Title: Index to 18th-Century Tenant Farmers
Date: 1750-1781
Description: Many notices in the Belfast Newsletter advertising the letting of land included the names of sitting tenants. This database is a work in progress and currently runs to over 1,100 entries. The database is limited to the name of the tenant, the landlord (if recorded), the townland, the parish or manor (if given), and the date in which the advertisement appeared in the Newsletter. Most of the advertisements are for properties in counties Antrim and Down. Fuller information can be found in the original advertisement, such as the acreage and rent. Online access to the Belfast Newsletter is available through Ancestry and the British Newspaper Archive (incomplete).
Source: Belfast Newsletter
Compiled by: UHF volunteers