This virtual book CD resource contains a bundle of Pigot's 1823 Directories; carrying local listings of professions, nobility, gentry, and clergy, of transport and freight services; and information on the education, public services, and public houses of the area. Towns, villages and parishes are listed with background historical and topographical information. A comprehensive resource which gives you valuable insight into the history of London and the Home counties, and enables you to find out wh... More Info
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Here we meet Tennyson, Conan Doyle, Bernard Shaw and the many other writers who populated the hilltops around Haslemere and Hindhead at the end of the 1890s. *W R (Bob) Trotter* \[See also JOS-12-5; JOS-29-X; JOS-38-9; JOS-39-7; JOS-47-8; JOS-50-8\] Supplied by John Owen Smith
We follow the fortunes of the Eade family over seven and a half centuries from 1250 as, with an eye for the main chance, they attempt to climb the ladder of prosperity by constructing, amassing and then protecting their land holdings over the centuries while diversifying into trades such as bricklaying and stonemasonry. *Robyn Lane and Andrew Eade* Supplied by John Owen Smith
3rd edition 2006, compiled by Cliff Webb.who writes in the introduction: It is already extremely difficult for a researcher to know what has been written about his subject and area.Nobody can know from the title that "The Best of All Possible Worlds" describes a childhood in Streatham. Where I have been able to identify them, I have given in square brackets a brief description of some of the books...More Info
Transcribed by Cliff Webb. Lay Subsidies were the main tax laid on people prior to the Civil War. Their records in the period from, roughly, 1524 to the 1640's, list, with varying degrees of fullness, the inhabitants of the area, with some gauge as to their wealth. (79 pages)
11 pages on mini-CD from fiche images filmed from the original book, .pdf reader required. Published by SFHG & Parish Register Transcription Society.