Signing the Ulster Covenant – in County Westmeath?
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2w ago
by Dr. Janice Mann A recent search of the Ulster Covenant for a family from Ulster led to a surprising discovery. In 1912 Liberal British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, in desperate need of the support of John Redmond’s Irish Parliamentary Party, proposed a third Home Rule Bill – providing self-government for Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Unionists responded with fierce opposition to Home Rule. On Ulster Day, the 28th September 1912, the Unionists of Ulster, with great ceremony and fervour, put their name to the Ulster Covenant.  The Covenant was sign ..read more
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New Civil Records available at Irishgenealogy.ie
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by Nicola Morris
1M ago
The annual update to the available Irish births, marriages and deaths at www.irishgenealogy.ie occurred on Tuesday 13th February 2024. Images and indexed entries for Irish births for 1923, marriages for 1948 and deaths for 1973 have now been added to the online collection.  Images of the registrations are currently available for the following periods: Births: 1864-1921 (all registered births) 1922-1923 (Republic of Ireland only) Marriages: 1845-1863 (non Catholic marriages only) 1864-1921 (all registered marriages) 1922-1948 (Republic of Ireland only) Deaths:  1864-1870 (index r ..read more
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Transportation Records for Convicts sent to Australia
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by Nicola Morris
1y ago
Transportation Records: The Ireland Australia Transportation Database In a joint project between the Irish and Australian governments, the Ireland Australia Transportation Database was compiled of surviving transportation records for individuals sent to Australia in the late 18th and early 19th century. Drawn from various sources, the database is the most comprehensive record of those tried and transported from Ireland. You can search the database for free on the National Archives website. The database should indicate the date and place of the trial, brief details of the crime and a refer ..read more
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Current Access to Irish Libraries and Archives
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by Nicola Morris
3y ago
Between June and September 2020 a number of Irish archives, libraries and repositories were reopened to the public, but with limited access.  ** However, since the middle of September, these repositories have been closed again and no date has been set for them to reopen.  The following is a list of the major repositories for Irish genealogical research based in Dublin and Belfast.  Details of new opening hours and the proceedure for booking appointments has been set out below. National Archives of IrelandThe National Archives of Ireland Reading Room is open to readers by appoi ..read more
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Www.irishgenealogy.ie extend available records
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by Nicola Morris
3y ago
The Irish website, www.irishgenealogy.ie has extended the civil registration records available on their free website. Non-Catholic marriages in Ireland were registered from April 1845, while these are largely Church of Ireland and Presbyterian marriages, marriages in registry offices and mixed marriages that took place outside of the Roman Catholic church can be found in this collection. Images of non-Catholic marriage registrations from 1845 to 1864 are now freely available to view online at www.irishgenealogy.ie   The marriage registration will record the date and place where the ..read more
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The Surname Christmas in Ireland
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by Nicola Morris
3y ago
I was surprised to discover a reference to the surname Christmas in Ireland while searching the early Grantor Indexes in the Registry of Deeds in Dublin, and decided to do a little digging. Origins of the Surname Christmas The general consensus from various surname dictionaries is that the name originated as a birth forename for someone born at Christmas, similar to use of Noel as a first name.  Descendants of Christmas used Christmas as their surname, much the same as the Irish surnames which developed from ‘son of….’. However, there is also an argument that Christmas became the anglici ..read more
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Who Do You Think You Are? Paul Merton
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by Nicola Morris
3y ago
Tracing the Power family for the Paul Merton episode of Who Do You Think You Are? was quite a challenge, not least because Power is one of the most common surnames in Co. Waterford. Paul’s mother’s maiden name was Power.  At the time of Griffith’s Valuation), a land survey taken in the 1850s there were over 3000 Power households found in Ireland, over 1600 of which were found in county Waterford.  The sheer number of Power households in Waterford made searching for the correct Power family a bit like searching for a needle in a haystack.    The trick to searching for a fami ..read more
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New Birth Death and Marriage records at www.irishgenealogy.ie
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by Nicola Morris
3y ago
The birth, death and marriage registers and indexes available at www.irishgenealogy.ie have been extended to include the following date ranges: Births 1864-1918 Marriages 1864-1843 Deaths 1878-1968    Previously, it was only possible to search the birth index up to 1916, the marriage index up to 1941 and the death index up to 1966, two additional years have been added for each collection as well as extension of images of the marriage registers back to 1864. From 1900 the birth index can be searched by both the surname of the child and mother’s maiden name, a search tool which ..read more
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Tithe Applotment Books Online
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by Nicola Morris
3y ago
The National Archives of Ireland, in partnership with the Genealogical Society of Utah, published a database of the Tithe Applotment Books online on their Genealogy Website.  The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) have also released images of the Tithe Applotment Books for Northern Ireland on their website.  Find out more about access and the pitfalls of searching these collections. The Tithe Applotment Books on the National Archives Genealogy Website: This has proved to be a frustrating resource for research, in part because of the poor transcription of both personal ..read more
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Who Was Christmas Weeks
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by Nicola Morris
3y ago
Just before the Index of Irish Wills 1484-1858 was published I was working with the editorial team. One of my tasks was to search through the original database for possible errors in the transcription of names. If you order all of the entries alphabetically it is easy to see where anomalous names turn up. In this instance, it was not anomalous, but an unusual name that has never left me. Somebody named a child Christmas Weeks and I have always wondered who this person was. In 1828 a will was proved for a Christmas Weeks in the Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough. The will was, of course, destro ..read more
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