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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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GEMS IN A GRANITE SETTING by William Crossing
Anyone who has previously taken an interest in the life and history of Dartmoor will be familiar with the names of Beatrice Chase and Sabine Bearing-Gould. One other must also be added to this illustrious list and that is William Crossing. He is now considered one of the best authorities on Dartmoor and its antiquities, having made it the subject of his life's work and his writings being as popula...More Info
THE HISTORY OF CHUDLEIGH by Mary Jones
This book published first published in 1852 is a treasure trove for anyone who has an interest or family in the parish of Chudleigh and its surrounds. It is packed full of information from the earliest history when the Bishops of Exeter were Lords of the Manor, through the Reformation and Civil War, Ugbrooke and the Clifford family, other families, the Dissenting Chapels and many other topics of ...More Info
THE MARRIAGE LICENCES OF THE DIOCESE OF EXETER FROM THE BISHOPS REGISTERS by Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. Vivian (Part 3 to 1631)
This book covers all of those parishes in the Dioceses of Exeter, which is most of Devon. There are thousands of entries starting in 1523 and continuing to1631. It is arranged in chronological order and gives the names of the bride and groom and their adobe. It is the ideal tool to locate the that missing marriage, particularly in those parishes that have not surviving parish registers or are pa...More Info
NUMMITS AND CRUMMITS by Sarah Hewett
Devonshire Customs, Characteristics and Folk-Lore. Devon is particularly rich in customs and legends that are ancestors used to observe. In this book the author looks as some of these and the way people in the past would react to them. There are chapters relating to Superstitions, things that were lucky and unlucky, customs and old songs to name just a few. There is also a chapter on Peculiar a...More Info
THE PRACTICE OF THE SHERIFF'S COURT IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON by George Blaxland Rogers
Published in 1824 this book gives a collection of the most modern forms of precedents for the practice on the Sheriffs Court. In his preface the states that he “is not without a hope, that something may be found useful in them in prosecuting of defending a Suit in the Sheriff' Court”.Obviously when it was published this it was meant for the profession, however for anyone who has an interest in...More Info