Irish Marriage Records 1840s

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Irish marriage records 1840s. Ireland online genealogy records. Non catholic marriages were recorded from 1845. Unlike many other records parish registers provide evidence of direct links between one generation and the next via baptismal registers and one family and another via marriage registers. Index to selected ireland marriages.

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. They are also for the majority of irish people who lived during the 18th and 19th centuries the only record of their existence. Www irishgenealogy ie is a website that allows users the opportunity to search a wide range of record sources in their search of their irish ancestry. Prior to that time baptism and marriage records were kept at the churches.

In each case the image shows the marriage register entry. Online irish ancestral birth death and marriage records for ireland. To find links to collections for lower jurisdictions such as a county town or parish go to locating online databases. Most churches did not keep records of deaths.

The images below are a selection of irish marriage records obtained for my own family history research. The year range represents most of the records. 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. Below is a copy of the register entry of george nichols and sophia doolittle.

A few records may be earlier or later. Irish genealogy research center irish family history foundation. The registers contain records of baptisms and marriages from the majority of catholic parishes in ireland and northern ireland up to 1880. Due to privacy laws recent records may not be displayed.

It dates from 1862 two years before all irish marriages had to be registered. 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. Summarising irish birth marriage and death records view civil registration of all births marriages and deaths in ireland became mandatory in 1864. Only a few localities are included and the time period varies by locality.