A beginner’s guide to irish research

Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials are essential for tracing ancestors before civil registration began (1837 in England and Wales, 1855 in Scotland, and 1864 in Ireland). This month we’re on

Like the UK, Ireland has a one-hundred-year rule in place for the release of historic census records. The 1926 census of Ireland is particularly significant because there was no Irish census taken in

Q My ancestor, Charles Hayes, was born on 6 October 1700 in Harrow on the Hill to Charles Hayes and Ann Ewster. He attended University College Cambridge and, described as “one of the Gentlemen of the

In 1926 the Irish population was enumerated in a census for the first time since 1911, a planned census for 1921 having been previously abandoned due to the War of Independence. In 1926 however, with

What would we do without census returns? How could we even begin to research our 19th and early 20th-century English and Welsh and indeed Scottish ancestry without access to that remarkable resource?

Nine-year-old future star of the silent screen Charlie Chaplin, his mother Hannah, and older half-brother Sydney entered the Lambeth workhouse, south London, in July 1898. The boys were soon transferr