County Kildare takes its name from St. Brigid’s monastery beneath an oak tree; Cill Dara the church of the oak tree.

This 6th century saint is one of the three patrons of Ireland. Little factual evidence is known about the saint but it is traditionally believed that she founded a monastery at Kildare which was unique in that it was
a mixed community of nuns and monks. It was there that she died in
525 AD. The eternal fire, which was tended by the nuns there, was
extinguished at the time of the Reformation.

The stories about Brigid have been linked to a pagan sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Brigda on the same site, beneath the oak trees. Many miracles are attributed to Brigid, one of which explains
her links with the Curragh plains. In reward for curing the local king of an ailment he offered her whatever she wished for. Her request was that her give her as much ground as her cloak would cover to graze her flock of sheep on the plain. He agreed, and when she spread her cloak it marvelously spread out to cover the entire plain.

St. Brigid’s Cross, woven from rushes, is said to have been first plaited by the saint when she was explaining the mysteries of the Christian gospel to a dying pagan. The cross is still being made, and is placed over the door to protect people from illness or bad luck.

Trace the career of a British merchant seaman

Official Logs of British Merchants
Seaman's Career
Death of a British merchant seaman at sea.
Tracing a seaman in any one of the census years
Tracing the career of a Customs or Excise Officer
Trawlers
20th Century career of a British Merchant Seaman
Researching the career of a British Master Mariner
Master Mariner
First Steam Ship to cross the Atlantic
The White Star Line
Crew lists and related documents
contributed by Debbie Beavis
To find out more join The Mariner's Mailing list

Kildare Addresses

The Kildare Heritage & Genealogy Co. Ltd.
c/o Kildare County Library,
Newbridge, Co. Kildare.
+353 (0)45 433602

List of contact addresses for various archives, maritime organizations or institutions whose collections include the primary documents required in tracing British Merchant and Royal Navy ships and seamen.

The Public Record Office
Ruskin Avenue,
Kew,
Surrey, TW9 4DU
0181-876-3444

The Family Record Centre
Myddleton Place,
London EC1 1UW
0181-392-5300

The National Maritime Museum
Romney Road,
Greenwich,
London SE10 9NF
0181-858-4422

The Guildhall Library
Aldermanbury,
London EC2P 2EJ
0171-606-3030

The Registry of Shipping and Seamen,
Anchor House,
Cheviot Close,
Parc-Ty-Glas,
Llanishen,
Cardiff CF4 5JA

Lloyds Register of Shipping
100 Leadenhall Street,
London,
EC3A 3BP

Maritime History Archive
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St John's,
Newfoundland,
Canada A1C 5S7

Ministry of Defence
CS(R)2E,
Bourne Avenue,
Hayes,
Middlesex

Irish Information

Griffiths Valuation, a property assessment of all properties in Ireland, took place during the years 1848 to 1864.

Need a birth certificate or a marriage certificate from Ireland?

Birth certificates include the date and place of birth; the name; the sex; the name, surname and residence of the father; the name, surname, maiden surname of the mother; the rank, profession or occupation of the father; and the name and qualifications of the informant, usually a family member. A given name was not obligatory, so some entries are Kelly, Male or Clarke, Female. The FHLC holds microfilm copies of the index and certificates for 1864-1955.

Marriage certificates include the date and place of marriage; groom's name, age, marital status, occupation or title, and residence; bride's name, marital status, age, occupation or title, and residence. The names of the fathers of both parties and their occupations or titles are given
which makes them particularly relevant to genealogy. The church and the names of two witnesses are also listed. Witnesses to the marriage are commonly family members and may add clues to family linkages. Full age indicates that the person was at least 21 years old.

Registration of non-Catholic marriages began in 1845 in Ireland. Registration of births, marriages and deaths, regardless of religion, began January 1, 1864. Certificates for births, marriages and deaths for all of Ireland until 1922 and for the Republic until the present are housed in Dublin. Belfast has the records for Northern Ireland from 1922 to
present.

General Register Office
Joyce House
8-11 Lombard St.
East, Dublin 2

Certificates: Including particular Search Fees Extra copies
Birth Certificate EUR6.98 EUR5.08
Death Certificate EUR6.98 EUR5.08
Marriage Certificate EUR6.98 EUR5.08
Short birth Certificate EUR4.44 EUR2.54

2. Search Fees:
Particular Search: A search (in the public office by the applicant) over and period not exceeding five years for any given entry. EUR1.90
General Search: EUR15.24 Search (in the public office by applicant) through the indexes to either Births or Deaths
during any number of successive hours not exceeding six, or to indexes to Marriages during any number of successive days not exceeding six, without specifying the object of the search.
(Fee does not include the cost of certificates or photocopies.)

3. Photocopy of entry in the Register: EUR3.81
When reference information is supplied: EUR1.90 .
4. Authentication of a Certificate EUR1.90
5. Payment: Cheques, Postal Orders, etc., should be made payable to" THE REGISTRAR GENERAL"

6. FOREIGN APPLICATIONS - Fees are payable in Euro cash or international money order (drawn on any Irish Bank) made payable to the Register-General. We also accept Sterling cash or cheques, Postal Orders, US$ cash or Cheques.

