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CD20 Bastardy
We have provided a free name index to this product, as a pdf file, which can be viewed, downloaded, copied and printed. The index can be accessed through a link in the publications page on our website: www.wiltshirefhs.co.uk/index.php/publications This publication is a compendium of the ten volumes of bastardy events we have already published. You can view them on page 13, the next page. ...
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CS030 First World War tribunals in Swindon
Records of First World War tribunals in Swindon. The appeals are listed in alphabetical order under the name of the person for whom the appeal was made. Where two or more men were considered together, there is one entry under one of the names with a cross reference to the other in its appropriate alphabetical place. As there is much information on employers, an index of them has been include...
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CD32 Itinerant Folk and Hiring Fairs
Five books from our A4 County series of publications, available individually on page 8, presented here on a CD-ROM or as a single pdf file as a download. The books are: 90 Travelling Folk; Itinerant Mission in the Diocese of Salisbury 1882 & 1883 91 Travelling Folk Book 2 Parish on Wheels; Aspects of Missioner's and Traveller's lives 1882-1916 92 Wootton Bassett Hiring Fair Volume 1; 1...
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CS035 Wiltshire Constabulary Police Officers Appointed 1839-1926
Indexed transcript from original records held at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre of all those who joined Wiltshire Constabulary between 1839 and 1926. At 535 pages, this is our largest single publication. The product is available as a download....
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CS086 Wiltshire County Coroner 1796-1823
This volume completes the publication of records of inquests by Wiltshire coroners, filling the gap between the bills, 1752-1796 edited by R F Hunnisett and published in Wiltshire Record Society vol 36, and those for 1815, 1825-1858 edited by Jean Cole published by Wiltshire Family History Society. Both of those runs of bills were filed among the series of bills of the County treasurer. The bil...
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RA 42. A Guide to Surrey Parish Documents
The records include registers, churchwardens accounts, vestry minutes, overseers of the poor, etc. Compiled by Cliff Webb 36 pages....
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CD27 Highworth and Swindon
Seven books from our A4 County series of publications, available individually on page 11, presented here on a CD-ROM or as a single pdf file as a download. The books are: 50 Swindon Independent/Congregational Church; 1804-1866 51 Swindon Labour Certificates; 1888-1906 School leavers & their qualifications 52 Swindon Advertiser 1854-1899 Family Announcements 53 GWR Accident Hospital...
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RS 37. Calendar of Surrey Lay Subsidies - 1543-1547
See Also SPECIAL OFFER page. Lay Subsidies were the main tax laid on people prior to the Civil War. Their records in the period from, roughly, 1524 to the 1640's, list, with varying degrees of fullness, the inhabitants of the area, with some gauge as to their wealth. Transcribed and Indexed by Cliff Webb (2002). 72 pages....
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RS 35. Early Woking Families before 1700
Lists of families resident in the Parish of St Peter, Woking compiled from parish registers, wills and other records held at Surrey History Centre and elsewhere. Compiled by Philip Arnold (2000). 62 pages....
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RS 28. Surrey Feet of Fines 1558-1602
See Also SPECIAL OFFER page.Feet of Fines record the transfer of land and are an invaluable source. The records are arranged by place and listed chronologically, and then indexed by name. Compiled by Cliff Webb (1998). 52 pages....
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Donation Free P&P
We welcome any donations in support of our work to transcribe and make available Wiltshire family history related records. If you would like to help, please click on "Donation £5" and then, on the 'My Basket' page, you will be able to adjust the quantity to indicate how much you want to donate . ....................and Thank You!......
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CD 03 The Woking Collection
Revised & Enhanced 3rd edition - November 2004. This CD covers the ancient parishes of Byfleet, Horsell, Pyrford and St Peter's and includes 1851, 1861 and 1871 Census Indexes, plus 1841 for Pyrford and 1901 for part of Woking. Other records include Parish Registers to 1865 for Woking St Peter's. Remaining parishes: Baptisms to 1840, Burials to 1865 (including St John's Woking), Marriages to 1837....
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MS 12. Calendar of Surrey Apprenticeships 1711-1749 Downloads
During most of the 18th century, a tax was levied on apprenticeship bindings, and central records kept of most indentures. In almost every case not only are the names of apprentices and masters (and the latter's occupation and parish) given, but also the apprentice's father's name and parish. This book provides a full list in index order of these documents for this period. Reprinted from Surrey Re...
