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Limerick City Burial Registers
« on: Wednesday 03 June 09 07:59 BST (UK) »
Article from The Irish Times

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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Limerick puts burial registers on internet

KATHRYN HAYESLIMERICK CITY Council has become the first local authority in the country to put its burial registers online.

Burial records for the city’s largest cemetery, Mount Saint Lawrence, dating back more than 150 years, are now available to the public over the internet.

Limerick City Council commissioned Medrex Systems to microfilm the records and to convert them into digital format.

It is now possible to access a copy of the original handwritten entries of burials in Mount Saint Lawrence cemetery from 1855 onwards on Limerick City Council’s website www.limerick.ie

Each entry in the record is handwritten and records the name of the person, the date of burial, the location of the grave, the age of the deceased and their last residence.

Mount Saint Lawrence was first opened in 1849 when a new graveyard was needed in Limerick as a result of the 1830s cholera epidemic and the Great Famine of 1845-1850.

“The register is a mirror to Limerick society from this time as all sections of society were buried here,” said Limerick City archivist Jacqui Hayes.

“Every person buried has a one line entry, and these persons came from every street and lane in Limerick.

“For many years the majority of entries on a single page are from the Limerick Union and Limerick Lunatic Asylum. These were later known as St Joseph’s Hospital and the City Home.”

According to Ms Hayes, the registers record the burials of many former mayors of Limerick, from Michael O’Callaghan and George Clancy, who were killed during the War of Independence, to the late Jim Kemmy TD in recent times.

The registers are also important from a demographic point of view as they provide statistics for the changing life expectancy rates and death rates.

Link to Burial Register Page for Mount St Lawrence

http://www.limerick.ie/Archives/MountStLawrenceBurialGroundRegisters1855-2008/

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Re: Limerick City Burial Registers
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 03 June 09 12:33 BST (UK) »
Mick,

Thanks very much for the link.

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BEVAN, Cambridge, New York
CORBETT, DUNNE, WILLINGTON, Tipperary
LYNCH, Tipperary, Dublin, New York
CARROLL, Tipperary,  Limerick
CONNERY,ELLIS,GUERIN,HINCHY,HUMPHRIES,McMAHON,SHEEHY,TAYLOR,WELSH/WALSH,  Limerick
CONLISK, DALY, DAVIN, FLANAGAN,  Kilconla, Galway
BROWN, Tyrone
HANNON, MOORE, TOTTEN,  Antrim
McLERNON /McALERNON, CREANEY, DONNELLY ,  Antrim, Down, Armagh

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Limerick city burial registers
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 03 June 09 15:50 BST (UK) »
Just have seen a press release that Limerick Co council have put the burial registers for one of the main cemeteries in Limerick city online at www.limerick.ie
Unfortunatly the records  are only downloadable and viewable in DjVu format. Does anybody know how to get a reliable free version of DjVu software?

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Re: Limerick city burial registers
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 03 June 09 16:03 BST (UK) »
the Dublin heritage website uses the same viewer - the link they use is


   http://www.celartem.com/en/download/djvu.asp



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Re: Limerick city burial registers
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 03 June 09 16:35 BST (UK) »
Shane
Thank you for that information
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Re: Limerick City Burial Registers
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 03 June 09 17:16 BST (UK) »
have just had a great time rooting through this site
- found it a bit hard to download dejavu, but succeeded!

mods - should this be stickied on Irish Resources board?? .. for a wider audience

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Begg - Dublin, Limerick, Cardiff
Brady - Dublin
Breslin - Wexford, Dublin
Byrne - Wicklow
O'Hara - Wexford, Kingstown
McLoghlin - Roscommon
Lawlor - Meath, Dublin
Lynam - Meath and Renovo, Pennsylvania
Everard - Meath
Fagan - Dublin
Meyler/Myler - Wicklow
Gray - Derry, Waterford
Kavanagh - Limerick

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Re: Limerick City Burial Registers
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 06 June 09 12:21 BST (UK) »
mods - should this be stickied on Irish Resources board?? .. for a wider audience

No, this thread belongs on Limerick board- Ireland Resources board is for information, links, etc. that cover the whole of Ireland.
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!

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Re: Limerick City Burial Registers
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 04 August 09 05:29 BST (UK) »
Thank you, thank you, thank you...I found my GGGG Grandfather!