I would be grateful for any information about James Reilly, a coachbuilder, who lived in Kells. I have very little information other than he had a son, John Patrick Reilly, who was born in Dublin around 1830 and emigrated to England in the 1840s.
Many thanks
Sunday 11th Nov 2012, 03:45PM
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Hi - Thank you for your message.
If you haven't already- you might try:
British parliamentary papers on Ireland can be found at: http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/9824/eppi_pages/215093
The National Archives UK ? genealogy search: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/
The National Archives of Ireland: http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/
Failte Romhat has lots of other useful links you could try looking at ). www.failteromhat.com
Irish Newspaper Archives: http://www.irishnewsarchive.com/
The land records called the Tithe Applotment Books (1823-38) http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/home.jsp or the later Griffith's Valuation (1848-64) http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/ or the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS) https://familysearch.org/ for your relatives.
Do you know their religion? Most Catholic records are held locally - One site which might be of use is - http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/ - where you can ?browse? an overview of available records per county. If you have any difficulty, you could try writing to the parish priest for possible assistance. Church of Ireland parish registers for the period up to 1870-are public records. Registers are available for about one third of the parishes, however many were destroyed in the Public Records Office in Dublin in 1922. Most are still held by the local clergy, although some are in the National Archives of Ireland and others are in the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin. A list of all surviving registers is available in the National Archives. http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42 and http://www.nationalarchives.ie/. The Anglican Record Project is has created an index to their records: http://ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/AboutUs/library/AngRecord/bunclodyunionindex.pdf
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Monday 14th Jan 2013, 11:51AM