Wednesday, 15 May 2019

RootsIreland.ie adds Armagh CoI Confirmation records

Records of some 9,100 Church of Ireland Confirmations have been added to RootsIreland.ie's Armagh database. They are transcribed from Confirmation Lists, and can be useful for researchers trying to locate an ancestors, especially in those parishes where other church records have been lost or destroyed.

Most of these Confirmation lists start in the 1820s but they vary quite considerably in the information they hold. Some record only the individual's name, the year and the name of the church where the confirmation was held. Others record name, age and address and some have additional comments.

Some churches held Confirmations every three or four years while others held them intermittently over a span of many years.

The transcriptions have been made by Armagh Ancestry, the local heritage team in the Irish Family History Foundation's network of island-wide genealogy centres, who report that this bundle of records is the first of an ongoing computerisation project that will take some time to complete. Confirmation lists from additional Church of Ireland parishes in Armagh will be added to the online database in due course.

In the meantime, you can view details of the parishes and years of coverage or these new online sources in RootsIreland's menu of genealogical records for County Armagh here. Scroll down to Census Substitutes and then to Confirmation.