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If you think there’s a chance you could be entitled to claim Irish citizenship, email our consultants at citizenship@sableinternational.com.You can also call +44 (0) 20 7759 7581 (UK), +27 (0) 21 657 2139 (South Africa), or +61 (0) 3 8651 4500 (Australia) to find out how we can help you apply for Irish … South Africa Online Genealogy Records This chart shows links to countrywide collections. Reference is made to this bizarre story in D. P. McCracken, ‘The insurgents and adventurers, 1806–99’ in idem (ed. 4 (Dublin, 1971).Google Scholar, 22 For the Canadian example see This data will be updated every 24 hours. See also ), The Irish in southern Africa, 1795–1910, published as Southern African-Irish Studies, ii (1992)Google Scholar. Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 1992, Hostname: page-component-546c57c664-gdgzb 5Google Scholar. 37 See Between 1902 and 1905, there were about 5,000 Irish immigrants. 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Hundreds of Irish worked in the mines and many others fought in Irish regiments during the two Anglo Boer Wars. 45 (1974), pp 201-11Google Scholar. The British government currently has agreements with EU Member States, the European Economic Area and Switzerland to protect British citizens living or moving to those countries until the end of the transition period at midnight 31 December 2020. Theal, , Records, xxi, 452 (1825)Google Scholar. Philip, Peter, British residents at the Cape, 1795–1819 (Cape Town, 1981).Google Scholar, 2 Theal, George, History of South Africa, 1795–1872 (Cape Town, 1915-20), ii, 462 "metrics": true, ), The Irish in southern Africa, ch. Sword, xii, no. 40 2.Google Scholar, 13 38 B. J. van de Sandt, Cape of Good Hope Almanac and Annual Register, 1847, p. 472; ibid., 1848, p. 448. On clandestine links at this time between advanced Irish nationalism and the Transvaal Republic see Becker, Charles J., Guide to the Transvaal (Dublin, 1878)Google Scholar. Places in South Africa named after Irish people include Upington, Porterville, Caledon, Cradock, Sir Lowry's Pass, the Biggarsberg Mountains, Donnybrook, Himeville and Belfast. 39 In 1891 the unit was absorbed into the Duke of Edinburgh's Own Volunteer Rifles as 'H' (Irish) Company. McCracken, D. P., ‘Alfred Ayl ward: Fenian editor of the Natal Witness’ in Journal of Natal and Zulu History, iv (1981), pp 49-1Google Scholar; Standard and Diggers’ News, 28 Sept. 1899. Guide to South Africa ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records. 68 "crossMark": true, www.irishgenealogy.ie is a website that allows users the opportunity to search a wide range of record sources in their search of their Irish Ancestry. It was Mallon who had dispatched Aylward and Carey to South Africa. 2, sect. This includes: 2 (Dec 1912), no. 8.Google Scholar, 48 Colum, Pádraic, Arthur Griffith (Dublin, 1959), p. 33.Google Scholar. Original data: Various sources from across South Africa. Daniel, T. K., ‘Faith and fatherland: Irish South African networks in the Cape Colony and Natal, 1871–1914, and the home rule movement in Ireland’ in McCracken, (ed. 2, sect. 1Google Scholar; Copyright © Blue Sky Publications Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Researching Irish ancestry can be notoriously difficult as a result of the loss of records due to civil war (particularly the 1922 Four Courts Fire). 3 Google Scholar; McCracken, The Irish pro-Boers, p. 143). Many people born outside of Ireland, with Irish ancestry, can apply for nationality based on their ancestry. However, it takes both time and money for the team to produce such a vast amount of data for all who visit this genealogy site. Reference to the organisation occasionally appeared in the Argus Annual and South African Directory. 1913). "relatedCommentaries": true, Alternatively, send them an email and they will get back to you. "clr": false, If your parents were foreign nationals living in Ireland for three out of the four years before your birth in Ireland, you are eligible for Irish nationality, and you will need to prove that they were in the country for this period of time. 66 Later in the war Blake’s commando was joined by a 40-strong Chicago Irish-American ‘ambulance’ corps under Capt. 14 Akenson, Occasional papers, pp 54, 56. This volume also contains a section which lists the names of 167 Irish recruits. Google Scholar; idem, Records of the Cape Colony, 1793–1827 (Cape Town, 1897–1905), xvii, 4 (1824); xviii, 144 (1824); xix, 133 (1824–5); xxi, 135–6 (1825). 