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Irish
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A
Taste Of West Cork
Family
Names of County Cork
Father
Browne's Cork: Photographs, 1912-54
Lovely
is the Lee
No
lovelier city: A portrait of Cork
Cork:
A Pocket Guide
Cork
365: A Day-by-day Miscellany of Cork History
Northside
of the Mizen: Tales, Customs and History of County Cork in Ireland

 


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Cork
County, IRELAND
Cork
Genealogy
- Cork (History & people etc)
I
don't like 'pure' genealogy per se, that is, the putting
of names on a family tree, instead I like to know about
the people, how they lived and the places they lived
in. There are lots of people who are not like me, who
do like to know just the names and where they came from.
The pages linked to below are pretty much to do with
pure genealogy (but a little bit of the other thrown
in!).
To
my mind, the Lewis Topographical Dictionary is one of
the most valuable and ignored tools for genealogists
or family historians because it gives us alternative
names and spellings of parish names, also, most importantly
it names the religious parishes which cover any civil
parish.My version of the Griffiths Primary Valuation
differs from that which you find in the Griffiths CD
in that I list the names of the people who were the
'Immediate Occupiers' and how many times a persons name
is listed as having land in any townland.
There
is more to do with Cork Genealogy on the History &
people tables
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County
Cork, history, geography, genealogy, people
Every
time I have seen someone ask if anyone knows anything
about education or emigration on any of the mail lists
I have been subscribed to I always think of the 1931
descriptions of the counties in Ireland which I have
on line. At the end of every county description there
are tables listing the figures for emigration from the
county, education in the county, whether or not the
people speak Irish, and a breakdown of the religious
denominations in the county taken from various census
returns from 1821 through 1926. So, these descriptions
are of historical and genealogical importance.
The
Diocescan listings were one of the first sets of pages
I created for this web site, because sometime way
back then I had read that when a man qualified as
a priest he was usually put back into his own parish,
originally I had considered these tables of importance
because they told us the names of the Roman Catholic
parishes in a Diocese in 1836 (which sometimes changed
over the years) and they also told us the name of
the closest post town - this never changed. So, to
me, these lists help if I am looking for a Roman Catholic
parish which no longer exists. I find the name of
the closest post town to where-ever it is I am loking
for information about and then I find the records
which co exist for that area, regardless of the name.
Lists
such as the 1832 Military list, the Revenue Officers,
the Admiralty Examinations, the General Synod, the Presbyterian
Synod - these can apply to any county - they are of
genealogical & historical value.
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