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The Surnames of Leicestershire and Rutland / David Postles. Leopards Head Press, 1998.
If your ancestors were from these two counties, you will want to study this book in order to see how surnames in the region originated and evolved over the centuries, demonstrating how they were affected by local dialects....
Supplied by: Internet Genealogical Bookshop Product Ref: RAY-SUR-2
Quarter Session Records / Richard Ratcliffe
Quarter Sessions were responsible for the administration of local government before the introduction of county councils. They dealt with an extraordinarly wide range of topics, and their records have a huge amount of information which is likely to be of interest to family historians. Coroners and criminals, printers and freemasons, vagrants and aliens, are just a few of the people who can be found...
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Yorkshire Pollbooks 1741 & 1807; West Riding Pollbook 1835
Pollbooks list everyone who voted in Parliamentary elections, and provide excellent means of tracing particular surnames across entire counties in the eighteenth century. Yorkshire family and local historians will find these three facsimile pollbooks valuable sources of information on surnames....
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The Place of the Rural Blacksmith in Parish Life 1500-1900 by Marcia Evans
The village forge was often a focus of local activity and here we have accounts of some of the families whose skills were passed on for generations. Includes trade directories, census & militia list details. 122 pages. Soft covers....
Supplied by: Somerset & Dorset Family History Society Product Ref: SAD-133
Letters Home to Yeovil
(Jack Sweet) During the First World War, Yeovil men and women served on the Western Front, in Belgium and France, and many other places. Letters to and from home were welcomed by all recipients and during the four years of the war, the Western Gazette published a weekly column Yeovil and the War which included letters, either in full or extract, sent home to friends and relations by local men ser...
Supplied by: Somerset & Dorset Family History Society Product Ref: SAD-1139
Sheffield's Volunteer Armies
Lists of local volunteer militia 1794-1795 and 1803-1808. (Published by Sheffield & District FHS). For other military records see Attestation & Discharge Index 1760-1840 under Miscellaneous data on CD ROM. (Published by Sheffield & District FHS)....
Supplied by: Sheffield & District Family History Society Product Ref: SHE-G106
CS043 Trowbridge, Formerly Of
Family announcements of Trowbridge emigrants sent back to local newspapers. 1858 to 1915 A4 softback 112 pages...
Supplied by: Wiltshire Family History Society Product Ref: WIL-CS043
RA 33. Guide to Middlesex Parish Documents
Including Poor Law Records, by Cliff Webb This revised 6th edition , November 2009, incorporates The Parochial Poor Law Records of Middlesex as preserved in local libraries and record offices compiled and published by Cliff Webb in 1986. The records listed include registers, churchwardens accounts, vestry minutes....
Supplied by: West Surrey Family History Society Product Ref: WSY-RA33
Our Tangled Speech: Essays on Language and Culture
People are rarely neutral about the Irish language. In Northern Ireland it is a topic which usually creates more heat than light. While attitudes have softened somewhat over the years, polarised views about the language are remarkably persistent. Historic and contemporary efforts to maintain the language have had varied success, but the key goal of creating new sustainable language communities, wh...
Supplied by: Ulster Historical Foundation Product Ref: UHF-OTS
1791 DIRECTORY OF HULL & BEVERLEY and RECOLLECTIONS OF HULL 1884 ~ two books on one CD!
The first Directory of Hull, first published in 1791-2, includes a directory of Beverley and a wealth of local information, including a table of Window Duty(a form of taxation, calculated on the number of windows in a house), and a list of stamp duties(another form of taxation), such as: Affidavit in court of law, 1s 6d; Apprentice indenture, 6s; duty for keeping a male servant, per annum 1l.5s (�...
Supplied by: Yorkshire Ancestors Product Ref: YAN-GW091
PLACE NAMES OF THE NORTH RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
The North Riding, with places arranged topographically according to Wapentakes, and the Parishes within Wapentakes, including lost places, with local pronunciations of place names....
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THE VILLAGE COOPER
The Memoirs of Francis Barr Memoirs of the life, character and labours of Francis Barr, local preacher, &c., Sheriff Hutton, Easingwold Circuit, in the County of York, by Willliam Smith. Written in 1869...
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CS120 Churchwardens Presentments 1662 Vol 1
45 parishes in area between Alderton, Hankerton, Lacock & Malmesbury, (including Chippenham) The Churchwardens Presentments 1662 offer a unique insight into problems after the Restoration. A4, 24 pages. These are answers to a questionnaire sent to each parish prior to the Bishop's Visitation, when churchwardens or other parishioners were required to cover a wide range of business, and the...
Supplied by: Wiltshire Family History Society Product Ref: WIL-CS120
CS121 Churchwardens Presentments 1662 Vol 2
73 parishes between Bradford on Avon, Wootton Bassett and Fittleton The Churchwardens Presentments 1662 offer a unique insight into problems after the Restoration. A4, 49 pages. These are answers to a questionnaire sent to each parish prior to the Bishop's Visitation, when churchwardens or other parishioners were required to cover a wide range of business, and they are an important so...
