Parish Records - Ordering copies of parish Marriage entry/civil records

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Permalink Reply by james hart on February 20, 2011 at 12:13pm

Please DO NOT PAY for a site .All you need is address of local BMD register office and a copy costs, I believe, 6 euros.

Permalink Reply by Julia Coppard on February 20, 2011 at 1:47pm

Thanks James.

Permalink Reply by Donna Gates-Smeall on February 20, 2011 at 7:51pm

For those records earlier than 1921, you most likely need to contact the county parish or the churches located in that locale to find out where the record is FIRST; then you should write a letter to the priest who manages the parish; he would be able to tell you whether the records are intact or not.  As early as 1648, many parish records were either destroyed or else displaced due to the Cromwell incursion into Ireland to claim Ireland for England.

If it wasn't Cromwell's fault; then the blame can be placed on the "Reign of Terror" prior to Cromwell's takeover.

Persecution of religious preferences were imposed upon many of the Irish living in Ireland in the 1600-1800s so much so, that many residents simply packed up and moved out of Ireland to avoid oppression.

I would recommend that you start at the National Archives in Kew, Surrey which handles records beginning in 1837.  Birth certificates after 1837 are generally found in the county's General Register Office.    

 

The International Genealogical Index (IGI) was established by the LDS Church of the Latter-Day Saints of Jesus Christ and can be found at www.familysearch.org.  This service usually requires a small fee of some sort or a subscription to access the records.  A final source to start with would be the Society of Genealogists website at www.sog.org/uk;  If the link doesn't work, Google it.

 

Hope this helps.

Donna

 

Permalink Reply by Julia Coppard on February 26, 2011 at 1:27pm

Thanks Donna.

I believe I can order them through the Irish GRO by mailing application forms rather than online ordering.

Familysearch.org is a great free resource and that's where I got the original Irish Civil index info. from.

Permalink Reply by Donna Gates-Smeall on February 26, 2011 at 2:18pm

Cool.  I didn't know familysearch.org was free!?

 

Permalink Reply by Julia Coppard on February 26, 2011 at 6:29pm

I have found a lot of info just on the free searches for England & Ireland Parish records on familysearch. For census and other indexes I use ancestry, but they don't go as far back as Family Search seems to...at least, for where my relatives lived.
Do you have English ancestry?