Finding an Irish Ancestor Using Australian Records

If your ancestor immigrated to Australia from Ireland, the following Australian records can give you clues about his or her origin in Ireland. Search these records for clues. Choose first the area where your ancestor lived, then the time when they lived there.

Government births, deaths and marriages, XXXX-XXXX
Ask for place and date of birth, name of father and mother.

Cemetery records, after XXXX
May state date, place and county of birth.

Church records
Name of parents, place of birth

Church records
Marriage records may record names of parents or place of birth.

Government births, deaths and marriages

Cemetery records

Newspapers

Probate Records

Queensland
Government Birth, Marriage and Death records