Online history and genealogy resources and other useful links
Here is a list of links to free online resources which are relevant to Nicholas's story.
As the list grows it will cover Ireland and the Rebellion of 1798 in Counties Wicklow and Wexford, events connected to Nicholas's trial and conviction, transportation, convict life in Australia, including his time working for Governor Macquarie, and Nicholas's later life.
I'm adding wider background reading and some great blogs, too.
As the list grows it will cover Ireland and the Rebellion of 1798 in Counties Wicklow and Wexford, events connected to Nicholas's trial and conviction, transportation, convict life in Australia, including his time working for Governor Macquarie, and Nicholas's later life.
I'm adding wider background reading and some great blogs, too.
The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (United Irishmen)
1798 Ireland with plenty of contemporary writings
1798 Rebellion An overview with lots of links
The 1798 Rebellion A BBC site with a scholarly article by Thomas Bartlett
Irish Rebellion of 1798 by Wikipedia
1798 Rebellion - Ireland
Society of United Irishmen by Wikipedia
Memoirs of Joseph Holt, free e-book version
Memoirs of Miles Byrne (of Monaseed), free e-book version
History of the Rebellion in Ireland, in the Year 1798 by James Gordon, free e-book version
The United Irishmen, their lives and times by Richard Robert Madden, free e-book version
An historical review of the state of Ireland from the invasion of that country under Henry II. to its union with Great Britain on the first of January 1801 by Francis Plowden, free e-book version
Ireland, 1798-1898 by William O'Connor Morris (anti United Irishmen), free e-book version
Some resources for researching 1798, from findmypast.ie
List of free e-books about the United Irishmen
1798 in South-East Ireland
Graham Norton on Who Do You Think You Are? This clip shows him finding out about his yeoman ancestor, who would have known Nicholas
"The sham squire" and the informers of 1798 - William John Fitzpatrick's account, which has nine pages on 'Croppy' Biddy Dolan (pp327-336). Scanned copy, so sometimes it seems to make no sense
A portrait of Bridget Dolan (Google book)
The Memoirs of (General) Joseph Holt - free e-book, a great source
Wicklow United Irishmen website
The War in Wexford by HFB Wheeler & AM Broadley, free e-book
Askamore Community website - about the area of seventeen townlands which make up the Roman Catholic curacy in the parish of Kilrush. It was at the heart of the events of 1798 covered in A Rebel Hand and the website gives a lively picture of the community now as well as a look at its history
A blog about the life of Laurence Butler, Wexford rebel transported with Nicholas Delaney on Atlas II. Good background.
A look at Wicklow Family History Centre. Plus how to contact them. A new website is being developed there - watch this space!
The website of the National 1798 Centre
Ian Cantwell's site, includes information about 1798 claimants and surrenders
List of claims for property damage during 1798, and another one
1938 film of 1798 commemoration at Vinegar Hill
More short films about Vinegar Hill
Irish genealogy and history
NEW! Catholic parish registers at the National Library of Ireland. No index, you have to search. But -
List of Catholics in Carnew, lists people in the NLI parish registers. Can help you find if you're looking in the right place
The Irish Times list of online Irish genealogy records
List of free Irish genealogy e-books
Irish Church records - another very useful list
Free online resources for Irish genealogy
Irish Ancestry - lots of links
Irish Genealogy Toolkit - does what it says
Irish resources released in 2014 - ebooklet from Irish Genealogy Toolkit
The National Library of Ireland's 2012 talks on Irish family history
The NLI's introduction to family history (with a very useful booklet to download)
A Primer in Irish Genealogy, Sean J Murphy - 2011 edition online free
The Carnew Historical Society website
Irish genealogy links from the Faery Folk (that name always makes me smile)
Genealogy's Star list of Irish genealogy resources
The Irish Archives, including 1798 information
Irish Genealogical Research Society website, includes Early Irish Birth and Marriage indexes (full databases members only)
Civil registers of BMDs and some church baptisms, marriages and burials (not all counties)
Church of Ireland Parish Registers (Baptisms, Marriages, Burials & copies) and the table of registers
Interactive map of Ireland from the 1650s (the Down Survey of Ireland)
Free ebooks about Wicklow (an odd mixture)
Keep an eye on John Grenham's Irish Roots column in the Irish Times. Tip: search for his name and you'll get a list of recent articles.
