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Records in this collection
- Ardagh Wills 1690-1857
- Betham Prerogative Marriage Licences Abstracts, 1629-1810
- Cantwell's Memorials of the Dead
- Clonfert Marriage Bonds 1663-1857
- Clonfert Wills and Administrations 1663-1857
- Crossle Genealogical Abstracts
- Deputy Keeper of Ireland, Index to the Act or Grant Books, and to Original Wills, of the Diocese of Dublin 1272-1858 (26th, 30th and 31st Reports, 1894, 1899)
- Donegal cemetery records
- Farrar's Index to Irish Marriages 1771-1812
- Fermanagh cemetery records
- Fermanagh parish registers baptisms
- Fermanagh parish registers burials
- Fermanagh parish registers marriages
- Index of Irish Wills 1484-1858
- Ireland BillionGraves Cemetery Index
- Ireland Calendars Of Wills & Administrations 1858-1965
- Ireland civil birth registers index
- Ireland civil marriage registers index
- Ireland Deaths 1864-1870
- Ireland Down Anaghlone Presbyterian baptisms 1839-1913
- Ireland Down Anaghlone Presbyterian marriages 1845-1913
- Ireland Down Annaclone (COI) baptisms 1877-1900
- Ireland Down Annaclone (COI) burials 1877-1900
- Ireland Down Annaclone (COI) marriages 1845-1900
- Ireland Down Ballyroney Presbyterian baptisms 1819-1913
- Ireland Down Ballyroney Presbyterian marriages 1831-1906
- Ireland Down St Colmans Annaclone (RC) baptisms 1834-1913
- Ireland Down St Colmans Annaclone (RC) burials 1851-1913
- Ireland Down St Colmans Annaclone (RC) marriages 1851-1913
- Ireland memorial and burial register, 1618-2005
- Ireland Memorial Inscriptions
- Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms
- Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Burials
- Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Congregational Records
- Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Marriages
- Ireland Roscommon Kiltullagh cemeteries
- Ireland, Dublin Church of Ireland Baptisms
- Ireland, Dublin Church of Ireland burials
- Ireland, Dublin Church of Ireland marriages
- Ireland, Gravestone Records
- Ireland, Inland Revenue Wills & Administrations 1828-1879
- Ireland, Non-conformist marriages
- Ireland, original will registers 1858-1920
- Ireland, Society of Friends (Quaker) births
- Ireland, Society of Friends (Quaker) deaths
- Ireland, Society of Friends (Quaker) marriages
- Irish Births 1864-1958
- Irish Death Notices In American Newspapers
- Irish Deaths 1864-1958
- Irish Marriage Notices in American Newspapers
- Irish Marriages 1845-1958
- Kiltullagh Parish (RC) Baptisms
- Kiltullagh Parish (RC) Marriages
- Leighlin Administrations 1700-1857
- Limerick non-conformist baptisms
- Limerick non-conformist congregational records 1911-1945
- Lincolnshire marriages
- Marriage Licence Bonds; Diocese of Cloyne 1630-1800
- Memorials of the Dead: Galway & Mayo
- Quakers Annual Monitor 1849
- Raphoe Marriage Bonds 1710-55 and 1817-30
- Register of Derry Cathedral Baptisms 1642-1703
- Registers of the French Non-Conformist Churches Dublin 1701-1831
- Registers of the French non-conformist churches Dublin 1702-1731
- Sir Arthur Vicars, Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536 - 1810
- The Parish Register Society of Dublin, The Registers of St. Patrick, Dublin, 1677-1800, 1907
- The Register of Derry Cathedral Burials 1642-1703
- The Register of Derry Cathedral Marriages 1642-1703
- Thomas Philip Le Fanu, Registers of the French Church of Portarlington, Ireland, 1694-1816
- Thrift Genealogical Abstracts
- Tipperary Clans Archive
- Tyrone Cemetery Records
- W.P.W. Phillimore & Gertrude Thrift, Indexes to Irish Wills 1536-1858
- Wicklow cemetery records
- WW1 Irish Soldiers Wills, 1914-1920
Find your ancestors in Clonfert Wills and Administrations 1663-1857
The Clonfert Wills and Administration records cover the period from 1663-1857. They are extremely useful for those researching their Irish family history with ancestors from the east of Co.Galway, parts of Co.Roscommon and a small section of Co. Offaly on the east bank of the River Shannon. The original bonds were destroyed in the Public Record Office fire of 1922, consequently all that survives is the index.
Before the abolishment of ecclesiastical jurisdiction over testamentary matters in 1858, wills were proved either in the Diocesan Court or in the Prerogative Court. The will was proved in the Diocesan Court if the deceased owned property in one Diocese only. This regulation applied to both Catholics and Protestants so a large number of Catholics appear in the Indexes to Wills.
Administration bonds
When a person died, prior to 1858, without a will their affairs had to be settled by their next of kin or his principal creditor in the Diocesan or Prerogative Courts. Before the Bishop granted the administration, the administrator was required to enter into a bond of a specified sum as security that they would justly administer the effects.
This Index includes:
- Name and address of the deceased
- Year in which the administration was granted
A full list of the 38 civil parishes covered can be seen below:
- Abbeygormacan, Co.Galway
- Aughrim, Co.Roscommon
- Ballymacward, Co.Galway
- Ballynakill, Co.Galway
- Bullaun, Co.Galway
- Clonfert, Co.Galway
- Cloonkeen, Co.Galway
- Clontuskert, Co.Galway
- Creagh, Co.Roscommon
- Donanaghty, Co.Galway
- Duniry, Co.Galway
- Fahy, Co.Galway
- Fohanagh, Co.Galway
- Kilchreest, Co.Galway
- Kilcloony, Co.Galway
- Kilconickny, Co.Galway
- Kilconierin, Co.Galway
- Kilcloony, Co.Galway
- Kilconnell, Co.Galway
- Killaan, Co.Galway
- Killaghtan, Co.Galway
- Killeenadeema, Co.Galway
- Killimordaly, Co.Galway
- Killinan, Co.Galway
- Killora, Co.Galway
- Killoran, Co.Galway
- Kilmalinoge, Co.Galway
- Kilquain, Co.Galway
- Kilrickill, Co.Galway
- Kilteskill, Co.Galway
- Kiltormer, Co.Galway
- Kiltullagh, Co.Galway
- Lickmolassy, Co.Galway
- Loughrea, Co.Galway
- Lusmagh, Co.Offaly
- Meelick, Co.Galway
- Taghmaconnell, Co.Roscommon
- Tiranascragh, Co.Galway
- Tynagh, Co.Galway