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From: "Rob Thompson" <>
Subject: GENUKI FAMILY HISTORY NEWS 68
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 20:49:12 +0100


GENUKI Family History News
No 68

17th September 2001

Hello Everyone and welcome to this 68th GENUKI Family History News.

A new family history society based around UK genealogy has started, covering
many counties. It is called Ashforth Society for Genealogy and you can find
out more at
http://www.ashgen.cjb.net

Further to last weeks tragic events in New York Rootsweb circulated this
message, which I want to reproduce in full:

Because of the catastrophe that happened in the United States Tuesday,
11 Sept., 2001, MyFamily.com (RootsWeb.com and Ancestry.com) has
created a special Message Board for those who wish to express or share
condolences, sorrow, prayers, and thoughts for the victims, their
families and friends.

However, this is not a board for discussion on how the U.S. should
resolve this issue or about how the search for those responsible is
going.

The URL for the board is
<http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=usa-tragedy.mourning>;

New Books & CDs

More news from Archive CD Books:

New Books Acquired for the Project
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The Penny Magazine - a complete run from 1832 to 1840 !
Manual of Heraldry (1897)
Inces English History, Customs and Dress (1860)
Greater London - A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places
1861 Domestic Arts & Customs - John Timbs
1857 History, Gazetteer and Directory of Derbyshire - F White
Great Deserts and Forests of North America
The Great North-West and the Great Lake Region of North America
The Miner's Son (Life in a Cornwall mining community)
London Post Office Directory 1819
A History of Henley, J S Burn
A History of Banbury, A Beesley
A History of Bampton, J A Giles
A History of Witney, J A Giles
Gardner's Directory of Oxfordshire 1852
Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 (4 vols)
Alumni Oxonienses 1715-1800 (4 vols)
Members of Parliament (2 vols) 1213-1874
Heralds Visitation of Oxfordshire 1566, 1574, 1634
Memorials of Oxford, Ingram (3 vols)
The Burford Records, Gretton
The National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918 - London volume.

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New CDs this week
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Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 (4 vols)
Alumni Oxonienses 1715-1800 (4 vols)
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"The Members of the University of Oxford 1500-1714. Their parentage,
birthplace and year of birth, with a record of their degrees. Being the
Matriculation Register of the University. Alphabetically arranged,
revised
and annotated by Joseph Foster."

This is one of the most important sources of family history information
in
Britain, and which is a rare series of volumes normally only found in
major
libraries. To own a copy of one's own is virtually impossible. Until now
that is. (A copy of the books was published in 1999 with a retail price
of
£750.00, so we won't count those!)

See the on-line catalogue for more details and ordering
They can be found in the section for All England / College &
Ecclesiastical

Members of Parliament 1213-1874
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In the years 1876 and 1877, two orders were passed in the House of
Commons,
that a Return should be made of the names of every Member of Parliament
of
England [and Wales], Scotland and Ireland "from so remote a Period as
can be
obtained" up to the present day. This was duly carried out, and an
official
government publication was printed in two volumes in 1878.

Here we have those two volumes, which describe, for each year's
Parliament,
in county order, the names of those members, the date of the return, and
the
county, city, borough or place served. Each of these huge volumes
contains
over 600 pages of small print in two columns.
Part 1: Parliaments of England 1213-1702
Part 2: Parliaments of Great Britain 1707-1796
Parliaments of The United Kingdom 1801-1874
Parliaments and Conventions of the Estates of Scotland 1357-1707
Parliaments of Ireland 1559-1800.

See the on-line catalogue for more details and ordering
They can be found in the section for All England / Miscellaneous

Certificates

BIRTHS
HOBBS David Thomas, son of Thomas and Jane 15 Feb 1847,Bewley
Magna,Ramsey,Huntingdon
MORGAN Elizabeth Jane, dau of David & Ruth 23/12/1873 Pontypridd

MARRIAGES
WILDING William & LAMBERT Ruth 9 June 1873 Colchester
JAMES Richard & Emma, Aston Warwick Aug 21 1843

DEATH
ENGLISH Eleanor, aged 58 of Balham 20 Oct 1872
WINDMILL Thomas, aged 91, Shillington, Bedford 2 Feb 1848


If this is of use to you in your own personal research, drop me a line at
and I will put you in touch with the
current holder

Meanwhile, if you have a certificate you don’t need that may be of use to
someone else then drop me a line, and we will advertise it in an upcoming
newsletter.