3. But many times more claim Irish ancestry. 63 Google Scholar; Census of the … Cape … 1891, p. xxiv. For O’Hea see Men of the times (Johannesburg, 1905), pp 282–3. Unlike other volumes on the subject of the Irish in South Africa, this also surveys the post-colonial era. 53 30 For two boisterous Irish functions see the dramatic accounts which appeared in the Standard and Transvaal Mining Chronicle (Supplement), 19 Mar. 56 Papers relating to the visit of John Redmond to Cape Town in 1894 (N.L.I., Redmond papers, MSS 15235/1-2). 6 See Tracing Irish Ancestors Online will provide you with a detailed step by step guide to tracing your Irish ancestors using sources that are available online. (ed. Cory, G. E., The rise of South Africa (London, 1913), ii, 27 Nash, M. D., The settler handbook: a new list of the 1820 settlers (Cape Town, 1987)Google Scholar; 54 (ed. H. W. Donnelly of 30 College Green, Dublin, acted for the Transvaal Land Agency in Great Britain and Ireland. We welcome all donations no matter how large or small and every donation is used for further research and travel costs. 1Google Scholar; Google Scholar; idem, ‘The scholars and the saboteurs: the wrecking of a South African Irish scheme, Paris, 1922’ in Southern African-Irish Studies, i (1991), pp 162–75. Thus what in Canada or Australia would be regarded as mainline historical research has in South Africa been sidelined in the name of historical relevancy. Address: Riverbank House, 1 Putney Bridge Approach, London, SW6 4TJ. Ronan, Barry, Forty South African years (London, 1919), pp 110-23.Google Scholar. Lynch, Arthur, My life story (London, 1924)Google Scholar. I am the principal researcher at Irish Ancestry Research. 72 Standard and Diggers’ News, 10 Oct. 1899. See also idem, Small differences: Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants (Kingston & Montreal, 1988), ch. McCracken, D. P., ‘Insurgents and adventurers, 1806–99’ in McCracken, (ed.) If either of your parents was born in Ireland, you will automatically be an Irish citizen. B. 9 Copies of William Parker’s pamphlets Jesuits unmasked (London, 1823) and Proofs of the delusion of His Majesty’s representatives at the Cape (Cork, 1826) are housed in the South African Library in Cape Town. Ancestry.com, FindMyPast.com, and MyHeritage.com can be searched free of charge at your local family history center or the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. For details of the Ingram settler party see also idem, History of South Africa, ii, 462; idem, Records, xviii, 186–8, 199, 256 (1824); xxi, 262, 435 (1825); xxvi, 316, 363, 421 (1826). 62 "isLogged": "0", SirAnderson, Robert, Sidelights on the home rule movement (London, 1906), pp 113n, 159–60Google Scholar; Hansard 3, cclvii, 1152–3 (21 Jan. 1881); Foster’s, R. F. Southey, N. D., ‘Dogged entrepreneurs: some prominent Irish retailers’ in McCracken, (ed. 29 For Porter see Query parameters: { TheSouthAfrican.com is all about South Africa and the stories that affect South Africans, wherever they are in the world. Yes, there are many white South Africans with Scottish and Irish ancestry. Seton, M. C., ‘Irishmen in South Africa’ in The Gael, Jan. 1990, p. 21.Google Scholar. In fact an analysis of Irish settlement in southern Africa fills an important gap in the general survey of Irish emigration to the empire and reveals a pattern of Irish settlement very different from other regions of Irish migration. Forgrave, W. J., ‘The 1820 Irish settlement at Clanwilliam’ in McCracken, (ed. Then within South Africa there is much still to be learnt about the nature of English-speaking society in the region. Davitt, Michael, The Boer fight for freedom (New York & London, 1902), p. 322 O’Donnell, F. H., The history of the Irish Parliamentary Party, 1870–1892 (New York, 1910), i, 220.Google Scholar. Find your Irish ancestry with John Grenham's expert system. Full text views reflects PDF downloads, PDFs sent to Google Drive, Dropbox and Kindle and HTML full text views. Chadwick, G. A., The role of the Fifth (Irish) Brigade in the battles of Colenso and Tugela Heights (pamphlet, Durban, 1990).Google Scholar. "subject": true, You