Irish land records - British Sign Language video. Published date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:00:00 GMT With the loss of the 19th century census returns for Ireland, Sharon Hintze guides us through the alternative sources for family historians researching their Irish ancestors.
Author: Sharon Hintze Duration: 43:14 Transcript This talk … Incidentally, I am staggered at the number of you who are willing to tear yourselves away from the 1911 to come and listen to a talk on any other topic today. And I am well aware that I am not really the world expert on Irish records, so if you are, and you happen to be sitting here, and I say something that you think needs correction please shout out. I am going to give a talk which is based largely on records which are accessible at the London Family History Centre, which is opposite the science museum on Exhibition Road.
Civil registration is widely thought to have disappeared. I try here to be non-sectarian but it’s pretty clear that the exemptions were applied unfairly. [Shows image] Tracing marriages in 18th century England and Wales: a reassessment of law and practice. I’m very glad to have the opportunity to come and talk about my research here today.
It is a topic I’ve been interested in for a long time; in fact, looking back, it surprises me just how long I’ve been engaged on this. I was actually in my early teens when my father decided that he was going to start researching our family tree, so we spent many happy afternoons in Warwickshire records office, patiently reading through parish registers. Conveniently, if somewhat disappointingly for a teenager hoping for some exciting, scandalous ancestors, all our ancestors proved very easy to find. Each generation had married in the parish church, and it was just a matter of going back a generation, and finding them there. When I later came to read accounts of marriage law and practice in the 18th century, this conformity seemed all the more surprising.
One historian even went so far as to claim that half the population married in a simple folk ceremony, before 1754. [Shows slide] The parish: administration and records. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
I’m going to talk to this afternoon a bit about the parish, the historical parish. I’ll say a little bit about the ecclesiastical parish, but it will mainly be about what became, through statutes, the civil parish where more and more administration was actually put on parish officials to administer and run things like the Poor Law and the Laws of Settlement. So, to start off with: a little bit about the historic parish. The parish, as we know it, or the ancient parish, originally started in the eighth, ninth centuries, based around the Anglo Saxon Minsters, the Minster churches, and those parishes covered a large area which could include several market towns and townships. Now, a little bit about the different terms that you will come across. Now the advowson is the right of presentation to the benefice to the living, that’s the appointment of the parish priest when the living becomes vacant.
Now I’m just going to say a little bit about the clergy. Records of births, marriages and deaths. Atlas of Historical County Boundaries Project. National Data Click on the national map to see all of the Atlas' content related to the nation at one view.
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