Irish Family History & Research

Anthony M Breen and Associates

‘An Assiduous Researcher’
The Irish Times March 1999

You can be confident that all possible sources will be used to research your family’s history and that the knowledge and experience of well established researchers will be ready to conduct research to the highest possible standard on your behalf.

Your enquiry will be directed to a researcher based in Ireland or England in order that all archives and record repositories can be searched.

All standard sources are covered and in addition all:

  • Military Records British Army, Royal Navy and Air Force
  • East India Company Records both Military and Civil
  • Merchant Navy Records
  • Police, Criminal and Prison Records both in Ireland and Britain
  • Irish Estate Records
  • Church Records for all Denominations
  • Records of All Government Departments

For a detailed research proposal please use the details on the contact page.

To see the results of previous research order copies of published articles from:

  • “Ancestors” www.ancestorsmagazine.com
    • Issue No.2 “William Broyd of Suffolk” July 2001
    • Issue No.22 “Finding Irish Ancestors in English Records” June 2004
  • “Family History Monthly” www.familyhistory.com
    • Issue No. 81 June 2002 “The British Army in Ireland”
  • “Irish Roots” 2000-2007: www.irishroots.ie
    • Issue No. 33 “Colonel Morgan’s Will”
    • Issue No. 34 “The Account Book of Private William Breen”
    • Issue No. 35 “Some Soldiers of the East India Company”
    • Issue No. 36 “The Irish Postman”
    • Issue No. 37 “With Wellington at Waterloo”
    • Issue No. 38 “An Application for a Lease”
    • Issue No. 39 “Special Collections”
    • Issue No. 40 “Did Ireland ever have a Black Community?”
    • Issue No. 41 “The Irish Reproductive Loan Fund”
    • Issue No. 42 “Such Barbourous and Beastlye People”
    • Issue No. 43 “A Death at Sea”
    • Issue No. 44 “Policing the English”
    • Issue No. 45 “Independence and Partition”
    • Issue No. 46 “Rogues and Vagabonds: Removal of Irish Paupers from Britain”
    • Issue No. 47 “Facing the Inspectors”
    • Issue No. 48 “To Pass Beyond Seas”
    • Issue No. 49 “Miscreants in the Family ?”
    • Issue No. 50 “Prerogative Court of Canterbury”
    • Issue No. 51 “Sources for Irish History in the Suffolk Record Office”
    • Issue No. 52 “The Girl I left Behind Me”
    • Issue No. 53 “Soupers”
    • Issue No. 54 “Lestrange Family”
    • Issue No. 55 “Protestant England”
    • Issue No. 56 “Trafalgar and the Irish”
    • Issue No. 57 “Facing up to the Famine”
    • Issue No. 58 “Census Indexes for England and Wales”
    • Issue No. 59 “An Irish estate in Jamaica”
    • Issue No. 60 “Bridging the Gap: England and Wales”
    • Issue No. 61 “Making the Link”
    • Issue No. 62 “The Royal Irish Regiment” War of Spanish Succession
    • Issue No. 63 Barnaby Brien’s Lease
    • Issue No. 64 British Parliamentary Papers
  • “History Ireland” “The Cappoquin Rebellion” www.historyireland.com
  • “Petitions and Proposals, Fitzwilliam Estates” “Irish Genealogist”, Vol. 12, No. 4, March 2010 www.igrsoc.org

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Look Out for the forthcoming article ‘Proposals and Petitions’ in the ‘Irish Genealogist’