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Bann Valley Genealogy
Families Information
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Bann Valley Families
The Bann Valley is a fairly closed community: there are a number of common families which tended to interbreed so there are certain very prominent family lines.
My own Torrens line is documented on the Torrens site. This section of the Bann Valley site is a repository for information on other famines. So if you have trees of families from the Bann Valley, please use the Contact button so I can arrange to add them to this site.
This area of the site does not have the importance of my own section so is very much what contributors make it! If you can help please use the contact button!
Most common Names
In the 1796 Garvagh Church Visitation list there are over 200 different surnames listed. Among the most common surnames are:
| Alexander | Gray | Martin | Patterson | Toy |
| Brown | Hammil | McClenahan | Smyth | Turner |
| Campable | Hill | McCook | Stewart | Wallace |
| Dunlop | Holmes | McMullen | Sutter | Willson |
| Fisher | Johnston | McPherson | Thompson | Woodburn |
| Gilmore | Kennedy | Nickel | Torrance | Woodrah |
Aliases
Because few people (in the days we genealogists are concerned with) could write names were essentially verbal, so several different looking (when written down) can actually be equivalent. Here I will list some, but see variations in the spelling of Torrens.
| Campbell | = | Gamble |
| Gamble | = | Campbell |
| Picket | = | Piggot |
| Piggot | = | Picket |
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Page's Author: Richard Torrens
Page first published: 10th November 2007
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