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3. Occupation and religion of freeholder 4. Location of the freehold 5. the value of the freehold 6. Names of other lives in lease 7. Landlord ‘s name and address 8. Date and place registered A freeholders register can help pinpoint where an ancestor was living within a county, which is vitally important if the church records were destroyed. People named as "lives" in leases were often related to the leaseholder, so family relationships may be suggested by the freeholders list. PRONI has digitized and indexed over 5,500 pre-1840 freeholders registers and poll books for Northern Ireland, found online at http://applications.proni.gov.uk/Freeholders/default.aspx. Unfortunately, many original manuscript freeholders registers were destroyed in the Public Record Office fire of 1922. However, some freeholders registers were published prior to the fire, such as in newspapers. The County Roscommon Family History Society has, for example, published some County Roscommon freeholders lists found in 1830’s newspapers. Copies of freeholders registers were sometimes kept by private individuals, such as landowners who wanted to know what voting freeholders lived on their estates. For this reason, copies of freeholders lists are found among the papers of landed estate owners. The National Archives of Ireland, the National Library of Ireland, and PRONI each have valuable collections of both freeholders registers and landed estate records. Kyle J. Betit's article "Freeholders, Freemen and Voting Registers" in The Irish At Home and Abroad lists known surviving freeholders records for every county in Ireland (Back issues of The Irish At Home and Abroad are available from GlobalGenealogy.com). Other freeholders records not listed in that article may be found in some other inventories, such as (1) http://sources.nli.ie, which has over 180,000 references, including the card catalog of the NLI; (2) James G. Ryan's book Irish Records; and (3) John Grenham's book Tracing Your Irish Ancestors, which lists many records at the NLI. SOURCES AND SUGGESTED READING Betit, Kyle J. “Land, Estate and Freeholders Records in Ireland”, found online at www.bifhsgo.ca/upload/files/Articles/LandEstateAndFreeholdersRecordsInIreland.pdf Betit, Kyle J. “Irish Land Records” 2-part article published 31 Jul 2001. Online at http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/gazkb/gazkb68.htm. Falley, Margaret Dickson, B. S. Irish and Scotch-Irish Ancestral Research.Privately Printed, 1962. (FHL book Ref 941.5 D27f 2 volumes) Grenham, John. Tracing your Irish Ancestors, 3rd edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2006. FHL 941.5 D27gj 2006. Much of this book is on-line at www.ireland.com/ancestor/browse/. Maxwell, Ian. Tracing your Ancestors in Northern Ireland. Edinburgh: The Stationary Office, 1997. FHL 941.6 A3mi Ouimette, David. Finding your Irish ancestors : a beginner's guide. Provo, Utah: Ancestry Pub., 2005. FHL Rf 941.5 D27od Radford, Dwight and Kyle Betit. Ireland: A Genealogical Guide. Salt Lake City: The Irish at Home and Abroad, 1998. FHL British Ref 941.5D27bkj, FHL film 1145947 item 3 Radford, Dwight and Kyle Betit. A Genealogist’s Guide to Discovering your Irish Ancestors. Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2001. FHL US/CAN 941.5 D27gg Ryan, James. Irish Records: Sources for Family and Local History. Provo, UT: Ancestry Inc., 1997. (now in 2nd ed.) FHL British 941.5 D23r 1997 ffolliott , Rosemary. “The Registry of Deeds for Genealogical Purposes,” in Irish Genealogy—A Record Finder (Dublin: Heraldic Artists Ltd., 1981) © 2012 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
CENSUS RECORDS PATRON CLASS HANDOUT Ireland Census and Civil Registration Census records are one of best ways to locate ancestors at a given place and time • Only 1901 and 1911 survive in their entirety; 1911 images at www.nationalarchives.ie • Fragments exist of the 1821-1851 Censuses: o Wiki.familysearch.org: > Ireland Census Fragments o Ancestry.com: > Search > Search All Records > UK & Ireland > Click either Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland > 1841/1851 Census Abstracts o www.irishtimes.com/ancestor > Browse > The Records > Census Returns o Irish Genealogy Toolkit > http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/population-census.html • Check FHLC > parish/county/country > topics like Census, Land and Property, Taxation • Check Google (or other search engine) - use key words “name of county/parish and census” • Check www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/counties/index.htm for extant records in county. OTHER RECORDS – CENSUS SUBSTITUTES Use www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse for a listing of county-by-county census substitutes Type of record Years Description Where to Find Them Tithe Applotment 1823-1837 Tax record. Contains heads of households only - both those who leased land & those who owned land; few records for cities/large towns (contains Griffith’s Valuation only 40% of all heads of households) 1848-1864 Tax record. Contains heads of households only - both those who leased land & those who owned land; estimated coverage of 80-90% of all heads of households Check Valuation Lists (also known as Cancel Books, Revision Books) – 1850’s to 20 th century; lists of occupiers kept subsequent to Primary Valuation; able to trace a tenement held from generation to generation Northern Ireland (only those 6 counties) on www.ancestry.com www.askaboutireland.ie, www.irishorigins.com, www.ancestry.com, www.failteromhat.com Old Age Pension 1841 & 1851 Earlier records - Field Books, Tenure Books, House Books and Quarto Books – at FHL Based on searches made in 1841 & 1851 www.ireland-genealogy.com Claims censuses (before destroyed) School Records 1831-1921 Typically begin in the mid-to-late 19 th century www.Proni.gov.uk for NI Freeholders List 18 th and 19 th lists of people entitled to vote or who voted at http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/sear Centuries elections – 18th & 19th centuries ch_the_archives/ freeholders_records.htm Elphin Diocesan census 1749 covered parts of Roscommon, Sligo, and Galway www.originsnetwork.com Convert Rolls 1760-1790 Those who converted to the Church of Ireland Religious Taken 1740 & identified numbers of Catholics (“popish” = rebel) 1740 indexed Censuses 1766 Many published; covers only parts of selected www.newenglandancestors.org - counties (mostly Ulster) Antrim, Derry and Donegal; 1766 indexed www.ancestry.com (mostly Northern Ireland) - FHL has microfilm on both Spinning Wheel 1796 A government program; indexed on www.ancestry.com Premium • Anyone who planted at least one rood of flax (¼ acre) entitled to a spinning wheel • Entries for every county - best is Ulster (large
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