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- FALDING
- A kind of coarse woollen cloth produced in Ireland; the mantle or cloak made from the same.
- FAMILY GROUP REPORT
- A form which contains genealogical information about a nuclear family - a husband, a wife, and their children. It usually includes the dates and places of birth, marriage and death.
- FAMILY GROUP SHEET
- A family group sheet is a form which presents genealogical information about a nuclear family -- a husband, a wife, and their children. A family group sheet usually includes birth dates and places, death dates and places, and marriage dates and places.
- FAMILYSEARCH
- You can find FamilySearch computers at the Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or at one of the branch Family History Centers. The FamilySearch computer contains several databases of information: the Social Security Death Index, the Military Index, the Ancestral File, and the International Genealogical Index. You can use these resources to search for information about your family members right on the computer. You can also use the FamilySearch computer to look up items in the Family History Library Catalog. Because of the popularity of the FamilySearch computer, many Family History Centers require you to sign up for a time slot in advance. FamilySearch is also now available on the Internet through the Web site of the LDS Church.
- FEAR GORTA
- Fear gorta literally means “man of hunger” in Irish. This supernatural being roams the earth in the form of an emaciated man during times of famine. He begs for food, and bestows good fortune on those who help him. Fear gorta can also refer to a weedy grass that, when stepped on, is believed to make men unnaturally hungry.
- FEE FARM
-
A purchaser of lands in fee simple, instead of
paying the purchase price in a lump sum, would enter into
a perpetual covenant to pay a perpetual annual charge
(i.e., a fee farm rent)
- FEE FARM GRANT
- A Fee Farm Grant or Fee Farm Rent in English and Irish law, is a hybrid type of land ownership typical in cities and towns. The word fee is derived from fief, meaning a feudal landholding, and a fee farm grant is similar to a fee simple in the sense that it gives the grantee the right to hold a freehold estate, the only difference being the payment of an annual rent (farm being an archaic word for rent) and covenants, thus putting both parties in a landlord-tenant relationship.
- FEE SIMPLE
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Estate of land which the inheritor has unqualified ownership and power of disposition.
The word Fee means the estate is inheritable
and would endure for the time being until the person
entitled to it died and left no heir. The word simple
showed that the fee was capable of passing to heirs in
general and was not restricted to passing to a particular
class of heirs such as male heirs only.
- FEME SOLE
- Unmarried woman or a married woman with property independent of her husband.
- FENCIBLES
- Sent to Ireland between 1794-95 Scottish and English regiments sent to Ireland as a kind of militia force, when regular troops were withdrawn. Recruited within the British Isles only.
- FEUDAL INCIDENTS IN CAPITE
-
Dues owed by royal tenants holding
lands by knight’s service in capite. They included reliefs,
homage, Livery, warships, etc.
- FILACER
-
Clerk of the court of common pleas who filed writs
and issued Judicial processes.
- FILIAM
- A daughter
- FILIUM
- A son
- FINES
-
Payment of a fee for a formal conveyance of lands.
- FIREBOOT
- The right to cut down timber for firewood.
- FIRST FRUITS
-
The first year's revenues of all ecclesiastical
benefits paid as royal taxes.
- FLAX
- Linen begins life as the flax plant, a pretty true-blue flowering plant, which is harvested in August, 100 days after sowing.
Traditionally, the process involved many members of a family. Men were usually responsible for seeding while women took charge of weeding as the flax plants grew. Keeping weeds to a minimum not only encouraged vigorous growth, it also meant the stem was more likely to grow upright
- FLESHER
- A person who removes the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
- FLESHERS
- A person or machine that fleshes hides or skins.
- FOREIGN OPPOSER
-
Clerk of the lower receipt of the exchequer
who was required ta make a charge (i.e., oppose) on all
sheriffs and other revenue collectors of their fines,
issues, amercements (i.e., their green wax) certified in
the estreats (extracts) annexed to the writ under the
seal of green wax
- FREEHOLDER
- One who holds land by fee simple. In colonial times, a freeholder had the right to vote and hold public office.
- FREEMAN
- One who held the full rights of citizenship, such as voting and engaging in business (as opposed to an indentured servant)
- FULLER
- Cleans and thickens cloth. Literally makes the cloth fuller.
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