Griffiths Valuation...free. Original Images!!!! YAYYYYY

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Chris Paton
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Post by Chris Paton » Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:23 pm

John Grenham's book "Tracing your Irish Ancestors" lists which years each county was looked at by Griffith. Donegal was looked at in 1857.

Whilst Griffith's is brilliant, it is a one hit wonder. What would be extremely useful would be the publication of the Cancelled Land Books which followed it. Basically these listed each time the land changed hands after the original valuation, more so after 1860, and employed a series of handwritten amendments up to the 1970s, all of which are colour coded. Really handy, for example, if you don't know when someone died, as you can look to see when your ancestor ceased to be the occupier etc.

One day! :)

Chris
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joette
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Post by joette » Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:27 pm

Thanks for that Chris thought they looked way too prosperous for mine!
Oh well maybe one day I will venture further down the Irish line but as I have little definite info on them I would probably be onto "plums" as they say.
Researching:SCOTT,Taylor,Young,VEITCH LINLEY,MIDLOTHIAN
WADDELL,ROSS,TORRANCE,GOVAN/DALMUIR/Clackmanannshire
CARR/LEITCH-Scotland,Ireland(County Donegal)
LINLEY/VEITCH-SASK.Canada
ALSO BROWN,MCKIMMIE,MCDOWALL,FRASER.
Greer/Grier,Jenkins/Jankins