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 *Admission by an Act of Parliament to "Encourage Protestant Strangers to Settle in Ireland" was granted to French Huguenots and Quakers from England.<br>
-=== Hearth Money Rolls ===
+=== Hearth Money Rolls  ===
 Initiated in 1662, the Hearth Money Rolls were taken into the eighteenth century. They are records relating to the Hearth Money Act of 1662 and additional amending legislation. The rolls usually record the name of the head of the household and the amount of the tax levied.<br>&nbsp;
-=== Muster Rolls ===
+=== Muster Rolls  ===
 These are roll calls of officers and men in each military regiment. They exist for the 17th – 20th centuries. For example, the listing for the year 1631 lists 13,092 names of men and officers in the muster rolls. A detailed listing of these records is found in Tudor and Stuart Muster Rolls, A Directory of holdings in the British Isles, by Jeremy Gibson and Alan Dell, published by the Federation of Family History Societies, 1989.<br>
+=== Spinning Wheel Premium Lists  ===
+To increase the production of linen and the linen trade in 1796, Parliament began subsidizing the flax industry by providing spinning wheels and reels to qualified flax growers. The names provided in these lists provide an excellent snapshot for a time period known for its lack of records. Records for the counties of Dublin and Wicklow do not appear to have survived. These records have been microfilmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah and are available at the Family History Library.<br>
-=== Old Age Pension Records  ===
-Old age pension records were kept by the Irish government starting in 1909 for individuals who filed a claim for an old age pension. Anyone filing a claim had to provide proof of birth or age. In the early days of the program, many people filing claims had been born before civil registration began in 1864. Consequently, they had to find other proof of their birth or age. Church records of baptisms or christenings were hard to find or did not exist. The government decided to accept copies of the 1841 and 1851 census records of these individuals as proof of age. As a result, old age pension records preserve some of the information from the 1841 and 1851 censuses, which were largely destroyed in 1922.
-Most of the surviving old age pension claims are for Northern Ireland and are filed at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Some surviving claims for the Republic of Ireland are held at the National Archives. The Family History Library's copies of Irish old age pension records are listed in the&nbsp;Place Search of the catalog under:
-IRELAND - CENSUS.
-=== Tithe Applotment (taken 1823-38) and Griffith's Primary Valuation (taken 1848-64)  ===
-Tithe Applotment books, Griffith's Primary Valuation records, and later land valuation records are valuable census substitutes, because they record the names of the owners or occupiers of the land. For more information on these census substitutes, see the "[[Ireland Taxation|Taxation]]" section of this outline.
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