G'day, Per the Irish Ancestors site I have copied the following: Maritime Records: From 1864 up to the present, the General Register Office has kept a separate "Marine Register" of births and deaths of Irish subjects which took place at sea. From 1886 only, a printed index to this register is bound into the back of the births and deaths index for each year. For earlier registers, the indexes have to be requested from the staff in the Office. No separate register was kept for marriages at sea. Are these records accessable from the LDS as well? Has anyone noticed there being such an index at the end of any quaterly films they have searched for deaths? Would they be catalogued according to where the person had been born in Ireland as the place of death would not have occured in a Registration district? A bit puzzled as to where and how the death would have been registered...especially if the deceased no longer had family in Ireland? Thank you for your expertise, Tim --------------------------------- Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals

Hello Tim, Deaths of Irish in places other than Ireland do indeed sometimes appear in the index to Irish civil registration, at the end of a year. I was just looking at civil registration indexes a few weeks ago and noticed both the events at sea as well as those of Irish in the Army overseas (several in India). There were very few entries in these categories, in some cases only one or two listed. The index entries are very brief with no mention of their exact Irish origins - at most, only the person's name and where the B M or D occurred, and a reference of some kind (page number in some cases). For example, because I trace Irish Keys / Keyes families, I wrote this one down from the end of FHL film 101254 [index to marriages Ireland 1881-1884]: BMD Irish Subjects (Army) during 1884 KEY, John Secunderabad p. 23 I don't know to which records the "p. 23" refers and have not pursued it. Geralyn Wood Barry in Oregon At 08:23 PM 4/18/05, tim berry wrote: >G'day, > >Per the Irish Ancestors site I have copied the following: > >Maritime Records: From 1864 up to the present, the General Register Office >has kept a separate "Marine Register" of births and deaths of Irish >subjects which took place at sea. From 1886 only, a printed index to this >register is bound into the back of the births and deaths index for each >year. For earlier registers, the indexes have to be requested from the >staff in the Office. No separate register was kept for marriages at sea. > >Are these records accessable from the LDS as well? Has anyone noticed >there being such an index at the end of any quaterly films they have >searched for deaths? Would they be catalogued according to where the >person had been born in Ireland as the place of death would not have >occured in a Registration district? > >A bit puzzled as to where and how the death would have been >registered...especially if the deceased no longer had family in Ireland? > > >Thank you for your expertise, > >Tim