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Records on site

• Baptisms 1843 - 1866
• Communicants Record Books.
  The original CRB has the communicants as they were when Rev Witherow started. The rest of the CRBs deal with admission of "First Time Communicants" and their time in this church, noting when they married and changed names or left for another church or country, basically keeping this whole lengthy document up to date as best he could.
  • Original communicants 1847
  • CRB additions part 1, 1847 - 1865
  • CRB additions part 2, 1865 - 1875
• Gravestone transcriptions
• Burial Register
  • 1861 - 1865
  • 1891 - 1916
  • 1940 - 1945
• Marriages in Maghera Presbyterian Church 1843 - 1846 This register was started before the statutory civil register and was continued so in places duplicates the civil register.
• Marriages conducted by the Reverend Dr. Hall 1891 - 1897. He travelled so some marriages were performed in other churches.
• Marriage register. In 1845, all Marriages had to be recorded by law, the result is a Civil registrations list of marriages done at this church.
  • Marriage Register, Book 1, 1845 - 1858
  • Marriage Register, Book 2, 1858 - 1897
  • Marriage Register, Book 3, 1897 - 1936
• Marriage Notices 1857 - 1860
• Notes transcribed from the church register give some insight into the church's history and ministers.

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