Cancelled Revision Books: Griffith's

[BLSstory]

Can anybody tell me if the Revision Books are available online?  If so, where?

Thanks.  Barbara

[LearyP]

Someone on FB genealogy group mentioned that some are now available on familysearch.org

[athacliath62]

I think they are probably referring to the Griffith's Notebooks Familysearch call these Valuation Office Books. These are also on the Nat. Archives site

[Cwellan CoDown]

The Northern Ireland Revision books are available online at PRONI

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/services/searching-valuation-revision-books

They cover changes in land ownership and tenancy from the Griffith Valuation (1964) through to 1933.

In the south they seem to be called Cancelled and Current Land Books and are as far as I know only available to personal callers at the Valuation Office in Dublin, although I believe there is plans to make them available online - and up to 1900 is on microfilm at LDS

https://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/revision-books.html

[BLSstory]

Thank you all !!

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[jfchaly]

The Valuation Office is in the Irish Life Centre, Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1

Jfch

[BLSstory]

Good Morning !

Could someone please advise me on a Revision Book entry?

My ancestor John's name is seen steadily in every Revision book, but then crossed off in 1883 and the word VACANT is written above it.  Then in 1885 the word RUINS is added.  What does that tell me about John's wife and his 8 children? If his wife were still alive, wouldn't her name have been added when John's name was crossed off? If his children were still in Ireland, wouldn't they inherit his house and have their name added? I think I find John several years later in a Workhouse, but what does this Revision Book entry tell me about his wife and children? 

Thank you for any assistance you can give me.

:-)

[aghadowey]

Most people were tenants and didn't own the place they lived in. What the revision book tells you is that in 1883 the house was vacant and by 1885 was in ruins [not inhabitable]. It could just be that the house was in bad condition and the whole family moved elsewhere. Do you have John's death?

[BLSstory]

No, I don't know his death.  It was certainly not in the town where his house was. After that mention in the 1885 Revision Book, I lose the entire family.  Not there in 1901.

I have it narrowed down to 9 deaths that I found on the civil registrations site, but I can't pinpoint which one.  Informants' names are not familiar to our family.

Do you think his wife is deceased by 1883? And his children (now in their 40's), have moved away? There's nothing from Griffith's in 1853 to 1901 that lets me understand where all 8 children went.

Thank you for any help you can give me.

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