Extracted from the 1821 Census of Ireland, Armagh County, Parish of Forkill, Townland of Latbirget. Number of Inhabitants: 320 & 3 Begging Number of Houses: 66 (3 in Ruins) Distribution of head-of-household surnames: Carne: 1 Crawly: 3 Deleny: 2 Dunn:…
Continue reading →List of landholders in the townland of Latbergett [Latbirget], parish of Forkill, County Armagh, ca. 1828 [1823-1837]. Transcribed from PRONI Reference FIN/5/A/143, Tithe applotment for the parish of Forkhill, County Armagh. See more Forkill records.
Continue reading →Sometimes the records just don’t add up. Oh, I don’t mean numerically or arithmetically: genealogical research is not double-entry bookkeeping, after all. What I mean is that sometimes the information found in one record will directly contradict the information that…
Continue reading →… and those 10 children the offspring of 3 separate (but related!) marital pairs. I’ve written about this before (see, for example, “Blended Families”): the blended family is nothing new. When a widower married a widow, and one or both…
Continue reading →The 1842 Census of Canada East (Quebec) is available at ancestry.ca (subscription-only), but also at FamilySearch (free of charge). At FamilySearch, the database is titled Canada, Lower Canada Census, 1842. At both sites (and it appears that FamilySearch is the source…
Continue reading →As I’ve mentioned before (e.g., in Spelling Doesn’t Count! [in Genealogy]), it’s extremely unlikely that an ancestor had a strong attachment to a certain spelling of his surname, if that ancestor never had occasion to personally spell his own name. If…
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