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The aim of the project was to copy all surviving Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland printed county reports, for the period 1893 to 2000, held at the Grand Lodge of Ireland, Belfast.
The data records membership of Orange lodges in Antrim, Derry and Down. A future aim of the project is to fill as many of the holes in the dataset as possible through county-level research and further Orange contacts, and to regress this data against census, survey, event-history, police and electoral data. Ultimately the intention is to make an assessment as to why Orange membership and power rises or declines across time and place in Ulster, Scotland and Canada in the twentieth century.
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This collection contains data from all surviving Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland printed county reports on the membership of individual Orange lodges in Antrim, Derry, Down and Tyrone for the period 1893 to 2000. There are no data for Londonderry City.

There is also information on Orange lodge membership at the district level. In most cases, district membership has been computed based on individual lodge membership. However there are cases where district lodge totals were available while individual lodge membership was not (e.g. Tyrone, 1969-1986), in which case district lodge totals have been entered directly.

Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.