Trial and Gaol
Wicklow Gaol, where Nicholas was imprisoned
Transportation
Peter Mayberry's database of Irish convicts sent to Australia
Lesley Uebel‘s claim a convict pages
The British Convict Transportation Registry in a visual form - ConViz
The National Archives of Ireland's Ireland - Australia Transportation records
An impressive convict bibliography at the Paterson River site
Jen Willetts' Free Settler or Felon
Ireland-Australia transportation records (1791-1853)
Convicts to Australia - lots of good stuff
Convict-Ships: A Narrative of a Voyage to New South Wales in the Year 1816 by John Haslam - free ebook
Two Years in New South Wales by Peter Cunningham (1827) - free searchable ebook
Nicholas the road builder
Governor Lachlan Macquarie's diary entry for Thursday, 13 June 1816, when Nicholas finished Mrs Macquarie's Road in the Domain
and for Monday, 1 July when Nicholas began work on Macquarie Place
More about Macquarie, the Government Domain and Macquarie Place
Australian history
Trove, the National Library of Australia's wonderful digitised archive of newspapers and much more. And it's free
Today in history from the NSW State Archives
Clip from Tony Robinson's Australia series about 1804 Castle Hill rebellion (second Battle of Vinegar Hill)
Free ebooks about Australian history
Genealogy
Discover Ireland's list of links for anyone researching their ancestors in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland
The Irish Archives, a genealogy research tool - categorised lists.
The Irish Times list of resources for genealogists
The Ireland Genealogy Project - county by county genealogy resources
The Irish Government's free online records for family historians. (The link to the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht is broken. Use this)
Free Irish genealogy e-books - the collection grows all the time
Irish Genealogy Toolkit - promises 'free information, free tools, free advice'
Irish Lives Remembered, a site which profiles memorable Irish people, now has a memorial to Nicholas Delaney...
... and a free online Irish genealogy magazine, Irish Lives Remembered. The July 2012 edition has an article on Nicholas (p10)
Kimberly Powell's top 16 websites for researching Irish ancestors
Chris Patons' list of Irish genealogy resources from Who Do You Think You Are Live 2012
Ask About Ireland, which includes free search of Griffith's Valuation
UK & Ireland Genealogy's county-by-county links
GenGuide - great list of records and contacts, UK and Ireland
National Archives of Ireland's Ireland - Australia transportation database
The National Museum of Australia's list of resources for the Irish in Australia
Family trees of descendants of Australian convicts
Australian genealogy podcasts at Genies Down Under
Unlock the Past's Australian genealogy directory
CoraWeb, Cora Num's comprehensive for tracing Australian family history
Judy Webster's Genealogy Advice for Australia, especially Queensland
Free Pages Past Free genealogy records for Australia and New Zealand
Geniaus's list of sites for Australian research
Family History Across the Seas
Genies Down Under, a new site with matching podcast for genealogists with an Australian connection.
A useful list of links for NSW genealogy research at Family Stories: Photographs and Memories
Free Genealogy UK's list of links, articles and databases
Who Do You Think You Are Live 2011's free handouts (downloadable)
Who Do You Think You Are Live 2012 handouts at the Society of Genealogists' site
GenealogyInTime's list of the newest genealogy records on the net as of February 2012. To get more of these subscribe to their newsletter. Their home page is here
Cyndi's list of genealogy sites on the net, plus Australian and Irish lists
FamilySearch - a huge database, patchy but indispensable
Newspapers and historic printed resources
Irish Newspaper Archives - from the 1700s onwards
Trove - the National Library of Australia's resource
The British Newspaper Archive
An account of a voyage to New South Wales by George Barrington (free ebook)
Blogs - Irish
Help! The Faerie Folk hid my Ancestors!
British & Irish Genealogy
Irish Genealogy News - Claire Santry's unmissable blog
John Grenham's Irish Roots blog
Kevin's Irish Research
British GENES - Chris Paton often posts about Irish genealogy
Blogs - Australian
Geniaus - Australian genealogy with a tech twist
Queensland Genealogy
Inside History blog
Australian Genealogy Journeys
Twigs of Yore
From Helen V Smith's Keyboard
UK / Australia Genealogy
Family History Research
Genie Rambles from Shauna Hicks
Genies Down Under, with podcasts and shownotes
Family History Across the Seas
Irish Wattle, publishers of Inside History
AncestorChasing
Kylie's Genes
Genealogy in New South Wales
Lonetester
Dance Skeletons
Anglers Rest includes lots of good Aussie stuff
Unlock the Past's list of Australian genealogy blogs
Inside History magazine's list of top 50 genealogy blogs
... and this website's sister blog, also called A Rebel Hand
Other genealogy blogs
The Family Recorder
British GENES
The Armchair Genealogist
And... not online publications, but about Nicholas Delaney, Elizabeth Bayly and their descendants
A Rebel Hand: Nicholas Delaney of 1798 by Patricia and Frances Owen (order here)
Delaney Decades by Edna Delaney with Antoinette Sullivan (order here)
Nicholas Delaney, c1788-1834 & some of his descendants by Owen Benson
If you can suggest any more free online resources for this page, please let me know.
