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The Demographic History of a Yorkshire Village

By Paula Robson. A study of Barwick-in-Elmet (near Leeds) 1700-1900...

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The Female Line: Researching your Female Ancestors

by Margaret Ward. Published by Countryside Books...

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The Impact of Civil War on a Community: Northenden and Etchells in Cheshire 1642-1660

By Jill Groves. A study from the bottom-up of how the English Civil Wars affected the lives of ordinary people. Includes a chapter on the family histories of the people involved. The enlarged edownload version (revised 5th edition, March 2021) includes an appendix listing the tenants of Northenden and Etchells in the 1640s and the 1650s, plus additional information on some of the people involved (...

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The Poor Are Always With Us: The Victorian Poor and After

McLaughlin Guides...

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The Protector of Dunham Massey: Dunham Massey estate in the 18th Century. A study of the management carried out by George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington by Joyce Littler

This study looks at George Booth's rescue of the Dunham Massey estate (which includes large parts of North-east Cheshire and South-east Lancashire) from threatened bankruptcy, the lives of his tenants and the rebuilding of Dunham Massey Hall. This book was originally published in 1993 by Joyce Littler at £7.95. It has now been reduced to £2.50...

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The Story of Sale From 1806 to 1876 by John Newhill, published by Ashton and Sale History Society

This book has been reprinted by Ashton and Sale History Society in memory of John Newhill, who died in January 2010. In 1806 there were 150 houses in Sale, Cheshire; in 1876 there were 1350 houses. This book documents every one of those houses and the people that lived in them....

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Timperley 1897

Map of Timperley and part of Baguley...

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Timperley Lives, Part 1, 1600-1640

Timperley people, their politics, their families, crime and violence in Timperley, how poor people were treated in Timperley, agriculture in the Mini-Ice Age, convertible husbandry, the importance of the commons, the famine of the 1620s in the North-west, housing, Riddings Hall, food, clothes, luxuries, fuel and transport as shown in wills and probate inventories from 1600 to 1640 and Dunham Masse...

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Timperley Lives, Part 2, 1641-1680 by Jill Groves

Timperley people, Timperley and the English Civil Wars, their families, agriculture, goose husbandry in North-east Cheshire 1600-1760, market gardening, housing, building the new Timperley Hall, food, clothes and luxuries as shown in wills, probate inventories and other contemporary documents, 1641-1680...

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Timperley Lives, Part 3, 1681-1720 by Jill Groves

Timperley people, their politics, their families, agriculture, the rise of the ‘professional farmer’ and the dairy industry, housing, Fir Tree Farm, food, cider production, clothes and luxuries...

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Timperley Lives, Part 4 1721-1760

Timperley people, their politics, their families, the Timperley Land ‘Fire Sales’ of the 1750s and 1760s, agriculture, housing, food, clothes and luxuries...

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Town in Crisis: Altrincham in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

The 1852 Board of Health Maps and Other Evidence. Altrincham in the 1850s was the subject of a Board of Health Report by Robert Rawlinson. Like a lot of old market towns in the mid-nineteenth century, Altrincham had grown quickly in population, but didn't have the infrastructure to cope. It had cellar-dwellings, single toilets for whole streets and dung heaps in the streets....

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