The Crosslé Genealogical Abstracts were created by Irish engineer Philip Crosslé (1875–1953) and his father, Dr Francis C Crosslé. Both professional men, they also collected copies, abstracts and transcripts of historical and genealogical records found during a lifetime of researching family and local history.
Many of the documents that they transcribed were held in the Public Record Office of Ireland in Dublin, which was destroyed by fire in 1922 during the Irish Civil War. Their notes and notebooks can be used as a substitute
