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Ancestry releases Jameson Distillery employment records
Family history website Ancestry (ancestry.co.uk) has published the employment records of the famous Jameson Distillery in Dublin.
More than one million records are indexed and available to search, accompanied by images of the original documents.
The records, which are held by the Irish Distillers Archive (irishdistillers.ie), contain detailed weekly wages books and include each employee’s name as well as their occupation, hours worked and wages paid. They span from 1862 to 1969, although records holding personal information are only available to view until 1937 because of data-protection regulations.
Rhona Murray, senior content acquisition manager at Ancestry, said: “Occupation records can be a key resource for those researching their family history, as they often provide more detail and context on how their ancestors lived day-to-day. The Jameson Distillery staff wages and employment books are particularly important, as they bring to life a time when the Jameson Distillery
