Marriage, divorce and ‘criminal conversation’ marriage records in ireland

This is part of a series of articles; the intention is to provide an overview of useful family and local history records in existence, covering the period 1066-1485. Each article can be enjoyed as a s

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Q Is it possible to have a death in a workhouse with no subsequent death certificate in 1885? I have the record from Ancestry of the death. Mary Ann Arnold born 1854, death May 1885 (maybe Mar 1885),

Efforts to prohibit abortion down the ages

It all started with an email. Regular reader Lee Passmore was having difficulties finding out what had happened to one of his three times great-uncles, a man called Bryan (or Brian) Dean, and he wante

Some 175,000 historical Irish records, including 60,000 pre-1901 census records previously thought to be lost, have been published online. On 30 June 1922, the Public Record Office of Ireland in Dubli