Burke's Landed Gentry

"This is vital for me as a family historian in Ireland, because quite a lot of the families that I write about are landed gentry who ran Ireland from the time of William of Orange to the War of Independence. This series chronicles all these families’ births, marriages and deaths. It has a little bit of anecdote here and there. It will say what regiment they were in and where they were at school. Yes, it is very useful place to start – also if your family leased property from one of these families and you want to know more about the landlord. I like Crosbie of Viewmont, who invented a hot air balloon. The Robertsons of Huntingdon started their own religion with the Temple of Isis."