https://nationalarchives.ie/collections/search-the-1926-census/
This just got released this morning. Really interesting digging into it finding my grand parents and their families recorded in it when they were 3/4 years old. Anyone dig into it?
Quote from: Henry the Hoover on April 18, 2026, 03:38:48 PMhttps://nationalarchives.ie/collections/search-the-1926-census/
This just got released this morning. Really interesting digging into it finding my grand parents and their families recorded in it when they were 3/4 years old. Anyone dig into it?
Downloaded a few pages from my father's side of the family. I'll probably have to print out the two earlier census records to get the bigger picture. I'll be honest the earlier Brit censuses seem to have a bit more information than the Free State 1926 effort - at least for the townland I was looking at
Found the grandfather and great grand parents on my fathers side, no luck on the mothers family so far.
My grandfather was 28 in 1926, I discovered. Always knew he died in his late 50s/early 60s of emphysema. And now I know that at 28, following (I also learned) in his father's footsteps, he was a labourer in Wallace Bros coal-yard... so that explains the emphysema! Having a harder time tracking down my grandmother's records.
Was showing my parents last night. Managed to locate my mother's father's family but he wasn't listed. He was 6 years old so still in the household and and his younger siblings were listed. Very strange.