What are wills, and how can they be used for family and local history research? How can you interpret them and get as much insight from them as possible? They are key documents for exploring the lives of our ancestors, their circumstances, and the world they knew. This practical handbook is the essential guide to understanding them. More Info
Product Code: BK6216
This fully revised and updated Second Edition is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in archives throughout Northern Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth-century census returns and school registers, will be familiar to researchers, but others are often overlooked by all but the most experienced of genealogists. An easy-to-use, informative guide to the comprehensive collections available at the Public Record Office of N More Info
Product Code: BK6430
Every part of the United Kingdom has its own, distinctive history – not just the major battles and key historical events which may have played out there, but also the smaller details of everyday life which impinged upon the actual lives of our ancestors more directly. The team behind the popular family and social history magazine Discover Your Ancestors has put together a region-by-region guide to the United Kingdom which will give you a flavour of each area’s history and a run-down of the many More Info
Product Code: BK6449
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- The Howat Pedigree - A Family History leading to an Historical Connection - Serendipity - Some Catholic Butlers In London And Blackheath - The Isle Of Wight Martyrs - Blessed Robert Anderton And Blessed William Marsden - Peggy Wells, RIP, An Appreciation
The Ryedale FHG Quarterly Journal Help sought on: Gibson (Wiganthrope), Milbank, Melbanke and Mealbank, Harrison and Bastardy Records (Hawnby and West Rounton), Watsons and Bastardy Records (Stonegrave), Goodwill (Yorkshire), Bowes and Bastardy Records (Sproxton and Helmsley) Article ‘The Book of Remembrance’ published by the Beck Isle Museum Article on ‘Deaths - Hangings – Executions...More Info
This index was extracted from the marriage registers held by the Medway Register Office and covers the 100 year period from the commencement of General Registration 1st July 1837 to 31st December 1938. Unlike the GRO index the month of the marriage is shown and often the surname of the bride’s father where this differs from the name in which she married. A key to the codes used to identify A...More Info
Contents: Croydon & Reigate Road; Stanstead Caterham; Riddlesdown Man; Memories c1900 of Purley, Coulsdon, Whyteleafe; Beating the Bounds (with map); Tithepit Shaw Cavern; Arms of Coulsdon & Purley UDC; Annals of Purley; Purley Bury; Chaldon Court; Animals in the Bourne Valley
Contents: Stone Age man in NE Surrey; Roman Woodcote; Sanderstead in 1798; First school in Caterham; Coulsdon workhouse; Memories: Farleigh; Rowed monument, Coulsdon; Charles Langdon Lockton J.P.; Chelsham School; Memories: Chipstead