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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 6 (October 2013)
Issue 6 features: * Brought to court: Nell Darby begins a new series on courts and their records with a look at Quarter Sessions * Trade secrets: Explore the largest searchable collection of apprenticeship records online * The family killer: Paul Matthews on the ravages of typhus * Roots in many places: Your introductory guide to tracing roots in the Caribbean, by expert Guy Grannum * The skill of search: Maximise your online research techniques * Books: A round up of recent publications * Place in focus: Explore the history of Leeds * Scourge of the seas: Britain’s history of piracy dates back to medieval times - and many pirates were leading figures * Break the brick walls: Wills after 1858 More Info
Product Code: DYAP006
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 23 (March 2015)
Issue 23 features: * Lost and found: Sharon Brookshaw explores the history of child abandonment and the rise of foundling institutions * The Marine boys (and girls): Nell Darby on the history of a unique society which helps poor children find work at sea * Plotting the past: Tithe maps are coming online * A nation of gardeners: Margaret Powling digs into the history of gardening as a popular pastime * The First Fleeters: Laura Berry follows the experiences of people in the first penal colony to be founded in Australia * Before the trains came: Horse-drawn transport in Leeds * The great survey: Jill Morris delves into Griffith’s Valuation * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on wellies More Info
Product Code: DYAP023
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1868 LEEDS POLL BOOK
How did your ancestors vote? Not only are the names of the inhabitants (including some lodgers and many people never to be found in trade directories) listed here, but also the candidates they voted for. This must also be the most useful index commercially available for locating anyone in the 1871 and 1861 census's in Leeds. In addition to Leeds Township, it also covers Armley, Headingley, Beeston...More Info
KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF LEEDS 1927
Filling in the gaps between the 1901 census and living memory, this directory can help. This is the City & Borough of Leeds with histories, alphabetical listing of residents, street indexes, trades directory, official information and a great deal more. The book on this CD is machine searchable
1839 BAINES' GENERAL AND COMMERCIAL DIRECTORY OF THE BOROUGH OF LEEDS
The City and Borough of Leeds. The names of the inhabitants given in a three-fold arrangement;1st - Alphabetical Directory, being names listed alphabetically with profession and residence attached; 2nd - Classification of Trades, listing all in each trade or profession; 3rd - Street Key, with names and professions arranged in Street order and numerically.
1872/3 PORTER'S TRADE DIRECTORY OF LEEDS & NEIGHBOURHOOD
Topographical and Commercial Directory of Leeds borough, townships and villages up to six miles around. With Trade sections for Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield and Sheffield.
1857 DIRECTORY OF LEEDS & WOOLLEN DISTRICT
Including: Acton, Adwalton, Allerton Bywater, Almondbury, Altofts, Alverthorpe with Thornes, Alwoodley, Apperley Bridge, Ardsley (East & West), Armley, Austhorpe, Austonley, Bardsey, Barwick, Batley, Beeston, Birkenshaw, Birstal, Bradley, Bramley, Calverley, Carlton, Carlton (Parish of Guiseley), Cartworth, Castleford, Chapel Allerton, Churwell, Clayton West, Cleckheaton, Crigglestone, Crossland (...More Info