1798 Ireland with plenty of contemporary writings
1798 Rebellion An overview with lots of links
The 1798 Rebellion A BBC site with a scholarly article by Thomas Bartlett
Irish Rebellion of 1798 by Wikipedia
1798 Rebellion - Ireland
Society of United Irishmen by Wikipedia
Memoirs of Joseph Holt, free e-book version
Memoirs of Miles Byrne (of Monaseed), free e-book version
History of the Rebellion in Ireland, in the Year 1798 by James Gordon, free e-book version
The United Irishmen, their lives and times by Richard Robert Madden, free e-book version
An historical review of the state of Ireland from the invasion of that country under Henry II. to its union with Great Britain on the first of January 1801 by Francis Plowden, free e-book version
Ireland, 1798-1898 by William O'Connor Morris (anti United Irishmen), free e-book version
Some resources for researching 1798, from findmypast.ie
List of free e-books about the United Irishmen
1798 in South-East Ireland
Graham Norton on Who Do You Think You Are? This clip shows him finding out about his yeoman ancestor, who would have known Nicholas
"The sham squire" and the informers of 1798 - William John Fitzpatrick's account, which has nine pages on 'Croppy' Biddy Dolan (pp327-336). Scanned copy, so sometimes it seems to make no sense
A portrait of Bridget Dolan (Google book)
The Memoirs of (General) Joseph Holt - free e-book, a great source
Wicklow United Irishmen website
The War in Wexford by HFB Wheeler & AM Broadley, free e-book
Askamore Community website - about the area of seventeen townlands which make up the Roman Catholic curacy in the parish of Kilrush. It was at the heart of the events of 1798 covered in A Rebel Hand and the website gives a lively picture of the community now as well as a look at its history
A blog about the life of Laurence Butler, Wexford rebel transported with Nicholas Delaney on Atlas II. Good background.
A look at Wicklow Family History Centre. Plus how to contact them. A new website is being developed there - watch this space!
The website of the National 1798 Centre
Ian Cantwell's site, includes information about 1798 claimants and surrenders
List of claims for property damage during 1798, and another one
1938 film of 1798 commemoration at Vinegar Hill
More short films about Vinegar Hill
Irish genealogy and history
NEW! Catholic parish registers at the National Library of Ireland. No index, you have to search. But -
List of Catholics in Carnew, lists people in the NLI parish registers. Can help you find if you're looking in the right place
The Irish Times list of online Irish genealogy records
List of free Irish genealogy e-books
Irish Church records - another very useful list
Free online resources for Irish genealogy
Irish Ancestry - lots of links
Irish Genealogy Toolkit - does what it says
Irish resources released in 2014 - ebooklet from Irish Genealogy Toolkit
The National Library of Ireland's 2012 talks on Irish family history
The NLI's introduction to family history (with a very useful booklet to download)
A Primer in Irish Genealogy, Sean J Murphy - 2011 edition online free
The Carnew Historical Society website
Irish genealogy links from the Faery Folk (that name always makes me smile)
Genealogy's Star list of Irish genealogy resources
The Irish Archives, including 1798 information
Irish Genealogical Research Society website, includes Early Irish Birth and Marriage indexes (full databases members only)
Civil registers of BMDs and some church baptisms, marriages and burials (not all counties)
Church of Ireland Parish Registers (Baptisms, Marriages, Burials & copies) and the table of registers
Interactive map of Ireland from the 1650s (the Down Survey of Ireland)
Free ebooks about Wicklow (an odd mixture)
Keep an eye on John Grenham's Irish Roots column in the Irish Times. Tip: search for his name and you'll get a list of recent articles.
