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Kent Family History Society Membership renewal - UK Family Membership with printed journal Free P&P
Subscriptions are due annually on 1st July and a £5 late payment fee is due on payments made after 18th August. An on-line renewal system is available via our website https://www.kfhs.org.uk/renew...
Supplied by: Kent Family History Society Product Ref: KFS-REN-UKFAM
Kent Family History Society Membership renewal - International single and family membership with printed journal Free P&P
Subscriptions are due annually on 1st July and a £5 late payment fee is due on payments made after 18th August. An on-line renewal system is available via our website https://www.kfhs.org.uk/renew ...
Supplied by: Kent Family History Society Product Ref: KFS-REN-OS
Teach Yourself Palaeography - A Guide for Genealogists and Local Historians by Claire Jarvis
This is the very first 'teach yourself' book on palaeography, covering all the skills that the genealogist needs to read any document that might be found at any date in English archives. Using a series of graded exercises in transcription, Teach Yourself Palaeography works backwards in time in easy stages from the modern handwriting of the nineteenth century to the court hands of the mediev...
Supplied by: S&N Genealogy Supplies Product Ref: SNG-10591
The Wills of our Ancestors: a guide for family & local historians / Stuart A. Raymond
Who wrote wills? What information can be found in them? What information can be found in other probate records? Where can I find them? How should I use them? Probate records are invaluable sources of information for both family and local historians, who need to know the answers to these questions. This book supplies the answers, and provides a comprehensive and up to date guide to the content, loc...
Supplied by: Internet Genealogical Bookshop Product Ref: RAY-WILL
Faces and Places: Barmet High Street 2023 - Local traders make a community
This booklet picks out 7 local businesses, chosen for their historical standing as a family shop, their quirkiness, their uniqueness or their significance in the High Street. Its 28 pages are full of photos showing the front and back of the business, those that work there and sometimes some customers. These photos may not be considered historical yet but they will be one day!...
Supplied by: Barnet Museum and Local History Society Product Ref: BTM-076
Non-Conformity in Hertfordshire (A Guide to Sources for Local and Family Historians)
This 64 page A5 guide, compiled and written by Alan Ruston, is designed to help the researcher to locate references to a particular chapel or congregation in Hertfordshire. It is not a comprehensive history of those congregations nor a narrative account but a source in which to dip. The work only covers Christianity in its historic forms, e.g. Presbyterians, Unitarians, Baptists, Quakers etc. Fir...
Supplied by: Hertfordshire Family History Society Product Ref: HRT-SP006
SOMERSET QUARTER SESSION RECORDS Charles II (1666-1677) produced and edited by Somerset Record Society
Quarter session records are really helpful for family or local historians and anyone with an interest in history. They detail minor cases that appear before the “court”. You will find instances of petty crime, settlement, bastardy etc., and hundreds of names. This Somerset Record Society publication covers the years 1666 to 1677 is the ideal book for those who want to expand their knowledge ...
Supplied by: WestCountryBooks Product Ref: TBS-13955876
Lancashire Local Historian 9 (1994)
And the blowshoppes decay for lakke of wood; How did Thomas Pennant cross the Ribble?; Poverty and the Poor Law in Formby, 1701-1900; A poor diet for poor people? Workhouse food in Lancashire, 1750-1834; In defence of the shopkeeper; Irish Nationalists in Bootle, 1868-1914; St. Mary's School goes to war; Killing the pig; Rainford in the 1940s...
Supplied by: Northern Writers Advisory Services Product Ref: NWA-OHL1
Lancashire Local Historian 20 (2008)
Articles in Honour of Mary Higham...
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Local Coroner Records for Brotherton, Ferry Fryston & Knottingley for the period 1868 - 1890
Inquests 1868-1890 for Brotherton, Ferry Fryston & Knottingley from the Notebooks of Thomas Taylor Yorkshire County Coroner...
Supplied by: Pontefract & District Family History Society Product Ref: PON-I002
Census returns 1841-1891 in Microform: a directory to local holdings in Great Britain
By Jeremy Gibson & Elizabeth Hampson. Many libraries and record offices hold copies of the census on microform. This book is a directory of what is available where....
Supplied by: Internet Genealogical Bookshop Product Ref: RAY-GIB2
Tracing Your Nonconformist Ancestors: a guide for Family and Local Historians / Stuart A. Raymond
We all have nonconformist ancestors. In the mid-nineteenth century, almost half of the population were nonconformists. Family historians need to be aware of the diversity of nonconformity, and of the many sources which ill enable them to trace the activities of nonconformist forebears. This hand book provides an overview of those sources. It identifies the numerous websites, libraries and ar...
Supplied by: Internet Genealogical Bookshop Product Ref: RAY-NON
German References Guide in County & Local Record Offices
Research Guide No 15 - 1st edition (April 2011) Listing of documents relating to Germans found in Record Offices in England & Wales....
