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- Alumni Dublinenses 1924
- Ashe's Limerick and Clare Directory 1891-92
- Betham Genealogical Abstracts
- Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ireland, 1899
- Deserted Children, Dublin
- Dublin Registers & Records
- George Bassett, County Down Guide and Directory (1886)
- George Bassett, Kilkenny City and County Guide and Directory (1884)
- George Bassett, Limerick City and County and Principal Towns in the Counties of Clare, Tipperary, and Kerry (1881)
- George Bassett, Louth County Guide and Directory (1886)
- George Bassett, The Book of Antrim (1888)
- George Bassett, The Book of County Armagh (1888)
- George Bassett, Wexford County Guide and Directory (1885)
- Guy's Directory of Munster 1893
- Guy's Limerick Directory, 1912
- Harvey's Waterford Almanac and Directory for 1866
- Henderson's Belfast Directory 1850
- Henry & Coughlan's General Directory of Cork and Munster for 1867
- Ireland 1820 Wilson’s Directory
- Ireland 1931 Trade Directory
- Ireland Surnames & Family Histories
- Ireland, Directories 1636 - 1799 Browse
- Ireland, Histories & Reference Guides
- James Alexander Henderson, The Belfast and Province of Ulster Directory for 1856
- John Watson Stewart, The Gentleman's and Citizen's Almamack for the Year 1814
- Kilkenny Registers & Records
- Leet's Directory (2nd ed., 1814)
- Macloskie Directory of Fermanagh 1848
- Matier's Belfast Directory for 1835-6
- Pettigrew & Oulton, Dublin Almanac & General Register of Ireland (1845)
- Pettigrew and Oulton, The Dublin Almanac and General Register of Ireland, 1835
- Pigot & Co., City of Dublin and Hibernian Provincial Directory (1824)
- Registers of Queen's Colleges Ireland 1849-1858
- Shearman's Directory of Waterford, Kilkenny & the southeast 1839
- Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland (1846)
- Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Ireland (1870)
- Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Ireland 1881
- Slater's Royal National Directory of Ireland (1894)
- Sligo Independent Newspaper Almanac Guide, 1889
- Tempest's Jubilee Annual 1909
- The King's County Directory, 1890
- The Post Office Annual Directory and Calendar, 1843
- The Post Office Dublin Directory and Calendar, 1858
- The Sligo Chronicle Almanac and Directory for 1878
- Thom’s Irish Almanac 1880
- Thom's Directories
- Thom's Irish Who's Who 1923
- Treble Almanacs (1783,1812,1818,1824)
- Wicklow Registers & Records
Find your ancestors in Deserted Children, Dublin
This publication accounts for about 500 children taken into the care of the Dublin Metropolitan Police Force in the years ending 30th June 1850 to 1854. It is taken from a Return made to the House of Commons in July 1854.
Typical Entry
Details for each child were recorded under the following headings:
- Name: where known
- Age: in general most of these were mere days or months old
- Sex - Place or location where found: a street number is given in the majority of cases
- Place or location where found: a street number is given in the majority of cases
- Date overseers took charge of child
- Sum agreed to be paid for nursing of the child
- Name given if baptised in care of police
- Religious denomination of Minister who baptised the children who remained in police care
- Remarks: this is the most informative, and often times distressing section of the report. These remarks tend to detail the fate of the child, in most cases they were either taken into the care of the parish or received into the Union Workhouse system. A minority of the children were repatriated with their mother’s, who would have then been arrested.
The Report on Deserted Children provides a unique snapshot into the social conditions of Dublin for the period 1850-54 and provides a graphic, an often harrowing, picture of their fate