The History of Lurgan, Portadown and District.

On 1st September 2020 lurganancestry.com was ten years old. For 10 years we have been beavering away in the background, adding photos, videos, articles, updating the website with all the various databases, and information about Lurgan and the surrounding area. The many volunteers who have given their time freely, you the ancestors of Lurgan who have sent us your family photos, BMD records and stories, have all made Lurgan Ancestry the useful resource it has become. We have some unique features here including, The Lurgan Town Householders and Traders Index a database of people who have lived and worked in Lurgan Town since around 1700 up until 1970, our War Dead Search Engine, which holds the names of those men and women from Lurgan, Portadown and District who laid down their lives in two World Wars, our Birth, Marriage and Deaths search engines, which grow weekly and contain over 60,000 names. Our Gravestone Image Galleries which hold one the largest FREE collections of Gravestone photos in Ireland. We now have a Facebook Genealogy Group, which has among it's members some of the best amateur Genealogists who are ready and willing to help you find your Lurgan Ancestors at no cost at all. So here's to the next 10 years and the knowledge it may bring.

Lurgan (from the Irish: an Lorgain meaning "the long ridge") is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The town is near the southern shore of Lough Neagh and in the north-eastern corner of the county. Now part of the Craigavon Borough Council area, Lurgan is about 18 miles (29 km) south-west of Belfast and is linked to the city by both the M1 motorway and the Dublin–Belfast railway line. It had a population of about 23,000 at the 2001 Census. Take a look at our history section for a timeline of major events.

The Lurgan Ancestry Project is dedicated to all those sons and daughters of Lurgan and surrounding areas down through the ages. It is hoped that the information found in our pages will help you discover your Lurgan roots. Over time we hope to put together the story of Lurgan, through newspaper articles, census, birth, marriage and other records, photographs and Lurgan family histories.

All of the information on this website is free for you to use, but at no time may it be used on websites that charge for information or be sold for profit. If you would like to make a donation to the Lurgan Ancestry Project to enable us to add more records, your contribution will be gratefully received. You can make your donation via PayPal on the link below.

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We update the website with new directories, photos, birth, marriage and death records, old newspapers and information on a regular basis, we hope you will come back regularly to see the new content. Contributors to the website are all volunteers and give their time freely and unconditionally. You can read more about them on our About Us page.

If you have any old photos, BMD records, historical articles or information about Lurgan and the surrounding area, we would love to publish it on the website. You can can send us any images or documents via our upload page HERE

The information on this website is free and will always be so. However, there are many documents and records that we would like to show here that are only available for sale. If you would like to make a donation to the Lurgan Ancestry project, however small (or large!), to enable us to acquire these records, it would be very much appreciated. We could cover our pages in Goggle Ads to raise money, but feel that this would detract from the information we are trying to provide. You can also help us to raise money by purchasing some of our ebooks on our sister website: www.genealogyebooks.com

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