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Pigot's 1835 Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Monmouthshire, Rutlandshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, North Wales and South Wales Directory Special Offer
Search for your ancestors in this Pigot's directory. This CD contains descriptions of major county towns, with lists of tradespeople and nobility, gentry and clergy, and general local information. Each county is introduced with a background history. * Alphabetical directory * Shows professions and addresses * Digitally enhanced images of the original text * Searchable * Fully printable... More Info
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Barnsley FHS The Complete Guide to its Family and Local History Resources (2nd Edition)
**Completely revised and updated. It is an essential tool for all researchers.** The guide is divided into six sections: 1 The Barnsley area as a whole or large parts of it; 2 Barnsley area townships, A-Z; 3 Other parts of the former West Riding of Yorkshire; 4 Specific areas outside the former West Riding, including abroad; 5 England and Wales as a whole; 6 Research and th...More Info
Local History Records- Vol 67 (2011)
Contents: Days Out by Motor Bus; The Diaries of a Warlingham Golfer; The Carrington Manufacturing Company; History of Coulsdon & Purley Debating Society; Stoats Nest Railway Disaster 1910; Memories of Chelsham and Farleigh; The Macleay family in Godstone and in New South Wales; Friendship Remembered - 'Nobby' Brooker; Souvenirs of Gardner's Pleasure Gardens, Kenley; The British Empire Exhibition, ...More Info
Local History Records - Vol 72 (2012)
Contents: Kathleen Edith Lewis - 1907-2003; A War Bride's Story; Wartime Fire Service in Caterham; John Smith Remembers Caterham; Proposed Developments; The Chipstead Burglars 1835; Ernest Straker - Naturalist, Historian and Photographer; Sir Joseph Lawrence of Kenley; Researching Local History in the Bourne Society Area; John Cooper and the Bootmaking Trade in Croydon; Mr Robertson, Miss Clements...More Info
1873 Owners of Land
This CD is an oddity. In 1873, at the order of Parliament, a survey was made of all owners of land outside the metropolis. This CD contains the full version of the 1871 Owners of Land, which was published by Parliament and acts as a census for the land-owning classes. Far more people than nowadays owned land; often to keep livestock. The purpose is defined by the following extract from frontispiec...More Info
Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers
2nd edition (1995). Described as 'the most useful single reference work for those tracing ancestry', the main section of the atlas contains maps showing the pre-1832 parish boundaries, colour-coded probate jurisdictions, the starting dates of the surviving registers, and the position of churches and chapels where relevant. And facing each 'parish' map is a topographical map, showing the contempora...More Info