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1st Presbyterian (Millrow), Antrim, Presbyterian

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1st Presbyterian,
Church Street,
Antrim

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Cemeteries

The church has/had a graveyard.

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Church History

Summary History:

A brief history of the church appears on the congregation's website, which is extracted from the book "Hewn from a Rock:the story of the 1st Antrim Presbyterian Church" (see below) and can be summarised as:

  • *1726: Congregation founded, originally meeting in the home of one of the members and later in a building near Masserene Castle.
  • 1729: First Meeting House build in Millrow (now Riverside).
  • c1800: Meeting House rebuilt on the Millrow site.
  • 1837: New Meeting House opened further east, on the (current) Church Street site.
  • 1860: Congregation changed its name from Millrow to First Antrim Presbyterian.

* Note that this is much later than the earliest Registers held by PRONI (according to PRONI's church records guide)

Books:

The National Library of Ireland (Dublin) holds the following books:

  • "A historical skectch of First Antrim Presbyterian Church" by Rev. Thomas West. (Prepared for the Coronation Bazaar, June 26, 27 and 28, 1902).
  • "First Antrim Presbyterian Church: gleanings from over 300 years of Presbyterianism in Antrim" by Rev. M Majory. (Belfast : Newtown Publishing Co., 1934?).
  • "Hewn from the rock: the story of first Antrim Presbyterian Church" by George Hughes (First Antrim Presbyterian Church, 1996). #

# Copy also held by the NIFHS in their member's library near Belfast.

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Church Records

PRONI:

  • Registers of Baptisms 1677-1960 (with gaps, but indexed 1677-1733 and 1820-1839),
  • Registers of Marriages 1675-1913 (with gaps, but indexed 1675-1736 and 1820-1839) and Marriage Notices 1870-1995,
  • Registers of Deaths 1820-1835.
  • Family Records for the late 18th and 19th centuries, Stipend Account Books 1837--1924 (gaps), Communion Rolls 1854-1859, Sabbath School library loan books 1870 and 1879-1881, Account Books 1821-1876 (gaps), Lists of Seatholders 1838, Session Minutes 1823-1854 (gaps), Registers of Leaving Certificates 1842-1850, Sabbath School receipt and expenditure books 1835-1862 and a Weekly roll of teachers and salaries 1840-41.
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