Yorkshire Ancestors
TOPCLIFFE AND MORLEY - THE CHAPEL REGISTERS Baptisms 1654-1830, Burials 1654-1888
Indexes of Places and Surnames from the registers of Topcliffe Congregational Chapel and Morley Old Chapel with Inscriptions in the Old Chapel Graveyard. (Please note: This Topcliffe is near Leeds, in the West Riding - not to be confused with Topcliffe, near Thirsk in the North Riding)...
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TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF YORKSHIRE 1822
Thomas Langdale's work of 1822. Where to find places in Yorkshire's three Ridings. An alphabetical listing of all the towns, villages, hamlets, gentlemens' seats, &c., giving distances to market or post towns, brief histories of notable antiquities, and the names of magistrates,lieutenants and other officers of the County....
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TOURISTS’ GUIDE TO THE EAST AND NORTH RIDINGS OF YORKSHIRE 1884 With map and plan.
"All the favourite places of resort, both on the coast and inland" Giving a general description and detailed description of Road and Rail Excursions. First published 1884. Even though many of the railways featured in these excursions no longer exist, this guide will make you want to go there! The book on this CD is machine searchable....
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TRAMPS & DRIVES in the CRAVEN HIGHLANDS, written in 1895 by Harry Speight,
Historian and author of many Yorkshire books...
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WARD’S DIRECTORY OF DARLINGTON, HARTLEPOOL, WEST HARTLEPOOL, REDCAR & COATHAM, MIDDLESBROUGH, STOCKTON & THORNABY, and surrounding villages, 1908 Free P&P
With Town & County Guide, Almanac for 1909, Commercial and Family Advertiser. The whole district was canvassed door to door, by agents, resulting in a very comprehensive listing of the manufacturers, traders and private residents which, the publisher states, "is not absolutely correct, as a work of this kind cannot be produced without some inaccuracies, but is so free from errors that it may be us...
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WELTON & ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD
History of the parish of Welton, with adjacent places. Very rare publication...
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WENSLEYDALE AND THE LOWER VALE OF THE YORE by Edmund Bogg.
From Ouseburn to Lunds Fell. Includes 125 illustrations. The book on this CD is machine searchable...
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WHITBY AND ITS SHIPPING
A delightful book, featuring many histories of the ancient town and the ships, their owners, their voyages and their crews...
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WHITKIRK - RECORDS OF THE PARISH Parish Registers 1603-1700
A list of surnames in the registers, Churchwardens accounts 1653-4 to 1687-8. Some Family Histories. Historical notes on the Church and Churchyard, the Rectory and Vicarage, Parish Benefactors, Halton Feast, Templenewsam history, Austhorpe, Manston, Seacroft, Killingbeck, Whitebridge, Morwick, Scholes, Newland, Roundhay....
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YORK RECORDS OF THE FOURTEENTH, FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES
Extracts edited in 1843, by Robert Davies F.S.A. "The Editor has selected such portions as he thought were best calculated to throw light upon the condition of the city, and the manners, customs, language, and domestic habits and circumstances of its inhabitants, during the period to which they relate, and to assist in the elucidation of historical events"...
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YORKSHIRE COATS OF ARMS
Coats of Arms of the Nobility and Gentry in Yorkshire, Part One of a work by J. Horsfall Turner, 1911. Giving references to the works where families and pedigrees are mentioned, and indicating where the arms are to be found—on buildings, tombs, windows &c., and also Heraldic descriptions. Machine searchable text....
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YORKSHIRE ILLUSTRATIONS OF ENGLISH HISTORY Written in 1865.
The history of Yorkshire, on this CD, from mysteries and fables, chronicles and ancient documents, shows the effects of various events in England’s history on the County of Yorkshire and its inhabitants. Battles, monks, monasteries, and manufacturing industries, from the dim twilight of the years B.C. to 1688A.D....
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YORKSHIRE LEADERS Published in 1908
Brief descriptions of life and works of prominent Yorkshiremen of the time, includes photographic portraits of many of the subjects....
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YORKSHIRE PLACE NAMES as recorded in the YORKSHIRE DOMESDAY BOOK, 1086
Written by historian, J. Horsfall Turner. Comprising references to nearly 5,000 places in the Three Ridings and North Lancashire with their modern names and suggested etymologies; the chief Lords and Tenants and 22 illustrations....
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YORKSHIRE POLL BOOK 1741
This book is a real delight! Not only is the original in beautiful condition, and leather bound, we found lots of our ancestors in it! Covering the whole of Yorkshire, this book is machine searchable, giving the names of the electors, their place of abode and the location of their freehold property. The candidates for election were George Fox and Cholmley Turner....
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Yorkshire Probate by Colin Blanshard Withers
The Family History Show Special Offer \*\*\* Now less than half price! RRP £35 \*\*\* Probate is both the most frustrating and the most rewarding source a genealogist can discover. Frustrating because of its complexity, particularly in the Diocese of York, and rewarding because it can unlock the personalities, likes, dislikes and personal relations of our ancestors. Where else coul...
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YORKSHIRE PUDDING, by John Hartley.
A collection of stories in Yorkshire Dialect...
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YORKSHIRE: SCENES, LORE & LEGENDS Published in 1888.
Stories from around Yorkshire, with contour map, geology map, British & Roman Yorkshire map and maps showing river valleys. By F D King. The book on this CD is machine searchable....
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