Supplied by: Wiltshire Family History Society Product Ref: WIL-CS121
CS122 Churchwardens Presentments 1662 Vol 3
50 parishes in area between Amesbury, Laverstock, Martin & Tisbury The Churchwardens Presentments 1662 offer a unique insight into problems after the Restoration. A4, 32 pages. These are answers to a questionnaire sent to each parish prior to the Bishop's Visitation, when churchwardens or other parishioners were required to cover a wide range of business, and they are an important sou...
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CS123 Churchwardens Presentments 1662 Vol 4
40 parishes in area between Warminster, Salisbury & Downton The Churchwardens Presentments 1662 offer a unique insight into problems after the Restoration. A4, 32 pages. These are answers to a questionnaire sent to each parish prior to the Bishop's Visitation, when churchwardens or other parishioners were required to cover a wide range of business, and they are an important source for both...
Supplied by: Wiltshire Family History Society Product Ref: WIL-CS123
CS125 Churchwardens Presentments 1662 Vols 1-4
Volumes 1-4 of the Presentments, an overall view of the state of Churches in Wiltshire after the Restoration. Churchwardens Presentments 1662 These are answers to a questionnaire sent to each parish prior to the Bishop's Visitation, when churchwardens or other parishioners were required to cover a wide range of business, and they are an important source for both local and family historians. The...
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CS124 Peculiar Presentments
Visitation of the ‘peculiar’ parishes under the separate jurisdictions of the Dean and Sub Dean of Sarum and the Precentor of the cathedral for the correction of both clergy and laity became a useful means of maintaining the religious settlement of the late 16th century. Practice was standardised by Canons issued in 1603, and it remained an important element in church life for the rest of the ...
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CD 17 FOUR GUILDFORD DIRECTORIES 1842-1934. Feb.2010
This CD provides images of the following: russell's directory, 1842 and hooke's directory, 1871 which cover guildford only . biddle's directories for 1929 and 1934 also include surrounding villages, although some pages of village information is missing from the 1929 directory . some pages are missing in the 1934 directory from the guildford streets and inhabitants sections . the entire contents ha...
Supplied by: West Surrey Family History Society Product Ref: WSY-CD17
Accrington Cemetery, Burnley Road, Monumental Inscriptions
The CD contains all the monumental inscriptions from when the cemetery opened in 1864 to 2009. During this period 61,001 burials took place. There are many local prominent people buried in this cemetery including William Barnes of Accrington House, cotton manufacturer and one of the chief advocates for this municipal cemetery. His was the first burial on the 10th October 1864 - see page 2 of the c...
Supplied by: Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society Product Ref: LFH-CD014
MARRIAGE ALLEGATION BONDS OF THE BISHOPS OF BATH AND WELLS FROM THEIR COMMENCEMENT TO THE YEAR 1755 By Arthur J. Jewers
First published in 1909 this book lists all of the surviving bonds for that year. Since then a number of original documents have been lost or have deteriorated to make this the most complete list of this bonds. Most are for the early 1700's, although there are a number of entries for the previous century. To use Jewers own words in describing the period 1674-75 “in these years large portions are...
Supplied by: WestCountryBooks Product Ref: TBS-012
DEVON WILLS By C. Worthy
You will probably be aware that most of the wills belonging to the West Country were destroyed in an air raid on Exeter during the Second World War. Whilst copies are being found genealogists and local historians have to rely heavily of transcriptions and extractions made prior to this loss. Of these useful works Devonshire Wills by C. Worthy is one of the most important. This massive work of 516 ...
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A SURVEY OF WEST COUNTRY MANORS Edited by T. L. Stoate
This survey, compiled in 1525, contains details of tenants and the type of lease held, from the estates in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire which belonged to the Marchioness of Dorset. Lots of information for both family and local historians....
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NOTES AND ABSTRACTS OF THE WILLS CONTAINED IN THE VOLUME ENTITLED THE GREAT ORPHAN BOOK AND BOOK OF WILLS by Rev. T. P. Wadley
This book of three hundred plus pages was first published in 1886 and contains abstracts from over four hundred wills from the Bristol area. The wills date from the mid fourteenth to the sixteenth century and are packed with personal and local information which will be of great interest to anyone studying the city of having ancestors from this area. Index and is fully searchable. ...
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STORIES AND FOLK-LORE OF WEST CORNWALL by William Bottrell
This book contains numerous stories of magic, legends and life in West Cornwall. Some of the subjects covered include The ghosts of Kenegie, Mill stories, A Madron Feast of Fifty Years Ago, Zennor Hearthside Stories, Fairies, The Giant of Carn Galva, Penzance of our Grandfathers, Astrologers of the West, Conjurers and their Spells, Old Methods of Conveyance, Going to Town on Market Day, A Glossary...
Supplied by: WestCountryBooks Product Ref: TBS-13955631