Church of Ireland Parish - County Cork
Church Records
are the primary genealogical source for pre-civil
registration. (Registration began in 1837). They include
births, christenings, marriages, deaths and burials. These
records were kept in registers, commonly called Parish
Registers. Each Parish kept it's own records. Catholic
Parish Registers mainly contain christening and marriage
records. The Family History Center has microfilm
copies of many Catholic parish registers, search under
IRELAND, [county], [parish].
Before you can
search the Parish Registers you need to know which Parish
your ancestors lived in and what was their religious
affiliation. Most Parishes were villages with a church and a
priest. Larger towns have more than one Parish.
The Church of
Ireland was the state church, the parish records were
considered state records. In 1876 a law was passed requiring
the Church of Ireland parish registers be sent to the Public
Record Office in Dublin. In 1878 the law was changed so that
Parishes could keep their records, so not all records were
sent to Dublin. The Public Record office burned in 1922, thus
many parish records were saved because they were still in
their parish.
At this time
the FHL has very few church records from
County Cork (keep checking back as they are always
microfilming new sources)
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