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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 4 (August 2013)
Issue 4 features: * Find ships’ crews online: A useful new research tool * Something for everyone: Mairead Mahon traces the history of department stores and how they changed shopping * School records: Expert research advice from Kirsty Gray * Lost way of life: London’s forgotten fishing communities * Books: A round up of recent publications * Taking liberties: Philip MacDougall explores the dark world of the Royal Navy’s press gangs * Place in focus: Explore and research Manchester roots * Break the brick walls: Death records More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 40 (August 2016)
* Home Front fashion: Jayne Shrimpton stitches together a seamless history of fashion economies during WW1 * Is it worth 'giving them a bell'?: Keith Gregson examines how late Victorian/early Edwardian telephone directories can help the family historian * 'Wrens': the women of the Royal Navy: Simon Wills looks at the history of the Women's Royal Naval Service * The Great British Chocolate Factory: We've loved chocolate in Britain for centuries - but how did we get the taste for it, and who was responsible? Nell Darby finds out* History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on smocks * Anglicans in the archives: Jill Morris looks at the history of the Church of England, and records of clergy available online More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 80 (December 2019)
* All dressed up: With Christmas coming, one of the many festivities where people have often dressed up for fun, Jayne Shrimpton explores the history of fancy dress down the ages * The Rochdale Pioneers: 175 years ago this month, a group of individuals in the north-west of England established one of the first co-operatives in the country. Who were they, and what did they want to achieve? Nell Darby investigates * Sky high progress: Nick Thorne tells the story of the son of a ladies underclothing manufacturer who pioneered long distance flight in a flimsy biplane * Field of the Yard: One detective from the Metropolitan Police in the 19th century, writes Nell Darby, captured the imagination of the press, the public, and one novelist by the name of Dickens... * A life on the ocean wave: Life in the Royal Navy was not all rotten meat and weevily biscuits, says Gregory Parker * History in the details: Tram crew uniforms More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 98 (June 2021)
* New recruits at sea: Simon Wills explores the lives and duties of merchant navy apprentices, and looks at the records available to researchers * The parish clerk: Stuart A. Raymond investigates the role of a key figure in the life of church and community * The fathers of forensics: Nell Darby introduces some key figures who advanced the role of science in detecting the circumstances and perpetrators of crime * Spitfires, siblings and spies: Nick Thorne delves into the records to see what can be learned about a distinguished pair of brothers * Game and set to play: Jayne Shrimpton serves up a history of tennis fashion * History in the details: Materials - wool (part 5) More Info
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Kent Enrolments under the Navy Act, 1796
List in alphabetical order of surname of 461 men enrolled in Kent into the Navy under this Act. Includes name, place of birth or settlement, age and occupation, many physical descriptions. Almost three quarters of the men were born or settled outside Kent. Introduction. Index of Places. Paperback, 57 pages (1996).
Military History Sources for Family Historians: Nelson's Navy 1793-1815
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Kent Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1801-1810
The Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) had superior jurisdiction for probate purposes over the south of England from the 14th century until it, and all the other church courts, were abolished in January 1858 and the Principal Probate Registry was founded. The PCC dealt with the grants of probate of wills and letters of administration (admons) of the estates of intestates of those who had go...More Info