Find your ancestors in Waterford registers and records

What can these records tell me?

Various events are included in this collection of registers and records: burgess list, burials, deaths, directories, emigration records, freedom petitions, freemen, langable rental (rent roll), rate books, registers, and war dead. Each result will provide you with a transcript that will offer a combination of details depending on the event type.

Most transcripts will include the following fields:

  • First name
  • Last name
  • Event type
  • Event year
  • Event date(s)
  • County
  • Country
  • Archive

    Additional fields that may be included based on event type are as follows:

  • Sex
  • Age
  • Birth year and place
  • Marital status
  • Occupation
  • Ailment and treatment duration
  • Grave
  • Cemetery
  • Memorial
  • Inscription
  • Informant and informant’s address
  • Registrar
  • Registrar’s district
  • Superintendent registrar’s district
  • Local entitlement
  • Nature of qualification
  • Enlisted at
  • War
  • Soldier number, rank, regiment, unit
  • Occupier
  • Original lessees
  • Tenant name
  • Present tenants
  • Tenant application book
  • Rent
  • Name and description of premises
  • Location details – abode / residence / address / street / townland / town / city
  • Ward
  • Electoral division
  • Notes
  • Reference
  • URL
  • Page