Diploma in Family History The Genealogical Office 1

HERALDRY IN IRELAND Feudal, Norman practice, Crusades Europe-wide, 11th-13th centuries No native heraldry Now two kinds Souvenir Official (blazon) Burke arms

HERALDRY IN IRELAND Detail from the Registration of Arms of Donogh McGillicuddy of Kerry 1688.

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

ULSTER OFFICE OF ARMS: 1800 - 1853 Sir William Betham (1779–1853) Deputy Ulster 1807 -1820 Ulster 1820 – 1853 Record-keeping Bedford tower

ULSTER 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 DATE “The Genealogical Office/Office of the Chief Herald” Edward MacLysaght Gerard Slevin Donal Begly Fergus Gillespie Collette O’Flaherty

GENEALOGICAL OFFICE GRANT, 2006

GENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDS Heraldic Official 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 RECORDS Research 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 RECORDS Research 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 research Research aids (census transcripts, freemen’s lists ...)

GENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDS Research material Archives: c. 20,000 GO research files

GENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDS Research material Indexes 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

GENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDS Access Now only via NLI/LDS microfilm See www.nli.ie => Office of the Chief Herald catalogue.nli.ie => “genealogical” + digitised

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