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Knowing your ancestor's occupation may help you distinguish him or her from other individuals with the same name. Moreover, records associated with your ancestor's occupation may provide information about your ancestor's life and family. Some Irish occupational sources include: | Knowing your ancestor's occupation may help you distinguish him or her from other individuals with the same name. Moreover, records associated with your ancestor's occupation may provide information about your ancestor's life and family. | ||
For most Irish the Penal Laws restricted access by Catholic native Irish to government positions and the trades, thus the use of trade directories and apprentice and freemen’s records is limited to the small Protestant minority. | |||
Trade directories can be found through the FamilySearch Catalog and through several of the websites listed on [[Irish Websites (National Institute)|Irish Websites (National Institute)]]. Grenham lists sources for apothecaries, artists, army and militia, attorneys and barristers, bakers, barbers and surgeons, booksellers, Board of Ordnance employees, bricklayers, carpenters, clergymen, clockmakers, coastguards, convicts, cooks, doctors, goldsmiths, linen workers, masons, members of parliament, merchants, millers, navy personnel, plumbers, police, post office employees, printers, prison warders, publicans, railway workers, seamen, silversmiths, smiths, stonemasons, teachers, vintners, watchmakers, and weavers. | |||
One common road out of proverty in Ireland was to join the British Army, the Royal Navy or the police. Many others went to England for stints of work as railway labourers or in other civilian services. On the English census the enumerators were only required to state their country of birth if outside England, but you will sometimes find a county and occasionally a parish. Howerver if they had a job which could ultimately lead to a government pension, such as the army or police force, then it is probable that a record was made of their date and place of birth at the time they joined up or ''attested.''<ref>Christensen, Penelope. "Ireland Occupations (National Institute)," ''The National Institute for Genealogical Studies'' (2012), https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Ireland_Occupations_%28National_Institute%29.</ref> | |||
Some Irish occupational sources include: | |||
*Records of freemen (businessmen who had special privileges, such as the right to vote), which are useful because they may list age, birthplace, parentage, and occupation. | *Records of freemen (businessmen who had special privileges, such as the right to vote), which are useful because they may list age, birthplace, parentage, and occupation. | ||
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:'''Guildhall Library <br>'''Aldermanbury <br>London EC2P 2EJ <br>ENGLAND<br>Internet: http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation | :'''Guildhall Library <br>'''Aldermanbury <br>London EC2P 2EJ <br>ENGLAND<br>Internet: http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation | ||
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{{Place|Ireland}} | {{Place|Ireland}} | ||
[[Category:Ireland|Occupations]] [[Category:Scots-Irish]] | [[Category:Ireland|Occupations]] [[Category:Scots-Irish]] | ||