Portadown

• Abbreviations used in these GENUKI County Armagh, and library notes
  • AIGS = Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies
  • FHL = Family History Library (LDS)
  • LDS = Latter Day Saints
  • NLI = National Library of Ireland
  • PRO = National Archives (formerly, the Public Record Office) at Kew, England
  • PRONI = Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
  • QUB = Queen's University, Belfast
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• Buckland, Patrick, James Craig: Lord Craigavon, Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1980
  • NLI: Ir 92 c 206, Coll. Ir.
  • QUB: Main Lib., Belfast Campus (Special Colls) - h DA976.C8/BUCK
• Craigavon, James Craig, Viscount (1871-1940), Letter: from the Viscount Craigavon to Sir Hugh Lane, 1908 May 8
  • NLI: Ms 35,682/1(11), Coll. Ms.
• Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer) (b. 1883), Craigavon, Ulsterman, Allen & Unwin, London, [1949]
  • NLI: Ir 92 c 93, Coll. Ir.
  • QUB: Main Lib., Belfast Campus - DA976.C8/ERVI; Main Lib., Belfast Campus (Special Colls) - h DA976.C8/ERVI
• Hadden, Rosalind, Doctor at Sea (Dr William Edward Hadden, 1858-1949), from Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Vol. 5 No. 3
• Kehoe, A. M., History makers of 20th century Ireland - Carson, Craig, Griffith, Collins, Cosgrave, De Valera, Brookeborough, O'Neill, Lemass, MacBride, Mentor Publications Ltd., Dublin, 1989
  • NLI: Call no. Ir 921 k 1, Coll. Ir.

• Sam McGredy's Royal Nurseries, history from Jim Lyttle's Portadown Photos web site
• Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Canning, Joe, Fairs and markets in Portadown in the 1850s, Vol. 6 No. 2
  • Clendinning, K., Market day in Portadown, Vol. 3 No. 2
  • Lutton, S.C., Industry in the Upper Bann Valley, Vol. 6 No. 2
  • Robinson, George, Portadown Port, Vol. 6 No. 2
  • Thompson, Brenda, Taped Memories of Corbett's Department Store, Vol. 8 No. 2
  • Wright, Frederick and Sam Lutton, Factory Life in Portadown in the 1950s, Vol. 8 No. 3
• Rice, Adrian, The Tin God, a History of the Cans Metal Box Factory, Portadown (Portadown: Cans Metal Box Pensioners' Club, 2002)

• -----, Portadown in 1835 (index of occupiers) Portadown Times, North Irish Roots, Vol 5.2, p 33
• McCorry, Francis X., A glimpse of four Northern Ireland towns in the mid-nineteenth century, from Review - The Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Vol. 5 No. 3
• 1901 Census - LDS microfilm numbers
  • Portadown D.E.D. 53/1-5, 7, 6, 11, 8-10, 12-13 -- Portadown Town: Bachelor's Walk, Bridge Street, Bright Street, Carrickblacker Avenue, Carrickblacker Road, Edenderry, Florence Court, Foundry Street, James Street, Joseph Street, Killycomain Road, Watson's Lane, Watson Street. FHL BRITISH Film 812098 Item 2
• 1911 Census - LDS microfilm numbers
  • Portadown Urban D.E.D. 55/1-9 -- Townland: Edenderry. Portadown Town (part): (Bachelor's Walk, Bright Street, Bridge Street, Carrickblacker Avenue, Carrickblacker Road, Centenary Street, Florence Street, Foundry Street. FHL BRITISH Film 1999562 Item 2
  • Portadown Urban D.E.D. 55/10-14 -- Portadown Town: James Street, Joseph Street, Killycomain Road, Watson Lane, Watson Street. FHL BRITISH Film 1999563
  • Portadown Urban D.E.D. 55/22-28 -- Portadown Town (Castle Street through Curran Street). FHL BRITISH Film 1999564
  • Portadown Urban D.E.D. 55/29-39 -- Portadown Town (David Street through Harford Street). FHL BRITISH Film 1999565
  • Portadown Urban D.E.D. 55/40-49 -- Portadown Town (Henry Street through Margaret Street). FHL BRITISH Film 1999566
  • Portadown Urban D.E.D. 55/50-57 -- Portadown Town (Market Street through New Street). FHL BRITISH Film 1999583
  • Portadown Urban D.E.D. 55/58-65 -- Portadown Town (Obin Street through Sarah Street). FHL BRITISH Film 1999622
  • Portadown Urban D.E.D. 55/66-72 -- Portadown Town (Shillington Street through part of West Street). FHL BRITISH Film 1999584
  • Portadown Urban D.E.D. 55/72 (cont)-75 -- Portadown Town (West Street cont. through Woodhouse Street). FHL BRITISH Film 1999585

