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IRISH ROOTS:
RESEARCHING IRISH ANCESTRY
YOU’LL NEED NOT ONLY THE ANGELS ON
YOUR SIDE BUT ALSO
Approximately
10,000 three-
leaf clovers for
every four-leaf
clover.
WHY IS IRISH RESEARCH SO DIFFICULT?
Destruction of the Public Record Office in Dublin
in June 1922 means loss of
- 1821, 1831, 1841 and 1851 census
- Over 50% of Church of Ireland parish registers
- Wills and court records
1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891 census records
destroyed by bureaucratic mistake
Civil registration does not begin until 1864 for all
births, deaths and marriages
Roman Catholic parish records are ‘lacking’ until
the middle of the 19th century
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, DUBLIN
Scene of conflict between the
Free State forces and the
IRA at the end of June 1922.
The IRA munitions were
stored in the Record
Treasury room. On 30th June
they exploded.
LANGUAGE DIFFICULTY
Irish Gaelic is pronounced (in English)
'gay-lik'.
Scottish Gaelic is pronounced (in English)
‘gal-ick’
The (Scottish) Gaelic name for (Scottish)
Gaelic is Gàidhlig, pronounced 'gaa-lik', not to
be confused with the Irish (Gaelic) name for
Irish (Gaelic), which is written Gaeilge
and pronounced 'gail-gyuh‘.
http://www.cuhwc.org.uk/page/unofficial-guide-pronouncing-gaelic
IRISH NAMES
Spelling was a matter of indifference to most
people
Kilfoyle, Gilfoyle, Guilfoile
Prefixes ‘O’ or ‘Mac’ were treated as entirely optional
Very rare for more than the first name to be
registered
John James (O’)Reilly will almost certainly appear in
the register as simple John Reilly
IRISH PLACENAMES
Can be confusing since the ‘distinguishing’ part of the name is at the end rather than the beginning.
Knock from cnoc – a hill
Bally from baile – a town or townland
Agha from achadh – a field
http://www.irish-place-names.com/meanings/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_names_in_Ireland
Many names are anglicised spelling of the Gaelic originals.
Many anglicised place names have been returned to an Irish spelling original, ‘Iniskillen’ (etc) to ‘Enniskillen’ Inis Ceithleann Dublin – ‘Duibhlinn’ officially ‘Baile Atha Cliath’
UNFAMILIAR GEOGRAPHY
Four provinces Ulster (more than modern Northern Ireland)
Leinster
Munster
Connaught
Divided in counties, e.g Tyrone
Offaly
etc
Dublin is a county as well as a city
Ecclesiastical diocese boundaries do not align with provinces or counties
Ecclesiastical provinces (c.f. Canterbury, York) Armagh – roughly Ulster
Tuam – roughly Connaught
Cashel – roughly Munster
Dublin – roughly Dublin
BASIC MAP
http://
irlande.web-sy.fr/
provinces_map.jpg
TOWNLANDS
The townland is the smallest administrative unit in Ireland.
Gaelic (‘Gay-lik’) origins but some names and boundaries are later.
61,098 townlands as of 2014
Average size about 325 acres but varies widely from 0.625 acres to 7500 acres
Until the 19th century, most townlands were owned by a single person and occupied by multiple tenants.
Home locations are more likely to be defined by townland than parish or village
Use Google to find a townland or www.askaboutireland.ie
IRISH HISTORY
The Norman Conquest and the English Pale
The Reformation
The Plantations
Elizabeth
Cromwell
William of Orange
Catholic emancipation
The Famine and Emigration
Home rule
THE NORMAN CONQUEST AND THE PALE
THE NORMAN CONQUEST AND THE PALE
NORMAN CONQUEST AND THE ENGLISH
PALE
The Norman invasion of Ireland, beginning in 1169, brought much of Ireland briefly under the theoretical control of the Plantagenet Kings of England.
From the 13th century onwards, the Hiberno-Norman occupation in the rest of Ireland at first faltered, then waned.
The Pale (An Pháil in Irish) was the part of Ireland that was directly under the control of the English government in the late Middle Ages. It had been reduced by the late 15th century to an area along the east coast
TURNING IRELAND ENGLISH
1558
Predominately Gaelic west and north “inhabited by a
rude and savage people ('the wild Irish') living in bogs
and mountains.”
