BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS

Or, Subtitled: Payments to Flax Spinners and Rent Rolls: Filling in the Blanks re: Early 19th-Century Irish Ancestors

My last posting noted that I was preparing for a trip to Ireland on which I intended to do genealogical research. I said that I’d be doing research at the local history center of County Clare in Ennis, a part of Ireland in which I have deep genetic roots as a descendant of one of the Dalcassian families related to Brian Boru. I also said that I’d be doing research at the National Library of Ireland (hereafter, NLI) in Dublin. (For the second part of this posting, please click the number 2 below.)