Tithes were originally payments made in kind to the clergy of the parish to support the church and its incumbent. By the nineteenth century, there was a hodge-podge of arrangements for paying this tax to the church. “An Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales" (more commonly known as “The Tithe Commutation Act”) was passed in 1836 to convert in-kind payments to monetary payment on a…
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Removal orders, settlement certificates and settlement examination records for the county from 1670 to 1890. Available here as a book. Also available as a CD or download. Go to Section 1 - CDs - compilation and single source - Other compilation and single source CDs and scroll down to CD21 We have provided a free name index to this product, as a pdf file, which can be viewed, downloaded,…
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Land Tax started in 1692 and remained until the mid 20th century. Between 1780-1832 copies were required to be sent to the Clerk of the Peace of each county to be used to establish the right of those eligible to vote in parliamentary elections (not everyone paying land tax had that right). Thus returns for those years are generally complete whereas before and after very few have survived. The returns…
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The confirmations in this publication, with the exception of Bromham, which is still held by the Church, are deposited in Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre. Over 3,000 records, all for the year 1787, are in the Diocesan records. The rest are in the parish records, some of which are in specially printed books and a few in parish registers. Candidates may not have been confirmed in the parish where…
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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 Town,…
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Principle events of political, religious or social importance, from very early history, up to the late 19th century, in chronological order. The author intended this work to be a fireside book, of interest to all Yorkshiremen. Very readable!
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CD containing all magazine issues to 2004
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Sussex, All Nonconformist by date including Monumental Inscriptions and indexes by name, place and profession. Formerly SFHG 1979 booklet PB02. Burials 1800-1822 Vol.76, .pdf reader required. Published by SFHG & Parish Register Transcription Society.
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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 may…
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A4 paperback. 334pp The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (WSHC) holds records for a number of asylums that were in operation from the late 19th century in Wiltshire. The records for this publication are for Wiltshire Asylum (Roundway). They are presented in name order and admission year. There is no name index. A free name index to all four publications will be found on the WFHS website,…
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A4 paperback. 490pp The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (WSHC) holds records for a number of asylums that were in operation from the late 19th century in Wiltshire. The quantity and scope of the records vary between institutions. These records are for: Fisherton Anger Wilts, Lunatic Asylum. 1813 – 1913 A register or list of the several patients under the care of Mr Charles Finch at his…
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Sussex, Baptisms 1606-1886, Marriages and Burials 1606-1901 all except Commonwealth, Banns 1754-1786, 1824-1902. Indexed Transcription. Includes 13 external photographs. Vol.95. .pdf reader required. Published by SFHG & Parish Register Transcription Society.
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Sussex, Transcriptions of the memorials at St Stephen, North Mundham, West Sussex. More than 1100 names, over 500 photographs, full surname index, plans of the church and both graveyards, a history of the church, war memorial and other information. Covers the years 1583-2010. Transcribed by local members of the Sussex Family History Group, the information on the memorials has been checked against the…
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A4 paperback - 196pp The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (WSHC) holds records for a number of asylums that were in operation from the late 19th century in Wiltshire. The quantity and scope of the records vary between institutions. The records for this publication are for : Box – Kingsdown House. 1792 – 1919 A Register or List of the several Patients confined in the House of Dr Charles Cunningham…
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This CD contains a single pdf file and requires no installation. See 'Download Details' below for information about the file. It includes baptism, marriage and burial transcripts from the earliest entries to 1837 for the parish of Salisbury St Edmund. [**Details of all of our publications, including the start year for each parish transcript, are given in our Publications Leaflet, free to view…
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This CD contains a single pdf file and requires no installation. See 'Download Details' below for information about the file. It includes baptism, marriage and burial transcripts from the earliest entries to 1837 for the parish of Salisbury St Martin. [**Details of all of our publications, including the start year for each parish transcript, are given in our Publications Leaflet, free to view…
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Sussex, A detailed historical study by Michael Burchall FSG listing all the Sheriffs and explaining their role. 138 pages. .pdf reader required. Fully referenced and searchable by name, place and subject. Published by Parish Register Transcription Society.
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Sussex, Full details of 8000 Quarter Session cases involving 20,000 people (criminals and victims, apprentices, bastardy, lunatics, settlement, workhouses, gaols, soldiers ..) from all nine Sussex venues. Transcribed and indexed by Michael Burchall FSG. Fully searchable. .pdf reader required. Published by Parish Register Transcription Society.
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Sussex, Edited abstracts of all the poor law cases dealt with by justices at Quarter Sessions covering the whole county of Sussex for the period 1801-1850, following on Michael Burchall's earlier CD (BPS6). The Introduction outlines the changing statutes concerning the three major categories of vagrants: idle and disorderly persons, rogues and beggars, and incorrigible rogues. .pdf reader Ver.5 or…
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A NEW RELEASE COVERING 50 YEARS OF OUR JOURNAL “The Sussex Family Historian”. You can search and browse images of all 200 editions of 50 Years of SFHG's quarterly journal the "Sussex Family Historian" Volumes 1-25 (1973-2023). Search 9,493 pages including 77,651 names in 6610 articles. There may be articles and details about names, families or places you are researching. This item is only available…
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Settlement examinations provide much evidence of the trials and tribulations of life and the resourcefulness of the poor in seeking to make a living as best as they can in conditions that were often not conducive to stable and settled lives. Full transcripts of these settlement examinations were made by Fred Pitt of Trowbridge in 1950. The summarised versions were made by Ken Rogers, c 2000. These…
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Indexed for publication on CD-ROM by Tim Wilcock. This enlarged Index of over 340,000 Marriages is COMPLETE for rural Surrey. It includes over 9,000 ‘Stray' marriages of Surrey people in other counties and more than 166,000 marriages from Metropolitan Surrey and Middlesex, of which (at least) 60,000 from Metropolitan registers are NEW in this edition . The Index is now ALMOST COMPLETE for METROPOLITAN…
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BYFLEET St.Mary Church and Churchyard. The modern section copy is complete for those inscriptions relating to deaths before 1865 or which give a precise date of birth before 1840. The dates of the inscriptions range from 1717 to 1955. EAST CLANDON St. Thomas and WEST CLANDON St. Peter and St.Paul, Churches and Churchyards. The dates of the inscriptions range from 1746 to 1970. The copy is complete…
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Only available for new members joining between 1 June and 31 December; includes the two journals for half the current year and all the four journals for the next year. Individual below State retirement age.
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All members of the household may attend meetings.One journal to the family address.
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