can do this as a spouse of an Irish citizen or as a migrant. The financial institution used by the agency was the Hibernian Bank. Recently, UK citizens have been concerned about losing their rights to live and work in the EU and have begun applying for Irish passports in record numbers. Results of a census of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope … 5 April 1891 (Cape Town, 1892), pp xii, xvii. Shan Van Vocht, i, no. While the meticulous analysis of black and Afrikaner history and society, and of related economic history, has dominated South African historiography for some two decades, professional academics have too often left the field of South African English-speaking studies to the amateur historian and the antiquarian. 7 (1991), pp 40–46 ), The Irish in southern Africa, ch. Others returned home but later came out to settle in South Africa with their families. Remarks on the demoralising influence of slavery by a resident of the Cape of Good Hope (London, 1828), pp 7–8. Dictionary of South African Biography (Cape Town & Johannesburg, 1972), ii, 606. Wicklow People, 7 Nov. 1908; 28 12 Doyle, F. B., ‘South Africa’ in Corish, Patrick J. Theal, , History of South Africa, 1795–1872, i, 222; idem, Records, vi, 392–5, 408–44.Google Scholar, 32 Irish Ancestry Surprises Revealed by New DNA Map. Caron, Henri Le, Twenty-five years in the secret service (London, 1893), pp 169-70Google Scholar; 19 ... PO Box 44354, Claremont, 7735, South Africa. Henderson, R. H., An Ulsterman in Africa (Cape Town, 1944; 2nd ed., 1945), pp 16, 23.Google Scholar. Neither account is particularly reliable. Blue book for the Colony of Natal, 1890–91, T4. (ed. 50 For the Rhodesian Irish see 18 With over 1 million family tree records available, we hope your visit will be rewarding and that you will enjoy discovering more about your South African ancestors. This was in part because relatively few Irish migrants ventured to Africa, but it is also the consequence of two other factors. 24 When South Africa became a republic in 1961, surviving Orangemen in the country burnt most of the Orange records. Autonomous South African Units shaped by Irish Influences The first South African unit with a truly Irish background was the Cape Town Irish Rifles, raised by Maj O'Reilly in 1885. 59 Pringle, John, The conversationists and the killers (Cape Town, 1982), pp 86–108).Google Scholar. Kilpin, Ralph, The romance of a colonial parliament (London, 1930), pp 69–70 1913), no. Although there has been a continuous Irish presence at the Cape of Good Hope since the late eighteenth century, the chroniclers of the Irish diaspora have until the late 1980s ignored the continent of Africa. View all Google Scholar citations Ancestry.com. The manifesto of the first brigade appeared in the Standard and Diggers’ News, 28 Sept. 1899. It is a genuine, personal, value for money research service. Google Scholar. 65 The strength of the first Irish Transvaal Brigade dropped to under 100 after the siege of Ladysmith (see Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11, sect. 67 McCracken, The Irish pro-Boers, pp 123–7; see also Bulpin, T. V., Storm over the Transvaal (Cape Town, 1955), pp 42-5Google Scholar; 3 (1989)Google Scholar; idem, British residents, p. 246. Patrick O’Connor (see Davitt, Boer fight for freedom, pp 325–7). People in South Africa who are of full or partial Irish descent ... Irish emigrants to South Africa‎ (11 P) Pages in category "South African people of Irish descent" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. 1 (Dublin, 1984), p. 7; see also idem, ‘Irish emigration in the later nineteenth century’ in I.H.S., xxii, no. 1899, and in the Transvaal Mining Argus, 18 Mar. 26 2Google Scholar. McCracken, Eileen M., ‘The growth and distribution of white population in South Africa from the second British occupation (1806) until 1951’ (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Queen’s University, Belfast, 1962), p. 382 61 Pama, C., Wagon road to Wynberg (Cape Town, 1979), pp 7, 66.Google Scholar. McCracken, Donal P. 6, sect. "peerReview": true, "lang": "en" Brain, J. ), The Irish in southern Africa, ch. Tankard, K. P. T., ‘The Kennaway girls’ in The Coelacanth: the Journal of the Border Historical Society, xxv, no. Hockly, H. E., The story of the British settlers of 1820 in South Africa (Cape Town, 1957), pp 41, 