Irish Roots Magazine - Issue 101

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Tracing Your Kilkenny Ancestors

Irish Weddings & Customs Explored

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Celebrating Irish Ancestry

Using Civil Registration Records And How They Can Help You. Understanding & Connecting DNA With Your Family History.

Seven Unusual Ways To Trace Your Irish Ancestors.

Learn About Irish Place Names And Families From Those Areas.

News From The World Of Irish Genealogy And Lots Lots More!

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CONTENTS 4 News 5 And Another Thing 6 Civil Registrations Registers Online 8 Irish Weddings & Customs Explored 10 Tracing Your Kilkenny Ancestors 13 Books Ireland 14 Society Notes 16 7 Unusual Ways To Trace Your Irish Ancestors 18 Connecting DNA & Your Irish Roots 20 What’s New? - Review

Welcome to our spring issue. Spring is most definitely in the air as we welcome in the brighter days, green buds are starting to appear and lots of exciting wedding chatter abounds. Many of our ancestors got married in the spring time, in fact the most popular traditional date to exchange wedding vows was on ‘Shrove Tuesday’, the last day before Lent, as the Catholic Church did not allow marriages during the Lenten period. Double weddings were often typical when two sisters or a brother and a sister were married to their spouses on the same day.

When my parents married in 1938, it was a strictly business affair between my mum’s dad and my father’s dad. They met in a solicitor’s office in Kanturk, Co. Cork and my mother’s dowry was transferred from her father to her prospective father-in-law. That dowry was then used to buy a farm for the one sibling my father had, his brother, so that he could move out of the family home. My mother wore a blue dress made for her by a dress-maker and the wedding breakfast was served at her home. The day was completed with ‘straw boys’ calling in the evening to dance with the bride and they were bestowed with food and drink aplenty. The tradition of ‘strawing’ died out somewhat in the late 1960s when weddings began to be held in hotels. Catholic marriage ceremonies took place before 12 noon, eventually the church relented and began to allow afternoon ceremonies. This changed the dynamics with guests opting to stay overnight in the wedding venue.

The spring filled exciting wedding banter permeates my own home at the moment as I am thrilled that my son Patrick will marry his lovely partner Teresa in early March and it promises to be a wonderful occasion. Despite the fact that many of the old wedding customs have long since faded away with time, the essence and delight of the joyous matrimonial celebration dances on. To find out more details, join Marion McGarry, as she explores old Irish Weddings and Customs on page 8.

Spring also means St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner – another reason to celebrate this wonderful time of year. Wishing you all a very happy and peaceful St. Patrick’s Day. Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh!

Maureen Editor/Publisher Maureen Phibbs Irish Roots Media Ltd, Blackrock, Blessington, Co. Wicklow, Ireland W91 WK35.

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24 Irish Place Names & Families 26 Shackled:- Female Convicts At Moreton Bay 1826 - 1839 28 A Question Of Genealogy

30 Readers Experience - Barbara Walters

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