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Subject: Re: [DUBLIN IRELAND] Irish church records,
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 07:59:43 EST
In a message dated 11/8/2005 6:42:29 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
It needs to be
remembered that until Catholic emancipation in
1833 it was ILLEGAL to keep records of Catholic
baptisms etc and Catholic clergy did so at their
peril, therefore records were often kept in
unfavourable circumstances or not at all. Any
perusal or extant Catholic records will show
records written in notebook style often using
margins etc to use up any available paper. After
1833 conditions only slowly improved for the
catholic community in Ireland.
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