Smaller, more 'civil', 'Englishry' (the English Pale
around Dublin and the south) contained numerous
English-style towns and villages and prided itself on
its Englishness and loyalty.
An experiment with limited colonisation in Leix-
Offaly proved disastrously expensive, requiring large
garrisons to repel the expropriated O'Mores and
O'Connors after the shiring of their lordships as
Queen's and King's Counties (1557).
TURNING IRELAND ENGLISH
Clerical property in Ireland was in a manner
annihilated in Henry VIIIs reign. Bishoprics,
colleges, glebes and tithes were divided without
mercy amongst the great men of the time, or
leased out on small rents for ever to the friends
and relations of the incumbents. Many Irish
bishoprics never recovered this devastation,
Irish Act of Uniformity, passed in 1560, made
worship in churches adhering to the Church of
Ireland compulsory.
TURNING IRELAND ENGLISH (PART 2)
The Reformation crisis also fuelled the government's
fears about rebellion in Ireland. All three borderlands
were 'backward in religion', but the queen feared that
a crackdown on Catholic dissent as urged by her
bishops and ministers might unite religious and
political dissidents.
Experiments at colonisation, notably in east Ulster
(in 1572-3), and the Munster plantation from 1584
smacked of ethnic cleansing.
Gradual escalation of violence and atrocities
1601 - English rule now enjoyed less indigenous
support than in 1558.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/elizabeth_ireland_01.shtml
ELIZABETH AND THE REFORMATION
The bulk of Protestants in Ireland during
Elizabeth's reign were confined to the ranks of
new settlers and government officials, who
formed a small minority.
Amongst the native Gaelic Irish and Old English,
recusancy predominated and was tolerated by
Elizabeth for fear of alienating the Old English
further. Regardless an unlikely alliance slowly
formed between the Gaelic and Old
English landed gentry.
i.e. Ireland was basically Roman Catholic but the
state church was Protestant
IRELAND AND CROMWELL
Following the Irish Rebellion of 1641, most of
Ireland came under the control of the Irish
Catholic Confederation.
In early 1649, the Confederates allied with the
English Royalists, who had been defeated by
the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War.
By May 1652, Cromwell's Parliamentarian army
had defeated the Confederate and Royalist
coalition in Ireland and occupied the country.
The Parliamentarian re-conquest of Ireland was
brutal, and Cromwell is still a hated figure in
Ireland.
THE PLANTATIONS Plantations involved the
confiscation of land by the English
crown and the colonisation of this
land with settlers from the England
and, later, Scotland.
The 16th-century plantations were
established throughout the country
by the confiscation of lands occupied
by Gaelic clans and Hiberno-Norman
dynasties, but principally in the
provinces of Munster and Ulster.
The plantations accelerated
under James I, Charles I and Oliver
Cromwell; in their time, land was
also granted to Scottish planters.
i.e. an infusion of Protestants into
mainly Roman Catholic Ireland.
WILLIAM OF ORANGE - ADMIRED
OR HATED
“…to the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat.”
WILLIAM III (WILLIAM OF ORANGE)
Invited to succeed the Roman Catholic James II.
James II had great support in Ireland
William’s victory over James II forces at the Battle of
the Boyne (1690), confirmed at the Battle of Aughrim
(1691)
Sealed the Protestant Ascendancy and created the
fault line between Catholics and Protestants for the
next 300+ years
English soldiers and traders became the new ruling
class, as its richer members were elevated to the Irish
House of Lords and eventually controlled the Irish
House of Commons. This class became collectively
known as the Anglo-Irish.
CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION
From Elizabeth I to William III and the first Hanoverians, discrimination against Catholics increased (instead of relaxing as in England).
