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Kilkenny
County, Ireland
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Kilkenny
Genealogy
- Kilkenny (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 1700
members
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 Waterford, they immediately think
of County Waterford - they'd never think of it having anything to
do with County Kilkenny and genealogical research in County Kilkenny.
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 Kilkenny Genealogy on the History & people
tables
Co.
Kilkenny Ireland, Genealogy & Family History Notes
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County
Kilkenny, 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
Kilkenny. 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.
Captain George Gafney's Memoranda tells us of the exchange rate for
the Irish pound back in the 1600's, the kind of things he bought,
other people are named. Piltown parish 1874 gives us different placename
spellings, tells us where all the churches were located historically
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