Friday 13 November 2020

RootsIreland latest: new County Limerick records, updates and corrections

Limerick Genealogy has added more than 11,000 records to its database at limerick.rootsireland.ie.

The new additions include the following (figures in parenthesis note the number of records):

  • Presbyterian marriages records from Limerick 1813-1841: (42)
  • Knocklong RC marriages 1830 & 1855-1860: (137)
  • Knocklong RC baptismal records 1817-1819 & 1854: (312)
  • Caherconlish RC marriage records 1843-1846: (117)
  • Caherconlish RC baptismal records 1841-1845: (528)
  • 1821, 1841 & 1851 Census abstracts: (639)
  • Transcribed parish census from Pallasgrean in 1834: (213)
  • Titaldoes of Limerick from Pender’s Census, 1659: (808)
  • Biographical notices of births, deaths and marriages from the Limerick Chronicle newspaper, 1823-1855: (7,106)
  • References to residents and subscribers from Limerick in Samuel Lewis’ A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837: (726)
  • Teachers in Limerick in 1824 listed in the Second Report from Commissioners of Irish Education Inquiry, 1826: (505) 

Where available, Limerick Genealogy has also extended non-Catholic baptismal records up to 1919, non-Catholic church and civil marriages up to 1919 and death/burial records up to 1919.

Updates and corrections to the database have also been made. 

See a full list of available sources for Limerick Genealogy here.