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Genealogy
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"Tracing your Wexford
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County Wexford Heritage
& Genealogy Society |
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County Wexford Heritage and Genealogy was established
to assist people in tracing their Wexford roots. We are members of the Irish
Family History Foundation - a 32 county state and church approved organisation
dedicated solely to genealogical research. |
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Tracing Wexford families previously was
difficult as the source material was scattered throughout the country. Here, at
County Wexford Heritage and Genealogy, we have collected a considerable amount
of this material and provide a full time professional genealogy service for
people wishing to trace their Wexford ancestors. Source material and records used at our
centre include:
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Church
Records
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Census
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Land
Records
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Landed
Gentry
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Surveys
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Published
Sources
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Other Additional
Information
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For more
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Write
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Yola
Farmstead
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Wexford
Genealogy
Centre
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Rosslare
Harbour
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Tagoat
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Co.
Wexford
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Ireland
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Telephone:
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+353
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9132610
(053
9132610
in
Ireland)
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Fax:
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+353
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9132612
(053
9132612
in
Ireland)
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Email:
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wexgen@eircom.net
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Enquiries can be initiated by
completing and returning the Registration Form with a fee. In return you
will receive a "Genealogy Pack" containing information helpful to begin your
search. Click here to go to the
"Fill out Form Page".
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Stages in Tracing your
Ancestors |
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Stage 1: An
Assessment |
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With an application form and assessment
fee, a preliminary search of all our sources for records relating to your
ancestors' family will be carried out
Where records are found, we will quote
you for the preparation of your Family History Report. In cases where records
are not found, we will inform you of the searches carried out.
Allow 12 weeks for
the results of an assessment |
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Stage 2: Preparing your Family
History Report |
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A Family History Report is a
compilation of all relevant genealogy records found. Additional research will not be carried out without prior consent
of the enquirer.
Allow 6 weeks for
this service |
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~ Additional Information
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Common Surnames in County
Wexford |
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Murphy, Sinnott, Doyle, Furlong, Walsh,
Rossiter, Scallan, Brien, Brown, Stafford, Devereux and
Kavanagh. |
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Famous People with Wexford
Roots |
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U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
had Wexford ancestry as had US Navy founder Commodore John Barry, Admiral Earl
Beatty, General John O'Herron, the songwriter Thomas Moore, 'Big' Jem Roche, the
boxer, playwright Bill Roche, Australian outlaw Ned Kelly had their family roots
in County Wexford as have the Fry family the famous chocolate
manufacturers. |
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Main Towns in County
Wexford |
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Wexford, Enniscorthy, Gorey and New
Ross. Wexford town is famous for its annual Opera Festival. Other visitor
attractions include the Yola Farmstead, The Irish National Heritage Park,
Vinegar Hill, Tacumshane and Tagoat Windmills and the Saltee Island Bird
Sanctuary. |
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Emigration from
Wexford |
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Wexford was long noted for the
prosperity of its farms and for its industrial farmers. It may have been for
these reasons that Wexford suffered less than many Irish counties when the Great
Famine struck in 1845. The rural population density in 1841 was one of the
lowest in the country at 217 persons per square mile. There was considerable
emigration especially from the north of the county which continued throughout
the 19th century. The county's population was then 202,000 persons. By 1851 the
population of Wexford had fallen to 180,000 and by 1891 to 112,000.
New York, Boston, Texas and Nova Scotia
received the bulk of Wexford emigrants but some also settled in Argentina,
Australia and England. |
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