Irish Marriage Records 1840s

Most churches did not keep records of deaths.

Irish marriage records 1840s.

Due to privacy laws recent records may not be displayed. Summarising irish birth marriage and death records view civil registration of all births marriages and deaths in ireland became mandatory in 1864. Only a few localities are included and the time period varies by locality. Online irish ancestral birth death and marriage records for ireland.

In each case the image shows the marriage register entry. Prior to that time baptism and marriage records were kept at the churches. Non catholic marriages were recorded from 1845. This website contains images from the nli s collection of catholic parish register microfilms.

A few records may be earlier or later. It dates from 1862 two years before all irish marriages had to be registered. To find links to collections for lower jurisdictions such as a county town or parish go to locating online databases. Below is a copy of the register entry of george nichols and sophia doolittle.

Unlike many other records parish registers provide evidence of direct links between one generation and the next via baptismal registers and one family and another via marriage registers. The registers contain records of baptisms and marriages from the majority of catholic parishes in ireland and northern ireland up to 1880. The images below are a selection of irish marriage records obtained for my own family history research. In september 2015 over 2 5 million images of irish births deaths and marriage records from the general register office gro were released online for the first time.

Records of birth marriage death church and congregational registers of baptism marriage and burial. The images available on. Index to selected ireland marriages. Irish genealogy research center irish family history foundation.

The year range represents most of the records. Ireland online genealogy records. For the period before the commencement of civil registration of births marriages and deaths in 1864 church records provide the only record of most births marriages and deaths in the form of registers of baptisms marriages and burials. This chart shows links to countrywide collections.