Workhouse

[MrBluesman]

Hi I was asked the question if I had an address this is the only address I have in Ireland I did say I didn't know if he lived there or not. I am also aware that he may have already died but tell me what other starting point I can use?

[jwaugh]

Hi

You could try the Wills calendars at the Public Records Office (PRONI). It is available online at http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/search_the_archives/will_calendars/wills_search.htm

Please note that the Wills calendars only have the names of people who made a Will or if relatives filed for Letters of Administration.

John

[MrBluesman]

Hi,

I have been looking for a record of my great grandmothers birth certificate for a long time now with little success. All the info I have say she was born in Scotland but I have never located the info. I have decided to try Northern Ireland for it as I know she had a child there in 1890 and she was married there to my great grandfather most of the details can be found in the posts attached. How do I go about tracing births in Northern Ireland? It's been sometime since I was last tracing births there.

Andrew

[aghadowey]

Do you not already have the birth certificate?

Hi

I have been looking for information about my Great Grandmother Minnie Magill. I have been unable to trace her birth which Census info says it was in Falkirk Scotland. I have also been unable to find her Marriage record to my Great Grandfather. From Census info one of her children was born prior to their meeting and the Child Agnes was born in Ireland. After a long search I have found Agnes's birth record in Belfast in 1890. I contacted the NI GRO and they have looked up the record and come back and said Agnes was the daughter of Minnie Magill no father was named on the certificate. I was give a date of birth and told she was born in a Belfast Workhouse. Can anyone offer me any information about workhouses? Or is there any records available to check?

[Bigtex]

Aghadowey
You have miss read the request the birth certificate he is after is for great grandmother Minnie. The one he has is for Agnes

[aghadowey]

"In the 1901 census she was 28 and her death certificate says she was 76 in 1950"
Civil registration of births in Ireland started in 1864 and the index is online so you can search for Minnie/Mary's birth to get the details needed to order the certificate-
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list#page=1&countryId=1927084

Her marriage (1892) should list her father's name and occupation (unless she was also illegitimate).

Have you tried searching for a Scottish birth certificate under Mary/Minnie and Magill/McGill, etc. just in case she really was born in Scotland?

[MrBluesman]

I have searched the Scottish Records and even experts have failed to find her birth in Scotland.
I know she gave birth to her Daughter in the Belfast Workhouse and the only other info I have is off her Marriage certificate. If you follow this feed you will see her fathers details from the marriage certificate.

Andrew