Ireland

This article details connections between British India and Ireland, particularly emigration and immigration.

Also see

• Irish Townlands
• Passenger Lists (UK Ports)
• Newspapers and journals online: Pay websites and Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories: Other British and Irish publications for information about the website "Irish Newspaper Archives".

FIBIS Resources

• The Irish In India (1790-1920) A youtube presentation of a lecture given by FIBIS chairman, Peter Bailey, in May 2012

External links

• IrishGenealogy.ie operated by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, “a website that allows users the opportunity to search a wide range of record sources in their search of their Irish Ancestry. The website is home to the on-line historic Indexes of the Civil Registers (GRO) of Births, Marriages, Civil Partnerships and Deaths and to Church Records of Baptism, Marriage and Burial from a number of counties”.

Note: From 8 September 2016 The General Register Office's historical birth, marriage and death registers will also be available online.

• National Archives of Ireland
  • Genealogy Includes links to the 1901 and 1911 Censuses, Soldiers Wills 1914-1918 and Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1858 - 1920. Free online records.
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland also referred to as PRONI
• Kabristan Archives publish The Forgotten Irish - Memorials of the Raj and A Handbook for Irish War Graves in India, Burma & Beyond 1914-45 Both titles can be found on open access in the British Library Asian and African Reading Room.
• Articles in Irish Family History-Journal of the Irish Family History Society

• "The India Callaghans" by Alfred D. F. Gabb, Volume 11 (1995) page 32
• "From Co. Kildare to India" by Tom Radigan, Volume 13 (1997) page 3
• "An Irish community in Bombay" by Abagail Sheppard, Volume 15 (1999) page 22
• "Irishmen in the East-India Company Army" by Peter Bailey, Volume 17 (2001) page 84

• National Library of Ireland: free online Catholic Parish Register images: Baptisms and marriages to 1880. Introduced 8 July 2015. These images are not indexed by name, so you will need to know the relevant parish.
• National Archives Guide: Looking for records of a birth, marriage or death in Scotland and Ireland
• What Irish records are online? from Irish Ancestors irishtimes.com
• Recruiting regions of Irish infantry regiments in the British Army from 1881 until 1922. A list of regiments, depots, counties together with a map. Select page 5 of the document in this link or pdf
• "Information Document on the Irish Regiments of the British Army up to 31st July 1922". Irish Military Archives Dublin docs.google version, original pdf
• "Irish Soldiers in the British Army 1792-1922: Suborned or Subordinate?" by Peter Karsten Journal of Social History Volume 17 No. 1 (Autumn 1983) pages 31-64 docs.google version original pdf