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The Foyle McCorkells: A Family in the Records
A family-history study traces McCorkell lines through records and places in Donegal, Londonderry, and Tyrone, from 1528 to 1901.
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- McCorkell family-history researchers
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- The site describes a searchable register of more than 600 baptisms, marriages, deaths, census entries, tax rolls, and voyages.
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The study organizes its account into seven chapters, moving from pre-Plantation name origins through Ulster settlement, emigration, family branches, DNA, and worldwide lines. It identifies source material including muster rolls, hearth-tax records, kirk-session books, census entries, and voyages; the site says its searchable register contains more than 600 entries. A highlighted 1792 vestry-book signature records William McCorkell signing as “William Corkle,” linking a documented spelling variation to the Ballyrattan line.
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