California Death Certificate for John J. Noonan, born in California, 12-29-1907. Died 12-22-1968, Burlingame, San Mateo Co. CA. Father's name, Joseph Noonan, Ireland. Spouse's name: Violet C. Galway. If this fits someone's family tree I will gladly send. Lorraine

I have been given permission to send this to the various lists I admin by the original poster to the New England Irish list: > This seems like a good place to start looking for records in US states and > territories. > > http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w.htm <http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w.htm> -- Pat Connors, Sacramento, CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

I have added the following to the various county sections of my website: Count Leix/Laois: Kyle Civil Parish tithe applotments County Kilkenny: Knocktopher Civil Parish tithe applotments County Limerick: Knocknagaul Civil Parish tithe applotments and civil parish townland map Knocklong Civil Parish tithe applotments and civil parish townland map -- Pat Connors, Sacramento, CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

I have added the following tithes applotments to the county sections of my website: County Limerick: Ballyscaddan, Cappagh-plus civil parish maps for both County Tipperary: Glenkeen-plus civil parish map County Kilkenny: Callan, Gowran, Gaulskill, Glashare County Galway: Oranmore-plus civil parish map -- Pat Connors, Sacramento, CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

Yes, I believe they are geared to Internet Explorer. I use SeaMonkey (much like Firefox) and it works okay but quirky. > 1. More records added to the FamilySearch pilot section > > > > Just a word of warning about the FS pilot/beta sites. This only > applies to Mac users using Safari 5.x or higher. It has been my > experience that either FS site doesn't play "nice" with Safari v5.x > or higher. To use either site, I have to use Firefox although another > browser might work. > > -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

> 1. More records added to the FamilySearch pilot section (Pat Connors) > >200 million new records added...check out the link below where the >article gives a listing of the new records > >http://genealogy.about.com/b/2010/08/20/200-million-new-genealogy-records-on-familysearch.htm > >-- >Pat Connors, Sacramento, CA >http://www.connorsgenealogy.com Just a word of warning about the FS pilot/beta sites. This only applies to Mac users using Safari 5.x or higher. It has been my experience that either FS site doesn't play "nice" with Safari v5.x or higher. To use either site, I have to use Firefox although another browser might work. Jeff Ford

200 million new records added...check out the link below where the article gives a listing of the new records http://genealogy.about.com/b/2010/08/20/200-million-new-genealogy-records-on-familysearch.htm -- Pat Connors, Sacramento, CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

The IGP County Armagh website has been updated. Webpages have been added for Montiaghs and Newhamilton Civil Parishes with webpages for all their townlands, Family History Library Film numbers, links, surnames and more. New townland pages have also been added bringing the total to 748 townland pages on the site. Many have pictures and records, not to mention links, surname and film numbers. You can access the site at: http://www.igp-web.com/armagh/index.htm If you have anything to add to the site (records, pictures, etc) and/or if you find corrections that are needed or have suggestions for the site, please email me off the list. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento, CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

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Thanks, Pat!   Judie --- On Tue, 8/10/10, Pat Connors <nymets22@gmail.com> wrote: From: Pat Connors <nymets22@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [IRISH-AMER] Tithe applotments, what are they? To: irish-american@rootsweb.com Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 1:00 PM The tithes, like the Griffith's Valuation, only enunerated head of households.  There is no way of knowing if this James is your James. However, if you find your ancestor in a civil parish and also have church records for the same place and the same time period, you can pretty well be assured that he is yours.  However, if the family moved around a lot and you have no backup records, then it is more difficult to tell if he is yours. > Is there a way to determine if either of the James Masons listed in Tithe > Applotment of 1823-1837 (see below) could be my James? > > -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com ====Irish American Mailing List===== Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname Registry at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRISH-AMERICAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The tithes, like the Griffith's Valuation, only enunerated head of households. There is no way of knowing if this James is your James. However, if you find your ancestor in a civil parish and also have church records for the same place and the same time period, you can pretty well be assured that he is yours. However, if the family moved around a lot and you have no backup records, then it is more difficult to tell if he is yours. > Is there a way to determine if either of the James Masons listed in Tithe > Applotment of 1823-1837 (see below) could be my James? > > -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

