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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3rd edition.November 2006. A compilation of 22 articles previously published in Root & Branch (the quarterly journal of West Surrey FHS.) These are illustrated with over 60 photographs and cover the parishes of Abinger, Albury, Alfold, Ash, Byfleet, Chiddingfold, Chobham, Cranleigh, Dunsfold, Ewhurst, Farnham, Frensham, Frimley, Godalming, Guildford, Hambledon, Hascombe, Horsley E & W, Ockham, Pyr...More Info
THE SURREY BURIAL INDEX, compiled by Alan Benny, includes 575,500 burials and covers the period from the start of each Parish Register, mostly up to 1865 (some later) for ALL ANCIENT parishes and many "modern" parishes (created after 1837) in RURAL SURREY. In addition to parish burials the index includes Dorking Cemetery records up to 1999, Godalming (Nightingale) Cemetery records up to 1998 and G...More Info
This index compiled by Rosemary Cleaver, included the 257,000 entries in the 2nd edition, compiled by Alan Benny, 2008, from transcription supplied by Cliff Webb and volunteers worldwide. The new edition contains over 310,000 baptisms, of which over 250,000 have NOT been included in the IGI. There are entries from 191 Registers (some in Metropolitan Surrey) of various dates - many up to 1876 i...More Info
Over 14000 names of men born or resident in Surrey and includes all officers serving with Surrey regiments. Compiled and indexed by Bob Mesley (1999). 4 fiche.
A lively exploration of the time spent and work written in Surrey by authors from John Evelyn and Fanny Burney to H.G. Wells and E.M. Forster. Special chapters on Country Writers, Box Hill and the River Mole, Children's Writers (up to Jacqueline Wilson) and "The Quill and the Sword" (Surrey writers in times of war). Contains suggestions for further reading and details about places to visit . Illus...More Info