What is a "Flourish" event in a catholic record?

Question

Hi everyone... I'm not Irish, nor catholic, does anybody know about what are these "Flourish" records I keep finding? It seems it's related to conversion, maybe some kind of ceremony.

Here's an example: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:425G-462M?treeref=L6R2-F72

Thanks!

Comments

Some explanations of "flourished" dates here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Genealogy/comments/16lz9a9/is_there_anything_wrong_with_using_flourished/?rdt=46086

Answer 1

'Flourish' seems to be a generic FamilySearch term for a record that indicates the person was alive at that date. These records are actually Catholic Qualification Rolls, where Catholics who swore loyalty to the King before a judge were recorded. They are not church records. The National Archives of Ireland have a brief description of them: https://www.nationalarchives.ie/article/catholic-qualification-rolls-1700-1845/

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Thank you for clearing that up Andrew! Now I see, they're  court records... And thanks for the link, it was super useful.

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Fl is from  the latin floruit (florere = to flourish. It is (or perhaps was)  widely  used in genealogy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floruit

I really wish we had a data box for this, especially pre 1500.

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Thank you Helen! Now I get it, I use FamilySearch in spanish and the search results for this kind of records says "Vive 1776" "Vive 1779" (which litteraly means "Lives") it was there all the time and I ignored it... Then, the original record (in english) says "Flourish"