Library Forum

What's the URL for the pages that have already been transcribed, please?

TIA,

One of the reasons that so many visits to the IFHF index have to be made is because the absolutely AWFUL search engine means you can't be sure that the record offered is of interest. I certainly brood long and hard before parting with my (pensioner's!) €5, and often re-visit the index several times ...

You're thinking of the "Deceased Wife's Sister" legislation, which was in force between abt 1835 and 1907.

Oddly enough, I'm not sure that it was ever illegal for a man to marry the widow of his deceased brother.

Weren't "patrons" the people in whose gift the living of a parish was?

Thanks for drawing my attention to these Logan entries - don't know how I missed them!

I am attempting to trace the family of James Logan, born about 1819 in Co. Clare, and his wife Margaret McMahon, born about 1825, also in Co. Clare. They emigrated to Manchester probably in the 1840s, and at least 6 children were born there: Ellen (1848), Mary (1850), John (1852), Michael (abt 1856)...

Thank you to everyone who responded to my query re "Attie", and for the interesting suggestions that were made.

I still don't know for certain, but "internal" family evidence now suggests that her baptismal name may have been Margaret.

Thanks again,

Does anyone know for what forename "Attie" was a common/usual diminutive or pet name? Was/is it a Clare name? I am trying to trace a cousin of my grandmother's known to me only as "Attie" O'Brien (NOT the novelist, I hasten to add!), but I suspect that this was not her registered/baptismal name. I h...

Depending on the death date, I think this designation will also often mean that the woman so designated was educated at a convent secondary school, possibly pre-1878 (Intermediate Education (Ireland) Act). Not that they didn't become sodalists after that date, of course, but I think that in the mid-...

Behind the ruined church in Ennistymon Old Cemetery there is a vault erected by a James Flanagan,"for him and posterity" [sic]; also commemorated is James's unnamed wife, who died 12th December 1832, aged 31; a later plaque on top of the vault commemorates Patrick O'Dwyer of Ballinagrave, who died i...

The LDS site has been considerably revamped in recent days. It appears to be merging the databases from the pilot site, including the ICRI data, with the main site. At the moment it's all rather gobbledy-gookish, and it's to be hoped that this improves. Maybe this is definitely the moment to use the...