• Baptist
• Church of Ireland
• Elim
• Free Presbyterian
• Methodist
• Presbyterian
• Roman Catholic
• The Salvation Army

• ---, History of the Parish of Portadown, Armagh, includes List of Chairmen of Town; Commissioners & Clerks, 1828-1901; and History of the Parish; also History of the Parochial Schools; List of Clergy of Portadown Parish, 1826-1899; List of Church Wardens1826-1901; Parochial Treasurers & Secretaries of Select Vestry, 1870-1899; Organists, 1859-1897. AIGS ref. no. Irl. Gen. 29
• ---, Photographs of local churches, from Jim Lyttle's Portadown Photos web site: St Mary's Hall, St Mark's, Thomas Street Methodist, and Parish church of Drumcree
• Church of Ireland, St Mark's (Portadown), Portadown parish, St. Mark's, 1826-1976, Belfast: Nelson & Knox, 1876? LDS ref. no. FHL BRITISH Film 1279329 Item 13
• Church of Ireland, St Saviour's (Portadown), St. Saviour's Church, Portadown, centenary yearbook, 1858, Portadown, 1950. Microfilm of original at the Armagh County Museum, Armagh, ref. no. E6
• Clow, William Moffatt, First Portadown Centenary, (re: Methodist church), Microfilm of original at the Armagh County Museum, Armagh, ref. no. E6. LDS ref. no. FHL BRITISH Film 1279329 Item 12
• Edenderry Memorial Methodist Church, Edenderry Memorial Methodist Church, Portadown, 1891-1991 : an informal account of a church and its background, Portadown, 1991. 67 pp.
• Gilmour, Mervyn D., 100 not out: Armagh Road Presbyterian Church (Second Portadown) 1868-1968, [Ireland : Armagh Road Presbyterian Church], 1968. 24 pp.
• Green, Wm. J., Methodism in Portadown, Belfast : Nelson & Knox. 1960?.
• Sleator, A.G., The Presbyterians of Portadown, from Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Vol. 3 No. 2

• Church of Ireland
• Methodist
• Presbyterian
• Roman Catholic

• A Portadown Photos Page - presented by Dean Weir
• ---, Craigavon official guide, issued by authority of the Borough Council of Craigavon, Municipal Publicity Ltd, Macclesfield, 1993
  • QUB: Main Lib., Belfast Campus (Special Colls) - h DA994.C88/CRAI
• ---, Craigavon Borough: official guide, Home Publishing, Wallington, [1981?]
  • NLI: Ir 91411 p 8, Coll. Ir.
• Brackagh Moss Nature Reserve, from EHSNI
• Craigavon, Borough Council, Craigavon borough: offical guide, Home Publishing, Wallington, [1984]
  • NLI: Ir 914116 c 14, Coll. Ir.
• Newry Canal from Portadown to Newry - on The Inland Waterways Association of Ireland site
• Portadown Photos - Old photographs and local history, from Jim Lyttle of Portadown
• Portadown, Craigavon Borough Council, Focus: information guide on Craigavon New Town
  • NLI: Ir 05 p 45, Coll. Ir.
• Review - The Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Courtney, Brian, The Walk, Vol. 8 No. 3
  • Lutton, Samuel C., Travel and Transport in the North of Ireland, Vol. 7 No. 3
  • McIntyre, H.E., The old railway station Portadown, Vol. 5 No. 3
  • Sleator, A.G., Living at Portadown Station in the 1940s, 1996/97
  • Sleator, Arnold G., Portadown station, Vol. 6 No. 1
  • Weatherup, D.R.M., F.M.A. Curator, Armagh Museum, The bridges at Portadown, Vol. 3 No. 1
• Young, Alex F. & Quaill, Des. Old Portadown. Stenlake Publishing, 2002 [48pp. Illustrated]. Old photographs of the town of Portadown, Co. Armagh, with short accompanying descriptions]