54n.Google Scholar; 11, sect. 1 (7 Feb. 1896); The Star, 4 Jan. 1896. McCracken, J. L., ‘Irishmen in government in South Africa’ in McCracken, (ed. B., ‘The Roman Catholic church’ in McCracken, (ed. Google Scholar; idem, ‘Parnell and the South African connection’ in Donal McCartney (ed. ), The Irish in southern Africa, ch. South Africa extends citizenship opportunities to people born abroad who have at least one parent that was a citizen at the time of their birth. Many people born outside of Ireland, with Irish ancestry, can apply for nationality based on their ancestry. Smalberger, J. M., ‘Alfred Aylward, the continuing rebel: early days on the diamond fields’ in South African Historical Journal, vii (Nov. 1975), pp 261-9Google Scholar. Welcome to Ancestor.co.za, one of the largest online sources of original South African genealogy information. Between 1902 and 1905, there were about 5,000 Irish immigrants. J. Y. F. Blake, , A West Pointer with the Boers (Boston, 1903)Google Scholar; Of these, 35 became settlers. A beginners guide to Irish genealogical records available online Written by expert professional genealogist Nicola Morris M.A.G.I. 1; At this point in time we have readers from the USA, Australia, Canada, South Africa, the U.K., France, Spain, New Zealand, Ireland and many other countries around the world. Others returned home but later came out to settle in South Africa with their families. 8 For the Irish settlers of 1820 see "metricsAbstractViews": false, Irish settlement and identity in South Africa before... Department of History, University of Durban-Westville, Natal, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021121400010683. A colourful account of the activities of Blake’s commando was written by John MacBride and published in the Freeman’s Journal, 13, 20, 27 Oct., 10, 17 Nov., 1, 12 Dec. 1906, 5, 12 Jan., 9 Feb., 2 Apr., 29 July 1907. This volume contains essays on the Irish in South Africa and Rhodesia in the colonial era. 9 (July 1912), ii, no. How to Use This Page [edit | edit source] If you wish to find out what records South African Ancestry has for a specific family or surname then please enter the relevant surname or maiden name in the relevant field below and click on "search" to see a full list of our available records. Our business was set up after a long period of undertaking genealogy research firstly as a hobby, and then on a part-time commission basis. 33 See United Irishman, 26 Aug., 2, 9, 16 Sept. 1899. 6 (Apr. Ruda, Richard, ‘The Irish Transvaal Brigades’ in Ir. 20 Sword, xi, no. It concentrated on reporting the activities of Irish nationalists on the Rand, at the expense of other uitlander groups. South Africa, Marriage Index, 1807-2007 [database on-line]. 1 (Nov. 1912), no. }. In the 1920s the interesting term ‘Irish Africanderdom’ was in vogue (see The Irish in South Africa, 1920–21 (Cape Town, n.d.), p. iv). 5Google Scholar; 4 About South Africa, Marriage Index, 1807-2007. Monick, S., Shamrock and springbok: the Irish impact on South African military history, 1689–1914 (Johannesburg, 1989), pp 198–315.Google Scholar, 43 For details of Irish governors see 2, sect. This information will be disseminated and used for presentation purposes at the Diaspora Congress, doctorial purposes, further research and study of Irish Immigrants to South Africa. The researchers expected to see differences from south to north and from east to west, similar to … We are looking for family trees, interesting biographies, stories, documents, letters, photographs or anything that shows your Irish Ancestry. 1 The first recorded Irish person in South Africa was Brigadier-General Thomas Conway (1733-C.1800), who arrived in the Cape in 1781 with his Pondicherry regiment in the service of Louis XVI of France. 10, sect. ), The Cape diary of Bishop Patrick Raymond Griffith for the years 1837 to 1839 (South African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Mariannhill, 1988), p. 160.Google Scholar, 21 For the Irish contribution to the Catholic church in South Africa see ), The Irish in southern Africa, ch. Rapport van den census directeur: census, 15 July 1896 (Johannesburg, 1896), pp 54–5. for this article. ), Parnell: the politics of power (Dublin, 1990), pp 125–36. The principal reference volumes for prominent in South African Irish are: Dictionary of South African Biography (Cape Town & Johannesburg, 1968- ), 5 vols, continuing; Men of the times: old colonists of the Cape Colony and Orange River Colony (Johannesburg, Cape Town & London, 1906); Men of the times: pioneers of the Transvaal and glimpses of South Africa (Johannesburg, 1905); Philip, … 7.Google Scholar, 47 This index includes records from the following South African marriage collections. 