It’s a special anniversary! On 7th February 1619, the oldest surviving register in existence in Ireland, the combined register from St John’s parish in Dublin, commenced. This makes this particular volume 400 years old this month. During her recent visit to…
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The Irish Huguenot Archive
For the first time a detailed finding aid to the content of the Irish Huguenot Archive is now available online. In 1993, the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland entered into an agreement with the Representative Church Body to…
Tagged with: archive, baptism, burial, Church of Ireland, eighteenth century, genealogy, Huguenot, La Touche, manuscript, marriage, nineteenth century, RCB Library, register
The value of Church of Ireland registers: Ballincollig military men & their families 1810-1922
The details of some 2,187 people – soldiers and their families – recorded in the registers of Ballincollig Garrison Chapel have been recovered using the registers of baptisms, marriages and burials between 1810 and 1922 now in the safe custody…
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Representative Church Body Library Conservation Fund
At the start of 2017 in the RCB Library in Dublin – which serves both as the Church of Ireland’s repository of records and its theological reference library – there is focus on the Conservation Fund for its records. January’s…
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Online publication of the Killoughter Vestry Minute Book, 1813–1916
For historians and others interested in the Church of Ireland and its relevance for local history who have ever wondered ‘What is a vestry book?’ the answer is to be found in a colourful online presentation at the RCB Library’s…
Tagged with: baptism, burial, Cavan, Church of Ireland, Kilmore, local history, marriage, nineteenth century, parish, RCB Library, records, register, Vestry Book
Update: List of Church of Ireland Parish Registers
By no means the only Church of Ireland resources, parish registers are nevertheless the collections which most obviously connect the Church of Ireland community to the worldwide diaspora. As previously reported, the Representative Church Body Library collaborated with the Irish…
Local history: using parish registers & gravestone inscriptions
In the latest of fascinating accounts on the value of exploring Church of Ireland parish registers, Gerry Kearney explores his approach to tracking parochial families in Killinane and Kilconickny in County Galway. Killinane Killinane, sometimes recorded as Killinan, was a vicarage…
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Conversions in St Audoen’s, Dublin, 1827-47
An unusual source was recently brought to the attention of the RCB Library staff by professional genealogist Máire Mac Conghail who is a regular user of the Library’s family history resources. Having consulted the combined register for St Audoen’s parish…
Tagged with: baptism, burial, Church of Ireland, Digitisation, emancipation, local history, marriage, nineteenth century, Protestant, RCB Library, register, Tipperary
CofI 19c registers: escape from African slavery
The RCB Library in Dublin is custodian of over 1000 collections of Church of Ireland records which have been transferred from the parishes where they were created to the library’s safe custody. Within each collection are various categories of records,…
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Table of Church of Ireland parish registers
As of last month the Representative Church Body Library (RCBL), in collaboration with the National Archives of Ireland (NAI), has released an online master list of Church of Ireland parish registers. The online list, which include information relating to baptisms, marriages and…
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