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Irish Mercantile Networks in the Low Countries
Veerle Delahaye
IntroductionSources • Archives • Bibliography

The Belgian Archives
The General State Archives (Brussels) • Admiralty papers (mostly 17th century) • Judicial documents • Economic reports
The State Archives (Ghent) • Judicial documents made up by the Council of Flanders • Correspondence
The State Archives (Bruges) • Judicial documents • Notarial archives of Ostend notaries • Correspondence and accounts of John Gould
The City Archives of Bruges • Judicial documents • Correspondence and accounts of the 18 th century Irish firm Prosser&Porter • Genealogical pedigrees • Inventories of estate • Burgherbooks
The City Archives of Ghent • Burgherbooks • Correspondence
The City Archives of Antwerp • Correspondence of the 18th century firm of James Dormer to Irish merchants • Vendition books of the GIC
The University Library of Ghent • Correspondence of the 18 th century Ostend merchant Flanderin • Ship records
The Archives of Plantin-Moretus • Correspondence
The Municipal Library of Ostend • Correspondence

The Dutch Archives
The Zealand Archives • Burgherbooks • Notarial archives
The Communal Archives of Flushing • Burgherbooks
The Communal Archives of Rotterdam • Burgherbooks • Notarial archives ! The notarial archives of Rotterdam are added on a decennial basis. E.g.: if you want to find a document from 1715, you have to type “1711- 1720” in the search engine.
The Communal Archives of Amsterdam • Burgherbooks • Notarial archives (reduced accessibility)
NEHA (Amsterdam) • Accounts

The French Archives
Since Dunkirk belonged until 1662 to the Low Countries, records concerning this town are added in the database
   The Communal Archives of Dunkirk • Lists of inhabitants • Inventories of estate • Privateering papers
   Archives of the Département du Nord (Lille) • Privateering papers (18th century)

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Contact: CISS Last updated: Feb 12 2008.