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Life Events (Birth, Marriage, Death)
- 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
Irish Death Notices In American Newspapers
Search for you Irish relative’s death notice in American newspapers and uncover further details about their lives. While searching this material you may be able to find where your ancestor is buried, date of his/her death, cause of death and the names of his/her parents. You will be able to expand your existing family tree and add more insight to your own family’s medical history. These announcements were created to make known the death of an Irish man or woman. Not all the announcements are of Irish people whom died in America, some may have passed away in England, Ireland, etc.
Each record includes a transcript of a death notice taken from an American newspaper. The amount of information listed can vary, but the Irish death notices usually include the following information about your ancestor:
- Name
- Death year
- Place of death
- Newspaper
- Cemetery
- Birth place
- Cause of death
- Death date
- Parish at death
- Spouse
- Parents
- Other relatives
- Age
- Occupation
Discover more about Irish Death Notices in American Newspapers
There are about 36,000 death notices listed. Death notices were paid announcements usually written by a family member and sent to the newspaper. It would have been a cost to the family to have a notice in a newspaper. In these records we can see that the families of the deceased felt it was important to have a notice in an American newspaper, even if the person did not pass away in America.
Newspapers included in the records and their publication years are:
- Chicago Citizen (1882-1897)
- Chicago Tribune (1847-Present)
- Illinois State Journal (1848-1947)
- New Orleans, Picayune (1837-Present)
- New York Herald (1835-1924)
- The Baltimore Sun (1837-Present)
- The Brooklyn Eagle (1841-1955)
- Phoenix (1859-1861)