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Overview
An easy-to-use, informative guide to the comprehensive collections available at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland is a key feature of Ian Maxwell’s handbook. He also takes the reader through the records held in many libraries, museums and heritage centers across the province, and he provides detailed coverage of records that are available online.
Unlike the rest of the British Isles, which has very extensive civil and census records, Irish ancestral research is hampered by the destruction of many of the major collections. Yet Ian Maxwell shows how family historians can make good use of church records, school registers and land and valuation records to trace their roots to the beginning of the nineteenth century and beyond.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473851795 |
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| Publisher: | Pen and Sword |
| Publication date: | 03/30/2016 |
| Series: | Tracing your Ancestors |
| Edition description: | 2nd Edition |
| Pages: | 192 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Where to Begin 11
What Do I Need to Know? 12
A Walk Round a Graveyard 12
Surnames 12
Visiting the Archives 15
Family History Centres 17
Heritage or Genealogical Centres 17
Societies 18
DNA 18
Chapter 2 Census Records 20
1821 20
1831 20
1841 21
1851 21
1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891 22
1901 22
1911 23
1901 and 1911 Censuses Online 23
Old-age Pension Claims 24
Chapter 3 Civil Registration 25
Birth Certificates 26
Marriage Certificates 26
Death Certificates 27
The Indexes 27
General Register Office, Belfast, and District Registrars' Offices 27
Church of Latter-Day Saints 29
Chapter 4 Eighteenth-century Records 31
Survey of Downpatrick, 1708 31
Protestant Householders, 1740 31
Householders Returns, 1766 31
Armagh 'Census', 1770 32
Flaxseed Premiums, 1796 33
Catholic Migrants front Ulster, 1795-96 34
Records Relating to the 1798 Rebellion 34
Chapter 5 Seventeenth-century Records 36
1602 'Census of Fews' 36
Plants of the Tudor Sovereigits, 1521-1603 36
Calendars of Patent Rolls from the Reigns of fames I and Charles I 37
Muster Rolls, 1630s and 1640s 37
Depositions of 1641 Rising 40
Books of Survey and Distribution 41
Civil Survey of Ireland 42
Census of Ireland, c. 1659 43
Poll Tax Returns, 1660 44
Hearth-money Rolls, 1666 45
Subsidy Rolls, 1630s, 1660s 46
The Franciscan Petition Lists, 1670-71 47
Names of Those Attainted by James II, 1689 48
Williamite War and Siege of Londonderry, 1689 49
Regiments of Infantry 50
Chapter 6 The Plantation of Ulster 51
The Records 55
Plantation Records of the London Companies 56
Chapter 7 Church Records 59
The Records 65
Church of Ireland Records 65
Indexes to Church Registers 67
Roman Catholic Church Records 68
Presbyterian Church Records 69
Methodist Records 70
The Religious Society of Friends (or Quakers) 71
Congregational Church Records 71
Baptist Church Records 72
Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church (or Unitarians) 72
Reformed Presbyterian Church (or Covenanters) 73
Moravian Church Records 73
Huguenot Records 74
Jewish Records 74
Census Returns 75
Marriage Licence Bonds 76
Chapter 8 School Records 78
Secondary Education 84
Third-level Education 85
Chapter 9 Valuation and Tithe Records 87
Tithe Applotment Books, 1823-38 87
Valuation Records 88
Chapter 10 Landed Estate Records 93
The Name of the Local Landlord 98
The Records 98
Other Classes of Records 100
Chapter 11 Wilts and Testamentary Records 107
Wills Before 1858 108
Wills, 1858-1900 109
Wills From 1900 110
Chapter 12 Printed Sources 112
Ordnance Survey Memoirs 112
Street Directories and Almanacs 113
Countrywide Directories 114
Provincial Directories 115
Newspapers 119
Chapter 13 Poor Law Records 122
The Records 127
Chapter 14 Local-government Records 130
Corporations 130
Belfast Corporation 130
Other Corporations 132
Town Commissioners 133
Grand fury 134
County Councils 136
Chapter 15 Military Records 138
The Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum 139
The Royal Inniskillen Fusiliers Regimental Museum 140
The Regimental Museum of The Royal Ulster Rifles 140
Militia 141
Yeomanry 143
Volunteers 145
Chapter 16 Electoral Records 147
Voters, Poll and Freeholders' Records 147
Poll Books 148
Electoral Registers and Voters' Lists 149
Chapter 17 Law and Order 152
Policing 152
The Courts 154
Crown and Peace Records 154
Chapter 18 Emigration 157
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast 159
Ulster American Folk Park 162
Chapter 19 Miscellaneous Collections 164
Solicitors' Collections 164
Business Records 165
Orange Order Records 166
Hospital Collections 168
Charity Records 169
Pedigrees 170
Ulster Covenant, 1912 171
Appendix: Useful Addresses 172
Bibliography and Sources 177
Index 179