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How to Trace Your Irish Ancestors: An Essential Guide to Researching and Documenting the Family Histories of Ireland's People, 2nd Edition
How to Trace Your Irish Ancestors: An Essential Guide to Researching and Documenting the Family Histories of Ireland's People, 2nd Edition Summary:By Ian Maxwell
The purpose of this book is to highlight the most important documentary evidence available to the family historian wishing to research their Irish ancestry. It is aimed primarily at researchers whose time in Irish repositories is limited, and who want to know what is available locally and online. It covers more than eighteen individual sources of information, making it simpler to organise your search and easier to carry it out both locally and on the ground. Contents Abbreviations xi Introduction xv 1 Where to begin 1 Start at the beginning 1 What do I need to know? 2 How far back can I go? 2 A walk round a graveyard 3 Visit a LDS Family History Centre 3 Visiting the archives 4 Document your findings 5 A note about Irish surnames 6 Ancient annals and pedigrees 9 DNA 13 2 Administrative divisions 15 General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland 15 The townland 16 Unofficial place names 16 The county 16 The barony 17 The parish 17 The poor law union 18 District electoral divisions 18 Ordnance Survey maps 19 3 Civil registration 20 Birth certificates 20 Marriage certificates 21 Death certificates 21 The indexes 22 General Register Office, Dublin 22 General Register Office, Belfast, and district registrar’s offices 24 Church of Latter-Day Saints 26 4 Census returns and old age pension claims 28 1821 census 29 1831–4 census 29 1841 census 30 HOW TO TRACE YOUR IRISH ANCESTORS viii 1851 census 30 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 censuses 31 1901 census 31 1911 census 32 1901 and 1911 censuses online 33 Old age pension claims 34 5 Census substitutes 35 Fiants of the Tudor sovereigns, 1521–1603 35 Calendars of patent rolls from the reigns of James I and Charles I 36 Seventeenth-century muster rolls 37 Depositions, 1641 38 Poll tax, 1660s 39 Books of survey and distribution 40 Census of Ireland, c. 1659 41 Subsidy rolls, 1663–66 41 Hearth money rolls 42 ‘Census of Protestant householders’, 1740 45 The religious census, 1766 46 Irish Tontines, 1773, 1775 and 1777 46 Petition of Protestant Dissenters, 1775 47 Catholic Qualification Rolls 47 The flaxseed premium 1796 47 The Ulster Covenant, 1912 48 6 Wills and testamentary records 49 Wills before 1858 50 Wills 1858–1900 52 Wills from 1900 53 7 Election records 55 Qualifications for voting 55 Freemen records 56 Freehold registers 57 Poll books 57 Electoral registers and voters lists 58 8 Boards of guardians records 59 Life in the workhouse 60 Who managed workhouses? 61 The Great Famine 61 Emigration 62 New roles and responsibilities 63 9 School records 67 State-run schools 68 Practical skills 69 ix School attendance 69 School registers 70 Salary books 72 10 Migration 73 The Great Famine 74 A diverse community 74 Records in Britain 75 Census returns 75 Wills 77 Servicemen 77 Births, marriages and deaths 77 Family Records Centre 78 11 Emigration 79 Research in the United States 79 Research in Canada 83 Researching in Australia 86 Researching in New Zealand 89 Research in Britain 92 Research in Ireland 93 12 Landed estate records 98 Estate records 98 The records 101 Finding estate records 104 Encumbered estates 108 13 Taxation and valuation records 110 Tithe applotment books, 1823–38 110 Tithe defaulters 112 Valuation records 112 The townland valuation of the 1830s 113 The first general valuation (Griffith), 1848–64 113 Irish Land Commission 117 Registry of Deeds 119 14 Church records 122 The Church of Ireland 122 Registers 122 Vestry minutes 124 Church Temporalities Commission 124 Marriage licence bonds 125 The Roman Catholic Church 125 The Presbyterian Church 128 The Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church 130 The Reformed Presbyterian Church 130 CONTENTS HOW TO TRACE YOUR IRISH ANCESTORS x The Methodist Church 130 The Religious Society of Friends 131 The Moravian Church 132 The Baptist Church 133 Congregational Church 134 Huguenot records 134 Jewish Records 135 15 Military records 137 National Archives, London 138 General Register Offices, Dublin and Belfast 139 Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register 139 The Royal Irish Fusiliers Regimental Museum 140 The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Regimental Museum 140 Militia 141 Yeomanry 144 Volunteers 146 16 Printed sources 147 Ordnance Survey memoirs 147 Street directories and almanacs 150 Newspapers 153 17 Law and order 157 Policing 157 Records of service 158 The Garda Museum and Archive 160 Irish Revenue Police 161 Researching in Northern Ireland 161 The courts 162 Crown and Peace records 162 18 Local government 164 Corporations 164 Town commissioners 165 Grand juries 165 County councils 168 19 Researching online 170 Message boards and mailing lists 171 General sites 172 Irish websites 174 Archives 176 Societies 178 Useful research resources 181 Index 201 Introduction THERE ARE MANY REASONS why people set out to trace their family tree. For some, the reason may be curiosity sparked by stories handed down through the generations. Others may be inspired by old photographs, letters, or genealogical lists carefully grafted into an old family Bible. They may come from close-knit families with a strong sense of their identity, or from broken or scattered families who know next to nothing about their lineage. For