Hi Folks, I susbcribe to the surnamesearchdaily (below) which outlines various thingies, often free. Today included Catholic Qualification Rolls for 1778. As the website explains .... "A Catholic in penal times was presumed guilty of disloyalty to the authorities unless he could prove himself innocent. To avail of the provisions of the Catholic Relief Acts, from 1778 he had to take an oath of loyalty at the assizes in the county town. The names were then registered in the Catholic Qualification Rolls according to surname, Christian name, occupation, address, date and place of taking the oath. These lists are a valuable addition to local and family history. "The following is from the Clogher Record, pub ?, and transcribed from MS 2486 in the National Library of Ireland, where the author, Rev. P. O. Gallachair, used the microfilm copy of the ms. (Neg. 1898-9; Pos. 1898-9 and also from MS aA.52.77 in the PRO in Dublin. List no. I comes from the NL Manuscript, list II comes from the PRO Dublin. [The do. after the names is ditto. A list for County Fermanagh is also printed in the Clogher Record.]" So there you go, searching manuscripts in NLI while sipping wine at your computer on a fine spring day! What could be better? It will amaze some of you to check the surnames as they ain't so different from the Proddy surnames. That's because whether we admit to it or not, we intermarry, Irish surnames were anglicized, etc. http://ahd.exis.net/monaghan/qual-cath.htm The other thing that might interest you is that we've been brainwashed to believe that everyone in Ireland, esp. Catholics, were potato farmers. Here in Monaghan in 1778 you 'll find merchants, hatters, weavers, shopkeepers, tailors, bakers, etc -- Catholics but certainly not potato farmers. We tend to think if our ancestor arrived in the colonies with a nice trade, he was Protestant. Maybe not. Don't limit your search. It was dang hard to hold onto the old faith when there were no churches or clergy. Most of my ancestors were from Northern Ulster, but I have an ex brother in law (product of a mixed Irish marriage, stateside) and there's his surnames, both of them: Campbell and Reilly. We don't know where his came from in Ulster. The Campbells were Catholic -- it's a native Irish surnames as well as Scots. Irish surnames were not 'on' in the 1700s so note the lack of O'! Their descendents are tacking them back on now. So if you're spending a lot of time searching for a O' surname, try it without. Might find them that way. However the parent page has even more info for you: http://ahd.exis.net/monaghan/default.htm Today's surnamesearchdaily is below. You can sub if you want to get it. (See bottom). 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