Ireland Cemeteries: Difference between revisions

Gravestone inscriptions can be a useful source of family history information.  Sometimes, multiple family members are buried in the same vault and the inscription will give information on all that are buried there.  Gravestones may give birth, marriage, and death information. They may also give clues about military service and occupation, or family members buried in the same area. Sometimes they give more information than the parish burial register or civil certificate of death. Gravestone inscriptions are especially helpful for identifying ancestors who are not recorded in other existing records. [http://www.interment.net/ireland/index.htm [[Image:Ireland Cemeteries 1.jpg|thumb|right|314x236px]]]  

*Some gravestone inscriptions have been transcribed by Ireland's county heritage centres. Contact the centre in the county where your ancestor was buried for more information.

 

**Johnson, Keith A.  Some Irish Inscriptions in Old Burial Grounds of New South Wales, Australia.  Numerous headstones with inscriptions recording the death of Irish persons who settled in Australia, giving their native place in Ireland, covering years 1820-1914.  Article in The Irish Ancestor, Vo.III, no.1. 1971, pages 5-10, Family History Ref. 941.5 B2i  

**Jones, Horace E. Some Irish Monumental Inscriptions in England. Found in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cumberland, Hampshire, Kent, Middlesex, Somerset, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire.  Article is in The Irish Ancestor, Vol. 1, no. 2, 1969 page 97-103, 941.5 B2i Family History Library SLC, also [http://www.worldcat.org/title/the-irish-ancestor WorldCat].