Connaught Births
The following is taken from transcriptions from copies of the ledgers at Oxford House,
Belfast. The "Index to Births Registered in Ireland in (Year)
list the Last Name, First Name, Registration District (usually the town or city), the
Volume, and the Page Number. There is NO date listed, but from
the volumes and page numbers one can figure out if it was an entry early or later in the
year for the years 1871-1877. Beginning in 1878 the births
were recorded by quarters and therefore require searching through 4 volumes of index per
year, and also checking the end of the indexes for additions.
It is a laborious project to access and copy the indexes in Belfast. The Registrar
General's Office (GRO), Oxford House, is located two blocks from
the Belfast City Hall, 49-55 Chichester Street, Belfast BT1 4HL, Northern Ireland,
telephone 01232-252013, fax 01232-252044 is open Mon-Fri 9:30
a.m. - 4 p.m. They prefer an appointment. One must have identification and apply to do a
general search. There are computerized indexes available from 1922 to the present. There
are no general indexes for deaths and marriages before 1922 so it is necessary to know the
district of registration. There is a 6 pound fee to search for up to 6 hrs; additional
fees per page to copy; 6 pound fee for a full certified birth, death, or marriage
certificate; 4 pound fee for a short birth certificate; staff search for each five year
period is 2 pounds. The GRO Northern Ireland was opened in Belfast in 1922 following
partition. Previously all records were kept at the GRO in Dublin, which was established in
1845. GRO NI houses vital records for the 6 counties of Northern Ireland for issue of
certified copies to the public. These include birth, deaths, marrriages, still-births and
adoptions. Birth, death, and Roman Catholic marriage registrations date from 1864 to the
present; still-births from 1961 to the present; and adoptions from 1930 to the present.
The following is a distibution chart of FERGUS births by county, registered
| Name | Number of Listings |
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| Fergus 1864 -1882 |
Co Galway - 6 | Co Mayo - 144 | Co Roscommon - 1 |