Pat,   Thanks so much for providing this valuable and interesting information about Tithe Applotments along with thanks for all the information you post that is so helpful to so many of us family researchers.   I have a question that you or someone else, I hope, might be able to provide an answer.......   My gr gr grandfather, James Mason, is listed in the 1855 Griffith's valuation in the townland of Athlunkard, St. Patrick's Parish, Limerick Union, Co. Clare.   Is there a way to determine if either of the James Masons listed in Tithe Applotment of 1823-1837 (see below) could be my James?   Mason, Ja's   townland: Ballinahinch, parish: Kilnoe, Co. Clare Mason, James  townland: Snata Cooper, parish: Kilseily, Co. Clare   There is also a James Mason in Castleconnell, Co. Limerick/Tipperary(?) which is very near to Athlunkard, Co. Clare where I know my family originated.   I ask about Co. Limerick/Tipperary because James' son, Matthew, my gr grandfather was married (1870) in Newport, Co. Tipperary.   Thanks for any information.   Judie Mason Chicago     --- On Thu, 7/29/10, Pat Connors <nymets11@pacbell.net> wrote: From: Pat Connors <nymets11@pacbell.net> Subject: [IRISH-AMER] Tithe applotments, what are they? Date: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 5:26 PM THE TITHE COMPOSITION APPLOTMENT BOOKS

Oops! Should be IGW, can be found here: http://www.irelandgenweb.com/~irltip/ > The IGP Co Tipperary website has been updated with the addition of > webpages -- Pat Connors, Sacramento, CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

The IGP Co Tipperary website has been updated with the addition of webpages for the Kilvellane and Templetenny Civil Parish. Each webpage contains a townland map of the parish, Family History Library films plus links, not to mention the Samuel Lewis description of the parish and webpages for every townland found in the parish in 1851. Many of the site's townland pages have been updated with links, pictures, surnames, etc. More records have been added to the record section. The Templeachally Civil Parish has been updated with some additions. There are now over 101 civil parish pages and 1,769 townland pages on the site. If you have any comments, corrections or additions for the site, please email me off the list. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento, CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

New (larger) files added in July to Ireland Genealogy Projects - Archives. There are also smaller records like individual Vital Records added which I have not included. To view any of these start with our main page: http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ Then pick the COUNTY and Subject heading. IRELAND (Country) -Newspaper ..Dublin Gazette, Fugitives for Debt - various counties - 1739 ..Freemans Journal Assorted B,M,D 1763-1765 CARLOW -Newspaper ..Dublin Journal - 22nd July 1746. Rent Rolls (Apparently for Carlow) CLARE -Newspaper ..Insolvents 1836 - Ennis CORK -Headstones ..Dunmahon Cemetery, Cork, Ireland ..Rockmills Cemetery (village of Rockmills) ..Tullagh Cemetery abt a mile from Baltimore Village in West Cork -Photos ..Creagh Church Near Baltimore -Newspaper ..Insolvents in Ireland - Cork December 1836 DUBLIN -Headstones ..Deansgrange Cemetery, West Part 3 ..Kilgobbin Cemetery, Dublin County, Pt 1 & 2 ..Mount Jerome, Dublin - Parts 10-12 ..St. Nahis Church & Cemetery, Dundrum, Part 2 & 3 -Newspaper ..Dublin Gazette, Fugitives for Debt - 1730 FERMANAGH -Church ..Tubrid Church, Kesh, Co. Fermanagh - Births KERRY -Newspaper ..1750 Dublin Journal, Improvements on Lord Kenmare's Estate ..Insolvents in Ireland 1836 - Tralee LIMERICK -Newspapers ..Dublin Gazette - Limerick Insolvents 1836 -Headstones ..Ballinure Cemetery (Abington too?) ..Cappamore - St. Michael's R.C. Church Tablets LONGFORD -Court ..Court of Petty Sessions, Ballymahon, Longford, 25 March 1870 - 29 Jul 1870 MONAGHAN -Headstones ..Tydavnet Old Graveyard - Map of Graves TIPPERARY - Vital Records ..Tuohy, Toohey vitals added TYRONE -Vital Records ..MCELHINNEY - Births, Marriages & Deaths WATERFORD -Newspaper ..Dublin Gazette, Insolvents 1836 - Waterford WICKLOW -Headstones ..Arklow Cemetery, Part 3 Christina http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ ===============================

