Ancestry adds records for Clare, Ireland

Added to Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk):

Clare, Ireland, Church of Ireland Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1744-1991
https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61574
Source: Clare Church of Ireland Parish Registers, Church of Ireland, Clare, Ireland.

The Church of Ireland, part of the wider Anglican Communion, was the Church established by law at the time of the reformation, although the majority of the country remained practicing Catholics. The Irish Church Act 1869 (which took effect on 1 January 1871) finally ended the role of the Church of Ireland as state church. Two thirds of Church of Ireland records were destroyed during the fire at the Public Record Office of Ireland during the Irish Civil War of 1922. Up until the early years of the nineteenth century, registers were usually made up of manuscript volumes and this generally meant that no real uniformity existed in the data recorded. From about the 1820s, earlier in some parishes, pro-forma registers started to be used.

This collection includes baptism, marriage, and burial records from parishes in the County of Clare in Ireland, with dates ranging from 1744 to 1991.

Chris

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