EXPLORING IRISH GENEALOGY No. 1 - IRISH METHODISTS - WHERE DO I START?
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Summary
IRISH METHODISTS - WHERE DO I START? As the title suggests, its subject is Irish Methodist church records - understanding, locating and using them. The author, Steven C. ffeary-Smyrl, a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists in Ireland, guides the reader through the background of Irish Methodism, the types of records that can be found and where they can be located in either original or microform copy. A handy table is included of the Methodist circuits included in the Irish Wesleyan Methodist Connexional Baptismal Register (IWMCBR), c1816-c1850.
The IWMCBR, available on microfilm at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (Belfast) and the National Library of Ireland (Dublin), is a nineteenth century transcript of all but three of the circuit baptismal registers of the Irish Wesleyan Methodist Connexion. A special feature of the publication is an extensive list, arranged by county, of almost every Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Ireland c1863, of which there were approximately three hundred.