Index to selected ireland marriages.
Irish marriage records 1840s.
They are also for the majority of irish people who lived during the 18th and 19th centuries the only record of their existence.
Irish genealogy research center irish family history foundation.
Www irishgenealogy ie is a website that allows users the opportunity to search a wide range of record sources in their search of their irish ancestry.
The images available on.
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.
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.
Online irish ancestral birth death and marriage records for ireland.
Most churches did not keep records of deaths.
It dates from 1862 two years before all irish marriages had to be registered.
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.
The images below are a selection of irish marriage records obtained for my own family history research.
Prior to that time baptism and marriage records were kept at the churches.
This chart shows links to countrywide collections.
Records of birth marriage death church and congregational registers of baptism marriage and burial.
The registers contain records of baptisms and marriages from the majority of catholic parishes in ireland and northern ireland up to 1880.
A few records may be earlier or later.
Below is a copy of the register entry of george nichols and sophia doolittle.
To find links to collections for lower jurisdictions such as a county town or parish go to locating online databases.
This website contains images from the nli s collection of catholic parish register microfilms.
In each case the image shows the marriage register entry.
Non catholic marriages were recorded from 1845.
The website is home to the on line historic indexes of the civil registers gro of births marriages civil partnerships and deaths and to church records of baptism marriage and burial from a number of counties.
Due to privacy laws recent records may not be displayed.
