Issue 6 features: * Brought to court: Nell Darby begins a new series on courts and their records with a look at Quarter Sessions * Trade secrets: Explore the largest searchable collection of apprenticeship records online * The family killer: Paul Matthews on the ravages of typhus * Roots in many places: Your introductory guide to tracing roots in the Caribbean, by expert Guy Grannum * The skill of search: Maximise your online research techniques * Books: A round up of recent publications * Place in focus: Explore the history of Leeds * Scourge of the seas: Britain’s history of piracy dates back to medieval times – and many pirates were leading figures * Break the brick walls: Wills after 1858 More Info
Product Code: DYAP006
Issue 23 features: * Lost and found: Sharon Brookshaw explores the history of child abandonment and the rise of foundling institutions * The Marine boys (and girls): Nell Darby on the history of a unique society which helps poor children find work at sea * Plotting the past: Tithe maps are coming online * A nation of gardeners: Margaret Powling digs into the history of gardening as a popular pastime * The First Fleeters: Laura Berry follows the experiences of people in the first penal colony to be founded in Australia * Before the trains came: Horse-drawn transport in Leeds * The great survey: Jill Morris delves into Griffith’s Valuation * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on wellies More Info
Product Code: DYAP023
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A transcript of the Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers of the Parish Church for 1722 to 1757
Interesting events that have occurred in this area, in chronological order, collected from the works of numerous authors, newspapers, &c.
**Published November 2011** Transcriptions of memorials at the churches, burial registers (\*) and monumental inscriptions. The places covered, with opening dates, are:- ST MARY'S CHURCHES (1825 & 1874) ST PATRICK'S CHURCH (1852) ST JOSEPH'S CHURCH (1868) ST ANN'S CHURCH (1872) ST PETER'S CHURCH (1871) LEEDS ROAD RC CEMETERY (1851) \* covering the peri...More Info
The First edition 6 inch maps of the East Riding of Yorkshire scanned from maps in various private collections including the Leeds Library
Back issue pack of the Autumn and Spring Hemingway (and variants) Journal. The two Journals contain articles about John Benjamin Hemingway tried for rape in 1844, Talis Hemingway from the Winter Assizes 1860, More Hemingway Street Signs, Hemingways in Budapest, Hemingway POWs, Hemingways of Leeds and Charles Hemingway of Silsden, plus much more