Make reading and transcribing documents easier with this practical Auto Focus Line Reader Magnifier. Designed specifically for following lines of text, it features a yellow highlight strip along the centre, helping you keep your place when reading census returns, parish registers, family history records, manuscripts, and other detailed documents. The 6-inch bar magnifier is pre-focused for use on any flat surface, providing clear 2x magnification without the need for adjustments. Unlike tradi More Info
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An easy to follow laminated A4 folding chart to calculate the possible birth year of an individual working back from their age given at any census 1841 - 1911. For example, if you look for a person aged 45 years in the 1851 census the chart would show you that they would be born between 30th March 1805 and 30th March 1806.... More Info
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This volume gives information on all those people tried before the Special Commission of Assize, which opened at Salisbury in December 1830. Details include, the offence, sentence, any petition sent on the persons behalf, and in many cases family information, including baptism, marriage, death, brothers & sisters, & children. For those who were transported additional information includes, hulk rec...More Info
Volume I tells the story of the riots in Kent, from an arson attack on a farm in Orpington on the 1st June 1830, the breaking of the first threshing machine at Lower Hardres on the 28th August, through until the execution of Robert Dixon, for arson, on 22nd December 1831. This is followed by a detailed account of the trials, which resulted in the imprisonment of a number of men, and the transporta...More Info
Extracts from the 1851 - 1891 Census returns of migrants from North Meols to Fleetwood.
By John Newhill. Based on the 1841 census and rate books, a look at the people and places in Sale and Ashton-on-Mersey in 1841
This is the reprint of a book first published in 1994 by Altrincham History Society and edited by the late Don Bayliss. It studies Altrincham and its population using the 1841 Census, the 1852 Board of Health Report and other sources.