TITHE DEFAULTERS LISTS - IRELAND 1831 Malvern, Australia: Data Tree Publishing (1998) (MICROFICHE ) ISBN 0-9585255-0 Available in Australia from: Data Tree Publishing, Suite 393, 45 Glenferrie Road, Malvern, Vic 3144 E-mail: datatree@alphalink.com.au URL: http://www.alphalink.com.au/~datatree/index.htm Available in USA from: The Irish At Home and Abroad, P.O. Box 521806, Salt Lake City, UT 84152, USA; FAX: (801) 467-6507 E-mail: Kjbslc@aol.com URL: http://www.ihaonline.com/ The Tithe Defaulters Lists of 1831 are application forms from Church of Ireland clergy whose tithe income was withheld when farmers failed to pay their tithe. The lists are available in the "OPMA" ("Official Papers: Miscellaneous and Assorted") boxes at the National Archives. Some counties have more names listed than others, and some counties are not covered at all in the lists. Stephen McCormac has abstracted the information from the lists, and his extracts are now available on microfiche arranged geographically. The original records were sometimes patchy and lacked consistency but where the information was available the townland, parish and occupation of the defaulters have been transcribed. Each set includes an introduction explaining the history of the tithes, an example of the Form of Affidavit and the Clergy Relief Fund Act and an example of a Schedule (for Ballynemara, Co. Kilkenny). Also each set includes (for all counties) the OPMA index reference numbers for the National Archives, a comparison to the data in the 1831 census (statistical), the tithes due and tithe arrears by parish, and a list of clergy. For further information regarding the lists see Suzanne C. Hartwick,"Schedules of the Clergy Relief Fund, 1831: Tithe-Defaulters and Their Occupations," The Irish Genealogist 8 (1) (1990): 82-102. Kilkenny: 10,263 names on 4 fiche Tipperary: 9346 names on 3 fiche Wexford: 2773 names on 2 fiche Cork: 2,115 names on 1 fiche Waterford: 1,838 names on 1 fiche Louth: 965 names on 1 fiche Limerick: 851 names on 1 fiche Laois 360 Meath 36 Carlow 437 Offaly 23 Kerry 20 886 names combined on 1 fiche Complete collection 29,027 names on 15 fiche