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 December 2022)

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 (ie as indexed transcripts). The Project feeds into the Library’s long–term goal of digitizing and indexing…

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

January ‘Archive of the Month’ – The registers of Newtownbarry (Bunclody) Union

Family historians with ancestry in the vicinity of Bunclody, County Wexford, and its related parishes along the north–western boundary of County Wexford with County Carlow, will be particularly pleased to view the first Archive of the Month for 2013…

02 Jan 2013

November Archive of the Month: Derryloran Parish County Tyrone baptisms and confirmations transcribed – the Anglican Record Project continues

Archive of the Month returns to County Tyrone this month and the excellent work of transcribing and indexing parish registers…

01 Nov 2013

Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’

Saturday 25 May 2013 Rebranding of USPG Africa’s first Anglican woman bishop will be in Ireland next week to join the celebrations marking the rebranding of USPG as the United Society – Us. The Rt Revd Ellinah Wamukoya,…

25 May 2013

November Archive of the Month – the Anglican Record Project

Family historians with ancestry in the parish of Delgany and its vicinity in north Wicklow will be particularly excited by the launch of a new web link via the Church of Ireland website, where transcripts of the parish registers of baptism, marriage and burial from 1666 to 1900, together with an index of names,…

01 Nov 2012

Archive of the Month June 2014 – Registers for Taughboyne parishes, County Donegal, transcribed and online to 1900

The churches of Taughboyne group, diocese of Raphoe Continuing its commitment to make available transcripts of parish registers online, the Representative Church Body Library’s Archive of the Month for June heads to the…

01 Jun 2014