County Kildare takes its name from St.
Brigid’s monastery beneath an oak tree;
Cill Dara, the church of the oak tree.This 6th century saint is one of the three patrons of Ireland. Little
factual evidence is known about the saint but it is traditionally
believed that she founded a monastery at
Kildare which was unique in that it was a mixed community of nuns and
monks. It was
there that she died in 525 AD. The eternal fire, which was tended by the
nuns there,
was extinguished at the time of the Reformation.
The stories about Brigid have been linked to a pagan
sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Brigda on the same site, beneath the
oak trees. Many miracles are attributed
to Brigid, one of which explains her links with the Curragh plains. In
reward for curing the local king of an ailment he offered her whatever
she wished for. Her request was that her give her as much ground as her
cloak would cover to graze her flock of sheep on the plain. He agreed,
and when she spread her cloak it marvelously spread out to cover the
entire plain.
St. Brigid’s Cross, woven from rushes, is said to have been first
plaited by the saint when she was explaining the mysteries of the
Christian gospel to a dying pagan. The cross is still being made, and is
place over the door to protect people from illness or bad luck.
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Trace
the career of a British merchant seaman
Official Logs of British Merchants
Seaman's Career
Death of a British merchant seaman at sea.
Tracing a seaman in any one of the census
years
Tracing the career of a Customs or Excise
Officer
Trawlers
20th Century career of a British Merchant
Seaman
Researching the career of a British Master
Mariner
Master Mariner
First Steam Ship to cross the Atlantic
The White Star Line
Crew lists and related documents
contributed by Debbie
Beavis
To find out more join The
Mariner's Mailing list
Need a picture of a
ship - type of?
List of contact addresses for various archives,
maritime organizations or institutions
whose collections include the primary
documents required in tracing British Merchant
and Royal Navy ships and
seamen.
The Public Record Office,
Ruskin Avenue,
Kew,
Surrey, TW9
4DU
0181-876-3444
The
Family Record Centre,
Myddleton
Place,
London
EC1 1UW
0181-392-5300
The National
Maritime Museum
Romney Road,
Greenwich,
London SE10 9NF
0181-858-4422
The
Guildhall Library
Aldermanbury,
London EC2P 2EJ
0171-606-3030
The Registry of Shipping and Seamen,
Anchor House,
Cheviot Close,
Parc-Ty-Glas,
Llanishen,
Cardiff CF4 5JA
Lloyds Register of
Shipping
100 Leadenhall
Street,
London,
EC3A 3BP
Maritime History
Archive
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St John's,
Newfoundland,
Canada A1C 5S7
Ministry of Defence
CS(R)2E,
Bourne Avenue,
Hayes,
Middlesex
Irish Information
Griffiths Valuation, a property assessment of
all properties in Ireland, took place during the
years 1848 to 1864.
Need a birth certificate or a marriage certificate from Ireland?
Birth certificates include the date and
place of birth; the name; the sex; the name, surname
and residence of the
father; the name, surname, maiden surname of the mother; the rank,
profession
or occupation of the father; and the name and qualifications of the
informant,
usually a family member. A given name was not obligatory, so some
entries are Kelly, Male
or Clarke, Female. The FHLC holds microfilm copies of
the index and certificates for 1864-
1955.
Marriage certificates include the date and place
of marriage; groom's name, age, marital status, occupation or title, and
residence; bride's name, marital status, age, occupation or title, and
residence. The names of the fathers of both parties and their occupations or
titles are given
which makes them particularly relevant to genealogy. The
church and the names of two
witnesses are also listed. Witnesses to the
marriage are commonly family members and may
add clues to family linkages.
Full age indicates that the person was at least 21 years old.
Registration of non-Catholic marriages began in
1845 in Ireland. Registration of births,
marriages and deaths,
regardless of religion, began January 1,
1864. Certificates for
births, marriages and deaths for all
of Ireland until 1922 and for the Republic until the
present are
housed in Dublin. Belfast has the records for Northern Ireland from 1922 to
present.
General Register Office
Joyce House
8-11 Lombard St.
East, Dublin 2
Certificates: Including particular Search Fees
Extra copies
Birth Certificate EUR6.98 EUR5.08
Death Certificate EUR6.98 EUR5.08
Marriage Certificate EUR6.98 EUR5.08
Short birth Certificate EUR4.44 EUR2.54
2. Search Fees:
Particular Search: A search (in the public office by the applicant) over and
period not
exceeding five years for any given entry. EUR1.90
General Search: EUR15.24
Search (in the public office by applicant) through the indexes to either
Births or Deaths
during any number of successive hours not exceeding six, or
to indexes to Marriages during
any number of successive days not exceeding
six, without specifying the object of the search.
