Mallow Civil Parish, County Cork, Ireland Genealogy

Guide to Mallow Civil Parish, County Cork ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Parish registers, transcripts, baptism records, marriage records, and burial records.

The following information is a starting point for records about the civil parish of Mallow. The information is based on locations and records before 1922.

History
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Localities
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Maps and gazetteers
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Cemeteries
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Census
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Church records
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Catholic
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Church of Ireland
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Presbyterian
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Methodist
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Society of Friends
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Others
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Civil Registration
Government registration of births and deaths began in 1864. Registration of Protestant marriages began in 1845, with all marriages being registered by 1864. Go to the Ireland Civil Registration article to read more about these records.

Land records
The Registry of Deeds started in 1708. Land transactions were recorded, including immovable property passed on in a will and property given to a daughter at her marriage. Read more about these records in the Ireland Land and Property article.

Probate records
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Mallow Testamentary Records Held at Mallow Castle, Article found in The Irish Ancestor 941.5 B2i Vol. 1 No. 1 1969, page 52-59 at Family History Library. Covers years 1721-1773. These Wills are not included in the Index to Wills at the Public Record Office. They concern property which was or came to be part of the Jephson Estate. John Baker 1805; John Brookes 1721; James Burnell 1767;  John Deale 1746; William Deale 1747;  Jeremiah Flyn 1794; Bernard Foott 1762; Richard Grace 1742-1748; Daniel Hood 1730; Ellen Hood 1733-4; Frances Kell 1716; Patric Kennedy Sept. 1764; William Keyly 1722; Robert Leake 1740; John Nason 1727; Robert Philpot 1759-60; James Upington 1769; Ellen Walker 1773; Also available at http://sources.nli.ie/Records

Abstracts of Wills. Collection of Will Abstracts, gathered from many sources. Alphabetical, includes Patrick Connell of Gallowshill Lane, 26 April 1835; Hannah Gibbs othewise Willis, now of Mitchelstown, but houses in Mallow. 4 April 1809; Richard Hawes of Bandon Bridge, 19 July1654; John Jones of Mallow, Co. Cork 5 August 1836; James Sarsfielde of Ballyshongale, 3 Dec. 1655 proved at Cork; George Tarrant of Mallow Co. Cork 17 May 1824 proved Cloyne; Article found in The Irish Ancestor, vol.II, no.2.1970, Family History Library Ref. 941.5 B2i

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School records
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Tax records
The valuation of property for tax purposes was started in the 1840s by Richard Griffith. A tax paid to the church, call Tithe Applotments, began in the 1820s. Read about these records in the Ireland Taxation and Ireland Land and Property articles. Add records for this parish that you know about.

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