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  • $14.00 Bishops' Transcripts and marriage licences, bonds and allegations 5th edition
    Book These records, which often supplement parish registers, vary in their extent and finding aids and are not always in the most obvious record offices. Covering England and Wales, Ireland and the Isle of Man, this is an...
  • $14.00 Coroners' records in England and Wales
    Book Another Guide to break new ground, the first ever listing of such records, revealing the spasmodic state of their survival and the continuing risk of their destruction. Colin Rogers provides a detailed and informative...
  • $13.00 Electoral registers since 1832 and burgess lists
    Book Published annually since 1832, electoral registers list the names and addresses of everyone entitled to vote, noting the qualifications which brought each voter onto the register, such as current residence or ownership...
  • $16.00 Land and window tax assessments
    Book The Land Tax Assessments list the owners, in England and Wales, of property worth 40s. Or more in annual income, and often the occupying tenants as well. From c.1780 to 1832 they were used to establish voting...
  • $15.00 Local census listings, 1522-1930: Holdings in the British Isles
    Book Quasi-censuses pre-dating the decennial national census records survive in unexpected quantity. They include locally retained lists made for the 1801-1831 censuses; and many others in earlier centuries. For the first...
  • $11.00 Marriage Indexes for Family Historians
    Book 9th Edition All family historians will know that the most elusive vital facts in their research are the marriages of their ancestors. This comes down to the simple matter that it has always been normal for the wedding...
  • $12.00 Militia lists and musters 1757-1876
    Book Another in the 'Gibson' guide series This little booklet is a directory of holdings in the British Isles of Militia Lists and Musters 1757-1876. It is read in county order. By Jeremy Gibson and Mervyn Medlycott. In...
  • $12.00 Poll books c1696-1872: A directory of holdings in Gt. Britain
    Book Until 1872, when the secret ballot was introduced, voting for Members of Parliament, by those entitled to vote, was a public matter, and a record of just how they did so was kept and frequently published. Before 1832,...
  • $16.00 Poor law union records Pt 3
    Book This book is part of a four book series covering the Poor Law records of England Sth-West England, The Marches & Wales 2nd edition
  • $16.00 Poor law union records pt1
    Book Sth-East England & East Anglia This is one of a four part series covering the Pool Law records of England
  • $13.00 Poor law union records pt2: The Midlands and Northern England
    Book The Midlands and Northern England. Ches., Cumbd., Dbys., Durh., Lancs., Leics., Lincs., N'hants., N'humb'd, Notts., Rutland, Staffs., Warw., Westm'd, Yorks.
  • $16.00 Poor law union records pt4: Gazetteer of England and Wales
    Book County by county, each PLU and its constituent places. PLU's formed the basis for Civil Registraton and Census districts. Parts 1-3 list the records of the Unions created under the New Poor Law of 1834 to their...
  • $18.00 Protestation returns 1641-42 and other contemporary listings
    Book The Protestation, a form of oath of loyalty, ostensibly to the King, but in fact to Parliament, was initiated in the House of Commons in May 1641, when Members themselves took it. Nine months later the scope was very...
  • $12.00 Quarter sessions records for family historians
    Book Another in the 'Gibson' guides series The records of the Quarter Sessions are the oldest and main collections of public records belonging to the historic counties of England and Wales. Softcover; A5;...
  • $14.00 Record offices: how to find them 9th edition
    Book Street maps of over a hundred cities and towns in England and Wales, and Edinburgh in Scotland, showing record offices, car parks, railway and bus stations. English and Welsh historic counties...
  • $16.00 Victuallers' licences: records for family and local historians
    Book Of all widely held occupations, those who ran pubs. Are the best recorded. For the 19th and 20th centuries there are voluminous records in local archives, and much in Quarter Sessions for the 18th century and earlier...

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