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From: "fcm" <>
Subject: Re: [IRL-LIMERICK] IRL-LIMERICK Digest, Vol 1, Issue 80
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:39:21 +1000
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My reading of this series of informative and helpful messages re the
problems of finding state and church based records in Ireland leads me to be
thankful for the resources available to us out here in the colonies.



The New South Wales BDM authorities make available an index online from the
beginning of white settlement (1788) to mid 19C. Have a look at

http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/familyHistory/search.htm and throw in some Irish
names and see the wealth of material which comes up. E. G Every marriage of
, say, an Edward Ryan and the brides' names over however many years you
choose. It is an index only, but enough detail to sort the wheat from the
chaff, providing the certificate number for prompt retrieval by the
Registrar of BDM (who then charges a reasonable fee for a full certificate,
or it can be obtained for about half the fee if the details only are
required, rather than a 'legal' certificate). There are, of course, the
inevitable gaps (where is my g.g.grandfather Edmund Markham, ex Rathkeale
1822 (UK's Irish Insurrection Act), buried and the record of his 1866 death
on his farm in outback NSW?).



As to church records, although mostly incorporated in the Govt record, the
handwritten records of early priests such as Father Therry , made in Sydney
after his arrival in 1820 and in his constant horseback travels ministering
to Catholics (Irish) in the distant countryside several times larger than
Ireland itself, are readily available on microfilm (made by the Society of
Australian Genealogists) on the open shelves of the publicly accessible
(State) Mitchell Library in Sydney, along with all the various contemporary
church records, Anglican, Presbyterian etc and from churches in the smallest
19C settlements.



We are fortunate indeed.





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