Someone nice from Ireland sent me this that he found in one of his reference books and I thought I would share it with all my Irish lists: THE TITHE COMPOSITION APPLOTMENT BOOKS Amongst the records and documents transferred to the custody of the Irish Land Commission, from the Commissioners of Church Temporalities, by virtue of the provisions of the Irish Church Act Amendment Act, 1881, were the "Tithe Composition Applotment Books," ranging in date from the year 1823 to 1837, and numbering some two and a half thousand MS. volumes. The origin of these Books descriptive of every parish in Ireland, excepting cities and the larger towns, resides in the Act of Parliament of July, 1823, 2 providing for the substitution of a money payment in respect of Tithes in the place of that formerly rendered in kind. This new method of Tithe payment involved a valuation of the country, parish by parish, under the direction of distinct parochial commissioners, one of whom was elected by the parochial ratepayers and the other nominated by the Diocesan authority. The Tithe Composition Books, for the greater part still in the charge of the Land Commission in Dublin, are the record and expression of that Valuation, and as such uniformly show the denominations of land, titheable, comprising each parish, the landholders, the areas of the farms, their valuations and the proportion of future tithe payable. Exceptions to this uniformity occur only in so far as added information may be furnished either as to the landholders of an earlier date, or as to the agricultural employment of the land and the qualities of the soil. Some books carry annotations specifying the legal interests of the tenantry, or indicating where emigration had taken place; even antiquities were occasionally the subject of observation. Relevant papers, including maps, frequently accompany each parish survey. They explain the procedure which led to the fixing of the amount of the composition based on the average price obtainable in the parish for wheat and oats during the seven years preceding the 1st November, 1821. The liability of pasture land, formerly exempt, to Tithe explains the protests to be found occasionally with these papers. With some few exceptions, where copies take the place of the originals, each Book is certified and signed by the elected and nominated commissioners. They are, therefore, the authentic records of these Tithe applotments which were, in fact, at a later date declared "valid and effectual" by Act of Parliament. It is the purpose of this Note to direct attention to the exceptional importance of this extensive repertory, and of its value to students and investigators in the spheres of history, economics and genealogy. Begun, as already indicated, in the third decade of the 19th century and prior to the introduction of the Poor Law, the Ordnance Survey or Government Valuation of the country, the Tithe Applotment Valuation furnishes a detailed account of the occupiers of the land with the extent and value of their individual farms. It was the first complete register of the people in relation to the working and tenancy of the land, and its worth is heightened by the fact that it is a duly certified recording of the occupation and usage of the land for the two decades immediately preceding the upheaval wrought by the Famine of '47. Indeed between the years 1823 and 1830 "out of the 2,450 parishes of which Ireland was composed, 1,353 parishes had compounded" under the Act of 1823.* Before 1837 the commutation proceedings, with the aid of a compulsory Act (1832) were completed for the remaining parishes. Each parochial Applotment Book presents in tabular form the particulars of the Tithe apportionment under the captions of Tenants, Townlands, Area, Valuation and Tithe Payable. Within these classifications there is uniformity throughout the entire documentation. The numerous Books examined reveal, however, a much wider range in the specification of Quarterlands, Ploughlands and their sub-denominations, the name's of head-landlords and owners in fee, the rents per acre, paid by the tenants, the quality of the land of each farm?set out in so many as six classifications with corresponding valuations, the areas of farms in arable, pasture and meadow, and, of particular interest, returns for each man's sowing of wheat, barley, oats, potatoes and so on. This last invaluable recording of the individual farmer's employment of the land is available in a representative way for more than one county?and to the extent, for such particulars, of six whole Tipperary parishes. Lands held in joint and undivided tenancies or "Rundale" are distinguished and particulars afforded of the standard of value by which the applotment was effected. As to the principle of the Valuation itself, it is apprehended that where the rents were not followed, it was made by qualities. Over certain areas the apportionment was on the basis of "a true and just applotment ,of the Views of the Parish." Any appraisal of this vast mass of historical material must take into consideration its present value as an isolated and exclusive source of knowledge for the facts set down either of a human, topographical or statistical nature. Having regard to the loss in recent years of the