Catholics were forbidden to own land, as was education and religious instruction
From the family history point of view Roman Catholics were forbidden to keep church records
This discrimination was relaxed from about 1800 onwards
From 1871 onward the Anglican Church was no longer the state church in Ireland (entitled to tithes &tc) and became known as the Church of Ireland
THE IRISH FAMINE
1845 - 1852
Caused by potato blight Phytophthora infestans
IRISH EMIGRATION
In the Republic of Ireland, it was only
after 1960 that the natural population
increase exceeded emigration,
Ireland's Great Famine 1845-1849 http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/index.htm
IRISH HOME RULE
1912 (Third) Home Rule Bill passed, enacted on outbreak of First World War, suspended for the duration of the war
Easter Rising of 1916 - put down in 1 week
1920 The Government of Ireland Act
Separate states for Northern and Southern Ireland
1919 – 1921 Irish War of Independence / Black and Tan war
1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty leading to creation of Irish Free State 6 Dec 1922 (Dominion status)
Civil war between Irish Free State and Sinn Fein broke out June 1922
1937 End of Dominion status. Ireland / Eire
1948 Republic of Ireland Act – formally a Republic
RESOURCES AVAILABLE
The census
1901 and 1911 census available from www.genealogy.nationalarchives.ie Family Search, Ancestry, FindMyPast
Fragments survive for 1821 – 1851 for some counties, as follows:
Antrim, 1851; Belfast city (one ward only), 1851; Cavan, 1821 and 1841; Cork, 1841;
Dublin city (index to heads of household only), 1851; Fermanagh, 1821, 1841 and 1851; Galway, 1813 (numerical returns for Longford barony) and 1821; King’s County (Offaly), 1821; Londonderry (Derry), 1831 – 34; Meath, 1821; Waterford, 1841.
Some information available from earlier censuses via census search forms. Used as proof of age in absence of civil birth certificate and baptismal registers.
CENSUS SEARCH FORMS
PARISH REGISTERS
The major religions of Ireland are the Catholic
Church and Church of Ireland (Anglican). The
Presbyterian Church is also prominent,
especially in Northern Ireland.
In 1861 78% of the population were Catholic in
and 12% Church of Ireland, based on statistics
extracted from the census of that year.
CATHOLIC PARISH REGISTERS
Catholic Parish Registers at the National library of Ireland (NLI)
http://registers.nli.ie/
the majority of Catholic parishes in Ireland and Northern Ireland up to 1880.
Can view registers but not search
Better is www.IrishGenealogy.ie for searching but not viewing. (Free)
Catholic Parish Registers at FMP
Spanning over 200 years of Ireland's history from 1671-1900, The Irish Catholic Parish Registers contain over 40 million names from over 1,000 parishes that cover 97% of the entire island of Ireland, both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. (Free index, pay to view)
Ancestry - Index and register view
MISSING CATHOLIC REGISTERS
You might ask why they are ‘missing’. There are a number of reasons – ‘lost’, ‘missing without explanation’, ‘fire’, ‘flood’, the ‘Black and Tans’, ‘illegible’.
Some of these reasons are understandable. Due to the Penal Laws, it was not possible or legal for Catholic Priests to keep a record of Births or Marriages so very few records survive until the early to middle part of the 19th Century.
Parish Priests of the early nineteenth century, particularly in rural areas, lived a precarious lifestyle, didn’t have secretaries, a number didn’t have a permanent residence, not to mention an office and it is a miracle that so many registers have in fact survived.
What remains of the original parish registers are still kept in local custody. They are often in a fragile state and may not be accessible to researchers.
CHURCH OF IRELAND REGISTERS
The state church until 1 Jan 1871
In 1876 a law was passed requiring that Church
of Ireland parish registers be sent to the Public
Record Office (now the National Archives) in
Dublin for safekeeping.
Err..
CHURCH OF IRELAND REGISTERS
The state church until 1 Jan 1871
In 1876 a law was passed requiring that Church of Ireland parish registers be sent to the Public Record Office (now the National Archives) in Dublin for safekeeping.
As I was saying …
This law was amended in 1878 to allow parishes with good storage facilities to retain their records, so not all parish records were sent to Dublin. Further, some ministers made copies of their records before sending the originals to Dublin.
Thus, many Church of Ireland records remain, even though the records sent to Dublin were destroyed in 1922 when the Public Record Office burned.
CHURCH OF IRELAND REGISTERS
Pot luck as to whether registers have survived,
been transcribed, available on line.
