If you believe you may have Huguenot ancestry, here are some places to visit where you can find out more about your own family’s history in Ireland.
The National Archives at Bishop Street in Dublin. (A genealogical advisory service is available here).
Marsh’s Library
St. Patrick’s Close
Dublin 2.
Family research
The National Library
2 Kildare Street
Dublin 2.
Representative Church Body Library
Braemor Road
Churchtown
Dublin 14
There is an archive and reference collection maintained here by the Irish Section, which holds archival and reference material for research at The Irish Huguenot Archive.
Church of Ireland records (2nd ed., Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2006). This publication, written by the Librarian and Archivist of the Church of Ireland, Dr Raymond Refaussé, offers an introduction to the archives and manuscripts of the Church of Ireland and can be purchased through www.amazon.co.uk.
Public Records Office of Northern Ireland
2 Titanic Boulevard
Titanic Quarter
Belfast
BT3 9HQ.
General Register for Births Marriages & Deaths. This is based in Roscommon and the website is at www.gov.ie.
Note: Since civil registration did not begin in Ireland until the mid 1800s, this register is suitable only for researching your more recent ancestors in order to build the links back to your original Huguenot immigrant ancestor.
Researching Huguenot Settlers in Ireland – This comprehensive guide by Vivien Costello is available to download free from the Brigham Young University online family history journal: BYU Family Historian Vol 6 (Fall 2007), pp. 83-163. Once you’ve arrived at the journal, use the browse function on the right of the page to locate Vol 6.
The Huguenot Society of GB & Ireland publishes a variety of books and journals. Details can be found here.
Irish Huguenot registers are included on CD-ROM no.4, which is available from this link and includes the following records:
Registers of the French Conformed Churches at St Patrick & St Mary, Dublin
Registers of the French Nonconformist Churches, Dublin
Register of the French Church, Portarlington, Ireland
Lists of Huguenot Pensioners in Ireland
Other resources
Below are links to other Huguenot Society websites and resources for those interested in further research of the Huguenot story.
UK
The Huguenot Society of Great Britain & Ireland Website
The Huguenot Society Library Archive
France
Comité Protestant des Amitiés Francaises à l’Étranger (World Huguenot Center)
La Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français
Germany
Deutsche Hugenotten Gesellschaft
Johannes A Lasco Bibliothek
Switzerland
Institut d’Histoire de la Réformation
Italy
USA
The National Huguenot Society
Huguenot Society of South Carolina
The Huguenot Society of America
South Africa
Huguenot Foundation of South Africa
Australia