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• Flickr

• 1819 - Bradshaw, Thomas, The general directory of Newry, Armagh, and the towns of Dungannon, Portadown, Tandragee, Lurgan, Waringstown, Banbridge, Warrenpoint, Rosstrevor, Kilkeel, Rathfriland, 1820 : containing an alphapetical list of the merchants, manufacturers, and inhabitants in general; and historical accounts of the respective towns..., Newry: Alexander Wilkinson, 1819. LDS ref. no. FHL BRITISH Film 1559455 Item 4
• 1820 - Bradshaw, Thomas (copied by J.S.F. Paterson), Extracts from Bradshaw's directory for 1820. Microfilm of original records in the Public Record Office, Belfast. Includes lists of inhabitants in Armagh, Markethill, Portadown, Tandragee and Lurgan. LDS ref. no. FHL BRITISH Film 258724 Item 1
• 1846 - Slater, National Commercial Directory of Ireland, pub. 1846
  • Index of 269 entries for residents of the Town of Portadown, summarized across all categories
• 1881 - The Portadown section from SLATER'S Royal National Commercial Directory of Ireland, including, in addition to the Trades Lists, Alphabetical Directories of Dublin, Belfast, Cork, and Limerick, to which are added Classified Directories of the Following Important Towns: Bristol, Glasgow, and Liverpool [pub. in Manchester, 1881]
• 1888 - Bassett, George, The Book of County Armagh: A manual and directory for manufacturers, merchants, traders, professional men, land-owners, farmers, tourists, anglers and sportsmen generally, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. and New York: Robert J. McMillan, 1888.
  • Portadown: Business branches, professionals, public bodies, etc
  • Portadown: Farmers and residents
  • Sub-post offices in the Portadown district:
    Gilford (Tullylish parish, County Down)
    Ahorey (Kilmore parish)
    Annaghmore (Loughgall parish)
    The Diamond (Loughgall parish)
    Scarva (Aghaderg parish, County Down)
    The Birches (Tartaraghan parish)
• 1910 - Portadown, County Armagh, from the Belfast and Ulster Towns Directory for 1910 - hosted by Library Ireland
  • Portadown Institutions
  • Inhabitants
  • Street Directory
  • Portadown Rural

• Courtney, Brian, Changing face of emigration and whole fresh start overseas, Portadown Times newspaper, 11 June 2004
• Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Fitzgerald, Dr Patrick, Emigration from the Craigavon District and the Irish Emigration Database Project, Vol. 8 No. 2

• The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
• Bradshaw, Thomas, The general directory of Newry, Armagh, and the towns of Dungannon, Portadown, ..., 1820..., Newry: Alexander Wilkinson, 1819.
• Coote, Charles, Sir, Excerpt from Statistical Survey of the County of Armagh, pub. 1804
• Lewis, Samuel, Portadown from Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, London: Lewis, 1837

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Portadown to another place.