Irish Family History Foundation
www.rootsireland.ie
Search for free – pay to see transcripts £10 1 day, £18
1 month, 12 month £160
Irish Genealogical Projects www.igp-web.com
Search facility on website can miss results
Best Google ‘IGP <parish>’
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Ancestral records for Irish Presbyterians do not, typically, date much further back than the 1820s. Which is not to say there are NO really old registers. The earliest surviving register is for the parish of Antrim in County Antrim which dates from 1674.
That is a rarity, however. Few go back even to the 18th century, let alone the 17th. The reality is that by far the largest proportion of Presbyterian registers don't start until the 19th century.
Due to a long period of religious and civil presecution in Ireland, many pre-1830s baptisms, marriages and burials of Irish Presbyterians will be found in Church of Ireland registers.
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) has microfilmed nearly all registers of Ireland's Presbyterian congregations. According to the Presbyterian Historical Society, PRONI's 'coverage is so extensive that there are relatively few congregations whose records have not been deposited in some form in PRONI. So, clearly, PRONI should be your first stop.
Records available on microfiche, generally not on-line.
METHODIST CHURCH
Until the second decade of the 1800s, Methodists usually had dual membership with their local (Anglican) parish church, which they attended for family events such as christenings, weddings and funerals.
Marriages at Methodist churches only legal from 1863 – but information will be in civil registration anyway
Very few Methodist burial registers exist because there were only a small number of Methodist chapels across the island and only a small proportion of them had any land. So if you are looking for the death or burial record of a particular family or Irish ancestor, search the local Church of Ireland registers. Methodist baptism, marriage and burial registers were the personal
property of individual ministers. They tended to travel over large areas (circuits) in order to preach to their flocks so the geographical scatter of each register can be confusing and you may have to look through a good many sets of records in your Irish ancestry search.
Of course, the itinerant nature of the minister's life also meant that some registers were lost.
Records at chapel or PRONI.
CIVIL REGISTRATION
State registration of (just) non-Catholic marriages began in Ireland in 1845
All births, deaths and marriages have been registered since 1864
Southern Ireland indexes to Births over 100 years old (i.e. up till 1916)
Marriages over 75 years old (i.e. up till 1941)
Deaths over 50 years old (i.e. up till 1966)
available at www.IrishGenealogy.ie (free)
Available on FamilySearch up till 1958 (except NI from 1922)
Some full transcripts on www.rootsireland.ie (pay)
The official site of the Northern Ireland General Register Office www.groni.gov.uk allows access to a full database of the transcripts of their records from 1922 onwards (from 1845/1864 for areas now in Northern Ireland) on a pay per view basis.
Indexes available on Family Search (and Ancestry and FMP)
LAND AND PROPERTY RECORDS
Griffith’s Valuation (1847 – 1863)
Tithe Applotment Books
1876 Landowners List
Estate Records
Landed Estate Court Rentals
Deeds
Recommended website http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/Ireland-genealogy.html
LAND TENURE
Smallholders numbered 408,000 in 1841. Of these 65,000 had holdings of less than 1 acre
Many had to rely on access to income from elsewhere, such as peat-digging or using waste-land for common grazing, domestic industry (which was declining anyway), kelp collecting, fishing (where possible) or seasonal work on large farms.
Smallholders with between 6 and 15 acres were classed as small farmers.
Whatever the size of their holdings, virtually none had written agreements with their landlords to give them legal security of tenure. The sad plight of these groups dominates contemporary and much historical writing, but they did not constitute the entire population, and their numbers and economic significance declined from the mid-century.
LAND TENURE
Rack-renting “... landlords were able to 'auction
off' leases to the highest bidders. That practice,
known as 'rack renting', forced renters to bid
more than they could afford to pay.“
“excessive, extortionate rent is obtained by threat
of eviction resulting in uncompensated
dispossession of improvements the tenant
himself has made”.
Notorious but my own, limited, research shows
long term tenancies.
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/c-eight/ireland/ire-
land.htm
GRIFFITH’S VALUATION
In the early 19th century, taxes were based on property and the methods of calculation varied from county to county.
