A Guide to Irish Churches and Graveyards
By Brian Mitchell.
Description
In Ireland, the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths began in 1864, and the registration of Protestant marriages in 1845. Before this, church registers have the only reference to an ancestor's birth, marriage or death, but because of the destruction of many Church of Ireland burial records, and the late beginning dates of many Roman Catholic and Presbyterian burial registers, a gravestone inscription may be the only record of an ancestor's death. In this book every church and burial ground in Ireland is identified in relation to a townland or street address. Each tow...
ISBN(s)
0806312661, 9780806312668