Webpage reviews


http://www.iprom.co.uk/archives/
A great little site, with lots of story and archives from the Highlands of
Scotland. I am not a fan of the layout, some of the fonts are too large
meaning the homepage can be difficult to read, but it is definitely worth a
browse if you have family from the Highlands. There are plenty of stories of
highlands life so you can get a good background, and also plenty of military
interest including rolls of honour

http://www.muir.clara.net/welsh/index.htm
Do you have Welsh ancestors but no understanding of the Welsh language? Then
this site could be really helpful to you. It is a site that lists common
words and phrases used on Monumental Inscriptions in Welsh, with their
English transcription, basic and simple but nevertheless incredibly useful
to non Welsh speakers

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donaghmore1/
A site for people with ancestors in Newry, Donaghmore, Loughbrickland, &
Banbridge in Ireland. This site contains information in varied forms, from
Townland lists to personal memories on many parishes in this area. The site
utilises frames, which i personally do not like, and is a little slow and
cumbersome. It is however a useful site and contains much information on the
area

Forthcoming Events

Family History Skills course at the SoG
eighteen week course for advanced students
Thursday evenings 27 September 2001 to 31 January 2002
6.00 - 8.00pm

Course fee: £120 members and £150 non-members
2001
27 SeptIntroduction – The application of family history to
GMSother subjects: genetics and research into
inherited diseases
4 OctIntestacy, probate and tracing missing persons
GMSAn extended practical exercise will be set.
11 OctNewspapers and Genealogical periodicals. The
EACdevelopment of genealogy. Which works can be
trusted?
18 OctMaps, tithes, surveys, estate plans, Lloyd
PBPGeorge’s Domesday and enrolled wills.
25 OctManorial records custom and tenure including
PBPa practical exercise
1 NovLand records and muniments – deeds, mortgages,
IWinquisitions, feet of fine and strict settlement.
08 NovResearching before parish registers – subsidies &
IWtax lists, coroners records, wills, customs records
and a practical exercise
15 NovHeraldry – its language, grants and inheritance
GMSof arms
22 NovHeraldry continued & past papers
GMSdistibuted.
29 NovChancery and other equity courts including
PABfinding aids and indexes
06 DecEcclesiastical courts - morals and matrimonial
EACcauses, testamentary appeals, licences etc.
13 DecEmigration and research abroad. What can be
EACdone from the UK
20 DecThe British Library Oriental and India Office
PABCollections. The East India Company and its
army and, the records of the British in India.
CHRISTMAS

2002
03-JanImmigration to England. Records of immigrants
PABand immigration from the 13th-20th centuries
10 JanFurther sources for the Armed services: Army &
BOMilitia
17 JanFurther sources for the Armed services: Royal
PABNavy
24 JanReview of past genealogical test papers as test
GMSexercise and preparation for those wishing wishing
to set exams.
31 JanDebrief of practical exercise.
GMS

Although this third stage course continues the Society's rolling programme
of evening classes for advanced level students, attendance at previous
courses is not a requirement. The course will present opportunities to look
at the application of genealogical techniques to other disciplines and to
assess the history and development of the subject.

The tutors will concentrate on earlier records for the period before parish
registers and will include the examination of land records, manorial
holdings along with taxation records. The records of the ecclesiastical
courts, chancery and other equity courts will also be examined. The
language and use of heraldry as a genealogical source will be explored.
Lastly, students will be introduced to the records of immigration,
emigration and researching abroad.

This course has a distinct practical element. Students can take part in a
research project which will introduce them to lesser used repositories.
They are expected to join in practical workshops in the classroom as well
as undertake assignments. This course is suitable for students wishing to
take the IHGS examinations.

We hope that this course will stretch students of all abilities and, above
all, will be an entertaining and enjoyable experience.

New on GENUKI

West Riding of Yorkshire
Links/Pages added/amended: [Adel] St. John's Church, Adel; [Almondbury]
History and Geography 1834; [Batley] 1851 census index for Gildersome;
[Calverley] 1851 census index for Calverley; [Calverley] 1851 census index
for Farsley; [Calverley] 1851 census index for Rodley; [Calverley] 1851
census index for Stanningley; [Calverley] 1851 census index for Swinnow;
[Calverley] 1851 census index for Tyersall; [Calverley] Calverley and Idle;
[Church Fenton] The Church of St. Mary the Virgin; [Conisbrough] Conisbrough
Castle; [Halifax] Historical notes on the church at Illingworth; [Halifax]
Illingworth Moor Church; [Halifax] St. Mary's Church; [Halifax] Ovenden
Hall; [Halifax] Illingworth Jail; [Halifax] Illingworth Stocks; [Halifax]
Wainhouse Tower; [Halifax] Looking down on Sowerby Bridge; [Halifax] Bottom
Crossley Grammar School; [Halifax] Edwards Road and Pye Nest; [Halifax] King
Cross; [Halifax] Historical notes on Bradshaw; [Hooton Pagnell] All Saints'
Church; [Keighley] Laycock Cemetery; [Keighley] Laycock Cemetery; [Keighley]
The Baptist Chapel, Slack Lane; [Keighley] White's 1837 Gazetteer, History
and Directory; [Keighley] Trades and Professions 1837; [Kirkburton] History
and Geography 1834; [Kirkburton] War Memorial; [Kirkburton] Trades and
Professions 1834; [Kirkby Malzeard] St. Jude's Church, Hartwith; [Leeds]
1851 census index for Armley; [Leeds] 1851 census index for Bramley; [Leeds]
1851 census index for Farnley; [Leeds] 1851 census index for Wortley;
[Leeds] Trades and Professions 1837; [Long Preston] St. Mary's Church;
[Penistone] White's 1837 Gazetteer, History and Directory; [Penistone]
Trades and Professions 1837; [Pontefract] All Saints, Pontefract; [Ripon]
Holy Trinity Church, Dacre; [Sheffield] Views of Sheffield; [Thorne] White's
1837 Gazetteer, History and Directory; [Thorne] Trades and Professions 1837;
[Tickhill] Trades and Professions 1837; [Tickhill] White's 1837 Gazetteer,
History and Directory; [Whixley] The Church of the Ascension, Whixley;
[Whixley] St. Thomas's Chapel of Ease, Green Hammerton; [Whixley] St.
Thomas's Chapel of Ease, Green Hammerton.