Trial and Gaol
Wicklow Gaol, where Nicholas was imprisoned
Transportation
Peter Mayberry's database of Irish convicts sent to Australia
Lesley Uebel‘s claim a convict pages
The British Convict Transportation Registry in a visual form - ConViz
The National Archives of Ireland's Ireland - Australia Transportation records
An impressive convict bibliography at the Paterson River site
Jen Willetts' Free Settler or Felon
Ireland-Australia transportation records (1791-1853)
Convicts to Australia - lots of good stuff
Convict-Ships: A Narrative of a Voyage to New South Wales in the Year 1816 by John Haslam - free ebook
Two Years in New South Wales by Peter Cunningham (1827) - free searchable ebook
Nicholas the road builder
Governor Lachlan Macquarie's diary entry for Thursday, 13 June 1816, when Nicholas finished Mrs Macquarie's Road in the Domain
and for Monday, 1 July when Nicholas began work on Macquarie Place
More about Macquarie, the Government Domain and Macquarie Place
Australian history
Trove, the National Library of Australia's wonderful digitised archive of newspapers and much more. And it's free
Today in history from the NSW State Archives
Clip from Tony Robinson's Australia series about 1804 Castle Hill rebellion (second Battle of Vinegar Hill)
Free ebooks about Australian history
Genealogy
Discover Ireland's list of links for anyone researching their ancestors in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland
The Irish Archives, a genealogy research tool - categorised lists.
The Irish Times list of resources for genealogists
The Ireland Genealogy Project - county by county genealogy resources
The Irish Government's free online records for family historians. (The link to the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht is broken. Use this)
Free Irish genealogy e-books - the collection grows all the time
Irish Genealogy Toolkit - promises 'free information, free tools, free advice'
Irish Lives Remembered, a site which profiles memorable Irish people, now has a memorial to Nicholas Delaney...
... and a free online Irish genealogy magazine, Irish Lives Remembered. The July 2012 edition has an article on Nicholas (p10)
Kimberly Powell's top 16 websites for researching Irish ancestors
Chris Patons' list of Irish genealogy resources from Who Do You Think You Are Live 2012
Ask About Ireland, which includes free search of Griffith's Valuation
UK & Ireland Genealogy's county-by-county links
GenGuide - great list of records and contacts, UK and Ireland
National Archives of Ireland's Ireland - Australia transportation database
The National Museum of Australia's list of resources for the Irish in Australia
Family trees of descendants of Australian convicts
Australian genealogy podcasts at Genies Down Under
Unlock the Past's Australian genealogy directory
CoraWeb, Cora Num's comprehensive for tracing Australian family history
Judy Webster's Genealogy Advice for Australia, especially Queensland
Free Pages Past Free genealogy records for Australia and New Zealand
Geniaus's list of sites for Australian research
Family History Across the Seas
Genies Down Under, a new site with matching podcast for genealogists with an Australian connection.
A useful list of links for NSW genealogy research at Family Stories: Photographs and Memories
Free Genealogy UK's list of links, articles and databases
Who Do You Think You Are Live 2011's free handouts (downloadable)
Who Do You Think You Are Live 2012 handouts at the Society of Genealogists' site
GenealogyInTime's list of the newest genealogy records on the net as of February 2012. To get more of these subscribe to their newsletter. Their home page is here
Cyndi's list of genealogy sites on the net, plus Australian and Irish lists
FamilySearch - a huge database, patchy but indispensable
Newspapers and historic printed resources
Irish Newspaper Archives - from the 1700s onwards
Trove - the National Library of Australia's resource
The British Newspaper Archive
An account of a voyage to New South Wales by George Barrington (free ebook)
Blogs - Irish
Help! The Faerie Folk hid my Ancestors!
British & Irish Genealogy
Irish Genealogy News - Claire Santry's unmissable blog
John Grenham's Irish Roots blog
Kevin's Irish Research
British GENES - Chris Paton often posts about Irish genealogy
Blogs - Australian
Geniaus - Australian genealogy with a tech twist
Queensland Genealogy
Inside History blog
Australian Genealogy Journeys
Twigs of Yore
From Helen V Smith's Keyboard
UK / Australia Genealogy
Family History Research
Genie Rambles from Shauna Hicks
Genies Down Under, with podcasts and shownotes
Family History Across the Seas
Irish Wattle, publishers of Inside History
AncestorChasing
Kylie's Genes
Genealogy in New South Wales
Lonetester
Dance Skeletons
Anglers Rest includes lots of good Aussie stuff
Unlock the Past's list of Australian genealogy blogs
Inside History magazine's list of top 50 genealogy blogs
... and this website's sister blog, also called A Rebel Hand
Other genealogy blogs
The Family Recorder
British GENES
The Armchair Genealogist
And... not online publications, but about Nicholas Delaney, Elizabeth Bayly and their descendants
A Rebel Hand: Nicholas Delaney of 1798 by Patricia and Frances Owen (order here)
Delaney Decades by Edna Delaney with Antoinette Sullivan (order here)
Nicholas Delaney, c1788-1834 & some of his descendants by Owen Benson
If you can suggest any more free online resources for this page, please let me know.
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