IrishEmigrants

Although it is particularly difficult to locate the origins of Irish families (due to the 1922 destruction of almost all conventional genealogy records), certain records still exist - which link Irish emigrants with places and people in Ireland.

These include records, registers & transcripts created by Civil Authorities, Church Parishes, Religious Organisations, newspapers etc. – containing information given at the time. The records can be difficult to research and very patchy in terms of population coverage.

Our index will eventually list many thousands of such people – mostly recorded from censuses taken wherever they settled. (NB. Although spouses and other relatives are listed, they are not necessarily of Irish origin).

For the index of Irish emigrants and their probable or possible descendants / relatives – click on surname initials:

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Email info@irishemigrants.co.uk for further information about such records. Please include data as written in our index.

Even official records often use abbreviations or even nicknames and many use latin. In these indexes:
First Names are often standardized, such as: Biddy to Bridget, Cate/Kate/Kitty to Catherine, Frank to Francis, Joanna to Jane, Maggie to Margaret, Gulielmus to William, Oin/Eugene-Owen, Mick-Michael, Paddy/Patt-Patrick etc, etc.
Surnames are often standardized, such as: McDonel to McDonnell, McGuire to Maguire, Shirdan to Sheridan etc, etc.