Here are the results for the letter s
- SASE
- When you request records or other information from people and institutions, you should include a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) in your letter. Of course, a SASE with U.K. postage stamps on it is only good in the U.K.. If you are expecting return mail from overseas, you should include an International Reply Coupon with your self-addressed envelope. This coupon serves as payment for any international postage you may need to pay. They can be purchased at your local post office.
- SCUTAGE
- The commutation of personal military service to the crown for a money payment. Normally called royal service in Ireland.
- SECONDARY RECORD
- Secondary Record or secondary source; a record created some time after the event
- SEISIN
- The granting of seisin or livery of seisin is the granting of formal legal ownership in freehold, as opposed to simple possession or beneficial interest. It was sometimes marked by the handing of a sod to the person entering the land, symbolising his entry to it, and was overseen by witnesses.
- SENESCHAL
- A stewart of a large medieval household. An officer of the Crown.
- SEPT
- A family group of shared ancestry living in the same locality.
- SEPULCHERED
- Buried
- SEPULCHRE
- A place of burial, tomb
- SERVITOR
- Resident English administrative or military offical who was granted lands during the Plantation.
- SESSIAGH
- A division within the ballyboe (q.v.). There was usually six sessiaghs to the ballyboe.
- SEXTON
- An officer of a church, congregation, or synagogue charged with the maintenance of its buildings and/or the surrounding graveyard.
- SHEBEEN
- A shebeen was originally an illicit bar or club where excisable alcoholic beverages were sold without a licence.
- SHELTA
- The assumed language of the Irish travelling people of which only a little is known (vocabulary and some grammatical features). The language is scarcely accessible today and not assumed to be the robust native speech of gypsies, even if this was in fact once the case.
- SIC
- Latin term signifying a copy reads exactly as the original; indicates a possible mistake in the original.
- SIEGE OF DERRY
- The Jacobite encirclement of Derry during 1689.
- SINE PROLE
- Without offspring, sometimes seen as D.S.P. - died sine prole
- SLAINT E
- (Pronouned "slawn-cha"). Health.
- SLAN ABHAILE
- (Pronunced "a-wall-a"). Safe Home.
- SLAN AGAT
- Be safe. OR "Goodbye".
- SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX
- The Social Security Death Index is an index of Social Security Death records. Generally this includes names of deceased Social Security recipients whose relatives applied for Social Security Death Benefits after their passing. Also included in the millions of records are approximately 400,000 railroad retirement records from the early 1900s to 1950s.
- SODHAN
- A pre-Gaelic race in the Ui Maine country
- SOUNDEX
- A filing system, usually for recording surnames, using one letter followed by three numbers. The Soundex system keeps together names of the same and/or similar sounds, but of variant spellings.
- SPALPEEN
- A laborer; generally a farm hand.
- SPECIAL WARRANTY
- A clause in a lease whereby the landlord covenanted to defend the tenant in the possession of the land and to give him land of equal value if he was evicted from his holding.
- SPONSOR
- A person who presents a candidate for baptism or confirmation and undertakes responsibility for the person's religious education or spiritual welfare
- STAGE IRISH
- A stereotype Irishman who began to make an appearance in English drama at the beginning of the 17th century and who remained well into the 19th century. The term does not have any precise linguistic reference but is used popularly to denote any individual who is assumed to display supposedly Irish characteristics, such as flattering, flowery language and melodramatic behaviour to an exaggerated extent.
- STIRABOUT
- A porridge consisting of oatmeal or cornmeal boiled in water or milk and stirred constantly.
- SURRENDER AND REGRANT
-
Process beginning in the reign of
Henry VIII whereby lands held under Gaelic law were brought
under the tenets of English common law.
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