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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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CS045 Trowbridge Settlement Examinations 1740-1831
Settlement examinations provide much evidence of the trials and tribulations of life and the resourcefulness of the poor in seeking to make a living as best as they can in conditions that were often not conducive to stable and settled lives. Full transcripts of these settlement examinations were made by Fred Pitt of Trowbridge in 1950. The summarised versions were made by Ken Rogers, c 2000. ...More Info
CS046 Westbury Vestry Minutes
This volume is the earliest surviving vestry order book for Westbury. It records the work of the vestry in managing the poor; appointing overseers and churchwardens, setting rates, providing medical support, dealing with settlement cases of the settlement and removal of paupers, supervising the Workhouse and providing clothing and other forms of assistance to individuals. A4 softback, 70 pages
Yorkshire Probate by Colin Blanshard Withers
The Family History Show Special Offer \*\*\* Now less than half price! RRP £35 \*\*\* Probate is both the most frustrating and the most rewarding source a genealogist can discover. Frustrating because of its complexity, particularly in the Diocese of York, and rewarding because it can unlock the personalities, likes, dislikes and personal relations of our ancestors. Where else coul...More Info
The German Hospital in London and the Community it served 1845 to 1948
By Maureen Specht. Fully revised 2nd edition (1997). This A4-size illustrated book sets out the history of the German Hospital in Dalston, Hackney, in central London, which was founded by the German Community to provide medical care to the expanding German-speaking population. It also tells about the German community in England and why so many chose to live there. 72 pages (A4) with many illustrat...More Info
An Insight into Civilian Internment in Britain during WWI
From the Diary of Richard Noschke and a short essay by Rudolf Rocker. Fully revised 2nd edition (1998). During the First World War a large number of German civilians resident in Britain were interned for the duration and subsequently repatriated. This book is illustrated with contemporary photographs and contains the diary of an internee held at Stratford in East London, Alexandra Palace in North ...More Info