The Government wanted to create a consistent system and needed to find out who its people were and how much they might be able to tax them, so it tasked Richard Griffith, the director of the Valuation Office in Dublin, to carry out a land survey. This resulted in
The General Valuation of the Rateable Property in Ireland otherwise known as The Primary Valuation (of Tenements)
The survey was published between 1847 and 1864, so it is only a snapshot of each county, not the whole of Ireland.
GRIFFITH’S VALUATION
- DATES OF PUBLICATION
Use map on right or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Griffith%27s_Valuation
(I have some reservations
about the exact dates on
wikipedia)
GRIFFITH’S VALUATION
www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/
GRIFFITH’S VALUATION
GRIFFITH’S
VALUATION
GRIFFITH’S VALUATION
GRIFFITH’S VALUATION
GRIFFITH’S VALUATION - MAP
A crucial part of the project was the mapping of Ireland. Carried out by the British Army Royal Engineers, a detailed map at the scale of six inches to one mile was created. It was the first time an entire country had been mapped.
It allowed administrative boundaries to be established and identified all features and buildings on the land.
Each occupier's reference can be found on the relevant Ordnance Survey maps (which survive intact), allowing genealogists to identify the exact piece of land their ancestors lived on. Ordnance Survey, 1824 - 1846
The detailed maps of Ireland that make up this database took 20 years to complete.
Map sheets 108-125 are missing from the collection. These sheets cover approximately 10 percent of County Galway, mainly in the south of the county.
GRIFFITH’S VALUATION - MAP
GRIFFITH’S VALUATION
The men who worked as Valuers were native-born Irish and understood traditional naming patterns and the use of a father's first name to distinguish between men who had the same name.In townlands where a surname was common, the Valuers distinguished between individuals in various ways.
Typically, they would add, in brackets after a person's name, the first name of that person's father.
So, for example, John Tobin (Patrick) is the son of Patrick Tobin, whereas John Tobin (Michael) is the son of Michael Tobin.
Where relevant, the abbreviations Snr (Senior, or father) and Jnr (Junior, or son) were sometimes used.
Similarly, occupations were often used as identifiers ie Jeremiah Crowley (farmer) and Jeremiah Crowley (victualler).
Such entries can be a huge bonus because there may be no other document in existence to provide these family connections between the individuals named. They're 'genealogical gold'!
LAND TENURE –
TITHE APPLOTMENT BOOKS
Compiled between 1823 and 1837 in order to
determine the amount which occupiers of
agricultural holdings over one acre should pay in
tithes to the Church of Ireland
Now digitally imaged
Database giving surname, forename, county,
parish and townland created.
Did not cover urban areas http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/index.jsp
and on Ancestry
THE VALUE OF TITHE APPLOTMENT
BOOKS TO IRISH GENEALOGISTS.
The Tithe Applotment Books record the occupiers of tithe-eligible land, not householders. They are not population censuses.
Because the tithe was payable only by those who worked on agricultural land, you may not find your ancestors included.
Those labourers who worked on agricultural land owned by the Church were exempt. So, too, were those labourers who did not rent land, as were those who lived and worked in urban areas.Even so, the books represent the earliest records for the poor of Ireland, a group for whom very few other genealogical records survive from this period.
In fact, if your ancestors lived in one of the rural parishes for which no pre-1850 church registers exist, Tithe Applotment books may also be the only records available.
TITHE APPLOTMENTS – JOHN LARKIN
No 252
Denomination (Townland) Bleakfield
H(ead) L(and) Lord Westrop Smith
Occupying Tenant John Larkin
A R P 64
Quality 5
Rate per acre 1/6
Yearly amt of Each Person £4 16s
There are 49 John Larkin s listed, eg.
Larkin John Bleakfield Aghameadle Tipperary 1825
LAND AND PROPERTY RECORDS
- 1876 LANDOWNERS LIST
In 1876 a list of landowners who held at least one
acre of land was published. The survey had been
commissioned in 1873 by the Local Government
Board and required the Poor Law Unions across
Ireland to gather together lists of landowners
from local rate books. NB not tenants
The last of the returns to the Board was dated
November 1872. When collated, some 32,614
owners were listed alphabetically by province
and county, alongside details of the extent of
their land and its current valuation.
The 1876 list is available, free, at Failte Romhat.
