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How To Start Searching For Irish Ancestors
« on: Thursday 25 October 07 13:17 UTC (UK) »
Can someone point me in the right direction for records please. I have done all my scottish side through Official Scottish Govt. Online site, which was great. Is there a similar way to do my Irish side. Can anyone give me relative sites to get to work on
Cheers
Catherine
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maclennan harris/ross & cromarty
morrison, macdonald,mackinnon in harris
kane in longford,ireland
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Christopher
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Re: How To Start Searching For Irish Ancestors
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 13 February 08 19:07 UTC (UK) »
Hello Catherine,

Some of the sources below may assist you.

Nineteenth Century
Many of the links shown below are on John Hayes Fáilte Romhat.com website.

Census Records
First Valuation
Griffith's Valuation 1848-64
Householders Index
Land Owners in Ireland 1876
Pigot & Co's Provincial Directory of Ireland 1824
Selected Irish Marriages 1600 - 1900
Slater's Commercial Directory of Ireland 1846
Street Directories
Surnames from 1841-1851 census
Tithe Applotment Books

The U. H. F''s series of over thirty volumes of R. S. J. Clarke's Gravestone Inscriptions
may contain some details of your ancestors. It might be worth while to have a look at William Roulston's book titled "Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors the essential genealogical guide to early modern Ulster, 1600-1800" as it also covers that period. The appendices to Mr Roulston's book include a full listing of pre-1800 church records for Ulster; a detailed description of nearly 250 collections of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century estate papers; and a summary breakdown of the sources available from this period for each parish in Ulster.

Eighteenth Century Sources.

Books of Survey and Distributions c. 1700
Catholic Qualification Rolls 1778 - 1793
Convert Rolls 1704-1839
Electors Rolls 1761
Estate Records and Marriage Licence Bonds
Flax Growers List 1796
Freeholders entitled to vote 1770
Grand Jurors and Books of Presentiments
Militia Lists 1761
Oath of Allegiance 1775
Poll Books 1752
Proprietors of land circa 1700 list
Protestant Householders 1740 list.
Register of Freeholders 1758
Return of Householders 1766
State prisoners 1798
Voters Lists 1727-1793

Thanks to a poster on www.buncrana.com here is the 1740 database of Irish Protestant Householders. Irish records appear in the most peculiar places. The 1740 Ireland Protestant Housekeepers in Counties Antrim, Derry, Donegal and Londonderry database is based on an original census now in the possession of the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland in Belfast. The work was commissioned by a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) at the beginning of the twentieth century and transcribed from the original by J.W. Kernohan, Secretary of the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland.

It looks as though you may have to join the NEHGS if you wish to look at the Housekeepers list.

Seventeenth Century Sources.

Athlone Herald 1690
Books of Survey and Distribution 1641
Calender of Patent Rolls of Charles 1
Calender of Irish Patent Rolls of James 1
Census of Ireland 1659
Cess Tax Accounts (Various dates)
Civil Survey of Ireland 1654
Down Survey 1654
Hearth Money Rolls 1665
Inquisitions Post Mortems
King James II's Irish Army List 1689
List of Outlaws 1641-47
List of Undertakers 1612 - 13
Muster Roll 1630
Muster Roll 1642
Outlawry Lists 1691
Subsidy Roll 1634
Subsidy Roll 1669
Ulster Plantation 1609

Seventeenth century census substitutes at PRONI.

Christopher

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Re: How To Start Searching For Irish Ancestors
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 04 March 08 06:17 UTC (UK) »
Hello Catherine,

If you post a few details of the names of your ancestors some of the crew on the Irish boards may be able to assist you.

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