It dates from 1862 two years before all irish marriages had to be registered.
Irish marriage records 1840s.
Non catholic marriages were recorded from 1845.
Below is a copy of the register entry of george nichols and sophia doolittle.
The year range represents most of the records.
They are also for the majority of irish people who lived during the 18th and 19th centuries the only record of their existence.
Unlike many other records parish registers provide evidence of direct links between one generation and the next via baptismal registers and one family and another via marriage registers.
The images available on.
In each case the image shows the marriage register entry.
Irish genealogy research center irish family history foundation.
The registers contain records of baptisms and marriages from the majority of catholic parishes in ireland and northern ireland up to 1880.
This chart shows links to countrywide collections.
This website contains images from the nli s collection of catholic parish register microfilms.
The website is home to the on line historic indexes of the civil registers gro of births marriages civil partnerships and deaths and to church records of baptism marriage and burial from a number of counties.
The images below are a selection of irish marriage records obtained for my own family history research.
A few records may be earlier or later.
For the period before the commencement of civil registration of births marriages and deaths in 1864 church records provide the only record of most births marriages and deaths in the form of registers of baptisms marriages and burials.
Most churches did not keep records of deaths.
Prior to that time baptism and marriage records were kept at the churches.
In september 2015 over 2 5 million images of irish births deaths and marriage records from the general register office gro were released online for the first time.
Www irishgenealogy ie is a website that allows users the opportunity to search a wide range of record sources in their search of their irish ancestry.
Only a few localities are included and the time period varies by locality.
Summarising irish birth marriage and death records view civil registration of all births marriages and deaths in ireland became mandatory in 1864.
Ireland online genealogy records.
Records of birth marriage death church and congregational registers of baptism marriage and burial.
Index to selected ireland marriages.
