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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 15 (July 2014)
Issue 15 features: * Tracing the tiger: Paul Matthews looks at the many mind altering drugs our ancestors might have fallen prey to * Lest we forget...: The WW1 centenary begins * Family reflections: Ruth Symes on the history of mirrors * Were they in India?: A useful research avenue to explore * From store to war: The sad fate of many Harrods staff in WW1 * Graphic conflict: WW1 explored through infographics * Finding the freemasons: Jill Morris enters a secret world * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on sunglasses * What’s on * Books * Place in focus: Wiltshire More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 81 (January 2020)
* The secret worshippers: Stuart A. Raymond explores researching Catholic recusants through his detailed study of a parish in Wiltshire * More than just scrawls on walls: Is graffiti a mark of disrespect or social comment? Denise Bates looks at its long history * Tales of the Cartaret dynasty: Nick Thorne follows up a chance finding in the tithe records, leading him to the story of a Royalist privateer commemorated in America * The child-snatchers: Playing to our insecurities both as children and parents, kidnapping remains a rare but particularly scary crime, writes Nell Darby * Motherhood and madness in the Victorian era: Lorraine Schofield explores the gap between the ideal of womanhood in the 19th century and the reality of mental illness * History in the details: Railway staff uniforms More Info
Product Code: DYAP081
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PS97 Wiltshire Emigration Association 1849-1851
In almost every case, the publication contains the name, date and place of birth of people who applied to emigrate, including their children, a total of 347. Dates of marriage are also included. The Wiltshire Emigration Association was founded Earl Bruce, son of The Marquis of Aylesbury. As a result of the repeal of the Corn Laws many farmers had a hard job to make a living, and, as a conseq...More Info
CD14 Wiltshire Non-Conformist Index
This publication is a re-release of previously published information. Volunteers are currently revising and adding in additional material from other sources for non-conformist records held in Wiltshire. There is considerable work to be completed and although it is hoped to be able to publish this in the future, no publication date can yet be proposed. The registers of the Wiltshire nonconformis...More Info
CS131 - Wiltshire Asylum (Roundway) Admissions & Discharges 1851 – 1919
A4 paperback. 334pp The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (WSHC) holds records for a number of asylums that were in operation from the late 19th century in Wiltshire. The records for this publication are for Wiltshire Asylum (Roundway). They are presented in name order and admission year. There is no name index. A free name index to all four publications will be found on the WFHS website...More Info
CS086 Wiltshire County Coroner 1796-1823
This volume completes the publication of records of inquests by Wiltshire coroners, filling the gap between the bills, 1752-1796 edited by R F Hunnisett and published in Wiltshire Record Society vol 36, and those for 1815, 1825-1858 edited by Jean Cole published by Wiltshire Family History Society. Both of those runs of bills were filed among the series of bills of the County treasurer. The bil...More Info
CD40 Wiltshire Asylums
A compendium of 4 volumes of publications relating to Wiltshire asylums CS130-CS133 CS130 – Wiltshire Asylum (Roundway) Burials 1852 – 1966 CS131 – Wiltshire Asylum (Roundway) Admissions and Discharges 1851 - 1919 CS132 – Fisherton Anger Asylum Admissions and Discharges 1813 - 1913 CS133 – Box, Calne, Fonthill, Laverstock and Market Lavington Admissions & Discharges As thi...More Info