantation settlement built by the servitor Sit Thomas Phillips who was given a large estate in the Roe valley in 1610. Phillips had settled at the old O'Cahan stronghold at Limavady on the banks of the River Roe. He decided to build a new plantation town a mile further downstream, which he called Newtowne. Raven's map of 1622 shows  'Sir Thomas Phillips buildinge at Newtowne, a mile from Limna Vadde, a village of 18 small houses, at a cross roads, with a stone cross at the centre''.  Up until the time of the famine Limavady remained a relatively small town with essentially four main streets. The town grew substantially with the post-famine influx and as a result new houses and streets were constructed to meet the growing demand. New streets and new names came into existence. Thi...