Civil Bell Officer

[TreeTreeTree]

We are researching our family history and one of our relatives in the 1901 Irish Census is listed as a Civil Bell Officer. Google has returned no results. Any ideas what this job is/entails? Tynagh, Galway 1901 Irish census. He was 43. Head of family

[AlanBoyd]

I just did a newspaper search which may help, in a strange way. There were two hits, both in Ireland, but they were both actually references to a Civil Bill Officer and this had been ‘misread’ by the OCR.

There are many hits to “Civil Bill Officer” however, with the vast majority in Ireland. So I think you are looking for the definition of a Civil Bill Officer.

[AlanBoyd]

See here for a previous thread on this:

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=74297.0

[aghadowey]

We are researching our family history and one of our relatives in the 1901 Irish Census is listed as a Civil Bell Officer. Google has returned no results. Any ideas what this job is/entails? Tynagh, Galway 1901 Irish census. He was 43. Head of family

Here's the transcribed entry-
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Galway/Tynagh/Tynagh/1396857/
But this is the actual record-
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000844771/
In 1911 listed as a farmer-
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Galway/Tynagh/Tynagh_Town/473380/

[Kiltaglassan]

In 1907 he's still a Civil Bill Officer - youngest child Lucy born at Tynagh.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1907/01694/1672611.pdf

[AlanBoyd]

It seems that lists of court offficers were published regularly in the Irish press. The first mention of Joseph Fahy, Tynagh, Loughrea is in December 1893.

He resigned in 1912: this advert for his replacement appeared, 24 August 1912 in the Galway Express. This is one of a number of similar items  in this issue of the paper, so nothing specific about him I think.

[AlanBoyd]

"Civil Bill Officer" at BNA:

Earliest: 1832, Newry Telegraph
Most recent: 1990, Sligo Champion

There are lots of reports from 1921 about the murder of Civil Bill Officers.

This advert from 1975 is quite informative.

[Wexflyer]

It would be nice if people would submit corrections for the incorrect census transcript.

[aghadowey]

It would be nice if people would submit corrections for the incorrect census transcript.

Over the last number of years I have submitted countless corrections to either transcriptions or images but apparently the correction faeries haven't done any of them yet.