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Find your ancestors in Ireland, Waterford, Dungarvan Town Commissioners Records 1851-1922
Records in this collection
- Clare Poor Law Unions Board Of Guardians Minute Books
- Deserted Children, Dublin
- Dublin Poor Law Union Board of Guardians Minute Books browse
- Dublin Poor Law unions Board of Guardians minute books
- Dublin Workhouses Admission & Discharge registers 1840 – 1919
- Ireland Dog Licence Registers
- Ireland, Dublin Metropolitan Police general register 1837-1925
- Ireland, Dublin Metropolitan Police prisoners books 1905-1908 and 1911-1918
- Ireland, Legal Administration
- Ireland, Outrage Reports 1836-1840
- Ireland, Poverty Relief Loans 1821-1874
- Ireland, Waterford, Dungarvan Town Commissioners Records 1851-1922
- Irish Prison registers 1790-1924
- Petty Sessions order books 1842-1913
- Sligo Workhouse Admission and Discharge Registers 1848-1859
What can these records tell me?
The Dungarvan Town Commission was established in 1854 becoming an Urban District Council in 1898. It was responsible for a broad range of local government activity including:
regulating the markets
the maintenance of the roads, harbour, markets, waterworks
the Harbour Authority and collection of Harbour dues
Sanitation under the Public Health Act, 1874
providing artisan’s dwellings under the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890.
The developments of the town can be traced and the growth of the town is clearly described. Events of local, national and international significance are also recorded. These include the heroic sea rescues and tragic losses at sea. The presence of Belgian refugees in Dungarvan during the First World War was recorded in the minutes (UDC/1/11) and a concert in aid of the Belgians was held in the Town Hall in Dungarvan on Monday 7 December 1914. The allegiance of the Urban District Council to Dail Eireann was recorded in the Minutes of the Dungarvan Urban District Council too.
With each result, you will be able to view a transcript of the vital details and an image of the original minute book. The amount of detail in each transcript will vary depending on the context of the record. You will find a combination of the following:
Name
Age
Event date
Place
County and country
Archive and reference
Date range, series, page, and line – all refer to the original records held with the archive
We highly recommend that you take the time to view the images and the pages on either side by selecting the previous and next options. The image will provide you with more information about why your ancestor’s name was recorded in the town commissioners’ minute books. There are a number of reasons that your ancestor’s name would appear in the books including,
A member of staff
upplier of goods or services
Paid a fee
A request for assistance
Orphaned or deserted child