Huntingdonshire
Links/Pages added/amended: [Great Paxton] Map of the area; [Little Paxton]
Map of the area; [Old Hurst] Map of the area; [Sawtry] Map of the area.

UK and Ireland
Links/Pages added/amended: FreeCEN Project; Faculty Office Marriage Licence
Index; Vicar-General Marriage Licence Index; Indexes to the Criminal
Registers (PRO Class HO 27); A Modern Map of the United Kingdom; Index to
Inward Overseas Passengers from Foreign Ports 1852-1889; Pssst! Want to Buy
Your Family's Coat of Arms?; Letters and Dispatches of Horatio Nelson; World
War I Roll of Honour; Newspapers by Region; THEATRE-UK; 19th Century
Photographers; Society of Indexers Genealogical Group.

England
Links/Pages added/amended: Access to Archives (A2A) Programme; Virtual
National Archives Catalogue; Faculty Office Marriage Licences; Vicar-General
Marriage Licence Index; The Land and Freedom pages; National Monuments
Record; Information Holdings.

Mailing Lists
Links added to details of: BRITISH-NOBILITY; QVDPROJECT (Queen Victoria
Descendants); Ireland-Rooters; Wales-Rooters.

Essex
Links/Pages added/amended: City of Westminster Archives Centre; Ahnentafel
of Katherine Smythe.

Derbyshire
Links/Pages added/amended: Changes made in 1st Half of 2001; Derbyshire
County Free Look-Up Index; [Derby] 'Almost Like a Dream' : A Parish at War,
1914 1919; [Eyam] Social and Economic Effects of the Plague; [Eyam
Woodlands] 1891 Census; [Great Hucklow] 1871 Census; [Parwich] Graveyard
Database; Pentrich; [Pentrich] The Pentrich Revolution Files; [Pentrich]
Pentrich Historical Society; [Stoke] 1861 Census; [Stoke] 1871 Census;
[Stoke] 1881 Census; [Stoke] 1891 Census; [Stoney Middleton] 1891 Census.

Gloucestershire
Links/Pages added/amended: Changes made in 1st Half of 2001; Extracts from
Gloucestershire Church Records; [Moreton in Marsh] Moreton in Marsh Links.

Yorkshire
Links/Pages added/amended: Upper Dales FHS.

East Riding of Yorkshire
Links/Pages added/amended: [Filey] Geography and History 1834; [Hunmanby]
Professions and Trades 1834; [Hunmanby] Geography and History 1834;
[Sherburn] The Methodist Church.
Lincolnshire
Links/Pages added/amended: Census Resources; North Lincolnshire Libraries
site; What is a Deanery?; East Elloe Deanery; West Elloe Deanery; Grantham
Deanery; Holland East Deanery; Isle of Axholme Deanery; Quaker Records in
Lincolnshire; Lincolnshire Virtual County; Lincolnshire Emigration and
Immigration; Hereward the Wake; Fisheries; Lincolnshire History; Yellow
Bellies Theories!; Lincolnshire Maps; Lincolnshire Gazetteer; Newspapers;
Boston Standard; This Is Grimsby and North East Lincolnshire; Horncastle
News; Lincolnshire Echo; Louth Leader; Market Rasen Mail; Scunthorpe Evening
Telegraph; Skegness News; Newark Advertiser; Lincolnshire Life; Scunthorpe
Reference Library - Newspaper Holdings; Barrowby; [Boston] Boston; [Boston]
Old Bostonian Association; [Boston] Government Council; [Boston] Boston
College; [Boston] William T. Simonds; Braceborough; Dowsby; Fleet; Grantham;
[Grantham] Arthur Hutchinson; [Great Grimsby] Moses Abrahams; Tallington;
Tydd St Mary; Uffington; Woolsthorpe.

GENUKI's Home Page - http://www.genuki.org.uk/
GENUKI's Listings of:
Family history Societies - http://www.genuki.org.uk/Societies/
Genealogy Mailing Lists -
http://www.genuki.org.uk/indexes/MailingLists.html
Surname Lists - http://www.genuki.org.uk/indexes/SurnamesLists.html
GENUKI's Frequently Asked Questions File -
http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/faq.html

Website Poll -

I have decided to conduct a website poll to see which is your favourite
website. Entries to be received by 1st October - to vote for your favourite
website, and please do, send me a message to
, and use Website poll as the subject
header. You can vote for any website, as long as it has at least some UK
content. So please get voting! Results will be published in early October

And finally…

I hope there has been something for your interests in this issue –if not why
not suggest something for me to reviews or mention! You can always drop me a
line to

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Rob



Rob Thompson

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