Special Collection

Special Collection

Special Collection

 

The North of Ireland Family History Society (NIFHS) has the following Special Collection of rarer books in a locked bookcase in the Randal Gill Library; access is available on request.  Also in the bookcase are the Peerage/Knightage and Landed Gentry Directories.  These books are for consultation in the Library and not for borrowing.  For Members who cannot visit our Research Centre we offer a Look Up Service.

 

Special Collection

  • SP 001 — Annals of Ulster (4 Vols) (Vol 4 missing) (1998 reprint) — Hennessy, William H. (edited by)
  • SP 002 — Hamilton Manuscripts 1867 — Hamilton, Sir James
  • SP 003 — Not used
  • SP 004 — Roll of Honour 1914-1919 — Presbyterian Church in Ireland
  • SP 005 — Historical Account of Plantation in Ulster 1877 (reprint) — Hill, Rev. George
  • SP 006 — Wrays of Donegal, Londonderry and Antrim — Trench, Charlotte Violet
  • SP 007 — Irish Family History, Allman, Garstin, Hamilton, Hart & Young — Whitton, Kathleen E.
  • SP 008 — Irish Genealogical Guides Volume 1 – A Guide to Copies & Abstracts of Irish Wills (First Series) — Clare, Rev. Wallace (edited by)
  • SP 009 — Irish Quaker Records, A Guide, 1654 – 1860 — Goodbody, Olive C. & Hutton, B.G.
  • SP 010 — Miskimmon’s History of Carrickfergus 1909 ed. — McCrum, E.J.
  • SP 011 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1899 Vol. IV, No. II
  • SP 012 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1900 Vol. IV, No. III, Part 1
  • SP 013 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1901 Vol. V, No. I, Part 1
  • SP 014 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1902 Vol. V, No. 2, Part 1
  • SP 015 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1902 Vol. V, No. 2, Part II
  • SP 016 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1903 Vol. V, No. 3, Part I
  • SP 017 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1903 Vol. V, No. 3, Part II
  • SP 018 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1904 Vol. VI, No. 1, Part I
  • SP 019 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1904 Vol. VI, No. 1, Part II
  • SP 020 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1905 Vol. VI, No. 2, Part I
  • SP 021 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1905 Vol. VI, No. 2, Part II
  • SP 022 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1906 Vol. VI, No. 3, Part I
  • SP 023 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1909 Vol. VII, No. III, Part 2
  • SP 024 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1910 Vol. VIII, No. 2
  • SP 025 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1911 Vol. VIII, No. 3
  • SP 026 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1911 Vol. VIII, No. 4
  • SP 027 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1912 Vol. VIII, No. 6
  • SP 028 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1915 Vol. IX, No. 3
  • SP 029 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1915 Vol. IX, No. 4
  • SP 030 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1916 Vol. IX, No. 5
  • SP 031 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1916 Vol. IX, No. 6
  • SP 032 — The Scotts of Lisanelly Vol II Part I 1930 — Scott, W.R.
  • SP 033 — The Scotts of Lisanelly Vol II Part II 1932 — Scott, W.R.
  • SP 034 — Cardinal Tomas O Fiaich Memorial Library, Treasures — McKeown, Colin, Editor
  • SP 035 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1913 Vol. IX, No. 1
  • SP 036 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 1914 Vol. IX, No. 2
  • SP 037 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. Index of Surnames & Place-names 1888 – 1909
  • SP 038 — Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. Index of Churchyards & Buildings 1888 – 1908
  • SP 039 — Annaghlone/Annaclone Presbyterian Church, Co. Down, Visiting Book, Families of Congregations by Townlands, 1891 – 1905 — Moore, Rev. Robert
  • SP 040 — Slater’s National Commercial Directory of Ireland 1846 — Slater, I.
  • SP 041 — Old Belfast & Its Vicinity (Historical Notice of) (1895) — Young, R. M.
  • SP 042 — “Heritage”, The A-Z DNA of Belfast & Northern Irish Jewry — Rosenblatt, Stuart (donated by the author)

Peerage/Knightage and Landed Gentry Directories

Also housed with the Special Collection are the Peerage/Knightage and Landed Gentry Directories.

  • CD/IR/PG/01 — Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, 1863 — Shelved with the CDs & DVDs in the Office.
  • CD/IR/PG/02 — O’Hart’s Irish & Anglo Irish Gentry 1884 (Archive CD Books) — Shelved with the CDs & DVDs in the Office.
  • CD/IR/PG/03 — Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ireland 1899 (Archive CD Books) — Shelved with the CDs & DVDs in the Office.
  • D 550–001 — Walford’s County Families of the U.K. 1898
  • D 550–002 — Dod’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage of G.B. & Ireland 1898
  • D 550–003 — Lodge’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage of the British Empire 1907
  • D 550–004 — Debrett’s Illustrated Peerage 1876
  • D 550–005 — Debrett’s Baronetage & Knightage 1894
  • D 550–006 — Debrett’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage 1922
  • D 550–007 — Debrett’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage 1929
  • D 550–008 — Debrett’s Baronetage & Knightage 1939
  • D 550–009 — Kelly’s Handbook 1972
  • D 550–010 — Kelly’s Handbook 1977
  • D 550–011 — Walford’s County Families of the UK. 1902
  • D 550–012 — Baronets – Official Roll 1975
  • D 550–013 — Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage 1895
  • D 550–014 — Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ireland 1912
  • D 550–015 — Debrett’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage 1909
  • D 550–016 — Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage 1938
  • D 550–017 — Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ireland, 4th, 1958
  • D 550–018 — Debrett’s Handbook 1986
  • D 550–019 — Walford’s County Families of the U.K. 1860
  • D 550–020 — Walford’s County Families of the U.K. 1888
  • D 550–021 — Burke’s Landed Gentry of G.B. & Ireland Vol. 1 1871
  • D 550–022 — Burke’s Landed Gentry of G.B. & Ireland Vol. 2 1871
  • D 550–023 — Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ireland, 10th Ed, 1904