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| LEGISLATIVE RECORDS; | CHURCH RECORDS |
COURT RECORDS |
LAND RECORDS |
| Petitions | Pew rents | Oaths of Allegiance | Entries plats |
| Memorials | Membership lists | Registers of Papists (Roman Catholics) | Plat maps |
| Rate rolls | Lists of attorneys | Lotteries | |
| Collection lists | Lists of constables | Processioning lists | |
| Subscription lists | Lists of jurors | Perambulations | |
| Lists of paupers | Jury pay lists | Ground rents | |
| Jury attendance lists | Quitrents | ||
| Commissions of officials | Debt books | ||
| Appointments of Justices of the Peace | Permits to settle | ||
| Lists of gamekeepers | Land grant lists | ||
| Suspended land grants | |||
| headright claims | |||
| Lists of indentured servants | |||
| Immigrant land allowances | |||
| Inquisitions | |||
| Devises’ lists | |||
| Heir lists | |||
| Irish land records
TIME LINE FOR Irish RECORDS
| People took out leases -- some for perpetuity; some for three lifetimes. Any over 3 years in duration were recorded in the Registry of Deeds. ...The deeds were recorded when the elder generation died. The younger would established rights to the land by recording the genealogy. You can get 3 generations or more from the deeds. There are wills in the deeds too. ...The index to the records is a complete index and makes not distinction as to grantee or grantor. In some cases it is a complete index to all names (witnesses etc) in the earlier records. |
| Estate Records | In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the vast majority of the population lived as small tenant farmers on large estates. These estates were let to middlemen who in turn sub-let either at will or by short term leases to the small landholders. Many of the records, maps, tenants' lists, rentals, accounts etc. exist in public repositories but they vary greatly as to their content and usefulness but in some cases can be very rewarding. |
| Census records and
Census substitutes | Local Historical journals, Local Histories |
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Various Dates Cess Tax Accounts | 'Cess' (from an abbreviation of 'assessment') was a very elastic term that could be applied to taxes levied for a variety of reasons. In Ireland it was very often to support a military garrison. The accounts generally consist of lists of householders' names along with amounts due. |
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Valuations Local valuations | and re-valuations, of property were carried out with increasing frequency from the end of the eighteenth century, usually for electoral reasons. The best of these record all householders. |
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| SCHOOL
LISTS | SHIPS’ RECORDS | TAX
ROLLS | VOTERS RECORDS |
| Matriculation lists | Crew lists | Poll Tax | Voters’ register |
| Attendance lists | Register of seamen | Personal Property | Voters’ lists |
| Examination lists | Seamens’ oaths | Real Estate | Poll books |
| Tuition lists | Seamens’ certificates | 1863 Income Tax | Register of intended voters |
| Subscription lists | Officers’ lists | 1798 Property Tax | Register of freemen |
| Pupil lists | Sick rosters | Assessors' lists | Lists of freeholders |
| Teacher lists | Death registers | Faculty lists | Lists of rejected voters |
| Casualty lists | Rate lists | ||
| The original notebooks used by the surveyors to compile Griffith's Valuation. However they do not exist for all areas | |
Field
Books | details on the amount and the value of the land |
House
Books | ecord the occupier's name and the measurement and use of any building on the holdings. |
Tenure Books | record the occupier's name, the annual rent paid and the legal basis on which the holding was held i.e. at will or by lease. This information can be useful as it relates to the yeare or years prior to the publication of the actual Griffith's Valuation and thus can show changes immediately after the Great Famine. |
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Census Substitutes | ||
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MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS |
MILITIA RECORDS |
ROAD RECORDS |
| Register of prisoners | Militia Lists | Petitions |
| Register of slaves | Muster rolls | Plats |
| Register of free Negros | Muster-in rolls | Appointments of road officials |
| Prisoners of war | Muster-out rolls | |
| Manumission lists | Payrolls | |
| Register of unmarried persons | Lists of males over 16 | |
| Orphans’ register | Troop returns | |
| Oaths of office | Enlistments | |
| Loyalty oaths | Lists of recruits | |
| Freemen admissions | Substitutes | |
| Lists of physicians | Lists of rejected men | |
| Lists of midwives | Wagoners’ rolls | |
| Lists of strangers | Casualty lists | |