• Families
  • ---, Miscellaneous family and genealogical notes. Notes Microfilm of manuscriptat the Armagh County Museum, Armagh, ref. no. N8. Includes: Armstrong of Eden Hall, Portadown; Blacker of Carrickblacker amd Woodbrock; Ballintaggart and its owners; The Atkinsons, Blacker; The Burleigh family, Portadown; Bickerton of Clatilew; The Bredons; Christy of Moyallan; The Corry family; Cope of Drumilly; Clarke of Portadown; Dawson of Dawson's Grove; Fulton of Portadown; Kelly of Dawson's Grove; Jackson; Jones of Kilmorarity; The Mathers family;The Macans; Montgomery of Portadown; Obins of Portadown; Owens; Obre of Clantilew; Paul of Portadown; Pepper of Ballyworkan; Roe of Ballintaggart; Reed of Portadown; Richardson of Lisburn; Shiel of Portadown; Shillington; Stray Portadown notes; Searight of Portadown; Sloan of Portadown; Stanhawe; Waldrons of Richmont; Wentworth of New South Wales; The Woodhouses; Wolsey of Portadown; Workmans; Ledlie-Leadley. FHL Film 1279356 Item 38
  • Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
    • Dawson, Hannah, Letter from Hannah Dawson to her niece Heather, Vol. 7 No. 1
    • Martin, Bertie, Letters from a friend (re: Alexander Walker 1930-2003), Vol. 8 No. 3
    • McCorry, Francis X., Infant mortality in Northern Irish provincial towns, Vol. 5 No. 1
    • Redmond, Jack, "Memories" by Johnston Redmond of Grange House, Portadown, Vol. 7 No. 1
    • Redmond, Jack, "Memories" Part 2 by Johnston Redmond of Grange House, Portadown, 1996/97

• ---, Irish miscellanea, chiefly from County Armagh. Manuscript is at the Armagh County Museum, Armagh, ref. no. M8. Contents include: Blacker MSS, Vol. 6 : excerpt; Portadown parish registers; etc. FHL BRITISH Film 1279354 Item 4
• AIGS holds Film Irl Gen 29, "History of the Parish of Portadown, Armagh". Contents include: List of Chairmen of Town Commissioners & Clerks, 1828-1901; History of the Parish; History of the Parochial Schools; List of Clergy of Portadown Parish, 1826-1899; List of Church Wardens, 1826-1901; Parochial Treasurers & Secretaries of Select Vestry, 1870-1899; Organists, 1859-1897.
• Bradshaw, Thomas, The general directory of Newry, Armagh, and the towns of Dungannon, Portadown, ..., 1820..., Newry: Alexander Wilkinson, 1819.
• Leslie, James B. [1865-1952], History of the parish of Portadown. Microfilm of manuscript at the Armagh County Museum, Armagh, ref. no. M8. FHL BRITISH Film 1279356 Item 3
• MacAtasney, Gerard, This Dreadful Visitation: The Famine in Lurgan/Portadown, Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications, 1997
• Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Fitzgerald, Des, The Brackagh Moss Accident, extracts from an account by Des Fitzgerald, Vol. 6 No. 3
  • Friel, Charles P., Railways in Craigavon, Vol. 2 No. 2
  • Gailey, Alan, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Folk drama in the Craigavon area, Vol. 3 No. 2
  • Gamble, J.A. and Rosalind Hadden, Historical references to the Craigavon area, Vol. 8 No. 2
  • Hadden, R.E., The end of the Mourne Water in Portadown, Vol. 3 No. 2
  • Lutton, S.C., Childhood memories of Portadown in the mid 1920s, Vol. 6 No. 3
  • Lutton, S.C., Portadown and Banbridge Regional Waterworks, Vol. 1 No. 1
  • Lutton, S.C., They witnessed history in the making - Dublin - 1916, Vol. 3 No. 1
  • Lutton, S.C., The rise and development of Portadown, Vol. 5 No. 2
  • Lutton, S.C., The inland port of Portadown, Vol. 5 No. 3
  • Martin, Bertie, Woodhouse Street - its past and people, 1996/97
  • Weatherup, D.R.M., The site of Craigavon, Vol. 2 No. 1
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• Online resources
  • Bassett, George, History of Portadown as written by George Henry Bassett in 1888, from Jim Lyttle's Portadown Photos web site
  • Bassett, George, A description of Portadown in 1881, from Bassett's The Book of County Armagh: A manual and directory for manufacturers, merchants, traders, professional men, land-owners, farmers, tourists, anglers and sportsmen generally, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. and New York: Robert J. McMillan, 1888.
• Periodicals and journals
  • Review: Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society (annual)
• Societies
  • The Craigavon Historical Society
    • Lutton, S.C., The Craigavon Historical Society comes of age, Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Vol. 6 No. 1

• 1737 List of people in Drumcree - on Lurgan ancestry site
• Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Clendinning, K., In the wake of progress, Vol. 3 No. 2
  • Cooper, S.J.W., Roof construction in traditional houses in the Craigavon area, Vol. 1 No. 1
  • McCorry, Francis X., A glimpse of four Northern Ireland towns in the mid-nineteenth century, Vol. 5 No. 3

• Ordnance Survey map, 1906, available from Alan Godfrey Maps
• Portadown various - on Jim Lyttle's Portadown Photos web site
• Map of Portadown and townlands south of town, from Bob Sinton of Portadown. Modern roads are superimposed onto a townland map; the map also shows the locations of several churches in the area.

