Ballingarry Civil Parish, County Limerick, Ireland Genealogy

Ireland County Limerick  Ballingarry Civil Parish

The following information is a starting point for records about the civil parish of Ballingarry. 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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Catholic
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Church of Ireland
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The Oldest Registers of Ballingarry are bapts 1698-1735; marriages 1698-1734 and Burs. 1698-1735.

Extracts Family History Library Film 257807, extracts also in The Irish Ancestor 1970 Volume II Number 1 pages 24-30.

Also records Bapts 1785-1872; Marriages 1809-1846, Deaths 1809-1875 in Ireland as local Custody and National Archives of Ireland.

Presbyterian
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Methodist
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Society of Friends
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Others
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Article: The Oldest Registers of Ballingarry, Co. Limerick. No Author listed. covers Baptisms 1698-1735, Marriages 1698-1734, Burials 1698-1735. Article found in The Irish Ancestor vol.2 no.1 1970 at Family History Library 941.5 B2i

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.

Genealogy
Cussen, Robert. Entries From Sampson Cox's Family Bible. Article covers entries in the Bible of the issue of Sampson Cox of Ballynoe, Co. Limerick, who married Hon. Constance Fitzmaurice, widow of John Odell 11 May 1698. Years covered 1698-1731. Article in The Irish Ancestor, vol. V. no.1. 1973. pages 27-28, Family History Library Ref. 941.5 B2i v.5-6

Portrait of Col. William Odell 1752-1831, High Sherriff of Co. Limerick, MP, Lord of the Treasury, married Aphra Crone in 1773. Picture on the cover of The Irish Ancestor, vol. XIV. no.2. 1982, FHL Ref. 941.5 B2i

Land records
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Probate records
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School records
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Tax records
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