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17 Saturday Jan 2015

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cat-d-013St.Mary’s RC Church, Mulberry Street, Manchester. Full transcriptions with register images.

  • Baptisms : 1794-1812, 1812-1819, 1820-1831, 1832-1841 & 1842-50
  • Marriages : 1831-1836
  • Burials : 1816-1825 & 1832-1837
  • plus a List of Parents, extracted from the Baptism Registers

St.Mary’s is the oldest existing Catholic Church in Manchester and Salford. The Manchester Mission first began in 1773, in a room in Roman Entry (off High St.). In 1776, it moved to Rook Street Chapel (off Market St.). The Mission finally moved, in 1794, to Mulberry Street and remained on the same site, as a functioning parish church, to the present day. The Registers have been fully transcribed and, with the exception of the Marriages, are presented in Surname sorted order in searchable PDF format.

Baptisms are contiguous from 1794 to 1850. The Burial ground is under the floor of the church (now sealed). The Registers have a seven year gap, with a further 18-month break within the second register. Legal marriages were not permitted here until 1837, but the Register records the Sacrament of Marriage for a five year period. In the absence of a full Marriage Register, there is a list of Parents, extracted from the five Baptism Registers and presented as two (father & mother) surname sorted tables with the child’s Baptism date to help fix a time frame. Also the parents list is supplied as an unformatted (CSV) text file, which may be copied into a spreadsheet for personal analysis. The Clergy are listed, with the date of their first appearance in a register.

These records are presented in DVD format and the publication can be ordered on our GENfair site.

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More Irish Catholic Records coming online

17 Saturday Jan 2015

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More information about Irish Catholic register courtesy of The British GENES Blog

National Library of Ireland Announces its Most Significant Ever Digitisation Project for Irish Genealogy

The National Library of Ireland (NLI) has today (01.12.14) unveiled details of its most ambitious digitisation project to date. The project will see the Library’s entire collection of Catholic parish register microfilms made available online – for free – by summer 2015.

The records are considered the single most important source of information on Irish family history prior to the 1901 Census. Dating from the 1740s to the 1880s, they cover 1,091 parishes throughout Ireland, and consist primarily of baptismal and marriage records.

Commenting today, Colette O’Flaherty, Head of Special Collections at the NLI, said: “This is the most ambitious digitisation project in the history of the NLI, and our most significant ever genealogy project. We believe it will be of huge assistance to those who wish to research their family history. At this stage, we have converted the microfilm reels on which the registers are recorded into approximately 390,000 digital images. We will be making all these images available, for free, on a dedicated website, which will be launched in summer 2015.

“Anyone tracing Irish family history will be able to access this site – from anywhere in the world – and search for the parish in which they are interested. They will be able to see a list of registers for that parish, and will be able to click on whichever registers they like to browse through the images contained within.

“The information in the registers varies from parish to parish but, typically, includes the dates of the baptisms or marriages, and the names of the key people involved, including godparents or witnesses. Obviously, such information is extremely valuable for both amateur genealogists and professional researchers.

“The microfilms have been available to visitors to the NLI since the 1970s. However, this project means that, for the first time, anyone who likes will be able to access these registers without having to travel to Dublin.”

Contribution of the Catholic Church
Ms. O’Flaherty said the registers are a wonderful legacy of the Catholic Church to Ireland.

“The role of the Catholic Church in creating and maintaining these records during some of the most turbulent times in Irish history must be acknowledged and praised,” she said. “Most census records from this period were destroyed in the Four Courts fire of 1922, so these parish registers are the most comprehensive surviving source of information on Irish families in the 1700s and 1800s.

“The NLI has worked with the Catholic Church to preserve these registers since the 1950s, when we were initially invited to make microfilm copies. Now, in the 21st Century – and in keeping with our aim of enhancing accessibility through making our collections available online – we are delighted to embark on this major digitisation project.”

What Type of Information Will be Available?
The 390,000 digital images due to be published by the NLI will be searchable by parish location only. They will not be transcribed or indexed by the NLI, and the images will be of the microfilms of the original registers, which – in some cases – were in poor condition when the microfilming took place. The images will be in black and white.

“Anyone who has traced their family history knows it can sometimes be frustrating due to illegible handwriting on original records or poor-quality reproductions or transcriptions,” said Colette O’Flaherty. “Unfortunately, we do not have the resources to transcribe or index the images we are making available.

County Carlow Roman Catholic records on RootsIreland

17 Saturday Jan 2015

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I don’t normally blog about Irish records as our society really only deals with Catholic Family History for England, Wales, and Scotland, but I found out about these newly available records from the The British GENES Blog and quite a few readers will be interested in them.

Roman Catholic parish records from County Carlow have been transcribed and made available on RootsIreland. The following are the parishes available, followed by year ranges for baptisms (146,000 entries) and then marriages (58,000 records):

  • Bagenalstown,  1820 – 1899,  1820 – 1899
  • Ballon,  1781 – 1899,  1778 – 1899
  • Borris,  1782 – 1899,  1782 – 1899
  • Cathedral of The Assumption,  1744 – 1899,  1769 – 1899
  • Clonegal,  1831 – 1899,  1800 – 1899
  • Clonmore,  1819 – 1899,  1813 – 1899
  • Graiguecullen/Killeshin, 1808 – 1899,  1820 – 1899
  • Hacketstown,  1823 – 1899,  1824 – 1899
  • Leighlinbridge,  1783 – 1899,  1783 – 1899
  • Myshall,  1846 – 1899,  1812 – 1899
  • Rathvilly,  1797 – 1899,  1804 – 1899
  • St. Mullins,  1796 – 1899,  1804 – 1899
  • Tinryland,  1806 – 1899,  1813 – 1899
  • Tullow,  1739 – 1899,  1748 – 1899

The digitised images for these and all Roman Catholic parish registers up to 1880 or 1900 (varies between parishes) will be available on the National Library of Ireland website in the middle of this year, though will not be indexed, only browsable.

RootsIreland is a subscription site, not a free site. The British GENES Blog is well worth a look, always lots of useful information.

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