You can see maps centred on OSI grid reference J0095953792 (Lat/Lon: 54.422675, -6.44537), Portadown which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Copy Portadown and paste it along with the county name into the search box at Ordnance Survey Ireland.
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Martin, Bertie, Notes from a war-time diary, Vol. 7 No. 3
  • McElroy, Eric, A bad day at Magill's ford - The Battle of Gilford, Vol. 6 No. 3
• V-E Day in Portadown, 1945 and War Memorial, both from Jim Lyttle's Portadown Photos web site

• Frontier Sentinel, and Down, Armagh, and Louth Advertiser, no.1-3781, 15 Oct.1904-26 Aug.1972
• Portadown Echo, 12 Oct.-23 Nov.1988
  • continued as Craigavon Echo, Portadown ed., 30 Nov.1988-24 Jan.1990
  • amalgamated with the Craigavon Echo (Lurgan ed.) and subsequently published as the Craigavon Echo
• Portadown Express and County Armagh Advertiser, no.1-708, 9 Nov.1906-25 June 1920
• Portadown Weekly News, and County Armagh Advertiser, No. 1 etc., 23 April-29 Oct. 1859
  • continued as The Portadown News and County Armagh Advertiser, 5 Nov. 1859-25 May 1872
    • Transcription project in progress at Ireland Old News, an ongoing volunteer project to transcribe 18th & 19th century Irish newspapers
  • continued as The Portadown & Lurgan News and County Armagh Advertiser, 1 June 1872-18 Feb. 1888; continued as The Portadown & Lurgan News, and Tenant Farmers' Gazette, 25 Feb. 1888-27 Dec. 1890; continued as The Portadown News, 3 Jan. 1891-28 Dec. 1925; 1 Jan.-31 Dec. 1927; 5 Jan. 1929-12 Oct. 1956; continued as The Portadown News and County Armagh Advertiser, 19 Oct. 1956-30 Sept. 1977; continued as Portadown News and Craigavon Times, 7 Oct. 1977-26 Nov. 1982; continued as The Portadown Times
• The Advertiser, and News of the Week, no.1-32,154-331, 10 Feb.-15 Sept.1887; 16 Jan.1890-10 June 1893
  • continued as The Portadown Recorder, and Weekly Advertiser, no.332-835, 17 June 1893-29 Jan.1904
• The Belfast Newspaper Index, 1737-1800; compiled by Dr. John C. Greene of Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.A.
  • Mentions of Portadown in the Belfast Newsletter index [Note: large file, 200Kb]
• The Orange Trumpet, no.1-4, 1 Aug.-Nov.1875
• The Portadown Herald, no.1-13, 26 May-17 Aug.1900
• The Portadown Times, no. 2-1732, 13 Oct. 1922-18 May 1956
  • continued as The Portadown Times and Portadown Express, no. 1733, etc., 25 May 1956-24 Dec. 1959; continued as Portadown Times, 1 Jan. 1960-5 March 1975; continued as Craigavon Times, 12 March 1975-28 Sept. 1977; continued as Portadown Times, 3 Dec. 1982-.
• Ulster Rod & Gun News, no.1-4, Aug.-Nov.1960

• Hadden, Rosalind, The Summer of the Factory Horn Strike, from Review - The Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Vol. 8 No. 2
• McKernan, Anne, War, gender and industrial innovation: recruiting women weavers in early nineteenth-century Ireland, The Free Library site

