Irish Marriage Records 1800s

For the period before the commencement of civil registration of births marriages and deaths in 1864 church records provide the only record of most births marriages and deaths in the form of registers of baptisms marriages and burials.

Irish marriage records 1800s. The national library of ireland holds some information for 1 142 catholic parishes across ireland and northern ireland and has microfilmed and digitized church records for 1 086 of these parishes. Irish family history foundation online research service for the 32 county genealogy centres throughout ireland. Due to privacy laws recent records may not be displayed. Online irish ancestral birth death and marriage records for ireland.

Below is a copy of the register entry of george nichols and sophia doolittle. Only a few localities are included and the time period varies by locality. Search irish family history records online. Registers in some city parishes in cork dublin galway limerick and waterford begin as early as the 1740s while in other counties such as.

Irish genealogy research center irish family history foundation. Largest online irish genealogy records database for 32 counties. The website is home to the on line historic indexes of the civil registers gro of births marriages civil partnerships and deaths and to church records of baptism marriage and burial from a number of counties. This irish government supported official web site is dedicated to helping you in your search for records of family history for past generations.

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Irish catholic parish registers. The year range represents most of the records. Wicklow cemetery records ww1 irish soldiers wills 1914 1920 government civil registration of marriages in ireland began in 1845 for non catholics and 1864 for catholics. In september 2015 over 2 5 million images of irish births deaths and marriage records from the general register office gro were released online for the first time.

In each case the image shows the marriage register entry. It dates from 1862 two years before all irish marriages had to be registered. The images below are a selection of irish marriage records obtained for my own family history research.