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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A One-Name Study and Compilation of Historical Family Records. This is a 140 page book by Thomas H. Garmory (1926-2018). With name variations of Garmery, Garmorie, Germary, Germerie, Girmerie, Gomery, MakGarmory, McGarmorie, McGarmurrie, Montgomery and distribution around Scotland (including Kirkcudbrightshire, the epicentre of Garmory family history), England, Wales, Isle of Man, Channel Islands,...More Info
The Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) had superior jurisdiction for probate purposes over the south of England from the 14th century until it, and all the other church courts, were abolished in January 1858 and the Principal Probate Registry was founded. The PCC dealt with the grants of probate of wills and letters of administration (admons) of the estates of intestates of those who had go...More Info
Log Book 1867-1918; Mixed School Admissions 1884-1910; Infants Admissions 1881-1918; Punishment Book Mixed & Infants 1909-1917 (3,630 entries in all). Further info at Society’s Library: Log Book 1919-1977, Punishment book 1920-1940, Infants Admissions 1919-1935. CD085
This book that was published in 1830 was, and still is, the most complete history for the area ever written. In almost seven hundred pages it goes in to great detail about the local history and that of some of the more notable families in the area. The Hundred consists of the following parishes, all which are covered in this book, Oare, Culbone, Porlock, Luccombe, Selworthy, Stoke Pero Cutcombe,...More Info
John Whiting was a Quaker from Wrington who was imprisoned in Ilchester Gaol for preaching in the 1680s. He wrote a book entitled "Persecution Expos'd" (published in 1715 describing this experience. This book is a second edition of that publication and includes “With Memoirs of many eminent Friends deceased, and other memorable Matters and Occurrences, concerning the Sufferings of the said Peop...More Info