LAND AND PROPERTY RECORDS
- ESTATE RECORDS
These records offer the best opportunity to trace Irish ancestors into the 18th and even the 17th centuries.
They include information about the wealthy families who once owned great swathes of Ireland. Genealogy researchers find them useful because these families employed vast numbers of retainers ie domestic staff, farm hands, stone masons and other craftsmen, and were also landlords, granting leases to tenant farmers and labourers.
Estate records can be difficult to track down. Some remain in the family's archives; some have been deposited with solicitors; an increasing number are being deposited in local archives (who may or may not have the resources to catalogue them). Others, inevitably, have not survived. Where they do survive, however, they can be of variable quality but they can sometimes provide spectacularly good detail.
LAND AND PROPERTY RECORDS
- LANDED ESTATE COURT RENTALS
After the Famine, many landowners found
themselves financially if not morally
embarrassed. Parliament set up a Court to
administer the sale of these insolvent estates in
1848/9 and pre-sale catalogues were produced to
entice prospective buyers.
These sale particulars provided details of tenants
on the land, together with the value and terms of
their tenancy or rental commitment. They cover
the entire island of Ireland. Genealogical
potential is significant, since more than 500,000
tenants are recorded in the collection.
LAND AND PROPERTY RECORDS
- DEEDS
The Registry of Deeds was founded in Dublin in 1708 but its heyday, in terms of popularity, was 1750-1830. While it covers arrangements for a lot more than land, the Registry can be very useful for finding out when land was transferred from one party to another.
By far the majority of the Irish population owned no land nor anything else of such value that its ownership needed to be formally recorded, so this resource is not going to assist many family historians. However, if your family did register deeds you are in for a treat as these records frequently mention two or more generations
LAND TENURE
Before the famine, it was fairly common for farmers
to sub-divide their lands between their sons. The
birth rate was reasonably high (around 33/1000
according to the 1841 census), so there were often
several sons to divide the farm between.
In the post famine period farmers had learned the
lesson, and this system of "impartible land
inheritance" largely disappeared. In general, parents
passed the farm, intact, to a single son while giving
educational or financial assistance to siblings,
sometimes to settle elsewhere or to emigrate.
Ireland's Great Famine 1845-1849 http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/index.htm
PROBATE – WILLS AND ADMINISTRATION
National Archives of Ireland for Wills/adminstration
for all Ireland 1858 - 1922
(Only name and year for wills before [1877?])
Index of Irish Wills 1484-1858 which is available
online at FindMyPast (includes other similar
information)
Also search Google
Example
SWINDLE John 21 August Probate of the Will of
John Swindle late of Attybarn County Fermanagh
Farmer who died 20 July 1902 granted at Dublin to
Thomas Adams Merchant and James Forster Retired
Bank Official Effects £159 12s 6d
IRISH WILLS (CONT)
Almost all pre-1922 wills were destroyed along
with the Dublin Public Record Office
The exceptions are
Will books for Down (1850-1858)
Will books for Connor (1818-1820), (1853-1858)
Grant books for Cashel (1840-1845), Derry & Raphoe
(1818-1821), Ossory (1848-1858)
Sir William Beetham’s abstracts up to 1800
OTHER SOURCES
Military records, clerical records …
Royal Irish Constabulary / Royal Ulster Constabulary
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ help-with-your-research/research-guides/ royal-irish-constabulary/
Supposedly nothing ‘online’ but Reakes, J., comp.. Ireland, The Royal Irish Constabulary 1816-1921 [database on-line] Ancestry.com
Name: Swindall, Richard Birth Date/Age: 20 Birthplace: Kerry Marriage or Comments: Y Enlisted: 1851 Film #: 856060 Page #: 158B
And …
NEWSPAPERS
Possibly the subject of another talk.
http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/historical-irish-newspapers.html
1794/6 FLAX GROWERS LISTS
The Irish Linen Board published a list of nearly 60,000 individuals in 1796. Spinning wheels were awarded based on the number of acres planted. People who planted one acre were awarded 4 spinning wheels and those growing 5 acres were awarded a loom.
Donegal and Tyrone had the highest number of awards.
Dublin and Wicklow were not included in this list.
These extracts contain the name, parish and county. The barony was listed instead of the parish in a few of the records.