Census of 1821, the Tithe Valuation is of exceptional importance as preserving the memory of the people of the soil. With the exception of the possible existence of old Rate books or rentals of estates, yet to be discovered, the Tithe Valuation remains the only source available in this connection over the period specified. Catholic Emancipation had yet to be enacted when the Tithe Valuation had become law and, therefore, Parish Registers are scarce, if at all available ; with regard to those of the Protestant Church?deposited in the Public Record Office they, with the Census, perished in 1922. Where, on the Consolidation of Farms, or for other reasons, there was a wholesale removal of tenantry to America, or elsewhere, the Tithe Valuation, in the absence of Emigration lists or other particulars, is the only source enabling descendants to establish connection with the land of their transported ancestry. The Government Valuation popularly known as Griffith's Valuation was of later date, circa 1850-1856. As a record of topographical nomenclature, and parochial contents, it must first be said, with regard to the Tithe Valuation, that in 1825 Government empowered1 the delimitation of the boundaries of baronies, parishes, and townlands for the purpose of a General Survey of Ireland. The first Ordnance Survey map appeared in 1833 and later the well-known accompanying Memoir of the Parish of Templemore. The latter points out in connection with the boundaries of townlands laid down on the maps that it often happened that they did not coincide with those of. earlier denominations and that new subdivisions would sometimes occur. Evidence given before the Occupation of Land (Ireland) Commission, 1844, explained that the Government had found Quarterlands too large ; that they had been subdivided and given new names. To these circumstances must be added the consequences of the later Boundary Act of 1836-37* which resulted in the transfer of townlands not only from one parish to another but from one county to another! The topographical and geographical distortion thus effected in the interests of making each barony and county one continuous tract of land must ever present problems of territorial locations which can only be solved by reference to some pre-existing record. Here the Tithe Valuation emerges as a great national survey preserving the facts as to what sub-divisions comprised each parish in Quarterlands, Ploughlands, Sub-denominations, or Townlands and in recording the Place-Names of such sub-divisions as they were known to the people on the land. As to the rendering of the latter, there is evidence that the Tithe Books were, over certain areas, consulted in the preparation of material for the Ordnance Survey, and that to this extent they have already received scholarly appraisal as an authoritative source. For the agricultural distribution of the land, its employment in tillage and pasture over the period 1823-37, it has only to be said that statistics, not elsewhere to be found, are available here. All these considerations unite in exalting the Tithe Valuation as one of the most precious possessions of the nation and in urging serious consideration for its preservation. In the course of its examination, over certain areas, it was observed that the ink of many books was rapidly fading and that illegibility would soon be a widespread reality. This is to be explained by the poorness of the material some times used in the recording and compiling of the Tithe Books ranging in format from the humble copybook to stoutly bound volumes. Attention has already been called to this regrettable development and it is understood some effort has been made to deal with particularly precarious examples. By R. C. Simington. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento, CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

I have added the following tithe applotments to the County Monaghan section of my website: Errigal Trough Civil Parish Currin Civil Parish Clontibret Civil Parish Also added to the County Galway section: Annaghdown Civil Parish tithe applotments Annaghdown Civil Parish townland map -- Pat Connors, Sacramento, CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

Here is the full link: http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/trip/Tracing your ancestors LR.pdf It was in the original email for but for some reason the link stopped at Tracing. If it does again, just paste the remaining. Link should end with 'pdf' -- Pat Connors, Sacramento, CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

This is geared to County Clare researchers but there is much more that all can use: http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/library/local-studies/tracing_your_family_tree.htm -- Pat Connors, Sacramento, CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

Here is a neat brochure and where the records are found in Ireland plus research tips and beautiful pictures: http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/trip/Tracing your ancestors LR.pdf If you are going to Ireland, it would be a good thing to print out the print pages to take along. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento, CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com