Gillespies originated in the British Isles. Click on the green or blue links to find records that are ready. More records will be added to some of these links already posted. If no records are listed beside a county, it only means it has yet to be developed here.
PRONI – The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland – 121 Gillespies listed
The National Archives of Ireland – census records
History
“Politically, the island is divided between The Republic of Ireland, called ‘Ireland’, an independent state of 26 counties, and Northern Ireland (a constituent country of the United Kingdom). They share an open border and both are part of the common travel area.
Northern Ireland consisted of six counties: Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone. These form two-thirds of the historical province of Ulster, and perhaps why Irish- born Scots from there are called Ulster Scots in North America.
Many Presbyterian Scots, mainly from Stirlingshire and Ayshire, moved to Northern Ireland in two immigration schemes during 1600s to take over Catholic estates, whose land owners and tenants were forced to move south. Many people were killed during these years. During a same period, English settlers moved into County Londonderry and also south into County Fermanagh.
Understanding Ireland’s Administrative Districts
Grifith’s Valuation Records Explained 1847-1865
Advertisements for Lost Irish Relatives
Marriages– civil registration
RECORDS BY COUNTY
CO ANTRIM
Tithe Applotment Books – 1824 to 1834
Vital Statistics: Births, Marriages, Deaths
Ulster Town Directory for Antrim, 1910
CO ARMAGH
Vital Statistics: Births, Marriages, Deaths
Flax Growers in Co Armagh 1796
Tithe Applotment Records 1828-1834
Griffiths Valuation Records 1864
City of Armagh Farmers & Residents, and Businesses, 1888
BELFAST – CITY OF
Tithe Applotment Books 1814-1855
Vital Statistics: Births, Marriages, Deaths
1911 Census – See Co Antrim
CO CARLOW
Tithe Applotment records 1814-1855
Census 1901 – no results says National Archives indicating no Gillespies in that County
Census 1911– no results says National Archives
CO CAVAN
Tithe Applotment Books 1814-1855
Griffiths Valuation Record, 1855-56
CO CLARE
Tithe Applotment Books 1814-1855
Griffith’s Valuation Records, 1855
CO CORK
Maps: County Cork Overview West Parishes Middle Parishes East Parishes
Census 1766 Diocese of Cloyne
Vital Statistics: Births Marriages
Griffiths Valuation 1814-1855
CO. DONEGAL
Donegal Hearth Money Rolls of 1665
Tithe Applotment Books 1814-1855
Census 1821-1851 – Killymard Parish
Griffiths Valuation Records 1857
Vital Statistics: Births Marriages Deaths
CO DOWN
Gillespie Monument, Comber, Co Down
Gillespie Down Records by Ros Davies
Vital Statistics: Births Marriages Deaths Wills
Tithe Applotment Books 1823-1838
Giffiths Valuation Records 1863-64
DUBLIN – City & Area
Vital Statistics: Births Marriages, Deaths
CO FERMANAGH
Vital Statistics: Births, Marriages, Deaths
Tithe Applotment Books 1827 -1835
Pole of Electors 1747-1788
Griffiths Valuation Records 1862
CO GALWAY
Vital Statistics: Births, Marriages Deaths
CO KERRY
Census 1901 – no records for Gillespie says National Archives of Ireland.
Census 1911 –no records at National Archives of Ireland for Gillespie
CO KILDARE Vital Statistics: Births
CO KILKENNY
Census 1901 – no Gillespies says National Archives of Ireland
KINGS CO (now OFALY)
Census 1901 – no Gillespie records at Archives of Ireland
Census 1911 – no Gillespie records at Archives of Ireland
CO LAOIS
Vital Statistics: Births Marriages Deaths
1901 Census – not listed in index at Archives of Ireland
1911 Census – not listed in index at Archives of Ireland
CO LEITRIM
Tithe Applotments Records 1814-1855
Vital Statistics: Births Marriages Deaths
CO LIMERICK
Vital Statistics: Births Marriages Deaths
1901 Census – No Gillespie listed in census at Archives of Ireland for this county
1911 Census – National Archives does not give records for a Gillespie
CO LONDONDERRY (also called Derry)
Vital Statistics: Births, Marriages, Deaths
CO LONGFORD
CO LOUTH
Vital Statistics: Births Marriages Deaths
CO MAYO
Map of Co Mayo Parishes
Vital Statistics: Births Marriages Deaths
CO MEATH
Vital Statistics: Births Marriages Deaths
CO MONAGHAN
Map of Co Monaghan Parishes
Vital Statistics: Births, Marriages, Death
QUEENS CO
CO ROSCOMMON
Vital Statistics: Births, Marriages, Deaths
CO SLIGO
Vital Statistics: Births Marriages Deaths
TIPPERARY CO
CO TYRONE
Map of Co Tyrone Parishes
Vital Statistics: Births Marriages Deaths
Inhabitants of Fivemiletown 1908
CO WATERFORD
Census 1911 – No Gillespies listed at Archives of Ireland
CO WESTMEATH
Vital Statistics: Births
Census 1901 – No Gillespies
CO WEXFORD
CO WICKLOW
Vital Statistics: Births Marriages Deaths
Genetic Discoveries: “In 2012, research was published showing that occurrence of genetic markers for the earliest farmers was almost wiped out by Beaker-culture immigrants to Ireland: they carried what was then a new Y-chromosome R1b marker, believed to have originated in Iberia about 2500 BC. The prevalence amongst modern Irish men for this mutation is a remarkable 84%, the highest in the World, and closely matched in other populations along the Atlantic fringes down to Spain. A similar genetic replacement happened with lineages in mitochondrial DNA. The implication of this evidence is a series of migrations and the arrival of the early Irish language, “
Source: Wikipedia