Parish Records

Many parish registers were destroyed in the fire in the Public Record Office of Ireland in 1922. However the RCB Library now holds over 1,159 original collections of registers, many of them in the context of larger collections of parish registers. The definitive and colour–coded List of Church of…

Online Parish Records

A small number of parish registers have been digitised and are available to view here and on the Anglican Record Project.  This digital record is a work in progress. Table of Church of Ireland Parish RegistersThroughout Ireland (Baptisms, Marriages, Burials & copies – Updated September 2019)

Anglican Record Project

The Anglican Record Project, which is the work of Mark Williams, is an ongoing endeavour to make the registers of baptism, marriage and burial from Church of Ireland parishes available in a digital format. The online version is hosted by the Representative Church Body Library, which will periodically introduce new transcripts…

Bunclody Union (Ferns)

An Index to the Parish Registers of the Newtownbarry (Bunclody) Union may be downloaded as a PDF by clicking…

Derryloran

The Parish Registers of Derryloran (Cookstown) parish church (Armagh) Derryloran Parish Records Volume 1 – PDFBaptisms – 1796–1842Confirmations – 1824; 1828; 1833; 1837; 1840 Derryloran Parish Records Volume 2 – PDF Baptisms – 1843–1896Confirmations – 1843; 1846; 1849; 1852; 1856 To access current parish details, please click…

How the project came about

I was born and brought up in Ireland (Rathfarnham Parish), but have lived abroad since leaving school nearly 40 years ago, mainly in England but also for short periods in Germany and France. I have been interested in tracing my family history since getting married and having children, but I wanted…

Anglican Record Project

Preparing for Searches

Most Church of Ireland parish registers do not have indexes and there is no single comprehensive index to all their contents. In general, in order to prosecute a successful search in parish registers you need a name, a date and a place name. However, there are a number of ongoing…

Bishops’ Appeal Committee

Founded in the early 1970s, Bishops’ Appeal is the Church of Ireland’s World Aid and Development Programme.  It is the church’s response to the many calls in the Bible to help the poor and oppressed.  Its concerns fall into a number of categories: • to educate the…

Delgany (Glendalough)

The Parish Registers of Christ Church, Delgany (Glendalough) To access current parish details, please click here. Download the complete Delgany parish registers as a PDF, by clicking here. The parish map was originally…