Search Results for: “poll book”
Can't find what you're looking for? Try using our filter system to narrow down your search.
Available through our sister site GenFair
SOMERSET HISTORICAL ESSAYS by J. Armitage Robinson
The writer of this book makes no claim to be a historian, but he is concerned with the materials which go to the construction of true history. Occasionally he is led to revise the verdicts of historians on the ground of a renewed investigation of some isolated problem, or in the light of fuller information which has but lately become available. Essays include William of MalmesburyThe Saxon Abbots...More Info
SOMERSET WORTHIES by W. G. Fisher
First published in 1927 this book looks at the lives of thirty different “Worthies” of Somerset . Not only does it include the obvious people such as St. Dunstan, Robert Blake and Roger Bacon but also some lesser known persons such as John Pym, the revolutionary, Elizabeth Rowe, the poet and Edwin Norris the Linguist. Thirty distinguished and interesting biographies. This book really is a...More Info
THE WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE AT WELLINGTON, SOMERSET by Joseph Hoyland Fox
The woollen trade has always been important in England and has played a great part in the economy of the West Country particularly in the area around the Somerset and Devon borders where there were a number of Mills from which a lot of this cloth was exported. The English Civil War was damaging to the whole economy and in particular the textile trade, so much so that during the reign of Charles ...More Info
REMINISCENCES AND REFLECTIONS OF AN OLD WEST-COUNTRY CLERGYMAN by W.H.Thornton
This book was originally published for private circulation in 1897 and whilst diaries were very popular around this time, this is more of an autobiography which gives a well described picture of the life of a clergyman from the middle to end of the nineteenth century in Devon and on the border of Somerset. Whilst, as expected, he was well acquainted with local members of the gentry, we also have a...More Info
Yorkshire Moors and Dales
A book by Alfred P. Wilson first published in 1910 and digitised by the Ryedale Family History Group in 2017 Alfred Percy Wilson died at the Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital in Hornsea on 2nd December 1918, aged 34, from a combination of Influenza and Pneumonia. He is buried in the cemetery of St. Nicholas Church, Bransdale. He is remembered on the Farndale War Memorial, as well a...More Info