• Communist Party of Ireland, Craigavon in the dock: an indictment by the Communist Party of Ireland, [Belfast]: 1938
  • NLI: Ir 3239 p 70, Coll. Ir.
  • QUB: Main Lib., Belfast Campus (Special Colls) - h p DA974/COMM
• O'Donnell, C. J. (Charles James) (1850-1934), Outraged Ulster: why Ireland is rebellious: with an introductory letter to the Right Honourable Viscount Craigavon, Anglo-Eastern Pub. Co., [London?], c1932
  • NLI: Ir 94108 o 11, Coll. Ir.
• Shearman, Hugh, Not an inch, a study of Northern Ireland and Lord Craigavon, Faber and Faber Limited, London [1942]
  • NLI: Ir 32341 s 20, Coll. Ir.
  • QUB: Main Lib., Belfast Campus (Special Colls) - h DA973/SHEA

• Lurgan Poor Law Union - from Peter Higginbotham's The Story of Workhouses
• Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Gardiner, C., Lurgan workhouse, Vol. 6 No. 2
  • MacAtasney, Gerard, Some aspects of the Great Famine in Lurgan Poor Law Union 1845-47, Vol. 7 No. 1
  • McCorry, F.X., The famine of 1846-48, Vol. 3 No. 3

• Holdings of documents related to Portadown at the PRONI
  • Papers about individual parishes in the Armagh Diocesan Registry archive
    • "Portadown, Co Armagh -- The documents run from 1826 to 1974, and include papers about alterations to the church of St Mark's, 1860."

• Class photographs, from Jim Lyttle's Portadown Photos web site: Ballyoran P.S., Church Street Primary School, Clounagh J.H. School, Derryhale School, Edenderry School (1960), Hart Memorial School, Killycomain J.H. School, Park Road Junior School, Portadown College, Richmount Primary School, St Columba's School, Thomas Street School, Old Technical College
• Hadden, Rosalind, Portadown College in the Past, from Review - The Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Vol. 8 No. 1
• Richmount Primary School - History, written by Principal Gray in 1999
• Sir Robert Hart Memorial School (Portadown, Armagh), Registers of Hart Memorial School, 1935-1940. Microfilm of original records at the Public Record Office, Belfast, PRO ref. no. Sch 1027/1/1-2. Includes indexes. LDS ref. no. FHL BRITISH Film 1551099 Items 1-2

• Foy, Harry, "Growing up in Portadown in the Thirties and Forties", from Jim Lyttle's Portadown Photos web site
• Martin, Berties, "Woodhouse Street, It's past and it's people", from Jim Lyttle's Portadown Photos web site
• Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Jensen, Mary, Wartime memories of a child, Vol. 7 No. 3
  • Thompson, Brenda, Taped Memories of Sport and Recreation in Portadown, Vol. 6 No. 2
• Social vignettes, past and present -- from Jim Lyttle's Portadown Photos web site, including: Country comes to town 2001 and 2002; Moses Teggart, the Poet of the Bog Lands; Regal Cinema; Rugby, football and golf clubs; Men's and Ladies' choirs; Charles Street/Charlie's Walls or Dawson's Row during the 1800's; etc.

• Craigavon Historical Society
  • John Trimble (Honorary Secretary), Craigavon Historical Society, 103 Drumgor Park, Craigavon, Co. Armagh BT64 4AH
  • Lutton, S.C., Coming of Age - 21 Years of CHS (Craigavon Historical Society), from Review - The Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Vol. 6 No. 1
  • Mooney, Rev B.J. Dean, Foreword (How the Society began), 1968
• North of Ireland Family History Society - branches

• Johnston, George Hamilton, Irish miscellanea, chiefly from County Armagh. Microfilm of manuscript at the Armagh County Museum, Armagh, ref. no. P8. Copied by T.G.F. Paterson from a manuscript by George Hamilton Johnston. Contents include List of tythe payers of Drumcree & Portadown 1734, etc. LDS ref. no. FHL BRITISH Film 1279356 Item 45
• Valuation Records
  • 1848-1864, General valuation of rateable property in Ireland, "Griffith's Valuation"
    • Listed every occupier of land, the lessor of that land, size of the holding, and the rate payable on that holding
    • Drumcree parish (including Portadown) segment -- online at John Hayes' web site