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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 18 (October 2014)
Issue 18 features: * Housekeeping through history: Margaret Powling shows how housekeeping books can illuminate social history * Celebration of place: A new one-place studies conference * Wounded in WW1: Explore 1.3m casualty records online * Sea changes: Karen Foy on the many ways we can learn about our migrant ancestors * A walk in the park: The development of public parks * The slippery poll: 18th and 19th century poll books revealed * History in the details: Cloaks and mantles * Places in Focus: Norwich More Info
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NOTES AND ABSTRACTS OF THE WILLS CONTAINED IN THE VOLUME ENTITLED THE GREAT ORPHAN BOOK AND BOOK OF WILLS by Rev. T. P. Wadley
This book of three hundred plus pages was first published in 1886 and contains abstracts from over four hundred wills from the Bristol area. The wills date from the mid fourteenth to the sixteenth century and are packed with personal and local information which will be of great interest to anyone studying the city of having ancestors from this area. Index and is fully searchable.
CORNWALL HEARTH AND POLL TAXES 1660 - 1664 by T. L. Stoate
The Reign of Charles II was exceptionally rich in the number and variety of taxes directly assessed on individuals. Of all these taxes only the hearth tax and earlier monthly assessments were the names of the taxpayers specifically required to be returned to the Exchequer. This book is a transcript of some of the surviving returns for Cornwall which were first published by T. L. Stoate
Corsock Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions & Hearse Book (2012)
This is a 36 page book of Memorial Inscriptions for Corsock Churchyard in the Parish of Parton, Kirkcudbrightshire. It was published in 2012 and consists of 20 pages of inscriptions from 170 headstones. It is indexed by Surname only. It includes 272 Hearse Book entries listed by Surname and Forename. The local WWI War Memorial is also transcribed. There are 2 other cemeteries in the Parish o...More Info
Green Street Green, Orpington: Primary School Log Book (1892-1907)
Green Street Green, Orpington: Primary School Log Book (1892-1907). Transcript of Primary School Log Book 04 Jan 1892 to 31 Jan 1907. A wealth of information about the school, staff, some pupils and the life and social conditions of the time. CD144
MURRAY'S HAND-BOOK FOR WILTSHIRE, DORSET AND SOMERSET
his book was published in 1856 and gives well described routes and tours that could be taken through these three counties. The towns and villages are described along with a brief history of them and local places of interest. For anyone with an interest in the local history this book is a must, as well as giving those who are researching their family history a chance to expand their knowledge and p...More Info