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Issue 22 features: * The sweet smell of history: Jayne Shrimpton sniffs out the interesting social history of perfume * A rogue in the records: Gill Hoffs on a convict who made his fortune in the goldfields of Australia, only to lose it again * The Mulberry madam: Another convict transportation story * Found in the muniments room: Melvyn Jones highlights more treasures in the archives of our great landed estates * All good sports: Keith Gregson explores what can be learned about amateur sporting ancestors in online records * Plying the waters: Waterborne trade in Somerset explored * Calling your ancestors: Jill Morris looks at old phone books * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on raincoats More Info
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* A brief history of dieting: At a time of year when many people look to their New Year's resolutions, Jayne Shrimpton reveals that dieting is certainly no new endeavour * If the invader comes...: Stuart A. Raymond looks at the WW2 Invasion Committees and the useful records they have left * The greats of greetings cards: Nick Thorne explores the records of the Jewish family responsible for many of our ancestors' greeting cards * How justice failed Beatrice and Emily: The unsolved murders of two little girls in 1890s Gloucestershire show the problems with convicting those identified as the likely offender. By Nell Darby * Crime by numbers: Kate Hollis investigates criminal record keeping in Victorian Kent * History in the details: Materials - leather (part 4) More Info
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* People's parks: Denise Bates explores the history of public parks and the social purpose they have served * Bigamy at Bristol: When a man committed bigamy, one might expect people to condemn him. So how, in 1859, did one man actually get sympathy for doing so? Nell Darby knows * A ride through time: Nick Thorne demonstrates how combining online resources can help with researching ancestors' occupations * The saddest goodbye: Simon Wills looks at why and how our ancestors attempted suicide and the repercussions for them and their families * Letters to the editor: Paul Matthews offers a sampler of correspondence to periodicals, revealing little windows into the past * History in the details: Materials - cotton (part 2) More Info
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Jerusalem Calvinistic Methodist Chapel Monumental Inscriptions
Letters of application from out-of-town strays, with much personal information. A5 softback 53 pages.
The Overseers of the Poor survey of all poor families with names, ages, employer, earnings & other information. A5 softback 32 pages.
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 these parishes: Atworth, Broughton Gifford, Great Chalfield, Hilperton, Holt, Limpley Stoke, Monkton Farleigh, Semington, South Wraxall, Staverton, Westwood, Whaddon, Wingfir...More Info
Transcripts of baptisms from parish registers and bishops transcripts to 1837, indexed. A4 paperback, 364 pages. This transcript is also available as an eDownload (see below) and with other parishes on CMB 22, either as a CD-ROM or as an e-download. See page 1 for details.