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| You can search on Last name and First name, and Irish county or "England" via a "drop down" list.
The records show the following information:
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| Viewing the images |
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You can select to display an image of the petition itself (not including all the signatures).
Access to the images is provided directly from the index pages. Click the Image button to retrieve and display the digitised image of the petition. Click here for help viewing images Click here for example images |
| Display of adjacent signatures |
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Click the Signatories button to display all the records for signatories on the same sheet as the one containing the signature of the selected signatory. Browse back and forward between sheets using the Next/Previous Sheet buttons. This allows you to seek potentially related signatories. |
| Note concerning signature transcriptions |
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Given that the names in the database were transcribed from signatures, you must expect that some of these signatures were difficult to transcribe, so do not be surprised if you find some "unusual" names present. Great care was taken by the transcriber, Ruth Lawler, to capture the names correctly, but in a small percentage of cases it was impossible to be sure what the name actually was.
Forenames in the signatures were often abbreviated (eg Edwd = Edward, Richd = Richard, Thos = Thomas, etc) , and such abbreviations have been retained in the database records. Most of these abbreviations have been expanded in the index, so you can search on full forenames. But many signatures just have an initial, so bear this in mind when searching. |
| NameX |
| NameX is a proprietary name-matching tool which allows you to find family records for names which have common variations in spelling or which may have been spelled incorrectly on some records. Click here for more help. |
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