many, genealogy as a hobby offers a chance to indulge their love of history in a very personal way. Others see it as a chance to learn more about themselves: from whom did they inherit their red hair or prominent nose; their love for music; their sporting or artistic skills? Some hope that an ancestor was famous, others settle for notorious. A few hope for royal connections. Most of us have to settle for ancestors with more humble occupations, such as labourers or weavers, factory workers or shopkeepers. One should remember, however, that even the most humble of ancestors have a record of which they can be proud – all of them reached adulthood and produced descendants who did the same. None of them was crushed by a woolly mammoth or felled by an enemy spear, at least before they produced children. Many millions of their contemporaries were not so successful! Whatever the original impulse, once hooked the family historian will become increasingly hungry for new information as his or her family tree grows. It arouses the detective instinct within all of us as well as the passion of the collector to complete the set. Today more than 84,000 overseas visitors come to Ireland each year in order to research their family history: by 2001 the Irish Tourist Board, Bord Failte, had estimated that roots tourism was worth £34 million to the Irish economy and numbers continue to grow as the Internet HOW TO TRACE YOUR IRISH ANCESTORS xvi attracts thousands of new family history enthusiasts to their ancestral homeland. What is genealogy? Genealogy is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor’ and ‘the study of lines of descent’. Tracing ancestors is about so much more than just a list of names and dates on a chart however. It should involve an understanding of history, both national and local, through which our ancestors lived. As Sir Robert E. Matheson, author of the Special Report on Surnames in Ireland, pointed out more than a century ago, the story of individual families and the development of the nation as a whole provide important clues to the character of its people: . . . the history of our country lies enshrined in its Surnames; and on our shop fronts and in our graveyards may be found side by side the names of the descendants of the Milesian Prince, of the Scandinavian Viking, and of the Norman Knight. The origin of modern genealogy is closely linked with the proof of succession to lands and titles and was therefore the preserve of the ruling classes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They were not above massaging the truth to make their lineage more distinguished than it really was – something no self-respecting family historian would dream of doing today! There is a certain irony in the fact that since the position of the aristocracy went into decline during the second half of the nineteenth century, the interest in genealogy has increased rather than vanished. This is because we have retained our ancestors’ interest in our own and others’ kinships and origins despite the increasing rootlessness of modern life. In the ancient past it was thought a normal part of all children’s education to teach them to recite their ancestors for several generations. This is particularly true of Irish chiefs and kings, whose genealogy was passed down by word of mouth, forming the backbone of the oldest historical traditions in Ireland. The general consciousness of kinship and descent in Ireland was therefore very strong. The Irish pride in their pedigree was remarked on by numerous writers over the centuries; Englishman John Loveday, in his INTRODUCTION xvii Irish tour of 1732, recalled that even among the peasantry: So great is ye pride of these common people that if a woman be ye same name as some noble family she’ll retain it in marriage unless her husband has as distinguished a name. More than fifty years ago, the County Down-born author of the Narnia books, C.S. Lewis, wrote: Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it would look different. For there was a time when every man was part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of his father as well: and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would not look like a lot of separate things dotted about. It would look like one single growing thing – rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other. The family historian is obsessed about making those connections and this book aims to help both the beginner and the more experienced researcher in their quest. Unlike Britain, which has very extensive civil and census records, Irish ancestral research is hampered by the destruction of so many of the major record collections. Researchers must therefore make greater use of church records, school registers and land and valuation records than their counterparts in England, Scotland or Wales. Nevertheless, with diligence the family historian in Ireland should be able to trace their roots to the beginning of the nineteenth century – and a lucky few may be able to trace a line further than the early seventeenth century. The new edition of How To Trace Your Irish Ancestors includes the latest updates on the 1901 and 1911 censuses and details of the discovery of a copy of the 1821 census for the parish of Forkhill. The section dealing with Irish surnames has been considerably expanded and information about pedigrees and the use of DNA testing in genealogical research has been added, which should prove interesting to those wishing to push back their family tree even further. Please select one mirror to download
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