(Fee does not include the
cost of certificates or photocopies.)
3. Photocopy of entry in the Register: EUR3.81
When reference information is supplied: EUR1.90 .
4. Authentication of a Certificate EUR1.90
5. Payment: Cheques, Postal Orders, etc., should be made payable to" THE
REGISTRAR GENERAL"
6. FOREIGN APPLICATIONS - Fees are payable in
Euro cash or international money
order (drawn on any Irish Bank) made payable
to the Register-General. We also accept
Sterling
cash or cheques, Postal Orders, US$ cash or Cheques.
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND APPLICATIONS - Fees are payable in Euro currency,
cheque
which must be drawn on an Irish Bank, Postal Money Order made payable to
the
Registrar-General.
To find the current currency in Euro
http://eurotrip.com/exchangerates.html
or
http://quote.yahoo.com/m3?u or
http://www3.travelocity.com/converter/
to get the currency exchange rate for the day.
What are Sealings for the Dead?
Sealings for the Dead" have to do with the LDS religion. They believe
that if they search
and find their ancestry they can take each ancestor into
the temple and have them baptized
and sealed.
The Ancestral Files found on the LDS family
search are generally families who have been sealed.
Lookup Volunteers:
You are cordially invited to sign up to be a Kildare Volunteer. We could not
possibly have
enough wonderful people who are willing to help others to find
Angus ancestors. We would
love to have your help.
Willing to help? What do you do?
You may have an old history book with an index and be willing to check to see
if someone's
ancestor is listed. You might have Tax Lists, Census Records,
Courthouse Records, Death
Records. Someone needs your information.
Please e-mail me if you are interested
Linda Sullivan-Simpson
An alternative to lookups...Indices:
Would you be interested in typing an index from any one of the
old Kildare history books?
This would be a once and done, permanent help to
all of us doing research
New KILDARE Queries:
The new queries will be posted automatically.
The instructions are below:
1...Place
ALL SURNAMES (within your query) in CAPS.
2...Enter your information exactly as you want it to appear.
3...Please, KILDARE QUERIES ONLY..
4...Please TURN OFF THE CAPS. It's hard to see the surnames if your
whole query is in caps
5...No more then 3 surnames per query please. It makes it to hard to follow
Visit
our query Board
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to this list, please let me know.
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Curragh of Kildare
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Towns
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Harbourne
Home Page
Godfrey/Kozoriz
Clan Dunne of
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Shaw
Families
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Curran Family of Kildare
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County
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KNNeDigest
weekly summary of the news carried
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Kildare.ie
information on all aspects of life
in County Kildare, Ireland.
GenUKI - Kildare
Genealogy Resources on
the Internet
pages maintained by John and Chris
Gaunt
World News Index
directs you to tnews in a
variety of media
Resources
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Passenger
Ship Lists
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Irish Sites
Ireland
- the Encyclopedia
Cousinconnect.com
Ireland Genealogy Queries
UK Genealogy - Ireland
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Irishroots
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Ireland
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GenForum
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The IreAtlas/
Townland
Data Base
Genealogical
Society of Ireland
1824 Survey of Irish
Schools
Celtic Orgins
Irish Web
site Directory
Ireland's Internet web search engine
The Irish
Times
The
National Library of Ireland Libraries in Ireland to
1850
Lists all libraries in Ireland to 1850
The Irish Ancestral
Research Association (TIARA)
GenUKI- Ireland
Ireland
& Northern Ireland - Cyndi's List
Irish
Immigration and Immigration ships
maintained by Janet Cowan
Military
Sites & Records
maintained
by Janet Cowan
Irish
Surnames and Irish
Descendants'
homepages
maintained
by Janet Cowan
United Kingdom
Public Record
Office - National Archives
International Resources
Immigrant
Ships Transcribers Guild
Expedia Maps
You can locate anything pretty much here
The Federation of
Eastern European Family History Societies
It directs you to the home pages of the different countries
you're researching. For example, there is a "Prussia Home Page" for
those whose roots are in "Germany."
Accessing
Telephone Records
International People finder
International
Phone Book
Genealogy Resources on the Internet
Has Adoption
and other great information
Misc. Resources
Anything Irish
Traveling to
Ireland?
This will help you
Genealogy
Charts and Forms
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Irish Blessing
May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings, slow to make enemies, quick to make friends, but rich or poor, quick or slow, may you know nothing but happiness from this day forward.
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