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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
Product Code: DYAP018
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Helmsley - Reminiscences of 100 years ago
A super A5 book about Helmsley, written by Isaac Cooper a little over 100 years ago, in which he recounts not only his own memories, but some stories handed down to him and extracts from the diary of John Pape, a noted diarist of the 18th century, giving us a real insight into life in the town from the middle eighteenth up to the late nineteenth centuries. Isaac Cooper first published his b...More Info
Bootham School Register 2011
Bootham School Register 2011. This is the fourth edition of the School Registers. The first printed register (the Red Book) containing details of 1,988 Old Scholars was published in 1914. The second (the Blue Book) published in 1935 included 2,853 names, whilst the third edition published in 1971 (the Gold Book) had 4,570 names. This fourth edition (the Green Book) has 7,340 entries. To include de...More Info
Genealogical Memoirs of the Family of Marsden (1194 - 1901)
The surname of Marsden is of Anglo Saxon origin, and is a locational name from places called Marsden in Lancashire, and the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is derived from the Old English "mearc" meaning boundary, and "denu", valley; hence, "a valley forming a natural boundary". The original book by the Revd Benjamin Anderton Marsden, James Aspinall Marsden & Robert Sydney Marsden was published in 19...More Info
MEMORIALS OF OLD DORSET
Although the title of this book suggests that it deals with memorials, it is more of a history book covering various locations and buildings that are important to the historical and cultural heritage of Dorset. Some of the subjects covered are; • Churches of Dorset • Isle of Purbeck • Dorchester • Memorial Brasses in Dorset • Ford Abbey • Bridport • Plus m...More Info
THE HISTORY OF THE PARISH AND MANOR OF WOOKEY by Thomas Scott Holmes
This book written by Thomas Scott Holme who was Vicar of Wookey from 1879 is an excellent publication for anyone studying this parish or who has ancestors from the area. Each chapter deal with a different aspect of the parish including, a general history of the parish, the history of the manor, history of the Rectory and Vicarage including lists of Rectors and Vicars. There is a chapter about the ...More Info