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- Carlow (History & people etc)
Google
Groups: Carlow,
Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Offaly Ireland Genealogy A new
group that I set up recently. It's only got one member - me,
but then again, once upon a time Y-IRL the Yahoo group which
I created back in 2001 had only a few members and today, it's
one of the largest Irish Genealogy groups on the internet
Yahoo
Group : Ireland
Genealogy (Y-IRL) A group set up by me in 2001 and currently
with over 1800 members
Genealogy
Carlow
I
don't like 'pure' genealogy per se, that is, the putting of
names on a family tree, instead I like to know about the people,
how they lived and the places they lived in. There are lots
of people who are not like me, who do like to know just the
names and where they came from. The pages linked to below are
pretty much to do with pure genealogy (but a little bit of the
other thrown in!).
To
my mind, the Lewis Topographical Dictionary is one of the
most valuable and ignored tools for genealogists or family
historians because it gives us alternative names and spellings
of parish names, also, most importantly it names the religious
parishes which cover any civil parish. I find that people
generally do not understand the Civil Registration Districts
and the fact that a district can cover townlands in different
counties. If anyone (myself included before I got to know
all this) thinks of most of the registrationdistrict of Carlow,
they immediately think ofnother county, e.g. Enniscorthy would
be Wexford - they'd never think of it having anything to co
with County Carlow and genealogical research in County Carlow.
My version of the Griffiths Primary Valuation differs from
that which you find in the Griffiths CD in that I list the
names of the people who were the 'Immediate Occupiers' and
how many times a persons name is listed as having land in
any townland.
There
is more to do with Carlow Genealogy on the History & people
tables
Irish
Genealogy Research Service
(fee based)
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County
Carlow, history, geography, genealogy, people
Every
time I have seen someone ask if anyone knows anything about
education or emigration on any of the mail lists I have been
subscribed to I always think of the 1931 descriptions of the
counties in Ireland which I have on line. At the end of every
county description there are tables listing the figures for
emigration from the county, education in the county, whether
or not the people speak Irish, and a breakdown of the religious
denominations in the county taken from various census returns
from 1821 through 1926. So, these descriptions are of historical
and genealogical importance.
The
Official Authority listings for the counties listed below
include the addresses of the people named, some of whom were
lviing in County Carlow. The Diocescan listings were one of
the first sets of pages I created for this web site, because
sometime way back then I had read that when a man qualified
as a priest he was usually put back into his own parish, originally
I had considered these tables of importance because they told
us the names of the Roman Catholic parishes in a Diocese in
1836 (which sometimes changed over the years) and they also
told us the name of the closest post town - this never changed.
So, to me, these lists help if I am looking for a Roman Catholic
parish which no longer exists. I find the name of the closest
post town to where-ever it is I am loking for information
about and then I find the records which co exist for that
area, regardless of the name.
Lists
such as the 1832 Military list, the Revenue Officers, the Admiralty
Examinations, the General Synod, the Presbyterian Synod - these
can apply to any county - they are of genealogical & historical
value.
O.C*
= Official Authorities.
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