Diploma in Family HistoryDiploma in Family History

The Genealogical Office

HERALDRY IN IRELANDHERALDRY IN IRELANDFeudal, Norman practice, CrusadesEurope-wide, 11th-13th centuriesNo native heraldryNow two kinds

SouvenirOfficial (blazon)

Burke arms

HERALDRY IN IRELANDHERALDRY IN IRELAND

Detail from the Registration of Arms of Donogh McGillicuddy of Kerry 1688.

ULSTER OFFICE OF ARMS: PRE-1800ULSTER OFFICE OF ARMS: PRE-1800Founded in 1552Active (as evidenced by records) from mid 1700sSinecures and backhanders

ULSTER OFFICE OF ARMS: 1800 - 1853ULSTER OFFICE OF ARMS: 1800 - 1853

Sir William Betham (1779–1853) Deputy Ulster 1807 -1820Ulster 1820 – 1853Record-keepingBedford tower

ULSTER OFFICE OF ARMS: 1857 - 1943ULSTER OFFICE OF ARMS: 1857 - 1943

Sir John Bernard Burke (1853 -1892)Sir Arthur Vicars (1893 – 1908)Sir Neville Wilkinson (1908 – 1940)

GENEALOGICAL OFFICE: 1943 TO DATEGENEALOGICAL OFFICE: 1943 TO DATE

• Edward MacLysaght• Gerard Slevin• Donal Begly• Fergus Gillespie• Collette O’Flaherty

“The Genealogical Office/Office of the Chief Herald”

GENEALOGICAL OFFICE GRANT, 2006GENEALOGICAL OFFICE GRANT, 2006

GENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDSGENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDS

HeraldicOfficial Records (Visitations, Funeral Entries Official grants and confirmations of arms, Registered Pedigrees ...)Administrative Records and Reference Works

• Armories, ordinaries of arms, treatises on heraldry and precedence, English Visitations, blazons of arms

GENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDSGENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDSResearch material: Betham's compilations.

Prerogative wills. "Ancient Anglo-Irish Families" "Milesian Families“Excerpts from the plea rolls and patent rolls Henry III - Edward VI Transcript of Roger O'ferrall's "Linea Antiqua"

GENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDSGENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDSResearch material:

Genealogists’ pedigrees and research notes • Edmund Bewley, Denis O'Callaghan Fisher, Tenison

Groves, Alfred Moloney, T.U. Sadleir, Rev. H.B. Swanzy Ulster’s researchResearch aids

(census transcripts, freemen’s lists ...)

GENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDSGENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDS

Research materialArchives: c. 20,000 GO research files

GENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDSGENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDS

Research materialIndexes

• GO 470: Index to Unregistered Pedigrees.• GO 469: Index to Registered Pedigrees.• McAnlis, Virginia Wade. The Consolidated Index to the Records of

the Genealogical Office, Dublin, Ireland. Vols. 1-4., Washington: Virginia R. McAnlis, 1994. Online

AccessNow only via NLI/LDS microfilmSee www.nli.ie => Office of the Chief Heraldcatalogue.nli.ie => “genealogical” + digitised

GENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDSGENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDS

HISTORYHISTORY

Susan Hood: Royal Roots, Republican Inheritance: The Survival of the Office of Arms (Dublin, Woodfield Press, 2002)