34 The Porter speeches (Cape Town, 1886), pp xli–xliv; T. T. Kelly to Colonial Secretary (Natal), 14 Oct. 1857 (Natal Archival Depot, Ladysmith magistrate letter-book, 1854–1962, 1/LDS, 3/1/1/4). Over the last two centuries there has been immigration from all over the British Isles into the English speaking community of South Africa, which has mixed freely without much regard for country of origin. 7 The 83rd Foot served at the Cape from 1806 to 1818. One of our genealogists shares five clues to evaluate as you trace your elusive Irish ancestors and strive to extend your Irish family history. Irish laborers in many parts of the West Indies and the American South in the 17th-18th centuries found themselves living among enslaved Africans and free people of color. Lowry, D. W., ‘The Irish in Rhodesia’ in McCracken, (ed. 3. ), The Irish in southern Africa, ch. These studies look at the Irish diaspora in general and include useful statistical information on Irish migration to South Africa. 36 The surviving papers of the Natal Mounted Police are contained in 16 volumes of manuscript material in the Natal Archival Depot. Murphy, H., The Kynoch era in Arklow, 1895–1918 (pamphlet, n.p., n.d.).Google Scholar. No academic work has been done on the murder by Patrick O’Donnell of the Invincible informer James Carey on board a ship off the coast of South Africa in July 1883. 35 The papers of the Cape Mounted Police are housed in 161 boxes in the Cape Archival Depot, reference C.M.P. "openAccess": "0", ), The Irish in southern Africa, ch. By word of mouth, the popularity of my Family History reporting services increased sufficiently to turn this into a full-time occupation. South African Commercial Advertiser, 6 June 1829. 4 (Feb. 1913), no. Place names in South Africa include: Upington, Portevill, Caledon, Cradock, Sir Henry Lowry's Pass, the Biggarsberg Mountains, Donnybrook and Belfast. I would guess that the majority of English speakers do. McCracken, P. A., ‘Shaping the times: Irish journalists’ in McCracken, (ed. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. 69 It was not only soldiers who came to South Africa from Ireland during the Anglo-Boer War. Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. While relations between the English and Irish have sometimes been tense, its clear that the Irish have influenced their neighbor. In addition, a fair number of colonial passes were issued to discharged soldiers with Irish names such as Delaney, McNamara and O’Brien who had served in non-Irish regiments. The story of the Neptune and the standoff was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, and that of the Famine Irish. Address: Regus Business Centre Feature Flags last update: Tue Dec 29 2020 19:13:09 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) South African Genealogy was established in 2004 with the aim of helping fellow researchers find their ancestors in South Africa. Each of the repositories which houses archival groups that contain genealogical information has prepared guides to genealogical research which enable you to … Aylward, Alfred, The Transvaal of today: war, witchcraft, sport and spoils in South Africa (Edinburgh & London, 1878), p. 346.Google Scholar. Philip, Peter, ‘Discharged soldiers and sailors who were granted permission to remain at the Cape: 1815–1824’ in Supplementa ad Familia (South Africa), xvi, no. 86 (Sept. 1980), p. 137. 1Google Scholar; and ), A history of Irish Catholicism, vi, ch. 10 42 Certainly the term ‘colonial Irish’ was used for these people. To what extent second- or third-generation Irish in South Africa regarded themselves as Irish is a matter of conjecture. Add some festive cheer to your pocket, London Christmas lockdown? Postal: Blue Sky Publications (Pty) Ltd T/A TheSouthAfrican, PO Box 44354, Claremont, 7735, South Africa, United Kingdom– Blue Sky Publications Ltd – Company Registration Number: 04683692. 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