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30 March – the United Kingdom Census shows that, as part of the legacy of the Great Famine, the population of Ireland has fallen to 6,575,000 – a drop of 1,600,000 in ten years. [1] [2] This is the first census to note use of the Irish language. [3] 1 August – Midland Great Western Railway extended from Mullingar to Galway. [3]
The Public Records Office of Ireland c. 1900. In 1867, under the reign of Queen Victoria, the British Parliament passed the Public Records (Ireland) Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 70) to establish the Public Record Office of Ireland which was tasked with collecting administrative, court and probate records over twenty years old. [5]
Findmypast is a UK-based online genealogy service owned, since 2007, by British company DC Thomson. The website hosts billions of searchable records of census, directory and historical record information. [4] It originated in 1965 when a group of genealogists formed a group named "Title Research". The first internet website went live in 2003.
A rare surviving page from the 1851 Census of Ireland lists the household of Peter Magauran of Carrowmore. [30] In the 1901 census of Ireland, there are twenty-four families listed in the townland. [31] In the 1911 census of Ireland, there are twenty-one families listed in the townland. [32]
Ireland population change 1841-1851. The population of Ireland in 2021 was approximately seven million with 1,903,100 in Northern Ireland [1] and 5,123,536 in the Republic of Ireland. [2] In the 2022 census the population of the Republic of Ireland eclipsed five million for the first time since the 1851 census. [3]
Northern Ireland Census 1937 - Sunday, 28 February: [4] Unlike the 1926 Northern Ireland census, the 1937 census records survive. [7] [9] [10] (scheduled publication date 1 January 2038) United Kingdom Census 1941 - no census taken due to World War II. United Kingdom Census 1951 - Sunday, 8 April (scheduled publication date 1 January 2052)
An 1851 census was taken in Ireland but most of the records have been destroyed; those that remain are held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (for those counties of Ireland which remain in the UK) or the National Archives of Ireland (for those counties now in the Republic of Ireland).
Ireland - no census; a Northern Ireland census was held in 1926 instead. [1] Place of work and industry [31] Whether a marriage has been dissolved by divorce. [36] 1931: 26 April England and Wales – documents destroyed in 1942 fire; Scotland - documents survive. [37] Northern Ireland – no census; a Northern Ireland census was held in 1937 ...