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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The woollen trade has always been important in England and has played a great part in the economy of the West Country particularly in the area around the Somerset and Devon borders where there were a number of Mills from which a lot of this cloth was exported. The English Civil War was damaging to the whole economy and in particular the textile trade, so much so that during the reign of Charles ...More Info
The visitations of the county of Somerset, in the years 1531 and 1573, together with additional pedigrees, chiefly from the visitation of 1591 Published in 1885 Indexed, Bookmarked and Searchable
Mick Aston 978 1 911592 12 9 In Shapwick & Winscombe, the late Mick Aston tells about work on two Somerset parishes: Shapwick, on which he was engaged for ten years; and Winscombe. Shapwick was historically a classic example of a closed settlement, dominated by one or two landlords; Winscombe of the open kind, enjoying relative freedom. But despite these contrasts, there were great simila...More Info
A series of articles taken from the Society's journal "The Greenwood Tree" about ?????? 87 Dorset parishes and 49 Somerset parishes are included.
The definitive history of this small Somerset village that lies just a few miles from Bridgwater. With over 180 pages of narrative and pictures expertly researched and written by Paul Mansfield making a superb publication for anyone who has an interest in the history of the parish of Enmore. Also included is an extra publication of additions, amendments and photographs that did not appear in the o...More Info