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Records in this collection
- Ardagh Wills 1690-1857
- Betham Prerogative Marriage Licences Abstracts, 1629-1810
- Cantwell's Memorials of the Dead
- Clonfert Marriage Bonds 1663-1857
- Clonfert Wills and Administrations 1663-1857
- Crossle Genealogical Abstracts
- Deputy Keeper of Ireland, Index to the Act or Grant Books, and to Original Wills, of the Diocese of Dublin 1272-1858 (26th, 30th and 31st Reports, 1894, 1899)
- Donegal cemetery records
- Farrar's Index to Irish Marriages 1771-1812
- Fermanagh cemetery records
- Fermanagh parish registers baptisms
- Fermanagh parish registers burials
- Fermanagh parish registers marriages
- Index of Irish Wills 1484-1858
- Ireland BillionGraves Cemetery Index
- Ireland Calendars Of Wills & Administrations 1858-1965
- Ireland civil birth registers index
- Ireland civil marriage registers index
- Ireland Deaths 1864-1870
- Ireland Down Anaghlone Presbyterian baptisms 1839-1913
- Ireland Down Anaghlone Presbyterian marriages 1845-1913
- Ireland Down Annaclone (COI) baptisms 1877-1900
- Ireland Down Annaclone (COI) burials 1877-1900
- Ireland Down Annaclone (COI) marriages 1845-1900
- Ireland Down Ballyroney Presbyterian baptisms 1819-1913
- Ireland Down Ballyroney Presbyterian marriages 1831-1906
- Ireland Down St Colmans Annaclone (RC) baptisms 1834-1913
- Ireland Down St Colmans Annaclone (RC) burials 1851-1913
- Ireland Down St Colmans Annaclone (RC) marriages 1851-1913
- Ireland memorial and burial register, 1618-2005
- Ireland Memorial Inscriptions
- Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms
- Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Burials
- Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Congregational Records
- Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Marriages
- Ireland Roscommon Kiltullagh cemeteries
- Ireland, Dublin Church of Ireland Baptisms
- Ireland, Dublin Church of Ireland burials
- Ireland, Dublin Church of Ireland marriages
- Ireland, Gravestone Records
- Ireland, Inland Revenue Wills & Administrations 1828-1879
- Ireland, Non-conformist marriages
- Ireland, original will registers 1858-1920
- Ireland, Society of Friends (Quaker) births
- Ireland, Society of Friends (Quaker) deaths
- Ireland, Society of Friends (Quaker) marriages
- Irish Births 1864-1958
- Irish Death Notices In American Newspapers
- Irish Deaths 1864-1958
- Irish Marriage Notices in American Newspapers
- Irish Marriages 1845-1958
- Kiltullagh Parish (RC) Baptisms
- Kiltullagh Parish (RC) Marriages
- Leighlin Administrations 1700-1857
- Limerick non-conformist baptisms
- Limerick non-conformist congregational records 1911-1945
- Lincolnshire marriages
- Marriage Licence Bonds; Diocese of Cloyne 1630-1800
- Memorials of the Dead: Galway & Mayo
- Quakers Annual Monitor 1849
- Raphoe Marriage Bonds 1710-55 and 1817-30
- Register of Derry Cathedral Baptisms 1642-1703
- Registers of the French Non-Conformist Churches Dublin 1701-1831
- Registers of the French non-conformist churches Dublin 1702-1731
- Sir Arthur Vicars, Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536 - 1810
- The Parish Register Society of Dublin, The Registers of St. Patrick, Dublin, 1677-1800, 1907
- The Register of Derry Cathedral Burials 1642-1703
- The Register of Derry Cathedral Marriages 1642-1703
- Thomas Philip Le Fanu, Registers of the French Church of Portarlington, Ireland, 1694-1816
- Thrift Genealogical Abstracts
- Tipperary Clans Archive
- Tyrone Cemetery Records
- W.P.W. Phillimore & Gertrude Thrift, Indexes to Irish Wills 1536-1858
- Wicklow cemetery records
- WW1 Irish Soldiers Wills, 1914-1920
Find your ancestors in Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Marriages
Explore more than 3 million marriage records from Catholic parish registers across Ireland. Marriage records are a vital source for family history and can help you extend the branches of your family tree. The registers will give you the name of your ancestor’s spouse, marriage place and date, and witnesses to the marriage. More information about the records is provided below.
For each record, you will find a transcript created from the original marriage record. Most records will also include an image of the marriage register, which may reveal more information. Earlier parish registers recorded less information and may have been damaged over the years, resulting in less detailed transcripts. In each transcript you will find a combination of the following information.
- Name
- Marriage year - If a year could not be found on the marriage record, the year is recorded as the year range of the register book.
- Marriage date
- Parish and diocese
- Spouse’s name
- Address
- Denomination
- Spouse’s denomination
- Spouse’s address
- Father’s name
- County and country
- Archive and microfilm reference
Image
Viewing your ancestor’s original marriage record is an exciting part of discovering your family history. For some, the records will reveal additional information about your ancestor’s wedding, such as the witnesses present. Many of the records will also give you your ancestor’s mother’s maiden name, which will open a new maternal line of family history.
Latin
The registers were recorded in either English or Latin. Until the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, Latin was the language of the Catholic Church. Many of the registers recorded events in Latin. The names of individuals were Latinised; therefore, the name Mary may appear in its Latin form as *Maria*. We have included a list of common Latin words found in the Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Marriages.
- Anno Domino – year of Our Lord
- Cognomina – surnames
- Eorum residentia – their residency
- Die mensis – day of month
- Denuntiationes – denunciations (refers to if there are any impediments to a marriage)
- Impedimentum – hindrance or impediment to the marriage; such as a blood relation
- Matrimonium – the sacrament of Holy Matrimony or marriage
- Nomina parentum – the names of parents
- Nomen parochi vel Vicarii – the name of the priest
- Nomina sponsorum – the names of the parties
- Observanda – observations or notes
- Testes adfuerunt – witnesses present
In some marriages, special dispensation would have been needed to allow the marriage of two related people. In these cases, their relation will be recorded as consanguinati, blood relations such as cousins, or affinitatus, related by marriage. The degree of relation will also be explained, for example the record may state consanguinati in tertio grado, which means the couple are second cousins.
Discover more about these records
These Catholic parish registers are an important source for searching for your ancestors before 1864, when civil registration for Catholic marriages became compulsory. Furthermore, Catholics have made up a large part of the Irish population. In 1834, the Commission of Public Education estimated that 80% of the population of Ireland was Roman Catholic. Many of the records date from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. In the nineteenth century, legal restrictions on the Catholic Church were removed and further reforms took place within the church. These changes led to the more formal recording of religious occasions. While searching for your ancestor, remember that Roman Catholic parishes are different from civil parishes. Catholic parishes were often larger and may have contained more than one civil parish. Civil parishes were used for administrative and governmental purposes, although they were originally established by the Christian church in the medieval period.We have provided a full list of parishes available in these records. Ireland Roman Catholic parish marriages parish list
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