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The Church of Ireland was the state church or Established Church in Ireland from 1536.  Each parish in Ireland kept its own records of christenings, marriages, and burials.  '''[[Church of Ireland Records|Read more...]]'''
The Church of Ireland was the state church or Established Church in Ireland from 1536.  Each parish in Ireland kept its own records of christenings, marriages, and burials.  '''[[Church of Ireland Records|Read more...]]'''
== Catholic Records  ==
[[Image:Catholic Church in Ireland 1.jpg|thumb|right|197x269px]]Catholic parish registers for most rural areas were not kept until the 1820s or later. Records for urban areas started earlier. Each parish kept its own records. 
Catholic parish registers mainly include christening and marriage records. Few registers contain death or burial records. Occasionally a register will contain a parish census. Some Catholic registers are in Latin.  '''Read more...'''
=== Christenings (Baptisms)  ===
Children were usually christened (baptized) within a few weeks of birth, though some christenings of older children or adults are recorded. Parish registers provide at least the name of the person christened and the christening date. They usually record the name of the father and frequently the first name of the mother. They may also record birth date, legitimacy, father's occupation, and the family's place of residence. In larger cities, registers often provide the family's street address.
=== Marriages  ===
Catholic marriage records normally provide the date of the marriage, the names of the bride and groom, and the names of the witnesses. Occasionally, places of residence are listed. If the bride and groom are related, the degree of relationship is often given as well.
=== Burials  ===
These records give the name of the deceased, date of burial and sometimes an occupation or residence (townland). Later years often include the age at death and for children at least one of the names of the parents, usually the father. Burials were restricted for the Catholic clergy and many are to be found in the Church of Ireland. Others are scattered throughout the countryside and may require the Ordinance Survey maps to identify. Prior to 1880, only 214 Irish Catholic parishes recorded burials compared to 1042 that recorded records of baptisms.
=== Other Catholic Church Records  ===
'''Payment of Parish Dues'''
Some parishes will record the payment of parish dues among its parishioners. Sometimes included are receipts for a particular fund-raising effort, usually that of buildings within the parish.
'''Entry of Converts'''
These records generally relate to the baptisms of adults and some of the better examples give the date of birth or age of the adult so baptized.<br>'''Diocesean Archival Materials'''
The archive materials&nbsp;contain a certain amount of parish miscellany, usually to do with petitions from parishioners to the dioceses requesting favors. Many of these usually center around the retaining or removal of a particular parish priest. These materials are generally located in the diocesan archives library.
'''Priests or Nuns'''
Records relating to the lives of priests and/or nuns in the Catholic church are to be found primarily in two sources. The Irish Catholic Directory (published annually since 1836) and the published list Maynooth Students &amp; Ordinations Index 1795-1982 by Patrick J. Hamell (Maynooth: no date) covering the first 100 years of those who entered the seminary at Maynooth.
=== Locating Catholic Records  ===
Original parish registers are in local custody. Sometimes a priest will search parish records for you. Names, addresses, and parishes of priests are listed in the Irish Catholic Directory and Diary.
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold">Heritage Centers</span>. Many catholic parish records, some as far back as the 1790's, as well as records of other churches, as well as census records, are being collected in repositories called Heritage Centers. Heritage Centers are part of a country-wide system, the Ireland Family History Foundation, which has begun to digitize millions of the records. &nbsp;The digitized records are currently available for on-line research at&nbsp;http://www.brsgenealogy.com/ . Persons' names on birth, marriage and other records can be located, but a significant fee is charged to see the full record, which may contain much additional helpful information.
Filmed copies of almost all pre-1880 parish records are held by the National Library of Ireland. Filmed copies of pre-1880 parish registers for Northern Ireland are also kept by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Some of the filmed parish registers at the National Library are restricted. To search these registers, you must have written permission from the priest of the parish or the bishop of the diocese in which the registers were kept.
The Family History Library has microfilm copies of many Catholic parish registers. These are listed in the catalog under IRELAND, [COUNTY], [PARISH] - CHURCH RECORDS, where [PARISH] is the civil parish in which the Catholic parish is located. Maps showing Catholic parish boundaries for every county in Ireland can be found in:
Grenham, John. ''Tracing Your Irish Ancestors: The Complete Guide''. Dublin, Ireland: Gill and Macmillan, 1992. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&callno=941.5+D27gj book Ref 941.5 D27gj].)
=== Selected Bibliography  ===
1. Betit, Kyle J. “Priests, Nuns and Brothers in Ireland.” ''The Irish at Home and Abroad'', 5:2 (1998).
2. Bevan, Amanda and Andrea Duncan. ''Tracing Your Ancestors in the Public Record Office'' 4th Edition. London: Public Record Office Handbooks No. 19, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1990.
3. Falley, Margaret Dickson. ''Irish and Scotch-Irish Ancestral Research''. 2 volumes. Evanston, Illinois, privately printed, 1962.
4. Grenham, John. ''Tracing Your Irish Ancestors''. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1992.
5. Hunter, Dean J. “Irish Collection of the Genealogical Society of Utah.” ''The Irish Genealogist ''Vol. 8, No. 4 (1993).
6. McCarthy, Tony. ''The Irish Roots Guide''. Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1991.
7. Nolan, William. ''Tracing the Past, Sources for Local Studies in the Republic of Ireland''. Dublin: Geography Publications, 1982.
8. Ryan, James. ''Irish Records, Sources for Family &amp; Local History''. 2d edition. Provo, Utah: Ancestry Publishing, 1997.
9. Ryan, James. ''Irish Church Records, Their history, availability and use in family and local history research''. Glenageary, Dublin: Flyleaf Press, 1992.
10. Wight, Judith Eccles. ''A Rose by any Other Name, A Guide to Irish Christian Names''. Sandy, Utah, privately printed, 1984.<br>


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