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A detailed, accessible, authoritative guide for anyone researching ancestors from Wales. Beryl Evans describes the key archival sources and gives clear practical advice on how to start a research project, sketching in the outlines of Welsh history, Welsh surnames and place-names and the Welsh language. She lists the variety of sources researchers can consult – the archive repositories, including...More Info
A unique collection of records from the archives of the South Wales meetings of the Society of Friends. The CD contains Births from 1699, Marriages from 1698, Members list from 1838, Burials and Burial grounds from 1693 and 1800, Certificates of removal from 1763 and Acknowledgements from 1803, Quakers who were active in Glamorgan, a list dating from 1654 and a short summary of the \\'Suff...More Info
Arthur Mee's classic pre-WW2 guide to the region's settlements including churches and castles and other historic places – 'A green and smiling land' – with 120 places and 92 pictures. (From an era when the county was still considered by some to be in England rather than Wales.)
**Completely revised and updated. It is an essential tool for all researchers.** The guide is divided into six sections: 1 The Barnsley area as a whole or large parts of it; 2 Barnsley area townships, A-Z; 3 Other parts of the former West Riding of Yorkshire; 4 Specific areas outside the former West Riding, including abroad; 5 England and Wales as a whole; 6 Research and th...More Info
Contents: Days Out by Motor Bus; The Diaries of a Warlingham Golfer; The Carrington Manufacturing Company; History of Coulsdon & Purley Debating Society; Stoats Nest Railway Disaster 1910; Memories of Chelsham and Farleigh; The Macleay family in Godstone and in New South Wales; Friendship Remembered - 'Nobby' Brooker; Souvenirs of Gardner's Pleasure Gardens, Kenley; The British Empire Exhibition, ...More Info