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND APPLICATIONS - Fees are payable in Euro currency, cheque which must be drawn on an Irish Bank, Postal Money Order made payable to the Registrar-General.

To find the current currency in Euro
http://eurotrip.com/exchangerates.html or
http://quote.yahoo.com/m3?u or
http://www3.travelocity.com/converter/ to get the currency exchange rate for the day.

What are Sealings for the Dead?
Sealings for the Dead" have to do with the LDS religion. They believe that if they search and find their ancestry they can take each ancestor into the temple and have them baptized and sealed.

The Ancestral Files found on the LDS family search are generally families who have been sealed.

Lookup Volunteers:

You are cordially invited to sign up to be a Kildare Volunteer. We could not possibly have enough wonderful people who are willing to help others to find Angus ancestors. We would love to have your help.

Willing to help? What do you do?

You may have an old history book with an index and be willing to check to see if someone's ancestor is listed. You might have Tax Lists, Census Records, Courthouse Records, Death Records. Someone needs your information.

Please e-mail me if you are interested
Linda Sullivan-Simpson

An alternative to lookups...Indices:

New KILDARE Queries:
The new queries will be posted automatically.

The instructions are below:

1...Place ALL SURNAMES (within your query) in CAPS.
2...Enter your information exactly as you want it to appear.
3...Please, KILDARE QUERIES ONLY..
4...Please TURN OFF THE CAPS. It's hard to see the surnames if your
whole query is in caps
5...No more then 3 surnames per query please. It makes it to hard to follow

Visit our query Board

If you have any additions or corrections to this list, please let me know.
Send email to Webmaster

Please bookmark this site, as things change regularly. You will continuously see new and exciting things here. So please enjoy your visit, and come again soon.

Kildare IGP Project Archives

Cemetery Transcriptions

Kildare Mailing List

Kildare Links

County Kildare Online

County Kildare

Athy Heritage Museum

Towns and Villages

Athy Online

Athy History Center

Family pages

Bermingham Family Forum

Dunn Surname/Knowles Clan

Harbourne Home Page

Godfrey/Kozoriz

Clan Dunne of Ireland
Maintained by Bob Wheeler

Shaw Families
Maintained by Kathleen Decker

Curran Family of Kildare

Links

Extracts from the Leinster Leader

County Kildare
Has Maps travel and more

KNNeDigest
weekly summary of the news carried by KildareNet News

Kildare.ie
information on all aspects of life in County Kildare, Ireland.

GenUKI - Kildare

Genealogy Resources on the Internet
pages maintained by John and Chris Gaunt

World News Index

directs you to news in a variety of media

Resources

Irish Mailing Lists

Passenger Ship Lists

Irish Maps

CWGC
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The National Archives UK

Irish Resources

Irish Sites

Ireland - the Encyclopedia

Cousinconnect.com
Ireland Genealogy Queries

UK Genealogy - Ireland

Irish Ancestors

Access Genealogy - Ireland

Go Ireland.com/Kildare

Irishroots

Island Ireland

Browse Ireland

The Church Of Ireland -- Genealogy and Family History

GenForum - Ireland

The IreAtlas/ Townland
Data Base

Genealogical Society of Ireland

1824 Survey of Irish Schools

Celtic Orgins

Irish Web site Directory
Ireland's Internet web search engine

The Irish Times

The National Library of Ireland Libraries in Ireland to 1850
Lists all libraries in Ireland to 1850

The Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA)

GenUKI- Ireland

Ireland & Northern Ireland - Cyndi's List

Irish Immigration and Immigration ships
maintained by Janet Cowan

Military Sites & Records
maintained by Janet Cowan

Irish Surnames and Irish

Descendants' homepages
maintained by Janet Cowan

United Kingdom

Public Record Office - National Archives

International Resources

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild

Expedia Maps

You can locate anything pretty much here

The Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies

It directs you to the home pages of the different countries you're researching. For example, there is a "Prussia Home Page" for those whose roots are in "Germany."

Accessing Telephone Records

International People finder

International Phone Book

Genealogy Resources on the Internet

Has Adoption and other great information

Misc. Resources

Anything Irish

Traveling to Ireland?
This will help you

Genealogy Charts and Forms

An Irish Blessing

 May you be poor in misfortune,

 rich in blessings,

 slow to make enemies,

 quick to make friends,

 but rich or poor,

 quick or  slow,

 may you know nothing but happiness

 from this day forward.

All contributors own copyrights to material they donate.
All contributors will be credited.

All rights are reserved and copyrighted by the webmaster
No one may copy the information contained on this site
WITHOUT the express permission of the webmaster.

This page created 01 October 1998 for
the IrelandGenWeb/ BritishIslesGenWeb Project
and is now affiliated with the Ireland Genealogy Project