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14-01-2010 11:43pm#1
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I found Margaret Franklin’s book “Tracing your Limerick Ancestors” to be a great help when I started to research my own family tree.
There are lots of practical tips and I found it great value for money (circa €11).
I think it was first published in 2003, which would mean it is now due an updated edition to cover all the new material that has since come online.
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Brennans Row wrote: »He gave me the impression that the Church of Ireland administered that particular Roman Catholic graveyard.
Was this arrangement typical for that era?
Maybe I should reread the book that I recommended on the previous page.
It seems the Anglican & Roman Churches had more in common than what differed them.
The same chapter gave some tips about what to do when the legibility of old headstones is poor.Chapter 8 Grave Records and Inscriptions
In Ireland it is important to note that Catholics and Protestants were often buried in one graveyard. So the older Church of Ireland can be a source for some Catholic families.
I observed by chance that the morning sun shining on an old gravestone greatly enhances its legibility.The legibility of the headstones can vary especially as some stones weather easily. Time, weather and tree roots may all have taken their toll on the stones. In order to read old inscriptions chalk or clumps of wet grass rubbed along the lines are all that is required.0 -
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Having started my own family tree research at Mount St. Lawrence’s Cemetery, I needed to make sense of a list of unknown relatives that I had compiled, who were also buried with my uncle (1929) as mentioned on the previous page.
The cemetery burial register has one drawback in that the address of the deceased was the place of death and not necessarily where he/she had lived. Despite that I could still make out a rough family tree when I checked my list of names with those on the 1901/11 census. It was then clear to me that this grave was opened by my great-great-grandparents.
However I needed more information to prove how all those relatives buried there, were related to each other. To do this I needed to get their death certificates. So I took a stroll out to St Camillus Hospital where the civil registration office is situated.
Luckily enough for me the office was quiet that afternoon and a member of staff kindly took some time to answer my queries. She explained that firstly they don’t have research facilities there. Secondly a large selection of records had been digitalized but I think those pre-1921 were in the work-in-progress stage.
Basically, she informed me that they can issue full certified death certs for a €10 fee or online at www.certificates.ie. Alternatively they also issue uncertified certs for research purposes at a cheaper fee of €6. See attachment below.
So when I returned home from Limerick, I made up a new list and mailed it off back to that particular staff member. About a week later she informed me that it was finished and I made arrangements in Limerick to have it collected and paid for.
Facet I was very pleased with the research certs and they were professionally well done.
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Did women fib about their age in the past too?Historical Note
Smallpox has been one of humankind's greatest scourges which affected all ages and socioeconomic classes.
The critical step towards the eradication of smallpox occurred when Edward Jenner and English physician noticed that milkmaids who developed cowpox, a less serious disease, did not develop the deadly smallpox. By 1796 he had developed a vaccine (from vacca, the Latin word for cow).
Efforts at immunization in Ireland in the first half of the eighteenth century were generally unsuccessful until the1864 Compulsory Vaccination Act. Parents were fined if they did not have their children vaccinated while Registrars responsible for the registration of births deaths and marriages in dispensary districts were responsible for registration of vaccinations and were paid per entry. This ensured success of the first mass vaccination scheme in Ireland.
Limerick City Archives holds Records of Successful Vaccinations for Limerick City and part of county Limerick which list the names and ages of children aged between 4-9 months, and the names and addresses of their parents. The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared smallpox eradicated in 1980.
Well my great grandaunt seemed to have done so. At a stage of my research where I had no birth / baptism certificates, I simply estimated the year of birth from the age given in the 1901 / 1911 census, burial register, death certificate or headstone. In the case of my great grandaunt I estimated five different years of birth for her. Such inconsistencies simply wreck my head!
Luckily enough I came across the vaccination registers from the Limerick Archives and I found a record entry dated 1869 where she at the age of five months was vaccinated. Thankfully at that tender age she no capacity to fib. I also found other siblings of her which helped expand my family tree.
Facet, these registers are a little gem of a resource.0 -
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Pauper Limerick, The Register of the Limerick House of Industry, 1774-1793
Edited by: David Fleming and John Logan
The register of the Limerick House of Industry contains information on the age, sex, place of origin, religion, medical condition, admission and discharge, amongst other details, of 2,747 inmates for the period 1774-1793. Of the twelve houses of industry established under the Irish poor law of 1771-2, this is the only admission book known to have survived and is unique for Ireland.
While revealing the mechanisms employed to administer a significant institution, the register also provides a singular record for a social group whose history is necessarily elusive. It also provides evidence of individual strategies for dealing with poverty, infirmity, disease and lunacy.
This source will be invaluable to scholars of poverty, social provision, medicine, urban life, institutions and gender in the early modern period.
Genealogists researching families in Limerick, Clare, Tipperary and Cork (the places in which most of the inmates originated) will also find it useful as will those historians interested in the history of those counties.
ISBN: 978-1-906865-10-8
A truly fascinating book.0
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