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MS 22. Calendar of Surrey Lay Subsidies - Western Surrey 1585-1603 Downloads
Lay Subsidies were the main tax laid on people prior to the Civil War. Their records in the period from, roughly, 1524 to the 1640's, list, with varying degrees of fullness, the inhabitants of the area, with some gauge as to their wealth. 1 fiche....
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MS 26. Surrey Commissary Court Marriage Licence Allegations 1662-1665 & 1674-1770 Downloads
Reprinted from the 1907 edition transcribed and indexed by Alfred Ridley Bax. Much information is given in the allegations and bonds for marriage licences - the records often loosely misnamed as just 'marriage licences'. 3 fiche....
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Surrey Feet of Fines
What are Feet of Fines? Feet of Fines were records of fictitious suits at law, instituted in fact to obtain secure transfers of land. Fines survive from very early times to 1834 in the National Archives, Kew. The great value of fines is not just that they are arranged by county so as to facilitate topographical studies but they were often used to break entails, and thus it is quite usual for sever...
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Surrey Lay Subsidies
What are Lay Subsidies? By the end of the thirteenth century, land was no longer the only indication of a persons wealth, so a new tax, called Lay Subsidy was levied on movables. Not every householders name is to be found in the returns, because some were too poor to be taxed and clerical properties were assessed and taxed separately; hence the name Lay Subsidy. The Lay Subsidy Rolls can provide a...
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RS 12. Calendar of Miscellaneous Elizabethan Lay Subsidies - Surrey 1570-1600
Transcribed by Cliff Webb. Lay Subsidies were the main tax laid on people prior to the Civil War. Their records in the period from, roughly, 1524 to the 1640's, list, with varying degrees of fullness, the inhabitants of the area, with some gauge as to their wealth. (79 pages)...
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CD14 Wiltshire Non-Conformist Index
This publication is a re-release of previously published information. Volunteers are currently revising and adding in additional material from other sources for non-conformist records held in Wiltshire. There is considerable work to be completed and although it is hoped to be able to publish this in the future, no publication date can yet be proposed. The registers of the Wiltshire nonconformis...
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CS128 Broad Town Charity Apprentices
Softback, 195 pages. THE BROAD Town Charity was conceived by Her Grace Sarah Duchess Dowager of Somerset in her Will dated 17th May 1686, the object being to pay for poor boys to become apprenticed to honest trades and callings. The Duchess bought an estate at Cotmarsh in Broad Hinton so that the rents and profits from it could be used for the apprenticing of four boys from the Manors of Broad T...
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CS129 Wiltshire Apprentices: Parish, Charity & Private
Softback. 348 pages The information in this publication has been taken from the apprenticeship indentures, for boys and girls, most of which are found in the parish collections in Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre. Numbers of indentures in the parishes vary from 1,754 for Bradford on Avon to just one for Lydiard Millicent but this may not indicate the total apprenticed since the indentures m...
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HISTORY & ANTIQUITIES OF SELBY
The History and Antiquities of Selby, in the West Riding of the County of York. "Containing its ancient and present state Ecclesiastical and Civil, collected from various public records and other authentic evidences, with notices of the neighbouring parish of Brayton and the townships of Thorpe Willoughby, Burn, Barlow, Hambleton and Gateforth" By W. Wilberforce Morrell, 1862. The book on this CD ...
Supplied by: Yorkshire Ancestors Product Ref: YAN-GW157
ALMONDBURY - Annals of the Church, by Canon Hulbert 1885
Two books on this CD; Includes detailed history of the church, the parish and its people, extracts from the parish records and registers, Monumental Inscriptions, some family histories, legal documents and more. These books are machine searchable...
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BOOTHAM SCHOOL REGISTER
Bootham School Register 1822 to 1935. The School was opened in January, 1823. This Register was intended to cover the whole period of the School’s history from 1822 to 1935, however, the early records are very imperfect, and it was impossible to ascertain the names of all the pupils who attended the School during the first years of its existence. In this Register are 2,853 names of pupils and st...
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Tracing German Speaking Ancestors
Research Guide No. 2 - 7th edition (November 2011). A beginner's guide to researching German ancestry from UK, designed for newcomers to the hobby. Contains an outline history on why Germans came to UK; details of the main British records to use and where to find them; when civil registration started in Germany; draft letters on German to use in writing to Germany; and advice on basic German sourc...
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