Ireland & Vale of Avoca
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In reply to:
Re: Aylward Five Islands Nova Scotia
3/30/01
Jennifer:
The Vale (Valley) of Avoca is about 5 miles NW of Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland, just about ½ way between Dublin to the north and Wexford to the south.
You might want to try the following info sources:
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The National Archives, Bishop Street, Dublin 8, Ireland
Tel: (+353-1) 407-2300; Fax: (+353-1) 407-2333
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Reading Room hours: 10.00 - 17.00 Monday - Friday
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Great starting point for Irish & UK research
Irish Genealogy - http://irishgenealogy.com/IrishResearch.htmhttp://irishgenealogy.com/IrishResearch.htm -
- GUIDE TO IRISH RESEARCH - BY COUNTIES - WITH LINKS
- LIST OF LOCAL AND PARISH HISTORIES OF IRELAND
- http://www.goireland.com/Genealogyhttp://www.goireland.com/Genealogy - includes popular surnames by County, Irish Ancestor Search, Genealogy Centres in Ireland, and LINKS to other international genealogical resources
- http://www.goireland.com/Genealogy/Html/ancestor_search.htmhttp://www.goireland.com/Genealogy/Html/ancestor_search.htm - part of "Go Ireland" site above, concentrating on BIRTH and MARRIAGE RECORDS when you know your ancestor's name, or parents? name[s], or religion, and general location in Ireland - THEY WILL CHARGE FOR THIS SERVICE [in £ - Irish Punts]
Info source - http://www.bess.tcd.ie/irlgen/admindiv.htmhttp://www.bess.tcd.ie/irlgen/admindiv.htm -
There are 26 counties in the Republic of Ireland and 6 counties in Northern Ireland. Most document collections are organised on a county basis. There are 331 baronies in Ireland. A Barony is an important county subdivision. There are generally between seven and ten baronies per county. A barony can occupy parts of two counties in which case it is referred to as half a barony. There are 2508 Civil Parishes in Ireland. They were originally church (ecclesiastical) divisions and they often break both county and barony boundaries. There are 60,462 Townlands in Ireland. It is the smallest administrative division and on average covers about 350 acres. Many Townlands share the same name. For example, there are 56 Kilmores and 47 Dromores.
The Poor Law Act of 1838 introduced another administrative division - The Poor Law Union. Initially there were 130 and eventually 163 Poor Law Unions. Between 1838 and 1852, 163 workhouses were built throughout the country, each at the centre of an area known as a Poor Law Union. The workhouses were normally situated in a large market town, and the Poor Law Union comprised the town and its catchment area, with the result that the Unions in many cases ignored the existing boundaries of parish and county. The workhouse in the town provided relief for the unemployed and destitute, generally under very harsh conditions. Records were kept of the inmates, and these can provide useful research material.
"Griffiths 1848-1864 Land Valuation"showed those owning land in parish, location, county in Ireland. Griffith's is a land tax record, so the Anglo-Irish will be over-represented and the native Irish under-represented; but, until all the Church records are computerized, it's the only thing we have to work with.
With the CD of Griffith's Valuation, you can easily do Irish genealogical research. Get one from Family Tree Maker (FTM). It even has a spell checker for surnames and place names, it is of great value.
With the known area (Townland) write the County (*county name) Historical Society and ask if the land was part of an English Estate from 1750-1840. If so, there will be estate records of who were the tenant farmers on the land then. The records may well be archived in England now. An estate map may be available from the 1830's. You may find the plot with the family surname on it.
Irish records (UK & Ireland Genealogy):
- http://midas.ac.uk/genuki/http://midas.ac.uk/genuki/ Irish -
- http://genealogy.org/~ajmorrishttp://genealogy.org/~ajmorris /ireland/ireland.htm -
"Irish Research" by John Grenham - county by county information
Marcel Benoit has reprints of Ireland counties, most between 1872-1880. The scale (1 inch to 6 miles) clearly shows villages and roads.
New England Historical & Genealogical Society (NEHGS) - "Search for Missing Friends"
- http://www.nehgs.org/http://www.nehgs.org/ - Prominent American genealogist Gary Boyd Roberts - the eight volumes of "The Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot," published by NEHGS between 1989 and 1999, were edited largely by B. Emer O'Keeffe (the first several introductions were by Ruth-Ann M. Harris of Northeastern University, who designed and initiated the project). These advertisements for missing relatives identify the place origins (county and parish, townland or barony) of probably over 100,000 19th-century immigrants. Most Northeasterners of largely Irish, especially "Boston Irish" descent, should find ancestors or kinsmen herein - as did Marie Daly of our staff and Sheila Fitzpatrick of TIARA.
"The Pilot" was the major Catholic newspaper of 19th-century America, and these paid advertisements (by no means cheap) compose, I believe, the largest body of known place origins for any "Old World" ethnic group of the last 150 years. The ads also tell thousands of capsule "stories," often poignant and in the aggregate of much interest to historians of Irish America. An initial Savage or Torrey for Irish-American genealogy, 'Missing Friends' is perhaps a first work toward a "genealogical dictionary" for a sizeable section of this population, and is the major non-Yankee publication effort to date by NEHGS or any other genealogical society. A few other multi-volume lists or compilations on 19th- and 20th-century immigrant groups are also mentioned.
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- http://www.ancestordetective.com/4IGC.htmhttp://www.ancestordetective.com/4IGC.htm - 4th Irish Genealogical Congress - 18-23 September 2001, Trinity College, Dublin -
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Dún Laoghaire Genealogical Society - http://www.dun-laoghaire.com/genealogy/http://www.dun-laoghaire.com/genealogy/ - Overseas members receive a monthly bulletin "The Genie Gazette" and the services of their own Overseas Members' Officers, Marie Keogh and Annette MacDonnell. Membership is I£10.00 (10 Irish punt) per annum.
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- http://listserv.heanet.ie/fitzpatrick-clan.htmlhttp://listserv.heanet.ie/fitzpatrick-clan.html -
- http://www.irishclans.com/clans/Fitzpatrick/fitz2000.htmlhttp://www.irishclans.com/clans/Fitzpatrick/fitz2000.html -
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