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Tracing Your Ancestors' Parish Records
Tracing Your Ancestors' Parish Records
Parish records are essential sources for family and local historians, and Stuart Raymond's handbook is an invaluable guide to them. He explores and explains the fascinating and var...
Workhouse Encyclopedia
Workhouse Encyclopedia
Where was my local workhouse? What records did they keep? What is gruel and is it really what inmates lived on? How did you get out of a workhouse? What famous people were once workhouse inmates? ...
My Ancestor Was A Bastard
My Ancestor Was A Bastard
A family historian's guide to sources for illegitimacy in England and Wales which provides an introduction to the world of the unmarried mother and her child, and discusses how best to formulat...
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Pauper Ancestors
Pauper Ancestors : A Guide to the Records Created by the Poor Laws in England & Wales
From the sixteenth century onwards many laws were enacted to provide support for the poor and needy, and some parishes established po...
Poor Law Union Records Part 1 SE & E Anglia
Poor Law Union Records Part 1 SE & E Anglia
Lists the records of the Unions in South-East England and East Anglia created under the New Poor Law of 1834 to their abolition in 1930. Records of earlier combinations of pla...
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Poor Law Union Records Part 2 The Midlands and Northern England and Northern England
Poor Law Union Records Part 2 : The Midlands and Northern England
Lists the records of the Unions in the Midlands and Northern England created under the New Poor Law of 1834 to their abolition in 1930. Records of ear...
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Poor Law Union Records Part 3 South-West England, The Marches and Wales
Poor Law Union Records Part 3 : South-West England, The Marches and Wales
Lists the records of the Unions in South-West England, The Marches and Wales created under the New Poor Law of 1834 to their abolition in 1930. R...
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Tracing Your Pauper Ancestors
Tracing Your Pauper Ancestors : A Guide for Family Historians
Many family historians will come across direct links to ancestors who were affected by poverty. Yet despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy, the history...
A Pauper's History Of England
A Pauper's History of England : 1,000 Years of Peasants, Beggars and Guttersnipes
What would English history look like from the gutter? The past is traditionally told from the viewpoint of kings and queens, politicians ...
Discovering Parish Boundaries
Discovering Parish Boundaries
Recorded only by dotted lines on an Ordnance Survey map, sometimes marked by a half-forgotten mossy boundary stones, parish boundaries are a fascinating part of our landscape heritage, ofte...
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Introductory Guide to the Records of the Palatinate of Lancaster
Introductory Guide to the Records of the Palatinate of Lancaster
This guide introduces the vast quantity of documents produced by the Palatinate of Lancaster. These records were previously kept in Lancaster Castle, but ...
Poor Law Records For Family Historians
Poor Law Records For Family Historians
Poor Law Records are the most important records of a Parish after Parish Registers. Through them we can discover ancestors who were 'paupers' who were helped through the Poor Law a...
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Poor Law Union Records 4 : Gazetteer of England and Wales
Poor Law Union Records 4 : Gazetteer of England and Wales.
Third Edition.
A Gazetteer of the places in each Poor Law Union. Sixty pages of this Gazetteer are taken directly, by permission, from the Royal Historical So...
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The Lands of Lancaster
Lands of Lancaster : The Vill , Township, Honour, Forest ,Manor, Borough, City, Hundred, County, Deanery etc.
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The Parish Chest
Parish Chest
This is the third edition of a classic. It is the standard study of the parochial administration in England. When the late W.E. Tate first wrote it, in 1946, there was no such book though all agreed that su...
The Poor In England 1700-1850
The Poor In England 1700-1850
This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and in the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phrase 'economy of makeshifts' has often be...
Tracing Your Ancestors in County Records
Tracing Your Ancestors in County Records
For over 500 years, between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Justices of the Peace were the embodiment of government for most of our ancestors. The records they and o...
Views From The Parish
Views From the Parish : Churchwarden Accounts 1500-1800
This collection of essays raises the profile of churchwardens' accounts, much beloved by many local historians, yet not as well-known as the parish registers and p...
Voices From The Asylum
Voices From The Asylum : West Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Almost forgotten by time, tucked away beyond the sight of the passerby, there is a little piece of old England, which was for many years a forgotten wilderness. If it ...
Voices From the Workhouse
Voices From the Workhouse
Voices from the Workhouse tells the real inside story of the workhouse - in the words of those who experienced the institution at first hand, either as inmates or through some other connection ...