In a previous blog, the work of Sir William Betham and his collection of Genealogical Abstracts held at the National Archives was discussed. In conjunction with the Genealogical Abstracts, Betham compiled an extensive collection of sketch pedigrees. In large part these pedigrees were sketched from the material extracted from the Betham’s abstracts
Read MoreBetham’s Genealogical Abstracts
Sir William Betham (1779-1853) was appointed deputy Ulster King of Arms in 1807 and Ulster King of Arms in 1820. Betham spent a lifetime collating indexes and abstracts of the manuscripts held in the Record Tower of Dublin Castle. Although Betham was a polymath, it is his work in the Records Tower for which Irish genealogists and family historians
Read MoreThe Police Gazette or Hue-and-Cry Ireland
The Police Gazette or Hue-and-Cry Ireland was published in Dublin every Tuesday and Friday by Alexander Thom & Co., and is almost always referred to as Hue-and-Cry It is unclear when Hue-and Cry and was first published in Ireland and exactly how much of the publication survives. The National Library of Ireland’s holding runs from 1837 to 1917,
Read MoreThe Dublin Gazette & Iris Oifigiuil
The use of newspapers for the study of family history is well known. However, the name of one of the oldest publications in Ireland, the Dublin Gazette, will be less familiar, despite its myriad of potential uses to the family historian. The Dublin Gazette was first published on 5th November 1706 and was the official publication of British Government
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