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Welcome to the home of Willighan Genealogy
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If you are a Willighan from Ballymena, Belfast, Lancashire, North Wales or anywhere else, hopefully this site will go some way to explaining your immediate family tree.
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I can trace the surname back to areas of west County Tyrone pre-1900. But even so, within a short distance, there are records of Woolahan, Woulaghan, Willaghan and Willaughan.
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From Tyrone, the name moved via one person to Cambrai Street in Belfast and then on to Ballymena, England and Wales. It's all explained in this site.
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More details about the Tyrone connection and this wooden cross can be found in the Tyrone page of the menu.
If you're viewing on a mobile, the menu is the green box with 3 lines in the top right.
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Any questions, email roy@willighan.co.uk
![Willighan cross.jpg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ede7d6_5eea29fc2d0f46d180ca29092eb4258c~mv2.jpg/v1/crop/x_94,y_249,w_308,h_464/fill/w_246,h_366,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/familycross10.jpg)
![Castlederg Church of Ireland](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ede7d6_71d55003ad394c7785ba817eb2be0b9b~mv2_d_3264_1952_s_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_147,h_88,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/ede7d6_71d55003ad394c7785ba817eb2be0b9b~mv2_d_3264_1952_s_2.jpg)
Willaughans were baptised, married and buried here
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![Thomas Willighan at work](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ede7d6_389d4bfc39f74e7cb5dfb21ff187ad44~mv2_d_3264_1952_s_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_147,h_88,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/ede7d6_389d4bfc39f74e7cb5dfb21ff187ad44~mv2_d_3264_1952_s_2.jpg)
1936, (2nd row from back - 4th from right)
![Castlederg Church of Ireland](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ede7d6_71d55003ad394c7785ba817eb2be0b9b~mv2_d_3264_1952_s_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_147,h_88,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/ede7d6_71d55003ad394c7785ba817eb2be0b9b~mv2_d_3264_1952_s_2.jpg)
Willaughans were baptised, married and buried here
WHAT WE KNOW

Details of the Willighan family tree from West Tyrone are very sketchy, but we do have a record of its existence in Belfast from the late 1800s.