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1775 religious census Coleraine1775 Petitions Ref T808/15307 Petitions of Dissenters {Presbyterians} and also some members of the Established Church to the Irish Parliament . The names were recorded by Parish or Congregation
PROTESTANT DISSENTERS (as PRESBYTERIANS were disparagingly termed) were barred from holding public office because of their beliefs. Presbyterian congregations across Ireland petitioned the parliament in Dublin for repeal of the Test Act which required all office holders, i.e. magistrates, burgesses etc. to be communicant members of the Established Church. Clearly, not all members of the Presbyterian congregations signed: some may have been beholden to a landlord belonging to the Established Church and did not wish to upset him. Colerain and Killowen Parishes County Londonderry John Simpson Arthur Kyle? Lyle? Hugh Lyle Robert Given Robert Galt James Haslett
John Galt {Gault} Charles Galt William Smith Alex Lawrance William Holmes
James Broaster {Brewster} Francis Bennett William Watson James Hamill Thomas Hazelton John Wilson Samuel Finlay Robert Given junior son of Robert Given Alexander McKachan {McCachan}
{c} ulsterancestry
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