Supplied by: Anglo-German Family History Society Product Ref: ANG-8
The Nelson Leader Local War Record (1914-15)
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Supplied by: Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society Product Ref: LFHHS-CD009
THE MARCH OF WILLIAM OF ORANGE THROUGH SOMERSET With a notice of other local events in the time of King James II A.D. 1688 by Emanuel Green
In 1671 Charles II's brother James, Duke of York, startled the nation by announcing that he was a papist. This caused a great concern among the Protestants and many attempts were made to stop James from becoming King. In February 1685 Charles died and despite the attempts to exclude James, he was crowned King. Later that year the Duke of Monmouth made an unsuccessful attempt to take the throne. Ev...
Supplied by: WestCountryBooks Product Ref: TBS-13955811
The Hertford Loop - The first 100 years of a local railway.
A 32 page A5 booklet written by Peter Hodge, with illustrations and bibliography. Originally published in 1976 then reprinted by Southgate District Civic Voice in 2021 to coincide with the 150th Anniversary of the opening of the Great Northern Railway branch line from Wood Green (Alexandra Palace) to Enfield. Peter Hodge wrote in May 1976 "It is an account, for the general reader, of the construct...
Supplied by: Southgate District Civic Voice Product Ref: SDC-SP004
Will Indexes and other Probate Material in the Library of the Society of Genealogists
Probate records are a major source of genealogical information. Wills are likely to be the only documents reflecting the personalities of your ancestors. Millions survive; there are numerous transcripts and indexes to them have been prepared. Many of these printed volumes are in the library of the Society of Genealogists, whose collection is listed in this book. Many of the items listed can, of co...
Supplied by: Internet Genealogical Bookshop Product Ref: RAY-SOG-14
Bourne Society Index
Covers Local History Records 1-45 (1962-2006) and Bulletins 1-202 (1956-2005). NOTE: Village Histories are NOT included in the Index. Compiled by T.D.K. Pearce. 335 pp, A5. Published 2006....
Supplied by: Bourne Society, The Product Ref: BOU-BSI
Society of Friends (Quaker) Burial ground Woodhouse, Stannington Methodist Church and Zion Church Attercliffe Monumental Inscriptions
Transcriptions of monumental inscriptions in three local burial grounds....
Supplied by: Sheffield & District Family History Society Product Ref: SHE-G904
Four into One. The Story of the Blue Coat School, Wotton-under-Edge; by Beryl A. Kingan. Published by Wotton-under-Edge Historical Society 2007
This is the story of four schools which became united as one school. The Blue Coat School was founded in 1693 and the Chipping School in 1836. The Church Infants School merged with the Chipping School in 1893. In 1923 Blue Coat became an Infants School which combined with the Chipping School in 1974 to become Blue Coat C of E Primary School. On 28th February 2000 the school moved to new premises, ...
Supplied by: Wotton-under-Edge Historical Society Product Ref: WUE-123
Llanbadarn Fynydd Radnorshire Benefit Society (Misc 1)
Padarn's Benefit Society Minute Book 1846-1883...
Supplied by: Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society, Cymdeithas Achyddol Maldwyn Product Ref: MGY-MISC/01
The Friends to Literature: Bristol Library Society 1772 - 1864
Kathleen Hapgood 978 1 911592 07 5 The Bristol Library Society took over the old Jacobean library founded by Robert Redwood and operated it until they in turn handed it over to the City Council in 1894. This account therefore illustrates the transition from private charity, via personal subscription, to the rates as the basis for public library provision; and features some of the debates ...
Supplied by: Avon Local History & Archaeology Product Ref: ALH-7
BAINES' HISTORY, GAZETTEER & DIRECTORY OF THE WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE 1823 Edward Baines’ HISTORY, GAZETTEER & DIRECTORY OF YORKSHIRE, in two volumes.
This is Volume One, The West Riding of Yorkshire, containing a wealth of information about each and every place in the West Riding, with alphabetical lists of the residents and tradespeople there...
Supplied by: Yorkshire Ancestors Product Ref: YAN-GW165
BAINES' HISTORY, GAZETTEER & DIRECTORY OF THE EAST & NORTH RIDINGS OF YORKSHIRE 1823 Edward Baines’ HISTORY, GAZETTEER & DIRECTORY OF YORKSHIRE, in two volumes.
This is Volume Two, The East and North Ridings of Yorkshire, containing a wealth of information about each and every place in both East and North Ridings, with alphabetical lists of the residents and tradespeople there...
Supplied by: Yorkshire Ancestors Product Ref: YAN-GW166
Cambridgeshire, Cambridge Antiquarian Society, St. Michael's Parish BMDs 1538-1837
The birth, marriage and death registers of St. Michael's Parish, Cambridge, listing records from 1538 to 1837. Contains entries from Gonville College and Caius College, both of which were included in the parish. \*Digitally enhanced images of the original text \*Fully searchable \*Bookmarked by major headings \*Fully printable...
Supplied by: S&N Genealogy Supplies Product Ref: SNG-3912