Can somebody clear up a fuzzy area for me??? Using the Griffith's Valuation is said to be a good way of searching for relatives as there is no longer any evidence from census data available. BUT - was every head of the family noted in this Valuation - or were many people not included? I ask this because I was looking for a JOHN WALSH in St Iberius, Wexford Town, and found only one. I would have expected there to be more than one in the early 1850s in this parish. Similar occurrences have happened with other places in the Griffiths and I was wondering whether or not it is as valuable a source as one might think it to be. Has anyone else noticed this? Mary McCarthy Simpson
My great great great grandfather, Edward Perry wasn't included in it, so I don't think so. His mother-in-law Jane Coffey had 3 properties, so I assume he lived in one of those. Vicki >From: Mary Simpson <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [IRL-WEXFORD] Griffith's Valuation and the local population >Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 15:17:37 +0100 > >Can somebody clear up a fuzzy area for me??? > >Using the Griffith's Valuation is said to be a good way of searching >for relatives as there is no longer any evidence from census data >available. BUT - was every head of the family noted in this >Valuation - or were many people not included? > >I ask this because I was looking for a JOHN WALSH in St Iberius, >Wexford Town, and found only one. I would have expected there to be >more than one in the early 1850s in this parish. > >Similar occurrences have happened with other places in the Griffiths >and I was wondering whether or not it is as valuable a source as one >might think it to be. Has anyone else noticed this? > >Mary McCarthy Simpson > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Txt a lot? Get Messenger FREE on your mobile. https://livemessenger.mobile.uk.msn.com/