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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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SONGS OF SOMERSET by Joseph Henry Stephens
Whilst this book is named the “Songs of Somerset” it is actually a book of local poems that the author says is a collection that appeared in long out of print books (this particular book was published in 1898).Subjects include Dunkery, Quantock, Crook's Peak, A Brean Down Parable to name just a few. A great CD for those who wish to know more about the county of Somerset and its interesting pas...More Info
THE PARISH OF SELWORTHY Some Notes on its History by Frederick Hancock
The subtitle of “Some Notes on its History” does not do this book justice in that it is over three hundred pages and has been thoroughly researched by the author, task that must have taken many years to complete. There are chapters on the Manors, Ancient Chapels in the Holnicote Valley, Selworthy Registers, parish accounts and many other subjects of interest to the family and local historian...More Info
Strensall in the mid 19th Century
Originally written in 1989 by Tessa Mitchell, this book has been out of print for many years. We are delighted to have been able to assist Tessa with this reprinted version which is now available at our Research Room and here on our website. Tessa’s Preface: The idea for this book was born on the realisation that it was possible to match the families that were resident in the township in 1...More Info
Stranraer Sheuchan Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions Sect 1 (2018)
This is a 68 page book of Memorial Inscriptions for Sheuchan Churchyard in Stranraer Town in the Parish of Leswalt, Wigtownshire. It was re-printed in 2018 and consists of 54 pages of inscriptions from 412 headstones. It is indexed by Surname only. Included is a map of the graveyard, and a location plan of the 7 graveyards in Stranraer. There is a second book for the Sheuchan Churchyard Extensi...More Info
Stranraer Sheuchan Churchyard Extension Memorial Inscriptions Sect 2 (2018)
This is a 60 page book of Memorial Inscriptions for Sheuchan Churchyard Extension in Stranraer Town in the Parish of Leswalt, Wigtownshire. It was re-printed in 2018 and consists of 26 pages of inscriptions from 288 headstones. It is indexed by Surname only. Included is a map of the graveyard, and a location plan of the 7 graveyards in Stranraer. The main Sheuchan Churchyard is subject of a sep...More Info