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Irish Freemason Records on Ancestry

Thomas from Presence · 2015-11-24 17:56:09

The membership registries of both English and Irish Freemasonry are up on Ancestry.com Very interesting database and can reveal occupation and death dates for ancestors. The records go back to early to mid 18th century!

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Thomas from Presence

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The membership registries of both English and Irish Freemasonry are up on Ancestry.com

Very interesting database and can reveal occupation and death dates for ancestors. The records go back to early to mid 18th century!

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#2 24-11-2015 6:18pm

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Yeah, I've noted that for usage the next time I get a sub!

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#4 24-11-2015 7:01pm

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61 hits for my mothers rather rare, but conventionally protestant surname. That's going on the list for a likely Christmas period sub...

My father's extremely common surname only throws up 409 and I'd hazard a guess there's more like 1000 times more instances of that surname in Ireland than 6 and an half.

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