Week 18 2023: Pets #52Ancestors — Making Sense of it All

Other than a couple of pictures with ancestors and their dogs, I don’t have any stories to share about said dogs or any other pets. But I do have a great dataset to share: “Ireland Dog Licence Registers” at FindMyPast.com.[1]

Established in 1865, it cost two shillings per dog plus a six pence abmin. fee to license your dog. These licenses were issued by the same court that held Petty Sessions (a database you likely don’t want to find your ancestor in).[2] The records were provided to FamilySearch by the National Archives of Ireland as a part of the Petty Sessions collection and FindMyPast has collected them into a separate database. All-in-all, FindMyPast has over seven million records currently available with more to be added in the future.[3] I’ve attached an example of a register page and the (obviously) helpful information is the name and residence. Because my ancestors emigrated before 1865, this record set doesn’t assist me in my research, but maybe it will YOU. :-)

Happy dog hunting!

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[1] Don’t @ me about the spelling of License; that’s the title of the dataset.

[2] “Ireland Dog Licene Registers,” Findmypast.com (https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/ireland-dog-licence-registers : accessed 13 July 2023).

[3] Ibid.