Ancestry adds Two Irish Collections: Servicewomen and Workhouse Records

Ancestry.com has added two minor collections that may be of interest to those with 19th—and early 20th-century Irish ancestry.

The first, “Ireland, Women’s Army Auxiliary WWI, 1916-1920,” documents 150 Irish women who served in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, detailing their names, birth dates, occupations, and contributions during World War I. The collection, based on the book “Irish Servicewomen in the Great War: From Western Front to the Roaring Twenties” by Barabara Walsh, covers servicewomen primarily from the counties of Northern Ireland (Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone.

The second collection, “Ireland, Paupers in Workhouses Born in England, Wales, or Scotland, 1863,” lists approximately 570 non-Irish individuals in Irish workhouses, noting their names, ages, birthplaces, and poor law unions. About three-quarters were from England, a fifth from Scotland.  The same information is available on the Internet Archive in “Return of Names and Ages of Paupers in Workhouses in Ireland, March 1863, born in England, Wales or Scotland.”

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