Also known as the Spinning Wheel list or the Flax Growers Bounty.
http://www.failteromhat.com/flax1796.php
DOG LICENCES
Dog licences were introduced into Irish law in 1865
and the first licences were issued the following year.
It cost 2 shillings per dog with an extra 6 pence in
administration costs. The licences were issued in the
same courts as held the Petty Sessions.
There are 6,041,095 records available to search on
Findmypast with more records due next year.
Name (of owner)
Address
County
Year and date of dog licence
Colour of dog
Sex of dog
Breed or type of dog
IRISH GENEALOGY WEBSITES
Family Search
www.RootsIreland.ie (Irish Family History Societies) £
IrishGenealogy.ie (Church records, civil records)
Ancestry £
FindMyPast £
National Archives of Ireland (1901, 1911 census, census search forms, Tithe Applotment Books 1823-1287, Probate Calendars) www.genealogy.nationalarchives.ie
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/proni
www.askaboutireland.ie Griffith’s valuation and map
www.townlands.ie
http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com http://www.from-ireland.net/research-help-wills-administrations-deeds/
Ulster Historical Foundation www.ancestryireland.com
IRISH GENEALOGY WEBSITES
Joe Petrie’s List of Free Irish Genealogy Web Sites Family Search https://familysearch.org/ - Supposedly, there
are about a half a billion records in their databases.
Family Search Community Trees http://histfam.familysearch.org/ - There are 3 Irish databases. I think that this is the most interesting site that I discovered this year.
Family Search Collections List https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list - There are 7 collections for Ireland.
FreeGenData.com http://www.freegendata.com/cgi-bin/1/search.cgi?query=Ireland - A search tool to help you locate free genealogy databases and record transcriptions on the web. For Ireland there were 992 links and for Galway, Ireland, there were 35 web site links.
KEEPING UP-TO-DATE
www.irishgenealogynews.com
www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com
AN EXAMPLE – JOHN LARKIN
Ancestry untraced, born c.1794
Married Mary Ryan
Children (from 1841 census) John, born 1827/8
Jeremiah, born 5th May 1833 at Lambeth, baptised on the 26th of May 1833 (? at St George's Chapel Bermondsey)
David, born 1834/5
Daniel, born 1838/9
Buried on the 26th of January 1840 aged 45 at St Mary in Lambeth, Surrey
John Larkin/Larkins marriage not found in Anstruther Catholic Marriage index
A blacksmith or perhaps a labourer. Mary Ryan from Munster.
AN EXAMPLE – JOHN LARKIN (C1794 –
1840) MARRIED MARY BRYAN
Family Tree on Ancestry “This page is
temporarily unavailable”. Other trees probably
derived from my own website.
Ancestry 1851 Census Crook and Billy Row,
Hamsterley ! (Between Crook and Tow Law)
White Lee colliery. Age 54, no children
FindMyPast – 2073 results
No births
17 Feb 1797, Balbriggan, Congregational, event ?
Login failures
90 marriages: 1809 – no further information
EXAMPLE – JOHN LARKIN (C1794 – 1840)
www.irishgenealogy.ie
12 – NO 2 - results
1 baptism in Dublin1790, 1 baptism in Cork 1791
www.rootsireland.ie John Larkin 1794
54 baptisms NO 3 1794 plus 2 1793, 1 1795, 1 1792
Co Longford 1794, Co. Limerick 1794, Co Kilkenny 1794
15 Marriages – 0 Mary Ryan
6 deaths - - NO
693 Griffith - NO
20 census substitute – 0
Note: rootsireland suggests Clarke as an alternative
to Larkin. Not considerd in above figures,
EXAMPLE – JOHN LARKIN (C1794 – 1840)
Tithe Applotment Books
49 results for a John Larkin
Bleakfield, Aghnameadle, Tipperary 1825
Archerstown, Aharney, Kilkenny 1830
Ballyphilips, Ballylarkin, Kilkenny 1827
Lisroyan, Bumlin, Roscommon 1825
Ash Park, Carrick, Tipperary 1834
Mantingstown, Coolagh, Kilkenny 1827
Skeghbreeda, Abbey, Clare 1827
Etc
No use unless you already know where your man
was living.
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